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What a wonderful and great idea. Someone who could be of help would be our former teacher in JBS, Alberto ( Toto ) Malvar, who I believe is in forest rehab business. Mai, remember seeing him at Bykes 5 years ago? The husbanf of Teresita Campos might be into mangrove development also. For revenue generation, we might include management and improvement of Tinuy-an falls. Could even install a small hydroelectric to generator power in the area. We could also develop nearby beaches of Lawigan and From: 18 March 2008 Thanks for some more detailed explanations ! This sounds much more interesting to me and am sure for the rest of the FOB’s. I should say that we give this a chance to play a role in our lifetime and vice-versa. I wish I could think and contribute more solidly about it, but I am so engross with so many things right now, honestly my hands are already full especially since when I got involved again with the FOB’s since early this year. Answering e-mails is a must for me and I knew I have already missed giving attentions into those…pasensiya muna sa mga hindi ko nasasagot. Now, let us layout our short and long term plans…and notably, when is this Just like what I said before, time and devotion will come into play from most of us once we start any of these. Let’s convince now our El Presidente to start the ball rolling. We can start with Polls among members….i’ll get revert back to you later. Got to go to work….. Mart -----Original Message----- Hi Mart & Dan L, Yes agree definitely it will involve a lot of planning, people power and sheer political will to attain your (Dan) vision as you stressed "former glory where everybody will go swimming and boat rides." Mart, it is true, a project like this must involve the community, to be funded by a national budget and foreign funds, lots of preparations and a continuous cycle once in placed that is expected to run perpetually. What is enlightening is- this project is Specific-Measurable The declaration for the watersheds alone once secured is already a big achivement by FOB. Once the Question: Who is FOBRDA?( not Friends of Bislig Reindande D.Azucena- Dandy) who happens to be the Bislig Administrator but FOBRDA will be the multi discipline management organization that will oversee the project/program through the years. Now, who will trigger/convince the As to the initial expenditures, I think we (FOB) do not have to worry about this at all because when our actions/moves are properly timed plus consoling with the right personalities in CARAGA…A Pork Barrel is kinda small becoz I envision Piggery in Barrels & wood chips in container vans from plantation trees export to China via international vessels docking at Bislig International Harbor/commercial planes landing & taking off at the Bislig International Airport carting out tons of frozen alimango, lucon,talaba, FOB has nothing to loss here but gain the respect and glory in the years to come for undertaking and spear heading this kind of project for Bislig/Mangagoy the place where I met my wife and where my bo3ys were born and grew up. Pepot-ski Thank you very much for summarizing the different suggestions given by the general membership as a whole. If you may, can we re-arrange this into 2 categories such as : Let me focus a bit regarding the REHABILITATION OF THE And if this is going to be funded,say for up to 3-5 years, then it stops to a point I guess, and let the community manage it completely….is that what you think is going to happen ? But in the process of re-building it, the community should keep an eye that all guidelines are getting implemented under the watchful eye of the funding organization, right ? Pepot, we will surely have more questions than answers, but if you have more detailed guidelines and implementation process that we need to know, then please keep us abreast. This whole process is something that I haven’t envisioned to do in my lifetime. This is in fact should involve the whole community. My honest opinion is that, this is something that should be done in a very long term…the maintenance alone will follow from generations to generations.
Hi Mart and Pepot, Pepot, what you have laid out below was really terrific idea. I'm interested in the rehab of Once the siltation is controlled then the rehab of Bislig shoreline can be done too, be restored to its former glory where everyone will enjoy swimming and boat rides. Well, this will involved a lot planning and more brains to be used. Anyway, there a lot of them at FOB. BR//Dan 15 March 2008 Hello Becca,,,, Jocylene, Carmen, Zola, Alex, Joji, Jhenkee et al,
Fr. Henk Raam got married to LORIE ROA ( not Lori Lim). Lorie used to work with BPI Mnagagoy branch... after their wedding at Gingoog city, Lorie transferred to BPI Ortigas while Fr. Raam was with Anscor, a member of Soriano group of companies. Later on Fr. Raam quit his job at Anscor then got a job in Indonesia. the family stayed in metro manila for quite sometime. they are blessed with 4 children, a lady and three gentlemen. In the very early part of the 90's the family totally moved to Fr. Raam's homeland, The Netherlands. I think they are engage in a travel phone card business and a family magazine publishing endevour "THE PHILIPPINE DIGEST" which caters mostly to the pinoys in the area and some part of Europe.
