Sagunto Star

Here’s a quick update on the progress of the new Senior Citizens building in Sison. The work continues as buildings that were in front of the new structure were demolished. There will be plenty of changes to observe by December when balikbayans go home for the homecoming.

 

Sison now has two ambulances to service its population. This is the newest addition.

Photos submitted by LAnudon

Just a reminder, please send your birthday greetings for our May Birthday celebrants at saguntophotos@gmail.com.

If you would like to greet someone individually as we’ve done with some of the birthday celebrants (see Happy Birthday, Mom), just email me their photo and any message you’d like to post and it will be posted on this site on or around their birth date.

We are pleased to welcome Mr. Tony Brownlow as a guest writer here on the Sagunto Star. In the following essay, he shares with us what makes the Philippines, and Sagunto in particular, so special to him. He and his wife, Helen Bongog Brownlow, have a home on the foothills of Palina, overlooking Sagunto and the surrounding areas.

As a boy thumbing through a book of knowledge, I happened upon a photograph which portrayed a carabao being worked in the rice field. The farmer behind was clean and tidy, wearing a wide brimmed white sombrero. What I could not understand of this photography from a tropical clime was that the man was clearly white and this image stayed with me.

Some twelve years later, I had been a soldier in the Korean War, and by a twist of fate, instead of a troopship return to England, I was a passenger in an R.A.F. two-engined Valetta to take me from Japan to Singapore. This meant refueling three times. The first or was it the second stop over, we landed in some obvious tropical country. It was in the dark of the night, lightning was flashing in the night sky – this was end of May, 1953. It felt humid as though we had landed in the middle of jungle. “Where are we?” I asked. “The Philippines!” replied someone. Amazingly, the enigma remained because we took off and I never saw the country at all.
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Please indulge us by helping us wish our mother, Jean, a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Photos were taken during her birthday celebration last Saturday at Onami Restaurant.

SUKA (Sagunto UK Association) is the host to Sagunto’s 2008 Homecoming this December and would like to extend this invitation to all Saguntonians abroad.