Poor Boy from Lubao/ Chant D’Amour

“ ‘D’ POOR BOY FROM LUBAO”
DIOSDADO PANGAN MACAPAGAL

Neng P. L. Frank M. Guinto
Sta. Maria Macabebe,Pamp.
April 19, 2010

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Tigtig ding kumpana,
Ginising deng diwang maluat nang manikal
Ing diwang malyasa,
King sigalot ning bie pilit makipagkal,
Laksang-libung kutang,
Ing lihim memale, king isip migbusal
Ba’t kayaplegaria,
Agunyas ing kabling, kablas ding dupikal?
King Bundok Alaya,
Dening panimanman, layu kung pinasyal
Ba’t kule lang paldas,
Ding yata ning aldong malale nang lalual?
Maglawiwing batis,
Matamle’t malumbe ing danum ng kristal
Baket iting bage,
Giluan ne’ng diwang suko na king pagal?
Inia pala’ng sabla,
Magmalun - tatangis king lumbe a sakdal
Iti pala’ng aldo,
Yang kematayan ng DADONG MACAPAGAL!

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Ibat pa king mula,
Iniang mikaisip, manalbe zarzuela
“Bayung Jerusalem”,
Alang makayanti king pangasulat na
Y Apong Urbano,
Maluat nang lemayan, a obra maestra
Pane reng pamitan,
Ding sablang manalbe kareng balang fiesta;
Gaganap kanita,
Matikding artista bilang peka-bida
Yapin y Cong Dadong,
“Partner” ne’y Purita, y Roger yang kontra;
Lalo pang milusuk,
Respeto ding malda pati na’y Ventura
Iniang mag-“exam” ya,
“Topnotcher” ya keng “Bar”, kursung Abogasya;
Iti aliwa mu,
Iniang luban na ya itang pulitika
Meging Congressman ya,
Kaibat, meging Bise’t- meg Presidenti ya!!
King kematayan na,
Ala kung ayampang king budning poeta
Nune mu ing bukud
Lamak kung pitagning, malukang poesia!
Kagum ning pakamal,
Lugud a dalise, gintung panalala
Keng “poor boy” ning Lubao,
A mipuk king puri’t dangal ning Pampanga!

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Budning Macapagal:
Ing kekong tagumpe, nung kakung sambitlan
Musmus kung paniulat,
Eya makabage king kekong kamalan,
Ing “Pluma ning Dios”,
Nung pagkalub Niya sa, kaku Ne iparam
Gulis keng manene,
Ing bie yung dakilang mitmung kabayanyan,
Dapot makanyan man,
King abot ning diwa, kakung pagpilitan
Saglawe mapilan,
King bie yung tinindag busal ning kalukan,
Ing pangapantas yu,
Pepatilip yu na, iniang kayanakan
Pane kong mumuna,
Kareng kaklase yung anac mayakayan!
Inia, uliniti,
Y Honorio Ventura, a pilantropong nuan
Pegaral na kayu,
Keng kursung mamingwa kaniang katuliran,
Pepalto ye kinang
Ing literature, ning Indung Balayan
Iniang keng kampanya
Ding kekong diskurso, makarima la ngan!
Ngeni ku menuala
Busal ding kalulu, atin matenakan,
Pigkalaman ning Dios,
King ban manibabo kagiwa’t kabiasnan
Kaustan na niti
Pamanungkulan na, alang dusing ditman
Liguran nong lubus
“Lupa ng kalulung mitmung katapatan!”
Inia Apong Dadong,
King kematayan yu, ‘kulio ming masikan
Mapuri yung lagyu,
MANA YANG LIKUAN YU…KEKENG KAPAMPANGAN!


Chant D’Amour
Mapilan a kayagtalan ibat ketang poesyang “Sintang Cayanacan” nang Diosdado “Cong Dadong” Macapagal

E cu balu a nung baquit tutu ra nacang palsintan
Nung ala ca anti uaring saui nacu capalaran;
E raca buring micauani quening cacung panimanman,
Magcang mabigu cu palad at e mu nacu datangan;
Pangalaluan co ring balang taung quecang paquisabian,
At detang caluguran mu tutu cu lang caluguran;
Quening dalise lugud cu buri cung salpantayanan
Melalang ing pamalsinta ba'ra ca mung pacamalan.

E cu lalon ing bili mu at ing pamicandayu ta,
Ing sarili mung lalon cu ing acu palsintan daca;
Aguiang metung cu pang ari at sacup daca mung mura'
Ibuat daca qng calucan at samban anti mong reina;
O acu itang pulubi, ica metung cang princesa,
Cailian mucu nung buri mu, malsinta cu murin queca'
Anting ambun ibat babo a milapit qng sampaga,
Macanian dacang luguran aguiang nanu cu't nanu ca'

Milalablab ya ing bulan, macauili ing sala na,
Quilapquilap la ring batuin anting magayut a mata;
Ding ayup biasa lang dalit, ding pipit babo saresa,
Ding denas babo ring luyus atin lang yampang a canta;
Ding sampagang mangabanglu ing carelang pangisnaua
Bisa yang pali ing ambun qng candunga'na ning rosa;
Deti ila ring amanu ning tapat cung sinta queca.

Canita ba'mung abalu icang bie cu at caladua.
Palsintan daca, irug cu, yang quecang pacayasajan,
Anggang marnagus 1a danum ding sapa at cailugan;
E mapaui ing sinta cu anggang atin cung babaluan
Cayanacan a pailupig, paimate qng capalsintan:
Anggang atin mung sampagang tutubu caring tanaman,
Anggang atin mung maniale ayup caring cabunducan,
Anggang ining pali ning bie mamagus quening catauan,
Bucud mung ining sinta cu e manaquit camatayan.



