Ángeles and San Fernando Cities, and Pampanga Province

[tisoycuba]

wala pa tamad na yata hah wala lang

[portludlow]

Formula 1 Circuit in RP?
San Miguel Corp., Renowned Engineering Firm to Build World-Standard Track in Angeles City
BusinessMirror
September 20, 2007

The Philippines may soon realize its dream of hosting international car racing events with the proposed construction of a world-standard F1 Circuit in Angeles City.

This was revealed by Filipino racing legend and Marcelo Group of Companies chairman Eddie Marcelo, who recently accompanied Rainier Buchmann, managing director of world-renowned Hermann Tilke Architectural and Engineering Ltd. and a long-time friend during the glory days of his late son Jovy Marcelo in the Indianapolis 500.

Buchmann met San Miguel Corp. president Ramon Ang and Motorsports director Boy Ochoa to survey the 2,000 hectare proposed site in Angeles City fronting the North Luzon Expressway from Angeles City to Subic.

Ang and his group of investors will be financing the project.

Hermann Tilke Architectural and Engineering Ltd. is the famous builder of most of the new F1 Circuits such as Sepang F1 Circuit, the Bahrain F1 International Circuit, the Shanghai F1 International Circuit, the Fuji F1 International Speedway, the Nurburgring Ring Circuit, the Hockenheimring Circuit, the Cancun International Circuit and 2 other tracks still under construction- the Singapore F1 International Circuit and the India F1 International Circuit.

"Ramon Ang, a long-time supporter of Philippine Motorsports has collaborated with a group of investors for the proposed world-class F1 circuit here in the Philippines and Hermann Tilke Architectural and Engineering Ltd. is very much interested in the said project. The company has the technology and the specs to pass the world racing and safety standards for a Formula One track," Marcelo said.

"If plans push through, the country may soon play host to prestigious international car racing events and possibly bid to become one of the venues of the world-renowned Formula One series. This will be a big boost to the tourism industry considering the influx of tourists coming over to watch these races, " he added.
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Sana matuloy ito at saan naman kaya itatayo??.....

[portludlow]

Pati ba naman ito naging kontrobersiyal Magpasalamat na lang at merong itatayong interchange sa Angeles City.

The politics of interchanges

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam...editorial.html
THE construction of an interchange along Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway or SCTEx is now officially a controversial one.

Over the weekend, one group composed of no less than Governor Ed Panlilio, City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar Rodriguez, business leader Rene Romero and a slew of businessmen and professionals met to make it known to all and sundry their position on the interchange issue. It is supporting strongly the proposed interchange at the Manuali portion (Porac) of SCTEx.

The particular interchange was the one approved by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and so it was aptly dubbed GMA-Porac interchange, probably to scare off others who have different proposals.

For the record, Senator Manuel Lapid has proposed the original Porac interchange, not in Manuali area, for sure, and which apparently was approved in principle by the President who mentioned it in her State of the Nation Address (Sona) last July.

Come now the honorable Secretary Edgardo Pamintuan of the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development (SCAD) and Congressman Carmelo Lazatin who have come up with another proposal for an interchange somewhere in Angeles City.

In the weekend briefing before the Panlilio-Rodriguez-Romero group, Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) chairman Narciso Abaya Jr. made it clear and certain that among the three proposed interchanges, the one likely to materialize is the one with the President’s initials on it.

And he was not simply being politically correct, although that argument counts much if not the most, even if he did not admit it.

It’s not just that the President has already issued an official directive to BCDA that the Manuali site should be where the GMA-Porac interchange should be. And Abaya has declared that he has no intention whatsoever of risking being fired by his boss for not following her instructions.

The Manuali site is the most ideal of the all the competing locations vis-à-vis the proposals of Senator Lapid and Secretary Pamintuan and Congressman Lazatin.

By ideal, he meant less cost, less technical difficulty and less of other problems that BCDA would want to face to do its job of building an interchange at SCTEx.

It doesn’t also help -- and this one did not come from Abaya but from one of the leaders of the group -- that Senator Lapid reportedly has 60 hectares near his proposed interchange. Ditto Secretary Pamintuan, who reportedly owns about 30 hectares near the Margot area where he and Congressman Lazatin would want BCDA to build an interchange.

