The Rural Bank of Seven Lakes (San Pablo City), Inc., aware of their social concern for the welfare of the community that they serve, has added San Gabriel Elementary School in Ambray School District as the 5th elementary school unit to receive their assistance under the Adopt-A-School Program of the Department of Education, by providing an amount to cover the cost of finishing the construction of some sections of the concrete peripheral fence to help protect the campus from being entered into by astray animals and plain tresspassers. The photo was taken last July 15, 2010 when Board Chairman and Bank President Odilon I. Bautista personally handed the check to School District Supervisor Myrna M. Panagsagan (in light colored blouse), as witnessed by School Principal Eileen A. Roda and Bank Manager Eduardo M. Garcia. Other units they adopted are Sto. Cristo Elementary School, Bagong Pook Elementary School, Dapdapan Elementary School, and Santa Cruz (Putol) Elementary School. (Ruben E. Taningco)
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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