Ing poesyang “ ‘D’ POOR BOY FROM LUBAO” ginale ne mu naman ning kinudtang I P. L. Frank M. Guinto, kabang dng kayagtalan a estropa ning poesyang “Sintang Cayanacan” ginale da neman di Poetisa Maria Teresa M. Evangelista at Prinsipi ning Parnasu Romy Rodriguez ketang bisperas ning aldo (a-10 ning Abril 2010) nang kematayan ning melapupuring Ex-Presidenti Diosdado Pangan Macapagal keta kng Kapitolyu Kapampangan.

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Ing 2010, iya mong kadinalan nang banwang kebaytan ning melapupuring Diosdado Pangan Macapagal. Ing dating presidenti ning Republika ning Pilipinas. Ing a-21 ing aldo kebaytan ning dakilang presidenting ya kabud ibat kng pakakalulung pamilya. Ing pakatuking talambie sinulat neng G. Lord Francis Musni na megamit keting mesabing pamagmasusi na meganap kng Balen Lubao at Kapitolyu Kapampangan anyang a-20 ning bulan a iti kng pamanimuna na ning Center for Kapampangan Studies ning Holy Angel University kng kasawpan na ning Tanggapan ning Turismu ning kapitolyu.


MAKUYAD A TALAMBIE NANG DIOSDADO P. MACAPAGAL
(1910-1997)
(Sinulat at binasa neng Lord Francis Musni king makuyad a programa king kapitolyu, anyang bisperas ning aldo ng kamatayan Diosdado P. Macapagal, a-20 ning Abril 2010)

Mibait ya Lubao aniang a-28 ning Septyembri 1910 kari Urbano Macapagal at Romana Pangan. Meyari yang Valedictorian king Lubao Elementary School at minari yang sekundarya antimong kaduang diling matas king klase na Karin king Pampanga High School.

Megobra ya saugli king Bureau of Lands kabang papagaral na ing sarili na king kursong Associate in Arts karing king University of the Philippines. Mituknang yang magobra at magaral pauli ning meina ya katawan. Kaibat nang meyari king Associate in Arts, megaral yang pasibayu at kinanguang abugasya king Philippine Law School. Mituknang yang pasibayu pauli ning dimut a kwalta, a nu kaibat sinaupan ne ning kabaluan a pilantropo, Don Honorio Ventura. Inari ne ing kursung abugasya king UST inyang 1936 at mipasar ya at migbabo ya antimong topnotcher ning Bar Examination ita murin banuang ayta.

Kaibat ning giyerang hapon, migsilbi ya king Department of Foreign Affairs
Antimong kaduang sekretarya king embajada ning Pilipinas Karin king Washington, Estados Unidos. Inyang 1949, pepaulian neng Presidenti Quirino ban tagal konggresista salang king matalik nang kaluguran at kayabe poeta, Amado Yuzon, anu Karin sinambut neman.

King kekaba ning pamanungkulan na antimong konggresista, minupul yang dakal a pamagkilalal at parangal antimong metung karing pekamagaling at pekamasigasig a diputado.

Aniang 1957, tinagal ya naman at sinambut bise-presidenti lalam ning bandera ning Partido Liberal, bista man dakal a sunggabal king keyang pamangandidatu.

Sinambut yang presidenti anyang 1961, a nukarin dakal ya likwan a pamana king bansa:

1)Ing pamaglako king pamakisamak kapamilatan ning pamipasar king Agricultural Land Reform inyang 1963;

2)Pamaglipat king Aldo ning Kasarinlan o Independence Day ibat Hulyo 4 king Junio 12;


3)Ing MAPHILINDO o ing aguman da ring Asyanung bansa dane mauli a penibatan ning ASEAN ngeni;

4)Ing Decontrol Policy o ing malayang galo ning kwaltang Pilipino salang king Dolar Amerkanu;

5)Misubung king Pamakipaglualu king karapatan ning Pilipinas king Sabah Karin king Malaysia.

Dapot simbut neng Ferdinand E. Marcos king halalan ning 1965. Inyang 1971, kaibat ning makuyad a pamagpainawa, tinagal ya at sinambut assemblyman ning Batasang Pambansa. Dapot migsalita yang masikan salalng king gubyerno anyang alilan da ne inyang 1973 ing Saligang Batas ning Pilipinas ban mayun king pansarili nang capagnasan ning makalukluk a kapamahalaan. E mu nanu ing peligro binie na niti ning bie na at ning keyang pamilya.

Meangu ya bie anyang a 20 ning Abril 1997 at mikutkut king Libingan ng Mga Bayani.

Uyni pu ing makuyad a meapsi king sarili nang talambie sinulat aniang 1987:

Ing pekamaragul kung pagl\kalungkutan ing eku la man mo asaupan ring masang pakakalulu ban mitigko ka la ibat king malambat da nang pangatimawa king kasakitan bista man yang pekapun a kapagnasan ning kakung karera king pulitika. Linabas king lub ku, aku ing mumunang diling kalulu a milukluk Presidenti dapot eku mikwalta, aku na sana ing pekamasikan dang palad king karelang kanawan.

