Dr. Dalisay de Guzman Fernandez, Chief Science Research Specialist and head of the Research Information Utilization Division of the Los Baños-based Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Development (PCAMRD) of the Department of Science and Techonology was recently elected president of the National Network on Women in Fisheries in the Philippines, Inc. (WINFISH). She will take over from Retired Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-Region VI Director Sonia V. Seville, and her term of office is two years. WINFISH was organized at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas in Year 2000 and its aims are to improve women;s quality of life especially in the fisheries-involved communities through advocacy and networking. Increase awareness of women’s role in fisheries, generate information exchange among members and interested individuals and institutions. Dr. Fernandez is a native San Pableña and past President of the San Pablo Colleges’s Alumni Association, Inc.(RET)
What is now known as Doña Leonila (Mini-Forest) Park overlooking the Sampaloc Lake is actually a portion of the site for the City Hall Complex purchased in 1937 by the Municipal Government of San Pablo headed by President Inocencio Barleta, which was partly developed after the termination of World War II under the administration of appointed City Mayor, Dr. Fernando A. Bautista. During the incumbency of elected Mayor Lauro D. Dizon Sr., with the help of the Rotary Club of San Pablo, and under the supervision of Dr. Juan B. Hernandez, then club secretary of the local Rotary Club and Chairman of the City Beautification Committee, constructed some park structures at the park, with the fountain featuring the country lass with agriculture harvest as centerpiece. Probably, Hernandez and then City Engineer Perfecto Reyes were inspired by the figures affixed on the façade of the City Hall Building which symbolizes progress. Sometimes on April of 1961 when then President Carlos Garcia made a
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