Aside from the perceived vested interest of the proponents, the problem with the Margot proposal, is that it will compromise the building of another runway near that area for the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport.

The last has not been heard on this issue, what with the other proponents apparently bent on politically muscling their way for their favored interchanges. Somehow, building interchanges along the SCTEx, especially in the President’s home province, is too important to be left to engineers and technocrats.

Politicians want more than just being heard. They want to have the last say.

[portludlow]

Ano ba yan! walang kita sa jueteng at ngayon gustong pakialaman ang quarry.

Pampanga mayors’ bid to control quarry tax questioned

By Tonette Orejas
Central Luzon Desk
Last updated 10:47pm (Mla time) 09/13/2007

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquire...ticle_id=88437
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -— A “syndicate in the offing” is what a former local official sees in the proposed ordinance of the Pampanga Mayors’ League (PML) to regulate the province’s multimillion-peso quarry industry.

The potential for monopoly is seen in a provision of proposed Ordinance No. 172 on the procurement of official receipts, said the source who did not want to be named due to possible reprisals from some mayors.

Return of scam

Section 5 of the planned measure states that “only the duly authorized representatives of the Provincial Federation of Quarry Associations shall be authorized to purchase official receipts for extraction of quarry resources from the province.”

The source, who is knowledgeable in the province’s quarry operations, said this was an attempt to return to the pre-1998 set-up when officials during the time of former governor and now Sen. Manuel “Lito” Lapid used leaders of quarry operators’ associations to collect illegal fees of P80 on top of the P40 allowed by law per truckload of sand.

The Office of the Ombudsman sued Lapid for graft and suspended him twice in 1998 and 1999. The Ombudsman withdrew the information in July 2004, prompting the Sandiganbayan to close the case.

No resolution

The Inquirer called Lubao Mayor Dennis Pineda, PML president, twice but he did not take the calls on Wednesday.

The draft ordinance was not accompanied by a resolution of the PML so it was not clear who among the mayors supported the measure.

According to the source, the proposed scrapping of the P150 administrative fee, which the provincial government spends to pay for the salaries of field personnel, will leave no funds for the provincial government to monitor the quarry industry, mainly in verifying the authenticity of the receipts and their re-use or faking.

Pre-determining the number of receipts per town or village opens the receipts to misuse, he said.

The source also found it “unconstitutional” that the mayors will regulate the quarry operators’ associations or require them to join such organizations.

Unconstitutional

“This violates the right to self-organization or their freedom of association,” he said.

The PML’s plan to establish checkpoints and dispatch their own checkers also “encroach” on the governor’s executive powers as mandated in the Local Government Code of 1991 and Philippine Mining Act of 1995, he said.

Even as the PML proposes a P300-tax per truckload and wants to divide that as P90-P90-P120 for the province, town and village, respectively, its draft was silent about local taxes. The towns collect between P50 and P90 on top of the capitol’s P150 tax and P150 administrative fee.

Rationale

In the draft, the PML said the reforms it was introducing was meant to protect the environment; install checks, counterchecks and monitoring; make the collection location-based so the actual amounts due to towns and villages are properly computed; protect the welfare of operators; and put transparency in the use of official receipts.

Gov. Eddie Panlilio said he has instructed provincial legal officer Maria Elissa Velez to study the proposed ordinance.

“As we are mandated by law to do, we will put a high regard on the right of the people to truly benefit from mineral resources by way of social services from taxes that are properly collected and protected from any irregularities,” Panlilio said.

[tisoycuba]

Originally Posted by portludlow

Sana matuloy ito at saan naman kaya itatayo??.....

oo nga pala saan kaya ito ilalagay noh sana nga matuloy @portludlow salamat hah

[ivanhenares]

Originally Posted by portludlow

Pati ba naman ito naging kontrobersiyal Magpasalamat na lang at merong itatayong interchange sa Angeles City.

That was my point. The proposed interchanges in Porac and Angeles were all vested interest. I'll go for Manuli.

[tisoycuba]

@ivan,hindi kana maglalagay nang mga picture dto hah,kaw pa naman ang nang simula nang thread 3!