K-Balen! Baculud at Bamban

K-Balen! Baculud at Bamban: Dng Balen a Mengasagsag



Nung ing Baculud ya mong lalto pekapusu na kanita ning Pampanga, ing Bamban naman ya mong pekapasbul ning Tarlac. Manibat anyang me-Pinatubu la dng dakal a balen keti Kapampangan (dane ning Tarlac-Pampanga), dakal lang menga-apektwan a balen-balen. Mupin metung karing maragul a pamagkasakit keti dng balen ning Concepcion , Porac, Mabalacat, Sta.Rita, Guagua, lalung-lalu na ing Baculud, at Bamban. Ing Baculud ikwa dang misalbag dng keyang memalen, kabang ing Bamban naman inabandona dane dng tau na. Mupin kng Baculud, dng tau kng Baculud la pa murin bobotu at makanyan lapang ‘mamanuli’ dng keyang memalen antimo potang atin maulagang pamagmasusi anti ing Biernes Santu at Pyestang La Naval. Kabang kng Bamban naman matumal pa ing bili ning pamagbalik da ring tau katunayan dakal na karing dating botanti na ing e na pakarehistru kng dating lugal da. Ing Baculud pilit deng tatalakad ing sentru ning pulitika at kultura anya makanyan deng babalikbalikan ing Pisamban San Guillermo, at makanyan yang mibabalik kasikatan ing iskwelang Don Honorio na metung na ngening state university. Kabang kng Bamban, ing munisipyu na mitalakad lang malawut karing pikukumpulan da ring memalen – alayu kng dating kabalenan na kalupa ning Baculud.

Ing Bamban milako ya ‘kabalenan’. Katunayan, mengayna yang tutu ing matwang palengki niting matwang kabalenan (San Nicolas), kabang ing palengki ning Dapdap e bitasang megamit mula pa anyang lumipat la ring tau kng resettlement keti. Ing metung naman na mitalakad kng dating iskwela ning Anupul e ya pa bitasang mibuklat kng publiku. Nanupata, dakal a pigastusan ban mitalakad la reti dng mengasayang mu at minta kng alang nanu. Kabang ing Baculud milako ya ‘pibandyan’ uling alalu dng tau na at dakal dng ati karing bayung labwad – dng resettlement areas na pakasantung karing miyaliwang balen. Keti makanyan lang antimong mangawala munaman dng memalen ning Baculud uling dng anak da ring balang pamilyang memagbakwit kanita lehitimung memalen nala keraklan karing balen nung nu la ati dng karelang tuknangan ngeni.

BALEN A MAWAWALA
Malambat nang panawun mula anyang maumpisa ya ing pekamumunang modern resettlement project keti bangsa. Iti ing Sacobia Development Project kanita pang panawun ning First Lady Imelda Marcos. Masanting a umpisa dapot ngeni nukarin ya? Ati ngeni iti kng magusut a pisasabyan nung nu sangkut la dng balen ning Mabalacat at Clark Freeport Zone. Deti dng kayabe karing mamag-claim a dake kng masasabing sakup ning Bamban. Kng dane ning pangulu naman, dng ‘matwang baryu’ ning Bamban makanyan la naman mengaigut kng kasiping nang Balen Capas. Nanung malilyari? ing Baculud malapad ya pa gabun mupin ditak ya tau, ing Bamban naman dng bisang mamagbalik ala nong babalikan uling dakal nang dayu at balen dng memangwang gabun.

Kasalungsungan, dakal mu naman karing pakatuknang karing resettlement areas anti kng Dapdap dng e tau keti. Ing newly reclaimed areas kng dane ning dating Lourdes , Banaba etc. dakal noman dng mirinan gabun dng e tau keti. Dng dating manuknangan keti bayu ing pamanyalanta ning bulkan, makanyan nomang ala nang balikan. Metung kng masalang kabapustan ing alang malino at eksaktung sukad ning land area at definitve socio-political boundary. Bage na maulaga ban apamalino ya ing ustung pamag-budget ning municipio.

Kng Baculud, lalto magusut pati ing isyu ning pamag-quarry. Dakal lang sasabi na matas munaman ing babayad da ring tau keti kng balas a kukwanan da ban panambak da mu pin naman karing sular a buri dang pasibayung talakaran bale. Bage na pagmasakit dang tutu dng tau.

PASYALAN A E MIDADALANAN
Nanung prublema? Atin yang national highway ing balen ning Bamban, atin yang mangasanting a lugal pasyalan at marangle dapot alang makibalu kng legwan at kayapan nang iti.

Panawun na pa ning pistaym, kabalitan ne kanita karing mangasanting nang pasyalan ing balen. Katunayan, metung ya karing minunang atin azucarera kayabe ning Azucarera ning Tarlac at Pasudeco ning San Fernando at nitang kng Floridablanca. Dakal ya ilug a mangalinis, modern resorts, karinderya at restorant a magtindang manganyaman a pamangan. Iti ing peka-hinterland ning Clark Air Base kanita na pagmulalan da ring Amerikanu at turista kanita. Bayu la memanyikat dng antimo Razon’s Halo-halo ning Guagua at Kabigting’s ampo Jurado’s ning Arayat kng Pampanga at Menila, ing Bamban sikat ne kareting makule at manyaman a pagmarimla – deti deng titinda da kanita ring pakapwestu kanita kng pamosu nang sidepark anti dng karinderyang pakapatulug kng dating Lugay Park. Deti kayabe ning pamamisita kanita kang Apung Lourdes Grotto, at pamamasyal karing dakal a Japanese tunnels, music jamming karing pamosung jukebox kanita, ampo ing minindal a pansit luglug dng kukumpletu kng expiryensya da ring turistang darayu. Katunayan, dakal a natural at makasalesayang lugal dng manaya mung mipasyalan karing potensyal a turista. Ara pin “Nananu ta pa?”

Ing Baculud makanyan munaman. Iti lalu na inyang mekilala yang “Atenas ning Kapampangan” anti nemu waring lugal a pipag-quarry? Nung kasalesayan at gelingan mu naman, iti na ing atin pekamalalam a pibandyan. Salamat namu mika-metung a batas na mikaupayang sumawup ban mibalik ya ing dating legwan ning balen a iti. Iti ing HB 3389, na maglayun ban ma-rehabilitate ya ing mesabing balen. Ban emu kang ‘Santino’ o ken balas ya sumikat pasibayu ing balen nunge mibalik yang tutu ing legwan na niti kalupa na ketang milabas. Sayang pin uling kalupa ning Bamban, dalan-dalanan nemu ning progresung pasibayung tatamasan da ring siping nang balen anti ing Lungsud San Fernando , Guagua at Lubao. Ing Balen Baculud daralanan nemu naman ning Jose Abad Santos Highway (dating Olongapo-Gapan road), metung karing pekamaulagang dalan keti Kalibudtwang Luzon, na manatad kng pang-maragulang kalakal at pamanasensu keti bangsa.

