Hundreds join sports event for Angeles church repair

ANGELES CITY. Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr. leads hundreds of cyclists on Saturday in the fun ride for a cause meant to raise funds for the restoration and repair of the Holy Rosary Parish Church. (Photo courtesy of Kim Suh Gueco Tayag)
ANGELES CITY. Angeles City Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr. leads hundreds of cyclists on Saturday in the fun ride for a cause meant to raise funds for the restoration and repair of the Holy Rosary Parish Church. (Photo courtesy of Kim Suh Gueco Tayag)

ANGELES CITY -- Hundreds of runners and cyclists will join a cycling and running event where the proceeds will be used in the restoration and repair of the Holy Rosary Parish Church that was destroyed by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Luzon on April 22.

The fundraising activity was organized by Ad Central Consulting in cooperation with the city government, Holy Rosary Parish (HRP) Pastoral Council, Rotary Club of Angeles Skytown, Rotary Club of Metro Angeles, Rotary Club of Angeles North, Angeles Tourism Office, and others.

Ad Central Consulting founder Edna Eufemio thanked the sponsors and those who supported the event, including Mayor Carmelo “Pogi” Lazatin, Jr. who led the “peloton” during the first stage of the fun ride.

The HRP Pastoral Council needs some P100 million for the repair and restoration of the church.

Hilana Timbol Roman, an official of the HRP Pastoral Council, said they are targeting the budget which includes the upgrading of the church equipment like the sound system, ventilation and others.

She said that it is even less expensive to build a totally new church but the HRP is considered heritage church.

“We are boasting of having two markers already because the church has been declared as important cultural and historical property, and it has been established as the site of the first declaration of the Philippine independence,” Roman said.

“We all agree that the church has to be restored and conserved,” she added

Holy Rosary Parish is one of the four churches destroyed by the earthquake, which re-opened on October 12 to accommodate the faithful, according to Roman.

“If you look at the church, medyo deceiving because you see it standing. Pero after inspecting it, we realized that it sustained serious damages,” the church official said. Even before the earthquake, some of its material had been falling down,” Roman added.

“Our parish priest said we should organize ourselves with regard to conserving and restoring of the church. So we met already with conservation architects and we have done test already,” she said.

“What really happened is we had been overtaken by the event mika earthquake na so ngeni eya mu dapat ma restore nung ali corrective na mu rin (there was an earthquake so it does not only have to be restored but put corrective measures too).”

During the earthquake, the church was separated into three parts and most of the damages were observed at the middle portion of the edifice, according to Roman.

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