Dr Abe V Rotor
If it were a line graph, imagine a steep rise settling on a plateau of awards and honors gained principally in the last ten years. Steered by a leader whose consecutive terms coincided with those of three presidents of the country, including the present, the challenge today is, "Quo vadis, Lagro?"
Where is Barangay Greater Lagro headed for confronts incoming leaders after Atty Renato U Galimba bows out after three consecutive terms as Barangay Chairman.
The coming Barangay elections in the Philippines on May 14, 2018 shall elect the Punong Barangay, more commonly known as barangay captains, and members of the Sangguniang Barangay, or barangay council, in 42,028 barangays (villages) throughout the country. Barangays are the smallest local government unit in the Philippines. Elections for the reformed Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) will also be held at the same time.
Greater Lagro and adjoining Fairview, hug the Northeastern limits La Mesa Dam a 700-hectare water reservoir that supplies water to Metro Manila and suburbs.
Chairman Galimba leaves behind a village metamorphosed into a complex community that spontaneously grew up during its 21-year history as one of the most progressive urban barangays not only in Metro Manila but in the Philippines. Simultaneous growth of adjoining barangays, principally North Fairview, brought in three giant malls - SM, Robinsons, and Fairview Terraces. three big academic institutions led by Our Lady of Fatima University and AMA University, and a growing number of business establishments. Before the decade ends, MRT 7 shall then have connected through Regalado Highway, Quirino Highway, and Commonwealth Avenue.
the whole area complex. It is a main thoroughfare in Barangay Greater Lagro to Mindanao Avenue and of the Neopolitan Business Park.
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The awards and citations garnered by Barangay Greater Lagro principally from the QC city government are in the fields of peace and order, waste management, LGU administration and legislation, gender equality, community journalism, and best performing barangay. BGL played host to other LGUs on practicum. Its networking relationship with religious groups, schools, GOs and NGOs, as well as civic organizations earned the barangay prestige and trust.
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Barangay Greater Lagro has indeed metamorphosed from a GSIS housing project in the early seventies. Today the barangay encompasses La Mesa Dam, Hilltop Subdivision, Sitio Milan of Neopolitan Subdivision, and Lagro Subdivision, which is the biggest and the center of Barangay local government.
As Manila grew into a metropolitan city in the sixties and seventies, inevitably the growth of its suburbs had to spread farther. Its original residents and influx of people from the provinces seeking space to breath and place to have their own homes, began to settle in new areas which included sprawling Novaliches which extends to Lagro subdivision. In spite of its distance and poor accessibility, the area soon transformed from countryside to a vibrant urban center. Yet in the early stage, who would settle some twenty kilometers away from downtown Manila?
There is an adage "All roads lead to Rome." to describe the failure of society ruled by centralized power which explained the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, so with a dozen past civilization, by world renown historian Edward Gibbon. Exodus to cities has been a syndrome with people moving from the rural to urban areas. Boom in economy is associated with growth of cities. So with the standard of living, and progress in general.
But Limits to Growth by DH Meadow warns us of "progress gone stray." building up into a dinosaur that led to its demise. On the other hand, more and more economies agree with EF Schumacher's scholarly book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), The phrase "Small Is Beautiful" is often used to champion small, appropriate technologies that are believed to empower people.
Future Shock a 1970 book by the futurist Alvin Toffler, defines the term "future shock" as a certain psychological state of individuals and entire societies. His shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of "too much change in too short a period of time." spurred by an accelerative thrust of technology. To which FH Hornedo's tersely defined our postmodernism era as "living tomorrow today in a free fall" pointing out to man's helplessness adrift towards an unknown future.
Without controls the Malthusian theory warns us of a scenario of arithmetic food growth with simultaneous geometric human population growth predicted a future when humans would have no resources to survive on. To avoid such a catastrophe, Malthus urged controls on population growth.
Without controls the Malthusian theory warns us of a scenario of arithmetic food growth with simultaneous geometric human population growth predicted a future when humans would have no resources to survive on. To avoid such a catastrophe, Malthus urged controls on population growth.
Our postmodern society appears to be vulnerable to economic failure. While cities are the centers of education and culture, they too, are the breeding ground of poverty, lawlessness, breakdown of values. Cities are orphaned ganglia or nerve centers severed from the countryside. As a consequence both sides suffer. The parameters of progress are visibly artificial and short-term, measured by immediate returns and not by sustainability to insure new generations' bright future. We look into the brighter side of life guided by the power of the human spirit, reflected in Plato's Republic, a Utopian society, and in the testimonies of residents that is a beautiful place no other place in the world can compare.
On a plateau where we now stand, on a pedestal of honors and awards we are proud of as Lagronians, lies around us a view far and wide that takes us to a mystery - what lies yonder in time and space.
Barangay Greater Lagro is a microcosm of a global community. It mirrors local and international events like in the coming and passing of seasons that make history. Barangay Greater Lagro has the potential capability of plotting its course guided by the philosophies of Meadow, Toffler, Schumacher, Malthus, Plato et al - and in real terms and most crucial of all, the philosophy of the present leadership under President Rodrigo Duterte translated down the line to the Barangay level.
A strong and responsive leadership though proven in the past and present, is committed to the continuity of progress, that Life must go on, and we mean an enlightened, compassionate, loving, fulfilled - and above all, a dedicated life by the people, for the people, of the people with the guidance of the Almighty. This is the very essence in choosing our leaders who can carry such responsibility and accountability in making Barangay Greater Lagro a little corner of Eden to all three generations under one roof, and in ushering the newest generation, Phoenix Generation.
In this generation, according to futurist and sociologist, KL Dennis, humanity is entering a momentous phase in its history. Being born today is a generation of children that will radically reinvent human society, moving our culture from competition, control, and censorship toward connection, communication, and compassion.
This is Barangay Greater Lagro in the near future. ~
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Barangay Greater Lagro was created in 1996 by the splitting of the former Barangay Pasong Putik in three barangays through a city ordinance sponsored by Councilor Godofredo Liban II. It commenced on June 1, 1997. .Nearby cities are Antipolo, Rodriguez (Montalban), Rizal, Norzagaray, Bulacan
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