Think about it
Slingshot
By Jun Velasco
FROM Singapore, private contractor Nelson Sotto told us he’d clarify his role about a P50-million sea wall project recently allotted intended to shield some 1,400 houses in Barangay Bonuan Gueset.
Meanwhile, Kapitan Rico Mejia was quoted by Edwin Tandoc as fuming at the proximate possibility the project might allegedly go the way of a P40-million drainage project that left some pipes unturned failing to check flooding satisfactorily.
To the above, District Engineer Rodolfo “Boy” Dion cautioned against unsavory speculations on the still “un-awarded” project, or else—it might be pulled out by higher authorities.
To the above, we suggest strict and fair observance of the time-honored role of transparency (which is the name of Edwin’s column) to put to rest ugly insinuations.
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Our first ever meeting with Guv’nor Spines’ “heir apparent,” Board Member Pogi Espino, at a recent Deretsahan banished our reservations about his fitness to go toe-to-toe with a mature and experienced opponent, former Rep. Mark Cojuangco.
It was this corner who gave him the moniker, “Ronald Reagan of Pangasinan in the making” because of the ease and comfort he showed in meeting hard questions thrown by Deretsahan panelists.
There were three issues he was asked about that should mark his preparedness for the job:
(1) Uplift Pangsinenses’ economy thru entrepreneurship which he specialized at St. Louis V in Baguio City,
(2) Completely erase the wild tag of the province as new hub of lawlessness as wildly coined by VACC’s Dante Jimenez, and
(3) Sustaining if not improving erpat’s performance card.
The Cojuangcos’ charge that he has not declared his candidacy was clearly answered at the last Deretsahan.
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While watching the reorganization of the Pangasinan Federation of NGOs proceedings recently, we sought out End Times Pastor Willy Cariño on our journalism treatise that likens the Biblical David’s slingshot as a pen of modern journalists.
The slingshot should symbolize our weapon against a modern goliath or the gargantuan ills such as corruption, drug addiction, poverty, social malaise, abuse, ignorance, superstitions and others.
Two decades back, our attention was drawn to the Gimper’s way of enlarging his faith as God’s instrument in the Christianization movement.
We told last Sunday the Amazing Grace Church’s enthusiastic audience led by brod Pastor Pio Jr. (he is the real Jun in the family being the junior of our late father) that ALL our thoughts and acts are through the Lord’s leading.
We shared them a number of inexplicable events in our life that human reason was not capable of explaining but DID happen, inspiring brods Boy and Norman anew to suggest that we should bind them in a book.
In 1991, a phone call from Kuwait by our neighbour Lydia Fernandez, who was missing for 3 months, was calling her aunt in San Mateo, Rizal, but her call miraculously landed on our line in Bonuan.
The Fernandez family had a joyous reunion through the phone as a consequence.
When told about it, Fr. Jerry Orbos unhesitatingly said, “It was the Lord who made that call, let’s pray.”
In 1976, brod Dante and this writer took a route to Makati via the backwoods of Pasig where a big envelope containing precious documents fell off from the top of the car.
Finding the envelope missing when we arrived in Makati, we immediately hied a taxi to rush us back to Pasig and surprise of surprises, we dropped by a store half a kilometer from the house—only to find the envelop there.
We recalled to the congregation the above and other unordinary incidents that happened in our life.
Ptr. Boy wondered what’s taking us all this time not to write about them.
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