[ivanhenares]

Originally Posted by tisoycuba

@ivan,hindi kana maglalagay nang mga picture dto hah,kaw pa naman ang nang simula nang thread 3!

I did not start thread 3. What gave you that idea?

If you want to see my pics, just go to http://ivanhenares.multiply.com/tag/pampanga. I'm very busy.

[zelrich82]

hi Ivan, i looked at those photos uli sa resort at the foot of arayat "Abe's Farm"; do they have accomodations if you wish to spend a night or so? kita ko kase yung food (lots of it - nakakagutom) and also saw the place for the massahe or hilot, is it just a pure resort spa? walang sleeping rooms?


btw, thread 3 was started by The Avenger...

[tisoycuba]

no need !

[ivanhenares]

Originally Posted by zelrich82

hi Ivan, i looked at those photos uli sa resort at the foot of arayat "Abe's Farm"; do they have accomodations if you wish to spend a night or so? kita ko kase yung food (lots of it - nakakagutom) and also saw the place for the massahe or hilot, is it just a pure resort spa? walang sleeping rooms?


btw, thread 3 was started by The Avenger...

They have rooms too. You could check their Manila office for reservations.

[zelrich82]

salamat po

[Animo]

By Robby Tantingco
Peanut Gallery

THE year was 1796. Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda had just finished his one-year term as capitan (town mayor) of San Fernando, and he and his wife convinced their friends to invest in clearing unchartered territory in the northern part of the town.

The area was called Culiat. It was thickly forested and teeming with Aetas (the headhunting kind) as well as with a variety of vine called culiat, from which it got its name. Don Angel believed that once the place was cleared, many San Fernando families would relocate there to take advantage of the new frontier as well as escape the annual floods.

The couple initially set up a farmhouse in Barangay Saguin, which was a short distance from Culiat. From there, they walked daily to Culiat for the clearing operations, always bringing with them a wooden image of the Nuestra Señora del Santo Rosario (Our Lady of the Holy Rosary), and praying the rosary as they approached the forested areas, to ask for divine protection against the Aetas.

Hardly had the clearing begun when Don Angel was recalled to active military duty in Manila, which meant that his wife, Rosalia de Jesus, would lead the clearing in the next few years. Thus, for her heroic role in the town's history, this woman deserves to be recognized as a co-founder of Angeles.

In 1811, the couple finally ended clearing activities and led several pioneering families from San Fernando in moving in to the new settlement. Don Angel built his first house near what is now the Nepo Coliseum. He also built the first chapel where the present Chowking Restaurant is located at Sto. Rosario Street.

In 1813, the archbishop of Manila came to Culiat to inaugurate the new parish, which covered Barangays Cutcut, Pampang and Pulung Anunas. Thus, Culiat became a parish 16 years before it became a town. It did not have its own parish priest, although, because the parish priest of San Fernando, Fray Jose Pometa, OSA was making all kinds of objections and threats, probably because he didn't relish seeing his wealthy parishioners transfer to another parish. In fact, whenever he and his coadjutors said Mass in Culiat during weekends, they could not resist humiliating the parishioners from the pulpit. This prompted Don Angel to request the archbishop to send the Porac parish priest instead to say the weekend Masses. Sometimes the parish priest from Floridablanca was invited, other times it was the priest from Apalit. Any priest would do except the ones from San Fernando! It was only when Padre Macario Paras, the first Culiat native to become a priest, was assigned to Culiat that the parishioners heaved a sigh of relief.

The official creation of the town of Culiat was being delayed because the number of tax-paying residents totaled only 160, or 340 short of the government minimum of 500 taxpayers. Why weren't more San Fernando families transferring to Culiat as fast as Don Angel had hoped for? Was it because of Fray Pometa's ranting and raving? Were the conservative ilustrado families adopting a wait-and-see attitude? Was Culiat going to be a failed experiment?

