By Fred Fuertes
Here's another feather on the hat for this history-rich coastal municipality.
Come Sunday, ABS-CBN will feature the family of Senior Municipal Councilor-elect Romulo "Romy" Manuta as its guest during the giant TV network's celebration of Father's Day.
A crew of the country's top television station hit this town last Sunday for the interview and shooting footage. Romy has recently received from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration the Outstanding Achievement Award during awarding rites at SM-Cebu City last June 7, this year.
Manuta, brother-in-law of Mayor Leoncio "Boy" Evasco, Jr., is a civil engineer by profession. His lovely wife, Laura, is a registered nurse, joined Romy at Saudi Arabia leaving their three children at the care of brother Poypoy and sister Bebeth. This took place in years 1975-1988. Despite the physical absence of their parents, the children, especially the boy, never got entangled in unproductive vices or waylaid by barkadas.
As a result, Dr. Shary May Manuta became a doctor of medicine, Jerry John followed the footsteps of his father, and the youngest, Christine, shared the medical limelight with her sister.
Shary, who works at the Pediatric Department of the Gov. Celestino Gallares Regional Memorial Hospital, has Atty. Joseph Baton, a CPA-lawyer as her soul-mate. Engr. Jeffrey John, still single, is a systems specialist at Globe Telecom in Cebu City. The younger doctor, Christine, works at the Internal Medicine Department of the Gallares Community Hospital.
Small wonder, the family was the official entry of Region 7 in the search for the Most Outstanding Family of the Year which took center-stage at the Mall of Asia in Manila on November 13, 2008.
Really, when blessings come, they arrive in trickles. Romy failed in his bid to take the vice mayoralty seat in the 2007 pools losing by 200 votes to then Mayor Gabino Redulla.
The defeat was vindicated this year when he topped the race for the 8-seat Sangguniang Bayan.
Aside from his official duty as municipal coordinator of the Land Administration and Management Project (LAMP II) with a One Peso a Year salary, Romy finds time to play with his tennis peers at the home-court of the Maribojoc Tennis Club, at barangay Anislag, this town. He believes in the Latin adage "Mens sana en corpora sano." (A sound mind in a sound body). (FCF)
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