Post by tracymack on Feb 21, 2008 10:39:00 GMT 8
Here's an editorial from Pangasinan Star Online:
January 8, 2008
EDITORIAL /Amadito’s way: Food in every backyard
Source: pangasinanstar.prepys.com/archives/2008/01/08/editorial-amaditos-way-food-in-every-backyard/
NOTHING could be more poignant in hard times than seeing and hearing government itself taking the lead in making its constituents produce food, not for anyone else’s consumption, but for their own.
A local government that puts a year-to-year vision in its programs for constituents can never go wrong. Innovating – or even copying – from other’s previous works or ideas only exposes a bankruptcy of vision and hazy, confused goals that would tell heavily on the welfare of the people it serves sooner or later.
That is why, we can only note with elation (and some prayers that it succeeds) the announced move of Mayor Amadeo R. Perez, Jr. of the bustling city of Urdaneta to adopt a single-minded track for food self-sufficiency among his citymates . If we know the mayor’s dogged determination to win approval for projects that he sets his mind onto, Urdanetans, to a man, will be mobilized and Urdanetans, to a man, will respond to his call for every household to produce its own food, particularly vegetables, in the backyards.
The principle is simple enough: More food available in the backyards, lesser expense on the pocket for kitchen and culinary needs of the family.
And Perez and his officials are not talking thru their hats; already the city government is putting its money where its mouth is by fully attending to the nurseries where seedlings are being grown in abundance to be made available to households, thus giving flesh to the food self-sufficiency vision.
The multi-term mayor’s pulse for objectives-setting is unerring; upon his return to the mayorship, it was the payment of a huge city debt to lending banks. Next it was the infrastructure for roads and markets, taking so much number of years in his term to put these in place. Now, in the new year, with all these concerns now behind his mind, food for Urdanetans is the next logical agenda on the table.
Any doubt he will again succeed?
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Now I'm convinced that Mayor Perez is leaps & bounds more competent than his predecessor.
January 8, 2008
EDITORIAL /Amadito’s way: Food in every backyard
Source: pangasinanstar.prepys.com/archives/2008/01/08/editorial-amaditos-way-food-in-every-backyard/
NOTHING could be more poignant in hard times than seeing and hearing government itself taking the lead in making its constituents produce food, not for anyone else’s consumption, but for their own.
A local government that puts a year-to-year vision in its programs for constituents can never go wrong. Innovating – or even copying – from other’s previous works or ideas only exposes a bankruptcy of vision and hazy, confused goals that would tell heavily on the welfare of the people it serves sooner or later.
That is why, we can only note with elation (and some prayers that it succeeds) the announced move of Mayor Amadeo R. Perez, Jr. of the bustling city of Urdaneta to adopt a single-minded track for food self-sufficiency among his citymates . If we know the mayor’s dogged determination to win approval for projects that he sets his mind onto, Urdanetans, to a man, will be mobilized and Urdanetans, to a man, will respond to his call for every household to produce its own food, particularly vegetables, in the backyards.
The principle is simple enough: More food available in the backyards, lesser expense on the pocket for kitchen and culinary needs of the family.
And Perez and his officials are not talking thru their hats; already the city government is putting its money where its mouth is by fully attending to the nurseries where seedlings are being grown in abundance to be made available to households, thus giving flesh to the food self-sufficiency vision.
The multi-term mayor’s pulse for objectives-setting is unerring; upon his return to the mayorship, it was the payment of a huge city debt to lending banks. Next it was the infrastructure for roads and markets, taking so much number of years in his term to put these in place. Now, in the new year, with all these concerns now behind his mind, food for Urdanetans is the next logical agenda on the table.
Any doubt he will again succeed?
*******************
Now I'm convinced that Mayor Perez is leaps & bounds more competent than his predecessor.