2nd Day 1st Grand Reunion of Former Employees of US Naval Base, Subic Bay
Monday, day 2 of the 1st Grand Reunion of Former US Naval Base Workers’ Grand Reunion started with the flag Raising Ceremony in front of Bldg 229 which used to house the Commander of the US Navy in the Philippines.
Grand Reunion Executive Committee (Execom) Public Affairs Officer Vic V. Vizcocho, Jr. presented Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority Chairman Roberto V. Garcia with a copy of the 1st Grand Reunion Souvenir Program while Execom Co-Chair Roberto “Bobby” Flores presented a similar copy to Olongapo City Mayor Rolen Paulino.
A couple of hundred former base workers, many home from the United States and other foreign countries, purposely for the reunion, attended the ceremonies along with SBMA employees.
After the flag-raising ceremonies, with the assistance of Mayor Paulino, SBMA Director Cynthia Paulino, Atty. Ruel Kabigting and Grand Reunion Co-Chair Ernesto Tawatao, Chairman Garcia led the lowering of the time capsule for the planned Former Base workers’ Marker nearby in a vacant lot in the corner of Dewey Ave. and Taft St.
The Time capsule contains the design of the commemorative marker and copies of Subic Bay News which featured the countdown to the Grand Reunion, including the recent “street meeting” of former base workers with US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg in Subic, among others.
A photo exhibit will be opened 2pm, tomorrow at Harbor Point Ayala Mall in the Freeport while a “shindig” will be held at Pier One in the evening.
The 2014 Grand Reunion which opened yesterday with a Holy Mass at San Roque Chapel, SBFZ. will culminate on Friday with a parade from Magsaysay Drive in Olongapo to Remy Field in the Freeport where more festivities have been lined-up by the organizers. (VVV)