KABYAYAN A MAYAP BIAYAN
Ing Baculud metung yang bukud a balen a atin pekamarakal a tau na mitmung gelingan karing miyaliwang adle ning kabyasnan, legwan at aliwa pang dake ning kayapan dng memalen keta pa mang mumunang aldo. keti la mengabayit dng dakal a gobernador ning Pampanga, ambasador, huwes ning Korte Suprema, doktor, siyentipiku, mambabatas, at miyaliwang lider. Kng malagwang salita, iti ing balen na e lintong memagkasakit kng aske ning pamangabyayan ketang mengapapauna uling bista man at midalanan yang dakal a gera, kalamidad at sakuna dakal ya matenakan a anak a pilit mangitalakad kaniting balen. Katunayan, iti ing dating kapitolyu ning Pampanga at meging kapitolyu ne mu naman ning bangsa ketang panawun ning pamanyakup da ring Ingles. Mupin uling dala na pin ning milabas a Pinatubu at pamaglahar, metung ya pin iti karing balen a mitambunan a kabyayan. At keti la mengapilitan mamagbakwit dng tau at magdatun na pin man karing dakal a resettlement karing miyaliwang balen keti Kapampangan.

Kng kasu na naman ning Bamban, mitulak lang mamaglako dng dakal a memalen anyang panawun na pin ning Pinatubu. Deti memanintunan la kng lwal ning balen. Dakal la ring memanasensu kng lwal, at makanyan namang matumal ing bie kng kilub ning balen.

Kasalungsungan, dng balen ning Porac, kayabe ing Mabalacat pati na ing Baculud manikwa lang mangaragul a panakitan kng pamag-quarry. Kabang ing Bamban nung nu ya dating metung karing manimuna kaniting pamag-quarry ngeni sarili na nang melakwan. Nung kapilan merakal ing balas, makanyan yang lalung megkasakit at mengaramalas.

Kng dane ning Baculud, ing Lungsud San Fernando, Lubao, pati na ing Guagua kayabe ing distritu ning Betis, dng mangatalik a memanasensu. Deti dng balen-balen a pakapatulug kng Baculud. Ing Capas at Mabalacat, pati na ing Concepcion naman dng pakalugal kng dane pangulu at mawli ning Bamban. Ing San Fernando ikwa nang meging lungsud, kabang dng balen ning Capas at Mabalacat ila dng manimunang balen na maka-uring 1st class ngeni. Kabang pilan pang banwa ing milabas anyang makbung ya ing Pinatubu. Iti dala na ning matalik dang pamanasensu, at makanyan la namang papunta kng estadung cityhood. Ing balen Bamban, kalupa ning Baculud, dalan-dalanan ne ning national highway a Mc Arthur na pakadugtung at pakalibutad karing mayasensung balen, melakwan neng palak a kabilyan. Dng memalen keti, manulu na la wawa kabang lalawe la reti kng panyulung a tatamasan dng balen ning Capas, Concepcion, ning Mabalacat, Porac at Botolan – dng limang balen a kasiping ning Bamban. Kabang ing Baculud, makanyan ya pa murin magpumilit na migising. Makalungkut pin uling ing mesabing “Atenas” ning Amanung Siswan eya pa taganang magluwid uling buri da ring aliwang pulitikung managalan na “mabuhay” ya iti imbes na "magluwid" bage na anting tampaling kng sentru ning indung amanung Kapampangan.

DALAN NING DANGALAN
Makalungkut isipan na kng kekaba-kaba ning panawun a delanan dng balen areti, bigla man o ali makanini nemu wari bili deti?

Lalung makalungkut nung sakali, nung kng kerakal-dakal dng tatagal at kakandidatu ngeni, sana kayabe no man kareti dng mangayap, mangatinu, mapagmasabal, maka-tau, matakut kng Dios at dng tune mamuntukan para kng panyulung dng balang balen.

Sana akit tala dng tutung masilbing kasangkapan, para mibalik la tiwala dng keraklan da ring tau keti. Dng tau na mayap mangipakit kng tutung pamangubyernu at karing sara-sariling gelingan dng balang metung kekatamu. Uling ing tutung laban alalu kng ligligan da ring kulayit dng pulitikung kakanditatu karing alalan. Iti atiyu karing dapat, karing platapormang magagawa potang pakalukluk no reng menga-alal a opisyalis. Uling dng tutung lider a mamuntukan aliwa detang "honorable" a balamu ginu lang mangasyas batal potang ati nalu karing munisipyu da ring balang balen, atilu karing tune a susuyu detang e kakargang angin ban e la daragul a buntuk, detang manatili kng lalam at susuyu para kng ikanawa da pamibiebie da ring kapara tamung tau, karing keraklan at ali dng mung mapilan.


Aldo mayaslag pu, kabalen!


