Tuesday, October 14, 2008 Top Kapampangan journalists take center stage at book launch
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Top Kapampangan journalists take center stage at the launching of a coffee table book "Pinatubo: Triumph of the Kapampangan Spirit" on Thursday at 4 p.m. at the Carworld Corporate Center here.
Leading the group, which put together the book commissioned by the San Fernando Heritage Foundation, Inc. (SFHFI), are veteran mainstream journalists Ceazar "Bong" " Lacson, editorial consultant of Punto and chairman of the Society of Pampanga Columnists; Tonnete Orejas, Philippine Daily Inquirer correspondent; Ding Cervantes, Philippine Star reporter; Fred Roxas, consultant of the Philippine News Agency in Central Luzon and Manila Bulletin correspondent; and Ram Mercado, Sun.Star Pampanga columnist.
Lacson, Orejas, and Roxas are recipients of the prestigious Most Outstanding Kapampangan Award in journalism under the Lapid administrations. Lacson is also a recipient of "The Outstanding Fernandino Award" in 2007 in the same field.
The other authors of the book are Noel Tulabut, Sun.Star Pampanga columnist and assistant manager for public affairs at the Clark Development Corp., Peter Alagos, Business Week Editor; Arnel San Pedro, Punto columnist and public information officer of the Clark International Airport Corp.; Ashley Manabat and Ed Aguilar, editor-in-chief and columnist, respectively, of Central Luzon Daily News; Jun Sula, Sun.Star general manager, and Fr. Resty Lumanlan of the Save Pampanga Movement.
Award-winning Sun.Star Pampanga chief photographer Chris Navarro, veteran photojournalists Jojo Due, Borg Meneses, Ric Gonzalez and Eric Sales, formerly of the Mt. Pinatubo Commission, and photo-contributor Diosdado "Deng" Pangilinan, chairman of the Mabalacat Water District, will also be feted during the launch.
Former President Fidel Ramos is the event's guest- of-honor.
The City Government, headed by City Mayor Oscar Rodriguez, and three leading non-government organizations in the province, namely, the Save San Fernando Foundation, Inc., Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PamCham) and SFHFI, will honor the former president during the ceremonies.
Ramos is credited for helping save the city and the province from lahar devastation through the construction of the multi-billion-peso megadike aptly named FVR-Megadike in 1996, at the height of the lahar inundation.
