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News VOL. 2, No. 25
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OF INTERESTING PEOPLE AND PLACES By Nena Neri Hernandez
A YOUNG MAN WITH A DREAM and his dream came true! - DAHILAYAN ELPIDIO M. PARAS an engineer, liked what he saw in the hills of Dahilayan, Manolo Fortich Bukidnon. His brilliant mind started working, calculating, measuring the distance from one hill to the other for what he imagined would be a good tourist attraction, A ZIPLINE!
In fact, they have hired residents of nearby municipalities. When the hired hands first started reporting for work, most of them came barefoot. Now, most of them have motor bikes, coming in with clean pants, shirts and shoes looking snappy and contented. No more hand to mouth existence for these farmers.
Although it was his younger brother VICTOR who discovered the hills because he delivered sand and gravel to a nearby municipality Kalugmanan. But all Victor wanted was for them to build a vacation house. Now all the brothers and sisters each have a hill they developed for a vacation house.
DAHILAYAN ADVENTURE PARK and PINEGROVE MOUNTAIN LODGE are complementing Del Monte Club house even Camp Philips. After DAHILAYAN, we passed by to have our early dinner at the Del Monte Clubhouse. The economy of nearby municipalities has indeed improved.
When our group, the Innerwheel Club of West Cagayan de Oro had our fellowship, our very active president Gilda Brito who frequents Dahilayan was able to convince us to have our trip to Dahilayan, and I was in for a surprise!
PINEGROVE MOUNTAIN LODGE is ready to take in guests. Daughter ROXANNE has finished working the interiors while son-in-law RAVI VICTORIO supervised the construction work.
The hills are very well developed. It looked like a page straight from a European tourist magazine. We enjoyed the breathtaking view, with Caribbean pines greeting us and the effect, nice, cool and healthy.
We did not have time to visit Pine Grove Lodge so I cannot describe it but I’m sure it is something truly WORLD CLASS exactly what ELPIE dreamed of. With Rose and children beside him I am sure he will make his dream come true and I quote my favorite old song, and it should be theirs too:
The scenery is terrific, and from where we were we saw the Zipline and the riders, flying by wire and very happy. It has a short, medium and dual ziplines. Last year they had over a hundred thousand zipline visitors. Now you can say that it certainly is our TOP TOURIST ATTRACTION and has boosted our economy especially Bukidnon.
“A dream is a wish your heart makes.......Have faith in your dreams and someday....a rainbow will come shining through...If you keep on believing ...A DREAM THAT YOU WISH WILL COME TRUE”....and it certainly did come true for ELPIE, benefitting us all!
The Innerwheel Club of West CDO on our Summer Weekend Getaway
(SiƩed LeŌ to Right) Joyce, Helen, Marisel, Joy (Standing) Marilyn, Raquel, Tellie, Pres. Ging, Sol, and this writer Nena