People’s Park rising in ‘dirty’ rail station ANGELES CITY -- A Peoples Park is rising at the old railway of the Philippine National Railways (PNR) in Angeles City and it stretches to four villages. Alexander Cauguiran, the City Governments point person for the Peoples Park, said the transformation of the two-kilometer PNR railway and its area from a very dirty place to a park filled with ornamental plants, vegetables, sports and recreational activities is happening fast with the help of believers from the private sector. Cauguiran, chief-of-staff of Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan, said the establishment of the park is in line with the contract with the Angelenos of the two-term mayor with the 400,000 residents of the highly urbanized city. Advertisement We promised to build parks and we are making one without using money from the city government, said Cauguiran, who showed the development on the park more than two months after the transformation started in July. Cauguiran said at least P1 million in cash and materials from 28 donors were used for the park, which is mostly along G. Valdez St. It stretches to Barangays Agapito Del Rosario, Claro M. Recto, Lourdes Sur East and Lourdes Sur. The two basketball courts in the park will be rehabilitated using P200,000 and a venue for beach volleyball was recently completed “using the finest sand from Porac town,” he said. “It used to be filled with garbage and was a hiding place for drug pushers and criminals. Now it’s a beehive of activities. Alex Cauguiran and Miniang are the ones in charge of its complete transformation,” said Pamintuan, referring to her wife, Herminia “Miniang” Pamintuan. Pamintuan said the city is planning to host the first Angeles Beach Volleyball sports competition at the park. Four sections “It’s aptly named People’s Park because it is owned by the people. They can do what they want as long as they respect the area and its structures. The vegetables are for public’s consumption and we just ask them to spare the very young ones not yet fit for eating,” said Cauguiran. He said the park is divided into four zones and each section has its respective point person, including Auxiliary Bishop Pablo Virgilio David of the Holy Rosary Parish church. Zone A at in Agapito Del Rosario and local artist Edil Paras is in charge. It has ornamental plants. Zone B is at Claro M. Recto and David and Kiko Pangilinan are the point persons. It has ornamental plants, sports area and children’s playground. Zone C is at Lourdes Sur East and the point person is Joy Cruz of the Angeles City Tourism Office. Its main attraction is the old train station which will be restored and transformed into a museum. Zone D is at Lourdes Sur East and Lourdes Sur and the point persons are Erlinda Canco and Julito Gumabon of the city’s agriculture office. It has vegetable plantations and playground. City Engineer Don Dizon said the People’s Park has a combined area of some two hectares. He added that the whole stretch of the park will be filled with street lights. Cauguiran said the Rotary Club of Angeles was the first to donate and it gave P20,000. He added the other donations and assistance came from (as of September 15) Angeles Electric Corporation, Angeles Water Works, Bishop David, City College of Angeles, Army Reserve Command Force, Engr. Ronnie Roncal , Engr. Dennis Soliman, Franz Rivera Edgardo “Gaydu” Dizon David, Patrick McCran, Bernie Cruz, Jojo Flores, Soft and Bloom Landscaping, Engr. Lito Ramos, Engr. Spencer “Pen” Concepcion, CMR IT High School Yokohama-Clark, Abong Tayag, Rogie Ayson of Poracay Resort and the Granil family, SM City Clark, Delfin Lee, Romy Macarayo, Willy Sapnu of the RDW Trading, ABC Hotel’s Gerard Heinen, Eddie Tan of Jenra malls and Mark Sovino. Cauguiran said they assured the PNR officials that the city will return the property to them “once they need it already for their projects.” “That’s why we only build structures that we can remove and transfer,” he added. sunstar.ph/pampanga/local-news/2014/09/15/people-s-park-rising-dirty-rail-station-365629
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:31:57 +0000
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