Baguio Media Group celebrates its 61st year anew with an eco-walk

The Baguio Correspondents and Broadcasters Club has a late celebration of its 61st year as a SEC recognized media organization with the revived Eco-Walk on Saturday at the Busol Watershed.

Founded on June 20, 1964, the Baguio Correspondents Club has since then evolved to involve the broadcasting counterparts from both radio and television and become the oldest and even biggest media group north of Manila.

“We will have the tree planting at 930 AM,” said BCBC president Dionisio Dennis, Jr., as he said that club officers and members will be there earlier, and even as early as 630 AM.

The eco-walk is a post July 16, 1990, earthquake project of the late Public Information Officer Ramon Dacawi that involved the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and barangay officials to create one of the country’s most environmental projects that has received various international awards.

The project also created young environmentalists or eco-warriors as the late Dacawi, who also wrote for national broadsheets, called them.

It was revived last year by then president Thomas Picana, who also started the development plan of the media camp that led to its adoption and a memorandum of agreement signing with Mayor Benjamin Magalong to that effect.

Aside from the city government led by Mayor Magalong, other supporters are the Baguio Water District, the Community Environment and Natural Resources – Baguio, Aboitiz Power, and councilors Peter Fianza and Vladimir Cayabas.  # PML