Under the leadership of President Melky Guan, one of the activities of the Rotary Club of Central San Pablo City to commemorate the 106th Foundation Anniversary of the Rotary International is the distribution of copies of Mirriam Webster Disctionary to all Grade 6 pupils at Placido Escudero (Public) Elementary School at Barangay Santa Elena in San Pablo City. They also donated two (2) units of nebulizers (a device used to administer medication in the form of a mist inhaled into the lungs.) to the San Pablo City General Hospital. (CIO/Jonathan S. Aningalan)
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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