Well, I hate to share this very tragic moments of the couples life.
Sometime in 2002 or 2003 or 2004 or maybe earlier or later ( sorry I forgot the exact year) the couple were invited to a christmas speaking engagement at JBS. ( I don't know what was the event).. It was very very very very sad and unfortunate that the couple was almost perished or penned down to death when the lodging house or Inn ( no idea if that was a hotel near the JBS gate) which they were billeted was hit by a fire in the late wee wee hours of the night. according to reports it was caused by a faulty x'mas light. Luckily with the help of a pen light and while the smoke engulfed the room and with a brave heart they were able to muster enough strength and they dismanttled a window grill, jumped and escaped. A good samaritan (a trycicle driver) who was at the site drove them to ASMH for emergency treatment. They stayed at the hospital for almost a week... Then after their travel documents were ready as prepared by the Duch embassy they flew back via Davao, Hongkong to Holland carrying or bringing with them the SAD MEMORIES ( mga uwat or piklat around their bodies) of their last visit to Mangagoy particularly JBS were Fr. Raam proudly considered his achievement as a great contribution to Mangagoy community.
Well, at the moment, this is I could only share with you. I'll try to communicate with the Raam's if they are willing or permit me to have their addy's known to all. Have a triumphant Palm Sunday (tommorow) and a meaningful Holy Week.
To Speedy Jhenkee.. if you have time please try to verify at JBS if hotel ba ang nasunog ug paki asked na rin if unsa na year ug event kadto. thanks
teddy gt
Great idea, JO! In addition, if we have a database of different "available" skills from there for outsourcing, tourism, even domestic ..that will be a great start. If someone could also turn their people-savvy skills to a sort an investment of publicity for other countries. That would really, rrrreally be a great start. I wll take charge of New England area. Thanks, Hi Mario,
I am for this medical mission to Mangagoy. As a matter of fact I am looking at going to hospitals in my area for discarded medical equipments, instruments etc. Maybe this is a good idea after all. Regards,
Bunny
Hello everyone! i found this in the bbnews taken at their farewell held march 23 1974 in the club house. how stunning does sister ameilia look in the second photo.
susan
share infor lang...Pasingit lang. Mr. Godinez took over after Mr, Olbes from 1962 – 1970, then it was Mr. Misa, then Glenn Kerr, then Mr. Formoso , then Mr. Salazar, then Ric Santiago and finally Willie Fuentes. Mr. Nyholm was not a resident manager but I believe was the head of Picop’s logging operation while Roger Kelly was his counterpart in BBLCI. If you can still recall Picop’s logging trucks were colored orange and passes thru the highway via Bislig and BBLCI logging trucks were painted yellow goes thru the road that leads to Simulao . Mr. Nyholm lived in the house where Tito Nono Baz lived in the lower hill. Regards Rey Met sister delia before she died. Ms. Linda Jover lagera owner of Bloomfield academy,{BF Resort Las Pinas City). She sent the schoolguard to inform Portia and if she has time to see sister. Portia failed to see her but i did. It was nice seeing her and i was told she had cancer. About sister amelia she was a music teacher, same with sister margaret. tama ba ako? bye bye... Happy Easter in Advance.. ander ebron <alexanderebron@ HI FOB, I have some information regarding some of our Maryknoll Sisters that nutured us all when we were kids, that taught us all good christian values: 1. Sister Rosalie Lacorte - is currently residing in Sumosa, Tanzania and still active as a sister, goes home to take a short vacation to Maryknoll, NY every year. She sends me pictures and updates of her missionary work in Tanzania. Briefly I was corresponding with Dee Rejante, and she is also actively corresponding with sr. rosalie. I have sr. rosalies address at home which I will e-mail to all very soon 2. Sister Amalia - is a retired nun. She is currently residing also at the Maryknoll Retirement place in Maryknoll, NY. As everybody might remember her, she was the most strict