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“Kapampangan as a Tool in Learning -2”

Panagkat mi ya pu…


Center for Kapampangan Studies
Holy Angel University
Angeles City

“Kapampangan as a Tool in Learning -2”
Kapampangan Linguistic Lecture Series No.6

with Dr. Anicia del Corro as Resource Speaker

To be held at CKS, Holy Angel University, Angeles City on March 13, 2010 (9:00 am – 11:am)


Epiphany and finally, a breakthrough
Robby Tantingco

Dr. Anicia Hizon del Corro’s lecture last Saturday on DepEd Order #74 (the Department of Education’s directive making regional languages the primary medium of instruction) was a gathering of hawks and eagles refereed by a dove.
The hawks were the cultural advocates: Fr. Venancio Samson (translator of the Kapampangan Bible and Bergaño dictionary), cultural activist Siuala Pangilinan, Prinsipe ning Parnaso Romeo Rodriguez, Rey Maniago (representing ANASI), Edwin Camaya (DILA), Dr. Lino Dizon, Abraham Tayag, Kragi Garcia, Fray Francis Musni, the officers of the HAU Center for Kapampangan Studies, TSU Center for Tarlaqueño Studies, AUF Institute for Kapampangan Studies BSU Center for Bulacan Studies and representatives of groups like KATATAGAN, AGTACA and Akademyang Kapampangan.
Across the meeting hall were the eagles: Division officials of Pampanga and Angeles City, District supervisors, school principals, and teachers from both public and private schools from towns as far as Arayat, Macabebe, Masantol, Apalit, Minalin, Tarlac and Concepcion.

We expected only 25 attendees but more than 70 showed up—a sign that DepEd #74 was, indeed, a hot topic.

Thank God we had the brilliant and articulate Dr. Del Corro as guest lecturer. Her gentle demeanor and stature as the highest authority on Kapampangan linguistics calmed the tension that potentially existed between the cultural advocates who were pushing for Kapampangan above all other languages, and the educators who wanted only the child’s education regardless of what language was used.
The cultural advocates were also eager to take advantage of the window of opportunity opened by DepEd Order #74, and getting impatient that some educators appeared to be either ignorant of the Order, or confused about its provisions, or slow in implementing it.

As a linguist, Dr. Del Corro reiterated that the sole purpose of a language is to make communication easier, and the sole objective of a medium of instruction—any medium of instruction—is to facilitate the child’s learning. If Kapampangan hampers communication and the learning process, why in the world should we insist on using Kapampangan in the classroom?

Fortunately, DepEd Order # 74 agrees with cultural advocates that Kapampangan does facilitate a child’s learning. This should have settled the debate, but Dr. Del Corro wanted to make sure that the educators appreciated the linguistic principles behind the Order so that they’d understand why they do what they are ordered to do.
She reminded everyone that since the Order’s real intent is not to please cultural advocates but to help classroom teachers teach better and students learn faster, the Kapampangan that should be used in instruction is the kind of Kapampangan that’s easily understood by the students. In other words, the classroom is not the place for cultural advocates to advance their cause of promoting or purifying the language. Language is a tool for education, not the other way around.

In teaching math in Kapampangan, for example, it’s better for the teacher to say “Adua times adua” instead of “Adua ipaspas me king adua,” where the child still needs to know the meaning of “ipaspas” on top of solving the mathematical problem. Obsolete Kapampangan words resurrected from ancient dictionaries or new Kapampangan terms coined by imaginative scholars may please cultural advocates but they don’t help pupils very much.

In the open forum, some teachers aired their worries: Will our graduates become less proficient in English and lose their global competitiveness? How will this Order be received by parents who send their children to school precisely to learn English and Filipino? Where are the Order’s implementing guidelines? Will there be enough Kapampangan materials? What happens to heterogenous classes where minority Visayan, Ilocano, Bicolano and Korean students have as much right to learn as the majority Kapampangan students?

For their part, cultural advocates aired their concern over the apparent foot-dragging in the implementation of the Order, and wondered why some schools haven’t even received a copy of the Order, which was issued last July 2009 yet. They also worried if the Order would be consigned to oblivion just like many other Orders before it, especially with the impending change of leadership in the Department of Education after the May 2010 elections.

At that point Siuala Pangilinan raised the room temperature a few more degrees when he asked why Kapampangans always hesitate to use Kapampangan in the presence of non-Kapampangans. I don’t understand, Siuala said, why we always have to go out of our way to accommodate them at the expense of our own language. Since it was their choice to come and stay and earn a living here, the effort to adjust is theirs to make, not ours.

Just then one teacher stood up and asked her fellow teachers the most important question of all: As teachers, did they sincerely believe that it’s better to use Kapampangan in the classroom? Because if they did not, she said, the Order was doomed right from the start.

I learned, long ago in literature class, that there is a literary technique called epiphany, where a character who’s in the middle of a sticky situation experiences a flash of illumination when everything suddenly becomes crystal clear in his head. This enables him to resolve his predicament and the story gets a happy ending.
What happened in that meeting after the lady asked her question was, I think, a collective epiphany: suddenly confronted with a loyalty check, everyone in the room started professing their love for their amanung sisuan.

One teacher stood up to testify that she had experimented with Kapampangan in her math class and discovered that indeed, it improved her students’ grades. Another said many teachers had actually started translating their textbooks because as Kapampangans themselves, they already knew how to.

A Division official gave the assurance that the Division Office had taken concrete steps to implement the Order and would no longer wait for other provinces or the central office to issue more guidelines because, she said, “we all love our amanung sisuan and want it promoted anyway.”

Romeo Rodriguez and Rey Maniago, speaking on behalf of ANASI and the poets laureate, offered translation and consultation services, and the Center for Kapampangan Studies promised to reproduce the Kapampangan instructional materials it has collated and distribute them to schools. .

We exhorted the educators to seize the golden opportunity and not waste time waiting for more guidelines and being overly cautious by perfecting methodologies and materials before implementing the Order. Kapampangan teachers, being native Kapampangan speakers, are, according to Dr. Del Corro, experts of the language and therefore already qualified to translate and create Kapampangan instructional materials themselves and teach the kind of Kapampangan that pupils can relate to. They can just consult cultural advocates for refinement and integration of Kapampangan culture, history and values.

