BEAUTIFICATION

BEAUTIFICATION

Who doesn’t like things beautiful? Beauty is one of the triad of harmonious living. Remember the True, the good and the beautiful of the fabulous Imeldific? Yes everybody wants oneself to be surrounded by things beautiful, if possible at all time.

Likewise higher authorities do things to create and promote beautiful places.Following this idea, the Church official made the Church Plaza more beautiful by fencing it with iron grill and creating a more impressive entrance arch. In like manner the Municipal authorities also saw to it the Municipal Plaza was also ‘beautiful’ with good clean landscape for everyone to behold.

Parking buses, jeeps and tricycles were not allowed. Vendors of all kinds were also told to vacate the spaces around the covered court. Now the unfinished Municipal Building was visible to everyone. Suddenly there was a wide open area that doesn’t suffocate.

Unfortunately streamers and tarpaulins of all sizes and colors were still hanging all around in wild abandon. The buses and other transport vehicles moved forward in front of the wider and longer front of the Church Plaza. But, as if attached to the transport vehicles by invisible rope the candy-vendor with its compartmentalized box and table followed. And so the vendor of delicacies such as puto, kutsinta, sapin-sapin, maja-blanca, petse-petse and cassava products and many others. In no time at all the ‘kwek-kwek’ and ice cream vendor were not left behind.

As the Municipal Plaza got clearer, cleaner and seemingly safer, the Church Plaza is beginning to be crowded and dirtier. They are now beginning to hang “sitsiriyas” on the newly painted iron grills. Some are even fixing their none functioning vehicles in the very front of the arch.

It is lamentable but it seems to be a cycle going round and around. The tricycles were remove because they were ‘eye-sores’ but they were allowed to gather in great number enough to occupy two blocks in a once very peaceful and serene neighborhood. This was true also in many previously quiet Barangays.

It is every citizen’s dream to live in a community where the true, the good and the beautiful keeps the harmony and peace. It will possibly remain a wild dream.