Donors, volunteers cited in Dominican Hill centennial

BAGUIO CITY – The City government headed by Mayor Mauricio Domogan, Vice Mayor Edison Bilog, Councilor Elaine Sembrano, Councilor Joel Alangsab, city and barangay officials honored donors, volunteers and contributors to the development of the city’s 100-year- old structure here in simple rites.

Honoured during the Centennial celebration of the Dominican Hill and Retreat House is German volunteer Frank Georg.

Georg has been assisting the City Environment and Parks Management Office for over 6 years now in landscaping and maintaining the different parks in the city.

Also honored during the event is Osorio Celso and the Baguio City National High School Alumni Batch 1985 for donating pots for the newly launched ‘Lovelock Fence’ at the Dominican Hill.

The Lovelock fence is one of the newest attractions of the 100 year old Dominican Hill and Retreat House, the building which was constructed in 1913 and completed in 1915.

The Lovelock fence is an innovative park attraction for the city duplicated from the Lovelock fence of Paris Bridge where couples seal their love and commitment.

Lovelocks however is said to have originated from China while others say it originated from Serbia and since have proliferated in many parts of the world.

Lovelocks are used by lovers to show their love and commitment thru locking a padlock on a chain or gate and throwing away the key to symbolically lock their love forever.

The city’s Lovelock Fence will also symbolically seal commitments, love, friendship and enduring partnership between friends, residents and visitors.

The Dominican and Heritage Hill Lovelock Fence is mainly for tourism attraction purposes where visitors and couples can put their “love padlocks.”