Cultural advocates, for their part, should realize that they do not have a monopoly of expertise and that they should trust teachers to carry on their own cultural advocacy in the classroom. They should just take comfort in the fact that Kapampangan—any Kapampangan—is now being conveyed to future generations, thus ensuring the survival of the amanung sisuan. It may not be the form of their liking, but it’s still the amanung sisuan.

We all agreed to meet regularly to compare progress reports and share best practices, and to resolve the orthography issue and prepare a grammar book. Dr. Del Corro concluded by giving teachers the assurance that learning Kapampangan does not diminish English proficiency. She suggested that English be taught not as a second language but as a foreign language, whose methodologies and strategies are more focused and stringent and therefore more effective.

We ended the meeting on a happy note, celebrating the hope and the promise that no Kapampangan child will ever again be punished or ridiculed for speaking Kapampangan in the classroom, and that educators and cultural advocates, having finally come together, will now proclaim that yes, Kapampangan is not a hindrance but in fact a key to success.

Published in the SunStar Pampanga newspaper on January 26, 2010.

Sapang Balen Timeline

Sapang Balen Timeline
Angeles City

By Joel Pabustan Mallari and Robby Tantingco

In 1796, when founder Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda cleared a wooded area called Culiat to make way for a new settlement, he chose the spot near a creek that would later be known as Sapang Balen.

Sapang Balen is actually Taug River, which originates in barrio Cuayan and is an offshoot of Ebus River, an upland creek that emanates from the foothills of Mount Pinatubo and joins Abacan River near barrio Anunas. As Taug River nears the town proper, it assumes the generic name of Sapang Balen. According to historian Mariano A. Henson, Taug River/Sapang Balen regularly inundated the town of Angeles, until its headwaters gradually dried up and Taug River disappeared, leaving behind only the downstream Sapang Balen, which today begins as a spring in the grassy area between Carmenville Subdivision, Enclave and Cuayan. In the cataclysmic rearrangement of the landscape following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, Taug River reappeared, wreaking havoc on the town proper of Angeles, like it had done so many times in the past. Today it has disappeared once again, and houses and subdivisions have sprouted in its wake.

Kabalasan (or Mabalas) River is the name given to Sapang Balen as it leaves Angeles City and proceeds to San Fernando. It joins Sapa Calulut River and Sindalan River before losing much of its water and becomes Maimpis River. It is called Kabalasan River because the river turns sandy at this point, or mabalas in Kapampangan. The current of these various rivers and creeks “bends and slows down” halfway through Barrio Sindalan, thus gaining a meandering shape— marked by old townfolks as sinandal. The water of these rivers and creeks continues to deccelerate, thin out, and turn shallow, thus becoming meímpis. This spot is what is known today as Barrio Maimpis.


























































































1811
Don Angel puts up his first house “on the northwest corner of the intersection of Sapang Balen creek and the road to Porac” (present Robin Theatre).

1850
Town population: 4,452. Number of houses: 742. Nipa palms (sasa) are still abundant in Angeles, especially along Sapang Balen in Mangga and Pulung Bulu.

1851
Townspeople build the first concerete bridge over Sapang Balen. Called Santo Rosario Bridge, it is located on the present Plaridel Street.

1854
The second concrete bridge, the Santo Angel Bridge, is built. It is located on Sto. Entierro Street, in front of the church.

1859
The third concrete bridge, the San Jose Bridge, is built . It is located near the Bale Herencia.

1881
Taug River overflows and destroys all three bridges on Sapang Balen, including several houses in barrio San Jose. Its floodwaters reaches as far as the present Villa Teresa Subdivision.

1885
Taug River again overflows into the Sapang Balen and finishes off the three bridges.

1912
Don Jose P. Henson (Mariano’s father) builds a levee to prevent the converging streams Sapang Bayu and Sapang Ebus from flowing into Sapang Balen.

1919
Patangue River and Taug River between barrios Cuayan and Pampang swell and wash away bridges in town

1972
Sapang Balen and Abacan River wreak havoc in Angeles during the monsoon season; dozens of houses in Pulung Bulu and San Jose are washed away.

1991
On June 15, Typhoon Yunya crosses Angeles at the same time that Mount Pinatubo erupts. As a result, a mixture of water, ash and mud from the slopes of the volcano flows in quantities more than the Abacan river channel can take, destroying all the bridges in its path. In downtown Angeles, the Sapang Balen also overflows its banks. Residents evacuate en masse. US servicemen and their families have also evacuated earlier.

1994
In August, the Pasig Potrero River nearly overtops Delta 5 Watchpoint, the area where it is nearest to Sapang Balen.

2003
Mayor Carmelo F. Lazatin and the Environmental Management Bureau of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (EMB-DENR) initiate a sustainable program in maintaining the cleanliness of waterways in the city. A memorandum of agreement (MOA) is signed affirming the respective tasks of various sectors in eliminating or minimizing pollution of water flowing through the Sapang Balen River.

Holy Angel University (HAU), represented by President Bernadette M. Nepomuceno, commits to conduct continuous community public education information drives for the sustainability of the project and to participate in actual monitoring. The barangay councils of San Jose represented by barangay chairman Benito Tiatco; Sto. Rosario, headed by barangay chairman Jose "Jiji" Paras Jr.; and Pulung Bulo, headed by barangay chairperson Gloria S. Tanhueco, also pledge support.

2009
In May, Bishop Pablo Virgilio David leads hundreds of volunteers and supporters in a river clean-up drive. Organized by the Social Action Center, “Sagip Sapang Balen” aims to raise consciousness especially among riverbanks residents and inspire in them a sense of personal responsibility for the cleanliness of the river.

2010
On March 13, Sagip Sapang Balen Concert with Noel Cabangon as guest is held at the HAU Chapel of the Holy Guardian Angel Piazza. Sponsored by the Social Action Center, the concert also features poetry reading and mural and painting exhibits.

