By LIWAY M. YPARRAGUIRRE

I FIRST met him when he was still a vice mayor. I joined some of his sorties in the barangays when he first ran as mayor of San Carlos City.
His favorite campaign song then went like this:

I wanna give, I wanna give my life to you completely/ I beg of you, I beg of you to listen to my heart/,I’ve never prayed like this before/ and I’m asking you not to close the door/ So I can smell the wind and feel the water /If you just let me!*
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He pleaded and he was given the chance, three times, in fact. Right before the very eyes of his constituents and the people who come and go to San Carlos, the city’s transformation came
He dreamt so much for his beloved San Carlos City.
One of his joys was seeing children and adults alike playing or whiling away time at the city plaza in the evening until the wee hours sometimes, a luxury they could not do before for fear. Read more

By YOLANDA Z. SOTELO

WEDNESDAY morning saw me in a room full of mothers and their babies.

The affair: A program of the Children for Breastfeeding and Nurturers of the Earth aimed at setting a new world record – the most number of mothers simultaneously breastfeeding their young.

It had been a long time since I was in a room full of babies, perhaps the last time was at the hospital nursery where my second baby stayed after I gave birth to him. And that was almost nine years ago. So there was a feeling of nostalgia and Read more

By DANNY O. SAGUN

MANY including this writer will miss Jolly Resuello. And who will not, considering the jolly person in him? And his humility despite his successes in life (business and politics) was rare to find in this egotistic, me-first, indifferent world.

Considering himself as just a minor political functionary and only good for his city, he had big dreams for San Carlos. We vividly recall how he dreamed of a vibrant modern metropolis to replace the stagnant even backward-moving city he had inherited in 1998 when he assumed the mayorship. Read more