Balweg: Barp platform becoming a platform of platforms

THE stage platform in the Barp Center Auditorium at Cresencia Village, this city, is becoming the platform of platforms. This is the present stage that the Barp Center Building for the Elderly has reached. Every last Saturday of the month, the upper portion of the Bokawkan, or Buhagan, Road is filled with people at pre-noon hours (9:00 to 11:30 a.m.).

The people that flock to the area are members of the Blessed Association of Retired Persons (Barp) Foundation, Inc. and its created twin organization, the Barp Multipurpose Cooperative (BMPC). They hold their mandated General Assembly monthly meeting there now in lieu of the Burnham Park Athletic Bowl grounds and bleachers that they used in former years. Guest speakers come to give messages or elucidate on issues of the day. Even politicians have joined to explain their platforms to the consideration of more serious minds, hopefully.

The said Athletic Bowl could easily accommodate the usual 2,000 participants compared with the present venue but the problem of area is also a priority in the overall planning. In fact, another strategic planning is in the offing in order to rectify oversights and underestimates. Officials and other people concerned in Cresencia Barangay are hoped to participate and input good ideas and suggestions. They, anyhow, and their children as well as children’s children will be inevitable beneficiaries. Barp planners are taking them into account.

The welfare and good of a few but deserving component families should be a built-in in the bigger plan for the welfare of a bigger, in fact much bigger, community. Calling Barp an international organization is not just a play of words, a dream; it has well begun though Barp in only twenty years old this year.

A Barp member is in Uganda (Africa) and another one is in Vienna (Europe), just drip samples of members overseas. Seems only a systematic follow-up of them is lacking to a more than less degree. Our graduated Barp scholars, especially those in communications, should help at this time of a big challenge in the Barp Center Bldg., namely the “finishing-postponed” of its final touches.

Second group to react positively to our manifestation re the Barp Center Bldg. must the members of the BCCSF (Baguio City Credit Surety Fund). They must be in the forefront because without them, the Bldg. would not have gone down, down, down then up, up, up to near final finishing without their supporting hands and heart. As to the senior citizens in the bigger Cordillera scene, but especially in Baguio City and Benguet, Barp members think of mankind as one, the seniors being as young as before in the caring and attending to. The phrase “for the Elderly” is enshrined in the façade and ensconced in the function rooms. Progenies will not forget them in the manner that the ancestors that built the rice terraces are forever etched in man’s memories, especially the artists and tourists.

Speaking of Barp’s 20th anniversary, borrowers of money from the BMPC who incurred overdue past accounts but were given amnesty from due penalty should show gratitude by remaining to be BMPC members in good standing and helping in the collection of past due accounts of co-member-loaners with failing memories. Chair Abella and his committee will be overjoyed. Oh, not only they but all co-members and their families. We could all shout in glee and truly say: “Matagutagotako! God be praised.”

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