Sagip Sapang Balen Concert

Sagip Sapang Balen Concert
On March 13, 2010 Sagip Sapang Balen Concert with Noel Cabangon as guest will be held at the HAU Chapel of the Holy Guardian Angel Piazza. Sponsored by the Social Action Center, the concert also features poetry reading and mural and painting exhibits.






Sagip Sapang Balen
Neng Anac ning Arenas

ing ilug ning Sapang Balen a balu na
ngani'ning testigu "inyang malati ya",
a menuknanganan keng calye Miranda
"malino yang danum cristal qng kaclara
nung nu detang asan dakal kakawe la
balulungi't bulig king kerakalan da"
neng bandang kaleldo pagtampison da pa
bista man maigit nang limampulung banua

ngana pa, "canita atatandanan cu
ing dating Gobernor Kitung Nepomucenu
darala no ilug karin magpa-presku
ding kaluguran na Letran nyang colegiu
dapot umpisa nyang datang ing progresu
bale at kumpanya dinatan deng todu
gewa deng tambakan, pitak na balamu
sabe ning basura 'bat king mataderu"

keni mang maki'dad a tau San Jose
ngana'ing, "Sapang Balen atatandanan ke
dakal ya masayang alaala keng bie
karin ke manasan, mandilung kakawe"
karen mang aliwa pasyalan deng pane
istung malisangan, ilug puntaan de
ding minunang baryu, keya la binebe
at ing danum uran ken ya mamalebe

ing ilug mike ya keng pangapabustan
dala ning progresu keng pangkalakalan
at dening keng balen tamu manungkulan
balamu mine deng akalimbatawan
migkulang la karing sapat a paralan
ban apanatili ya keng kalinisan
at ing Sapang Balen a ilug tang yaman
ngeni ilug nya mung nanung katang-katang

mika-"Sagip Sapang Balen" banuang metung
nung nu ing pisamban menyad yang prusisyun
dapot ing sangkan ning meging pamitipun
e mu espiritu ampon king relihiyun
at e la kandila ding karelang daun
nune saku, palis, suput ampon bayung
ban miyabe-abe at misasanmetung
sagipan ya'ing Sapang Balen tamung bugtung

dakal a sinaup mialiwang memaryu
tau Cuayan, Cutcut, at Sto Rosario
Pampang, San Nicolas, at Sto. Domingo
Pulungbulo at San Jose carin tau
ding Sta Trinidad dintang la, atilu
escuelang pribadu't escuelang publicu
ding Barangay Councils at dakal pang grupu
misaup-saup lang minambag sacoru.

at mengabigla la, mengapamulala
king dakal basurang e makapanwala
tone-tonelada ing dinat dang ikua
gagato, makalbug, misaksak, misapa
kulang pang panakut, trak mang labing-adua
nganing Bishop David, paring mengasiwa
"iti umpisa ya", nganang meninasa
ing pamiligtas da king ilug ding sabla

dakal la ding grupung susuporta keni
kaugne ning gubyernung Angeles City
deng lider king Parish of Holy Rosary
ing Kuliat Foundation, ampo ding Rotary
ding Knights of Columbus, Angeles University
HAU at Holy Family Academy
Angeles Businessmen's Association pati
deti mengacu la at andang masisti

dapot libutad ding sablang pamagpagal
ding mialiwang grupu at tau dang dakal
mas migit kaniti'ing kailangang pairal
ding bale't kumpanyang dapat midian aral
ban ing Sapang Balen luminis yang tutal
ala yang mitagan basura at sukal
uling sablang iti muli mu imburnal
cabang deng mumugse e la magmasabal




Sagip Sapang Balen
Neng Tarebalak Pangpang

Sisilim kng ilug, makanyan ku mong dinulung
Malungkut kung menakit, ala metung mang bulung
Uling ala nang bie tutubu metung mang dutung
Batung mengalumud eno murin makabulung

Kanitang minuna, ena mo rugu kalupa
Dakal pang bie a keti kan’ta mamanyampaga
At king sapang iti keti ya pin megumpisa
Ing matwang Balen Culiat ta’mung pamalsinta

Keti la menatagan ding minunang tau
Karing kapangpangan ning sapang paglwalu
Meyawus yang Sapang Balen lagyu nang masuyu
Makanyan yang minusbung at ngeni mayasensu

Keti kng sapang iti, minatsat ya’t siningkad
Kng progresu ning balen iyang meging pusad
Dakal bale’t, gusali, plantang mengatalakad
Ing dating malating baryu, lungsud neng malapad

Lungsud Angeles, “Syudad ning Pamikaluguran”
Iti na ing bansag tamu kng syudad a pakamalan
Mupin, nu ya anti ing lugud a keti disan
Nung kng kapaligiran meging berdugu neman

Dng ilug at sapa ding meging tambakan dinat
Lasun-kemikal, takla, basurang dakal sukat
Mangaugseng minu-minutu matalik mikalat
Anti ing sapang iti, lalanging singap-singap

Makatakut ya ngening lalawen iting sapa
Likidung marayuput kukusad gigitata
Mete ne ing bie keti, dagis man eno bisa
Dakal nang sakit, ampo mamagbantang sakuna

Ngening sisilim, malapit ne rugung makmul
Ing dalumdum ning bengi keti king sapang sawul
Sana bayu mabak, linisan neng kawul-kawul
Tara magpuyat tana, pakabyen la ring sibul