sister among the group and very suplada, and believed me she still is, hahahahaha. I had the chance to visit her also together with sr. rosalie at maryknoll, NY. Maryknoll, NY is 30 minutes away from my home. 3. Sr. Bernadette - left her sisterhood and married to a college professor. She is also teaching at Fordham University in Tarrytown, NY. 4. Sister Delia - passed away years ago, I think in Lucena/Batangas. God Bless her soul. I cannot remember the other sisters, but I do remember Father Peter, who is residing currently in CA (not sure of his whereabouts) might know, father Peter officiated Andy's wedding in CA. That's all folks. bunny
Hi Martin, When Ramon Olbes (and his wife Rosie together with Mrs. Agnes Balch, Mr. Loui Lim, and some others whose name I cannot remember) died, papa had to take over as interim resident manager until Mr. Godinez got to Bislig. Later, when the Mr. Godinez left for Indonesia, papa took over. When papa returned to Manila due to health reasons, Glen Kerr took his place. The Olbes and Godinez families were not in Bislig at the same time. Rene Olbes is not the Jr. It is Ramon. The names of the children are: Rosemary, Ruth Ann, Ramon, Ricardo, Roberto (my classmate), Rene (yours and Robby's classmate), Rosarito (Dolly), and the youngest (cannot remember her name at the moment who was 8 months old when Mr. & Mrs. Olbes died.) I don't recall the exact dates, it is written on the first pew of the chapel. I think March 1, 1961. I was in grade 4 and I remember how sad we all were. They were our neighbors and mommy stayed with the children that night. Tita Letty Castillo will know more about this since, as far as I remember, she was at that time the secretary of Mr. Olbes. By the way, I'm sure your father would know too. The Kanapis came much later. Mr. Godinez was already the Resident manager. That time I was already in highschool in Manila. Another person you can ask is Willy Fuentes. I'm sure he has all the records. I think it is even listed in the main PICOP Administration building. I'm afraid I wasn't able to help you much since that time I was also a kid. :) regards Lita ----- Original Message ---- Hi Pepot, For some reason, I am still not convinced because Mr. Godinez came to the site on 1967-68 something. If Mr. Olbes died on 1960-61, it must be Mr. Misa then who took over unless if Mr. Godinez is already in the site, but without his family.
Besides wala pang TPG in the 60’s….BBLCI pa lang, I think, he-he….kapoy og huna-huna !
I hope Becca can shed light into this. Hi Becca, do you mind asking your Dad, Please ? Have you got more for our website ? Thanks ! I hope Lita is listening, too, and maybe can share her thoughts. Best regards to all of you, Mart Back to Jose your classmate..It might be one of my nephew...but really not sure..we are a large clan there in Mangagoy. I remember my father (Marcelino) has said in my younger days when he said he can easily gather a 100 delima's and other relatives if he wanted to and mostly from Caramcam. The Carbo's in bislig are my nephews..namely Oscar and Evelyn Carbo who used to go to RCC. Our clan are from Leyte and I was born in Tacloban. My mother is from Caloocan. We used to live at my toddler days in Compana Maritima Building in Tacloban City since my greatGrandfather (Monico Soriano) was the General Manager of the Maritime Company at that time. Why I love Mangagoy? When we left Tacloban in 1961 we temporarily stayed in Caramcam..I still can remember Caramcam was a coastal sitio. Houses are lined up along the coast..having those huge troso, a cut lumber scattered along the coast. I can remember as a young boy standing up inside the cutout grain of the troso which serves as a perfect place for tago-tagoan for kids and at the sametime as our restroom (kasilyas) heheee..seafoods (shells, soso, lato, sigay sea cocumber "baat" are just along the shore you just walk 500 yards from shore and you can found all those thing everywhere.. ang dagat ay hunas.. and you can have those seafoods for ulam on lunch through dinner....I also remember coastal houses in Caramcam has their restroom lined up in the mangroove. I remember the river that run through km 1 & 2 & post one ends up in Caramcam..and thats where the mangroove