Brgy. 15 (Laoag City) elderlies go on a picnic

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.

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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