Pangasinan wept when Cory died
LINGAYEN–Yellow ribbons were tied around the trees and draped at the office buildings in the Capitol complex here, around lampposts at major streets in Dagupan City as well as in other towns around the province to express Pangasinenses’ grief and to honor former President Corazon C. Aquino who passed away on August 1.
Gov. Amado Espino Jr. described the late Aquino as the mother of democracy and the best gift to the country.
“On behalf of the people of Pangasinan, I express my deepest condolences to the family of former President Corazon C. Aquino,” the Governor said following the announcement of Aquino’s death on August 1.
The Governor, a former police officer, also expressed his highest respect and admiration to his former Commander-in-Chief for being able to “manage the affairs of the country silently but effectively during a turbulent transition period marked by several coup attempts, and aggravated by destructive natural disasters.”
Speaking before the provincial employees during the Monday flag raising ceremony, Espino, one of the supporters of the 1986 EDSA Revolution that brought Aquino to power, said Cory’s death represented a great personal loss for him.
The provincial board also passed a Provincial Resolution “Expressing the Deepest Sense of Grief, Sympathy and Condolence of the People of Pangasinan Over the Passing Away of her Honor, former President Corazon C. Aquino”.
P/Sr. Supt. Percival Barba, Pangasinan police director, with P/Sr. Supt. Pepito Domantay, deputy regional director, led a minute of silence and prayer for Aquino.
DAGUPAN
Mrs. Gina de Venecia, wife of 4th District Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., who spoke at the necrological service, held at the Manila Cathedral, said Dagupeños have many things to thank the late president for as she was instrumental in re-building the city from the rubble of the July 16, 1990 earthquake.
Speaking for her husband who was in Argentina to preside over a meeting of the Association of Asian and Latin American political parties, Mrs. De Venecia said Aquino signed into law Republic Act No. 6960 that allocated P10 billion to finance the rehabilitation of all earthquake devastated areas in Luzon.
Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., who was vice mayor at that time, added that Aquino swiftly deployed relief and rescue agencies here, spearheaded by the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) under then Defense Secretary Fidel V. Ramos.
Aquino did this after she visited Dagupan two days after the quake, just a day after Defense Secretary Ramos came over to look at the situation.
City Administrator Alvin Fernandez said “She rebuilt the Filipino spirit to work on what was perhaps the biggest rebuilding job ever faced by a Philippine president after the reconstruction period following the Second World War”.—LM/CSR
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