Palompon Moving Fast.....................with New Buildings

My daily exercise of biking made me aware of the new constructions going on in and out of the poblacion or town proper. With my trusted Nokia N95 I was able to capture some of the big or bigger houses that most likely cost a million or more.

Near or in front the Land Transportation Office (LTO) office at Guiuan I, can be seen a building which is again bigger than the ordinary, which as of my writing is the norm nowadays when people build or renovate a new house.

Upon looking at the sign of the approved permit, it is indicated that the owner of the house is Mr. & Mrs. Gilbert Gorumba, an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) where most likely they are on the right track of spending their hard earned money on something that will not get lost and be an investment for their future and their children's future.

While other OFW's goes in and out of the Philippines without thinking much of saving their hard earned money, by spending it with their drinking buddies, relatives who are always asking for dole outs, and buying things they want but don't need.

Many are still thinking that when it rains, it pours. They are not aware that there

will come a time that an "El Nino" phenomenon can strike them out any time.

Photo at right is another building which is almost finished. It is owned by the family of Mrs. Olive Tumamak Festejo. It is also a concrete two story building which is now common in Palompon, Leyte. Someday all houses will be built along this trend, two story but with different styles depending on how an architect would execute the desires of the owners inclination.

Anybody who is a full blooded Palomponganon would not hesitate to take a look at this concrete gate located at San Francisco St., Palompon, Leyte.It is aptly named as Golden Gate San Francisco because of its golden color. The property is owned by Mr. Ely Pastor, a former customs policeman, assigned at the Bureau of Customs, Sub-port of Isabel, Leyte. Though he is always in Manila where his family lives, he don't forget to visit the said property, where a caretaker always see to it that the place is clean and livable when he visits from time to time.

Another point of interest is the recently renovated house of Mr. &; Mrs. Roger Regis, owners of Regis Pawnshop. But of course his family is more well known about his other business of butchering hogs for so many years already

We are certainly, already a part of their lives since one way or another we or some had become
a suki by buying or even utang a kilo or two of their pork business. Until they decided to give the pawnshop business a try at the old address of the pawnshop in Arellano St., after which they transferred to the current address at Rizal St., Palompon, Leyte.