Mangaldan Mayor Extols Dads for Passing Grand Parents Day

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

MANGALDAN – This town’s Mayor Bona Fe D. Parayno lauds the Sanggunian Bayan (town council) for passing into law the Grand Parents Day (GPD) that would be celebrated by senior citizens here every October 1.

SING. Mangaldan Mayor Bona Fe de Vera-Parayno belts
Sharon Cuneta's Kahit Maputi na ang Buhok Ko during the
Grand Parents Day held at the Macario Ydia Development
Center last October 1. 

In an affair celebrated last October 1 at the jam packed MacarioYdia Development Center the mayor told the blanket of grandparents that the GPD would be celebrated here every year.
“Gagawin po natin tanda ng pagmamahal at pagsaludo sa mga nagawa ng ating mga lolo at lola sa bawat  isa sa atin dito sa ating bayan. Itong araw na ito ay isang pagunita sa isang tradition na matagumpay,”she stressed.
The mayor reminded grand children about the unconditional love given by their grandparents to them.
Mayor Parayno told the grandparents that her administration had just bought medicines that would be given to them for free.

GRAND PARENTS DAY. Mangaldan Mayor Bona Fe de Vera-Parayno told last October 1 at the jam packed  MacarioYdia Development Center hundreds of grandparents who attended that her administration passed recently a new law’s Grand Parents Day that would be celebrated every first day of October. Mayor Parayno told them that she got already the medicines for them that they would receive for free.

“Nakalimutan ng ating mga kabataan ang pagsama sama ng mga mag-anak ang paghalik sa kamay ng lolo at lola ang pagyakap sa kanila”.
Parayno hailed the grateful grand parents that the just concluded event here was their day.
“This is Grand Parents Day at kayo po ang bida ngayong araw”.
In the last part of her speech, Parayno shed tears when she reads a poem written by a Filipino grandchild, who was working in United Arab Emirates, reminisced her grandfather who suffered a stroke, became indisposed, and suffered countless bed sores that she tried to cure.
Meanwhile, the successor for the post here of beleaguered Barangay Poblacion chief Joselito Quinto has probably blinked after the lawyer of the latter threaten to file a contempt of court case if she pushes through in taking her oath last September 29.

Village Councilwoman Naomi Fabia, the number 2 ranked council member, did not appear at the office of Mayor Bona Fe de Vera-Parayno to take her oath for a 60 days holdover position after Parayno plans to preventively suspend Quinto on that day too and Number 1 Kagawad Melinda Murillo.

Quinto and Murillo were complained by Parayno for illegal exaction when they allegedly issued business permits to individuals who want to put a business in the village.
Two days before the oath taking and suspension by the mayor of Quinto, Parayno said she would push through, despite the temporary restraining order (TRO), with the oath taking and suspension because she, as advised by her lawyer, was not included in the TRO of Judge Jovito S. Samadan of the Regional Trial Court –Branch 40 in Dagupan City.

“Hindi ako kasali sa TRO ng Judge. Ang Local Government Code  (LGC) of 1991 ay nagbibigay sa akin kapangayarihan ng preventive suspension,” the mayor told Northern Watch.
But a source, who asked anonymity, observe that the mayor and Fabia did not push through to the September 29 oath taking and preventive suspension as Fabia shilly-shallied.
“Probably because of the apprehension of Fabia to be charged in court and prejudiced her plans to immigrate to Canada, the party submit to the resolution of the judge for the petitioner and respondents in the preventive suspension decided by the SB to submit their petition to the TRO that would be counted 10 days after Judge Samadan resolved it last September 24.

TEARS. Mangaldan Mayor Bona Fe de Vera-Parayno shed tears during the Grand Parents Day  (GPD) last October 1 at  the  MacarioYdia Development Center, as she reads a poem written by a granddaughter, who works in the Middle East, about the love, sufferings, and death of her grandfather who succumbed to stroke. The town council just passed the GPD through the intercession of Parayno.