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RELAX, RENEW, REFLECT. Top Photo shows senior citizens of Brgy. 15, Laoag City, with all smiles partaking lunch during the picnic to relax, renew, recharge and reflect. (From left) standing, Naring Matias, board; Cresen Nolasco, Loi Fausto, and Merlene Alvarez, board and third from R; Romana Fernandez, Treasurer.
(Inset left): Members of the board singing together, “Diay Baybay”, with the following lyrics to remember: “Sadiay anian a ragsak” (relax)/ “Sadiay awan ti rigat”, (renew)/ “Sadiay makalinglingay diay baybay ket nalinak” (reflect). From Left - with microphone, Dolores Pedro, secretary; Loi Fausto, Merlene Alvarez, members; Mariano Eugenio, with hat, president; Romana Fernandez, treasurer, and Avelina Alipio, asst. secretary-treasurer.
(Inset right): Lolas with their grandchildren enjoying the clear water to relieve them from the summer heat, besides the fun and laughters.
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The Senior
Citizens Association of Barangay 15, Laoag City, recently went to a picnic at the
San Joaquin river resort in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, to relieve themselves of the
high temperature of the summer season. To add joy and love, family members of
elders, their grandchildren, and appokos
joined the occasion. This is one way of diverting their attention to something
more pleasant, like meeting others, bathing together, singing together, and
enjoying the fun with their fellow chickitings.
Elders of Barangay 15 give this
annual activity a very special event in their lives. They claim that they
attain the three R’s all rolled into one, as they are to:
RELAX- Many elders easily get
tired and over stressed even just routine work within the home or in the garden
tending the plants as part of physical fitness activity.
Take a break. Take a walk. Take
a vacation. Join elders in your barangay for group activities, like: picnic,
field trip, even just for a quarter of a day, to rest our body and our mind,
and just be. Experience the restoring power of the joy, the happiness, hearing
biblical songs, for at the end of the day we have a good rest, and sleep.
RECHARGE/RENEW- Getting
together like picnic somewhere in a quiet place, a cool place where we could
feel to lower the temperature of the day, and feeling nature with us. Being
together, we share our past experiences during our happiest days of our youth
years. We feel young once more.
REFLECT- While having a dip in
clear water around us, and focus our eyes in the East, we could see the blue
mountain covered with clouds. This remind us, that within ourselves God is watching
us enjoying His creation. God is whispering to us what are we really doing?
What have we done to benefit others? Are we going to protect, and develop His
creation as our mission in people and for this world?
Besides, the food we partake
together, the laughters, the songs we sang together, the bathing in clear water
flowing, and watching our appokos enjoying the slides, the swing and seesaw,
all these filled our hearts.
The board members said, that
there are association you can’t belong to, neighborhoods you can’t socialize
in, with meetings you can’t get into, but Brgy. 15 Sr. Citizens Association of
Laoag City, Inc., in all its activities are always open for you. Come join us.
Members of the Board of
Trustees: Mariano Eugenio, president; Ernesto Tamayo, vice-president; Dolores
Pedro, secretary; Romana Fernandez, treasurer; and Avelina Alipio, assistant
secretary-treasurer; Segundina Julian, Merlene Alvarez, Loi Fausto, Naring
Matias and Felicitas Abad, board members.
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