By Gonzalo Duque

 

MARK my word. Our Barangay Kapitan of Tapuac, Sidney Lomboy will go places.

And his secretary, Ike Palinar, can only agree with me so I am urging all his kagawads to unite and support Sidney’s programs because I believe all these will redound to the benefit of the people of Tapuac, if not Dagupan.

I’m certain Mayor Belen Fernandez is happy to welcome the achievements of Kapitan Sidney, surpassing the achievements of all his predecessors combined.

I would like to see every Kapitan and city officials follow the example that Sidney did in in Tapuac. Congratulations, Sidney Lomboy. And Mabuhay ka.

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Imagine, only in  his first 100 days in office, Sidney solved the 22-year-old problem of Barangay Tapuac caused by the designation of the Material Recovery Facility in the barangay on a vacant lot on Amado Street, now named after my father, Secretary Francisco Duque Jr. 

It was the dirtiest area in Barangay Tapuac. A regular route for Downtown Loop jeepneys, everyone passing through the area can be seem covering their noses with anything to avoid taking in the foul odor of rotting garbage dumped at the MRF.

Just behind our Lyceum Northwestern University, the MRF had long earned the goat of students and teachers who could not hold classes because of the nauseating stench of rotting wastes emanating from Tapuac’s MRF.

It was the MRF that earned a bad name for Barangay Tapuac, which already became the educational center of Dagupan, and where many schools, led by LNU, had sprouted. 

An entrepreneur (he owns Sidney’s Restaurant on JdV Expressway Extension) before he run for barangay kapitan of Tapuac, Sidney was aware that the MRF by the roadside of Amado Street was a bane to his constituents but his predecessors hadn’t any solution for it.

That’s the reason why Sidney decided to buy a piece of land at the end of E.P. Nava Street Extension and transferred the MRF while converting its former site overnight into a barangay vegetable garden.

Now, his constituents are no longer complaining, and motorists passing Amado Street on their way out to MacArthur Highway are no longer covering their noses. Everybody is now happy in Barangay Tapuac.

And he further helped ease the garbage situation by lending his truck to collect garbage from households and establishments regularly.

May his tribe increase. 

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I was not surprised to learn that because of his quick solution to a 22-year-old problem, the DILG adjudged Tapuac as the Best Barangay in Region 1 in Waste Management, making it as the cleanest and best in waste segregation all over the region.

We heard from Ike Palinar that no less than Interior and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos congratulated Kapitan Sidney Lomboy for his feat, in a letter coursed through the DILG Regional Office.

In only his first term of office, Kapitan Lomboy already placed Tapuac and Dagupan in the map for being best and model in waste segregation.

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