Think about it
‘Sleeping giant no more’
By Jun Velasco
“Success is a journey, not a destination.”—Ben Sweetland
AWARD-WINNING stage artist Manny Ubedencia will try his hand again in San Fabian town on April 7, considered by Catholics a Black Saturday.
The local boy with the world in his hands when it comes to staging artistic plays will once again strike fright and excitement in your hearts when he directs the staging of Christ’s resurrection atop a hill in Barangay Colisao to mark Holy Week in these parts.
In case you haven’t been there, the 15-hectare resort is being constructed with replicas of many biblical scenes that include familiar temples, lakes, the Ten Commandments tablets and many others.
It would take those without private vehicles some effort to reach the place, but there are tricycles for hire from the poblacion, says Jake Deloso, manager of the resort, adding “the reenactment of Christ’s crucifixion is a moving event we should not miss.”
He describes the sinakulos in Pampanga and other places as “walang sinabi” compared to the Golgotha in San Fabian. In what way? we asked. Jake says “it’s the unique place, which is at once serene, close to heaven overlooking the Lingayen Gulf, it’s like you were in Jerusalem.”
And if you know Manny Ubedencia, you can expect the unexpected.
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Former Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani and many others used to describe the province “a sleeping giant.”
It was a derisive label to a big province whose rich natural resources were either being squandered with abandon by illegal loggers, kaingeros, miners, illegal fishermen, and other enemies of development.
Not anymore. With an inspired leadership that’s doing its homework under a national government that’s zealously fighting corruption, the province has shaken off its sluggish and slumbering attributes to claim its birth right in the sun.
This must be why the national government has decided to hold the national games (Palarong Pambansa) here this year. A tough hosting job, but it would just be like munching peanuts, says Moding Operana, sports chairman.
No less than our friend Chairman Bebot Villar (welcome to the Punch!) has good words for Governor Spines — minus the outgoing police director– as a great steward of the province.
Balikbayans, visitors and even the locals are singing paeans to the province, which is being energized by a workaholic provincial leadership.
As of now, Pangasinan is Number One in Region One. It has just launched its nationwide goal to go for the gold (No. l!), but that, says Butch V, would required hurdling four more rungs.
If you ask us, we are already on top. It’s not the end actually; but the zealous doing that matters.
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We had a brief chat with a dapper, white-haired lawyer at a court hearing last Tuesday — Atty. Numeriano Tanopo Jr.. A very proper gentleman whose bearings easily rank him with nobility, the former Con Con delegate has a low regard for Chief Justice Renato Corona.
His views remind us of what this column has held firmly about ex President Arroyo’s midnight appointee.
In our view, the CJ may escape conviction, but the “midnight” thing has rendered all his claims for moral ascendancy reek with infirmities.
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