is..where the kasilyas is. From Caramcam we moved to Bongaitan..near the pantalan then to Cagui-on near post one where I grow-up till highschool. If I have to re-live my youth experience in Mangagoy I might not be able to end it.. I'll be stuck to my computer.. life is good in Mangagoy in my younger years may be because at those time we are not aware how our parents had work hard, thesame as what we are doing now for our kids future. For fun... I am attaching some pictures of my family as a young boy growing up in Mangagoy..this one is taken in Hagonoy in one of our family picnic. I will never forget this experience.. see through its crystal clear water the undisturbed corals where you can see diferent colorful fishes, sea urchin and the shells in the beach where I had collected an unlimited availability of it as I wanted. An afro hair youth during my college in UE. and the a picture of me with my wife during LA Pathfinders Lions Club Charter Presentation as Director last year 2007. I hope this will not confuses with my name as Jose, joji or Abraham. I have a sister named Maria Linda, Dina, Sarah a brother named Jing and Leo..the rest ..might not ring a bell they are too young those days and could not remember Mangagoy. Grace, I am 9 years senior than you are..If you were born 1964. regards, joji Hello Martin, As you can see from my email address, I'm actually a practising psychologist, these days as a clinician but previously as an occupational psychologist. I spent 10 wonderful years with the Soriano organisation during a time of transition from independent companies to a consolidation but losing the influence of PICOP, Atlas Mining and eventually San Miguel. When I first commenced what was to be regular visits to Bislig in 1975, Glenn Kerr was the Resident Manager. When he took up a marketing position with Ansor in Hong Kong, Gaby Formoso took over and remained Resident Manager until around 1980. At that time Pedro Picornell was the EVP of Picop but later he became President of Newsprint Sales and Juan de Ibazeta took over as Chief Operating Officer with Rogelio Salazar (ex ACMDC) who became Vice President and later Resident Manager in Bislig. My own role was supporting Mr Ibazeta as he had overarching responsibilities with A Soriano Corporation. When Don Jose withdrew as Chairman, Mr Andy Soriano took over, a position he held until his untimely death. By then, PICOP had left Soriano hands and both I and Roger Salazar had moved to other positions within the Soriano organisation. I left when my contract expired in 1985 and returned to Australia. Later I led a project team to Papua New Guinea under Australian Aid before pursuing my own business both in PNG and eventually back here in Queensland where I now conduct a small practice out of love for my profession. I have been in contact with Spencer Balmer over the years but I remember Jess de Guzman and Rene Sio well but lost touch with so many others in those turbulent final years of the Marcos era. I attach a copy of Bilitang PICOP of that time when we all struggled to save but failed to stop the company from passing out of Soriano hands some few years later. Thanks to the amazing internet, it matters not where we are but that we can still keep in touch. Kind regards, Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Santos" <martin_santos@telus.net> To: <ptq@powertrainqld.com.au> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 2:12 PM Subject: RE: Bislighistory.com - Contact Form > 13 April 2008 > > Hello Bob, > > Thank you for getting in touch and am glad you had liked our website ! > Have > you worked in Picop's Makati office before but make frequent trips to the > Bislig millsite ? Pardon me, but I haven't recall seeing you in > Bislig...to > be honest, I have missed quite a bit of news for I work in the Engineering > compound. > > Your e-mail addy shows you are living in Australia right now. Are you > still > in the forestry business and if so, in what field of expertise ? I myself > is > a sawmill designer/ lumber trader here in Vancouver. I have never thought > of > getting in to this field for I was a Tire inspector in Picop. > > My best regards, > > Martin
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