LC’s brgy 15 senior citizens elect new officers

Mariano Eugenio, reelected president of Brgy. 15 Senior Citizens Association of Laoag City, Inc., inducting into office, Mrs. Merlene S. Alvares, elected member of the board, and one of the youngest and a retired staff member of GSIS, Laoag City, held recently at the Brgy. 15 Senior Citizens Center.

Mrs. Alvares, inducting into office elected members of the Board of Trustees for the year 2015. From right: Mr. Ernesto S. Tamayo, vice president, a retired bank manager, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Bankers Association of Laoag City, and former president, Laoag Association of Retired Teachers and Government Employees (LARTAGE); Mrs. Romana S. Fernandez, treasurer, a retired bank cashier; Mrs. Dolores C. Pedro, secretary, a simple housewife; Miss Evelina N. Alipio, member, a retired classroom teacher; Mr. Rogelio L. Domingo, member, a retired employee of Ilocos Norte Electric Cooperative (INEC); Mrs. Loida Fausto, member, a retired Regional Trial Court (RTC) interpreter; Mrs. Segundina S. Julian, member, a retired supervising nurse of Roque B. Ablan Memorial Hospital, Laoag City; Mrs. Genara Matias, member, a simple housewife, and the president, a retired YMCA of the Philippines executive secretary, serving the YMCA of Ilocos Norte, Cotabato in Mindanao, and Pangasinan.

the Barangay 15 Senior Citizens Association of Laoag City, Inc., held its annual election of their Board of Trustees for year 2015, at the Barangay Senior Citizens Center. The oath-taking of the members of the board was a simple, and an internal affair of the association. There was no invited guest to induct into office the elected board members. Mrs. Merlene S. Alvares, was first inducted by the president, and thereafter, she inducted the members and officers.

After the oath-taking, the president gave a short message based on one of the stories from the New Testament about the “Poor Widow”. That, it is not how much we would give or service we render to the people and the community, but what is in our hearts.

“Why is the Poor Widow,” he asked, “one of the multi-millionaires of the Eternal City?” It is not because she sobbed over the fact that she could give so little and did nothing. It is not because she told her friends and neighbors how much she would give if she were rich. It is because she dared to give what she had. The fact that she gave her all shows that, while her hand was almost empty, her heart was exceedingly full. Therefore, when Christ counted the collection that day, He said: “That poor widow has cast more in than all they have which have cast into the treasury.” Let’s not seek for honor in return of our service, let’s serve for the privilege of helping others.

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