2nd meeting with Bishop Varquez concluded; Eastern Samar road issue remains hottest topic
By Ced Solidon • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: Events, News
The issue about the condition of the roads in Eastern Samar continued to be the most discussed topic during yesterday’s forum between Borongan Bishop Crispin Varquez and the Manila-based Eastern Samarenos.
Participants continued to complain about the road situation in the province during the forum that talked about the Bishop’s pastoral work in the province, the creation of a priest home for retired priests and finally, setting the purpose of the forum.
Road monitoring group in Eastern Samar created
In the forum’s first agenda, Bishop Varquez metioned to the participants that he, along with several sectors of society in the province, formed a group to monitor the construction of the roads in Eastern Samar.
According to him, the group already sent a letter to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo through Sec. Hermogenes Ebdane of the Department of Public Works and Highways regarding this matter.
Bishop seeks support for creation of priest home
Bishop Varquez also sought the help of Eastern Samarenos based in Metro Manila and all over the world in building the priest home where retired priests of Eastern Samar would eventually be housed.
The retirement home, which will be built behind the Seminario de Jesus Nazareno in Borongan, currently has a fund of P300,000.
Varquez said that the construction of the retirement home would begin as soon as the funds reach P500,000.
The group will remain a forum
The final agenda discussed during the forum was whether the forum would remain as such or a more formal group would be created out of it.
Members in the forum eventually agreed that the group would remain a forum, although there would always be a concrete action to be done by the members at the end of each meeting.
Aside from that, a secretariat was also formed to lead the members of the forum. The secretariat would be headed by Msgr. Pepe Quitorio. He would then be joined by 3 representatives from each municipality who are currently based in Metro Manila.
You can read the tweets during the forum by reading the Eastern Samar Community Blog’s twitter page.
Ced Solidon is the blog's founder. He currently works as a freelance writer. Aside from that, he also maintains a writing blog, Write Like a Rock Star! He loves to read books and play music.
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