By Rey Anthony H. Chiu
· TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, October 22,
(PIA) –Like the way Bohol rose after the earthquake, the newly conceptualized
earthquake monument would rise at the Heroes Park atop Banat-I Hill, funded by
a convergence fund pool.
Bohol provincial
administrator Alfonso Damalerio bared this during the groundbreaking
ceremonies of the memorial monument of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that
showed Boholano heroism and resiliency.
Damalerio told the crowd
gathered at the top of Tagbilaran City’s most prominent elevation that the
monument would soon rise with the help of donations from private individuals,
groups, organizations and government in the spirit of collaboration.
Tagbilaran City diocese
Bishop Leonardo Medroso, Metro Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino,
Economic and Development Authority regional director Efren Carreon and elected
leaders led by Gov. Edgar Chatto and city Mayor John Geesnell Yap graced the
groundbreaking and capsule laying as well as the unveiling event of the
proposed memorial.
The monument, which will
grace the park, will be the yearly venue of the commemoration of the Great
Bohol Earthquake every 15th of October.
Earlier, the Provincial
Government of Bohol and the City Government of Tagbilaran with all
component Local Government Units, called talented Boholano artists around the
globe to participate in the search for the best design for the Memorial
Monument of the 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake.
They picked the theme,
“Boholano heroism and resiliency amidst the earthquake crisis” as the main
message conveyed by the memorial monument to be installed within the 40 hectare
Provincial government property at the hill.
The design must depict
Boholano heroism and resiliency during the earthquake that hit Bohol on October
15, 2013, said an online poster calling Boholano artists all over the globe to
join in the design competition.
The winning design,
which shows a tilted dome of a church and a depiction of people from sectors
helping in rebuilding Bohol, earned for the unnamed designer some P10,000.
(mbcn/RAC/PIABohol)