Unable to wait any longer, Don Angel dug into his own pocket to pay the government the equivalent amount of taxes needed to meet the required minimum of 500 taxpayers. And so, on October 16, 1829, the decree proclaiming the independence of Culiat from its matrix, San Fernando, was finally signed. Culiat was renamed Angeles, because it was now a full-fledged town, much larger than the original barangay of Culiat, because it included Sto. Rosario (the poblacion), San Jose, Cutcut, Pampang, Amsic and Santol. (Later, Angeles would acquire seven barangays from San Fernando, namely, Pulungbulo, Mining, Tabun, Capaya, Sapa Libutad, Pulung Cacutud and Pandan; and three barangays from Mabalacat, namely, Balibago, Malabanias and Pulung Maragul).

Angeles was named in honor of the founder, Don Angel, but since it was customary to dedicate new towns to saints who were the namesakes of their founders, it was dedicated to the Los Angeles Custodios, or the Guardian Angels (Angel a Talaingat in Kapampangan). When Don Angel had the patron saint's image made, he singularized it to San Angelo, or Holy Angel, for practical reasons.

But the patron saint of Angeles is not the Guardian Angel(s), but Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, known in the Philippines as La Naval, because it was this Marian image that led the Spanish fleet to a naval victory during an invasion by Protestant Dutch ships in 1646. (Kapampangan soldiers played a role in that battle, which is why Bacolor, formerly the capital of Pampanga, is the only place in the country outside Manila where La Naval is celebrated).
Angeles came to celebrate La Naval only because she was the patron saint of the founder's wife, Rosalia de Jesus.

Strangely also, while both Manila and Bacolor celebrate La Naval in November, Angeles celebrates its own La Naval on the second Sunday of October, probably because the proclamation of the town's independence from San Fernando was signed on an October 16, most likely the month's second Sunday.

Don Angel was found dead in his bed on the morning of June 21, 1835. He was 70. His remains were buried in the old cemetery in Cutcut, later transferred to the new church in 1892. His gravesite was a pilgrimage site for many years; there were reports of miracles and apparitions, including one that said his body was found to be incorrupt when it was exhumed.

I hope government officials in Angeles City would erect a statue of Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda, made of bronze, not fiberglass, because he deserves it. It was the force of his vision and personal sacrifices alone that created Angeles, against the objections of influential people at the time. For starters, Holy Angel University has recently named its Main Building, the oldest structure on campus, as the Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda Building.

(References: Mariano Henson, A Brief History of the Town of Angeles (1965); Nicolas Vicente Navarro, Ing Pangatatag ning Balen Angeles (1840); Macario Naval, H. Otley Beyer Collections (1916).

[Magdiwang]

Some new photos of San Fernando on the below Blog :

http://jibrael.blogspot.com


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[tisoycuba]

Originally Posted by Magdiwang

Some new photos of San Fernando on the below Blog :

http://jibrael.blogspot.com


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may kuha ka rin ba sa angeles at clark mga nga bagong development thanks hah tol

[ivanhenares]

The Archidocesan Chancery of San Fernando, Pampanga is currently being restored thanks to Auxiliary Bishop Pablo "Ambo" David. This is great news for church heritage. Bishop Ambo got a copy of the old photo of the chancery and is trying to bring it back to its original form. To date, the ugly windows that covered the balconies and the small portico added to the facade have been removed. The structure also received a fresh layer of paint.

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[Culiat]

I think I should repost this here since these were shot in Angeles City.

Originally Posted by Culiat

Here are some short docus I made during this trip.

Hanapbuhay: Mananahi
http://www.probetv.com/view_video.ph...df08cf09d7016c


Hanapbuhay: Pintor ng Paso
http://www.probetv.com/view_video.ph...240daa92d8d50e

[ishtefh_03]

Originally Posted by ivanhenares

The Archidocesan Chancery of San Fernando, Pampanga is currently being restored thanks to Auxiliary Bishop Pablo "Ambo" David. This is great news for church heritage. Bishop Ambo got a copy of the old photo of the chancery and is trying to bring it back to its original form. To date, the ugly windows that covered the balconies and the small portico added to the facade have been removed. The structure also received a fresh layer of paint.

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wow! nice!!

btw, do you mind if i use some of your article in your site for my thesis??? preferably articles regarding kapampangan culture/ heritage or any stuffs... i would cite it naman na it's from you...

[ivanhenares]

Ok

[ishtefh_03]

thanks!! for the research ng thesis ko lng naman lang...