A GROUP of volunteers from civic-fraternal organizations in Baguio City, led by elderly associations, will receive shortly from the City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) and the Baguio Elderly Assembly (BEA) tokens of recognition for attending the first of a series of seminars, particularly on the subject of "responding to an earthquake calamity," held recently at the Baguio Senior Citizens Hall located in Barangay Salud Mitra.
The seminar was conducted by the True North Ventures Company headed by its Security Technician Fritz Gerald Padilla and his younger brother, former PNP personnel and an airport security guard in California, USA, who was in the country for a brief vacation.
The two-hour long seminar centered on what to do before, during, and after an earthquake, like the Big One, which devastated life, private and government properties in many parts of Northern Luzon, particularly in the City of Baguio, which had the most number of casualties, more than a decade ago.
Individual tokens of recognition for their active attendance in the seminar will be headed by officials and members of the Baguio Federation of Senior Citizens Associations (FBaseca) led by its president Edita Ibarra, punong barangay of Upper Quezon Hill. The honorees are Romulo Soriano, Ricardo Fetizanan, Ma. Theresa Wajang, Vincent Sabado, Jim Gomez, Robert Molina, Federico Paredes, Linaynay Andrada, Cristino Sacayanan, and Violeta Garcia.
From the Kalipunan ng Liping Filipina Federation (Kalipi) are Marites Baucas, Mency Lango, Nora Bankilas, Nita Panyo, Thelma Villanueva, Celia Castro, Editha de Guzman, Imelda de Guzman, Michelle Agayam, Milagros Cadao-as, Imelda Pelera, Nadie Dawey, and Julie Donato.
From barangay East Quirino Hill's Women's Organization are Glory Melecio and Nitz Jullian. My wife Consuelo Sol and yours truly represented the Blessed Association of Retired Persons Foundation Inc. (Barp), while Rose Bermudez was the lone scout leader from the Baguio City Council of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines.
Meanwhile, the awards and the recognition ceremonies honoring the seminar participants will be held at the later part of this month, upon the return of the CSWDO Officer Betty Fangasan, who is currently on leave. She is visiting her relatives, who are studying in Japan.
The recent earthquake seminar was a public service feature by the True North Ventures Company based in Metro Manila.
This early, the BEA, CSWDO, and the Office for Senior Citizens Affairs (Osca) is preparing a more comprehensive and interesting program that will include religious, cultural, educational, athletic, and tourism-centered activities to celebrate this year's BEA-CSWDO-Osca Octoberbest 2018 offering, pursuant to a Presidential Proclamation honoring the country's elderly Filipinos for their past and present leadership and participation in various community development programs of the national and local governments to make and insure a better Philippines.