A-12 Marsu, 2010

ING SAPANG BALEN AT BALEN CULIAT

Neng Joel Pabustan Mallari

Ing Balen Culiat
Anyang I Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda kayabe ing asawa nang I Doña Rosalia de Jesus, dintang la kng Culiat, pinili de ing metung a lugal a mawake. Iti ing peka-pangulung baryu na kanita ning Balen San Fernando. Pinili de ing lugal a iti ban italakad de ing matwang balen ning Culiat – ing Lungsud Angeles ngeni. Ing matwang lugal a iti mitalakad ya kng paligid ning Sapang Balen nung nu mitmu yang mangalabung a tanaman at karutungan. Nanupata, iti ing meging sentru da ring adwang pekamatwang dalan – ing Sto.Rosario at ing Miranda. Deti dng adwang baryung ati kng mingatbang kapangpangan ning Sapang Balen. Anya makanyan mu namang dng mangatwang bale mangaragul, dng mansyun, ing pisambang Holy Rosary , ing dating munisipyu (ing Museo ning Angeles ngeni), dng mangatwang kamalig at dakal pang istruktura at bale dng pakadane keti.

Makanyan mu naman anya dng mangatwang baryu na pa ning Culiat o ning Angeles ning panaun ngeni, keti la akit pakadane kng kekaban ning sapang iti dng antimo Pampang, Sto. Domingo, Cutcut, San Nicolas, San Jose, Sta. Trinidad, Sto. Rosario at Pulung Bulu.






Sapang Balen ning Culiat
Ing salita o terminung sapa, lulto yang parikil kng malating ilug. Anya makanyan mu namang ing Ilug Abacan na lakwas kng karagul e ya mipalagwan a sapa. Kabang ing sapa na daragus kng libutad da ring matwang lugal ning Sto.Rosario at Miranda ing meawus a sapa ulin na ning iti mas malati ya kng Abacan at keti ya ing meging pekalibutad, ing pekasentru, ing peka-poblacion ning matwang baryu ning Culiat. Kng lugal a iti keti ne ikit ning menatagan a Don Angel ing masanting a lugal ban umpisan talakad ing baryu na datang ing panaun yang maging balen ning Culiat, ing lungsud ning Angeles ngeni.

Agpang ketang amlat a “A Brief History of the Town of Angeles “ na sinulat na kanitang Mariano Henson, anyang a-20 ning Julyu, 1881, atin metung a bagyung dintang nung nu mengibugnus yang masikan a uran at ikwa nang meragul ning ilug na awsan dang Taug. Ing ilug a iti dati yang sususu kng dake ning matwang baryu ning Pampang, at makanyan yang magdalang maburak at magbanlik a agus papunta kng Sapang Balen. Keti makanyan yang maragul a sinira ing Sapang Balen nung nu ikwa nalang binitas dng atlung mangatwang tete (na megawa anya pang 1850) ning Culiat, dakal a bale ning Baryu San Jose.









Karing matwang kasalesayan, ing Ilug Taug kanita, manibat ya ing kadanuman na kng Baryu Cuayan. Iti ing pekasuli na mo ning Ilug Ebus na pakasusu kng saladsad ning Bunduk Pinatubu nung nu makyabe ya keti ing Ilug Abacan. At manibat anyang mawala ya ing matwang ilug ning Taug kng bandang pangulu makanyan yang mitagan ing dake nang mawli, ing Sapang Balen ngeni. Makanyan munaman, bayu ing banwang 1796, ing Ilug Taug ayayakwa na pang mipapalawut pilan dalan a katakbangan kng pigulut ning pisamban Holy Rosary balang mangasikan ing bulus ning panaung kauran. Makanyan munaman ing milyari alimbawa anyang ketang banwang 1972, ing Sapang Balen inyud na la dng dakal a bale ning Barangay San Jose, at makanyan mu naman anyang ketang a-15 ning Junyu banwang 1991, linapo ya iti dala na ning pamanakbung ning Bunduk Pinatubu..

Kng katunayan, ing Sapang Balen ing matwang dalan ning Ilug Taug, at ketang malwat nang panaun a milabas, mipalyaring iti siniku ya at makanyan yang tinaglus kng kasalungsungang kailugan ning Abacan. Anya makanyan yang miglakwang lugal a mengalangi nung nu keti la mitalakad dng kasalungsungang lugal dng baryu ning Cuayan, Carmenville Subdivision at ing kabalenan. Ngening panaun a iti, ing peka-ulu na pakasusu karing subdivision banda kng pilatan ning Carmenville at Cuayan ing daragus pababa, iti ing Sapang Balen na magmawli papunta keng kabalenan.








Dng ibatan dng baryung pakapinpin kng Sapang Balen
Bukud karing mangatwang dalan ning Sto.Rosario at Miranda, dng barangay ning Pampang, Sto. Domingo, Cutcut, San Nicolas, San Jose, Sta. Trinidad, Sto. Rosario at Pulúng Bulu ilamo dng masasabing minunang mengatalakad kng matwang Culiat na midanedane kng matanaman a kapangpangan ning Sapang Balen.

Ing Pulúng Bulu, alimbawa makalugal ya kng daneng pangulung-aslagan ning Sapang Balen. Ing lagyu na ibat ya kng mikuyug salitang “pulúng” (kakewan) at “bulu” (Schizostachyum lumampao [Blanco] Merr., metung a uri ning kuayan) kng pangpang na kanita ning Sapang Balen. Kabang ing Santo Domingo naman dati deng awsan a “Tibág” na buri nang sabyan kng matwang Kapampangan bilang talangpas o matas a pangpang nung nu maralas mangalaglag ing gabun. Katunayan, atin pang metung a sityu na pamalagwanan da kng aus a iti, ing “Tibag” na ati kng pilatan ning San Jose at Sto. Domingo na tutung malapit kng Sapang Balen. Iti malapit ya naman ketang matwang tramu dng dating tren a pupulayi at daralan kng Angeles. Metung pang sityu ing makaplagyu malapit kaniti, ing Tibágin Sta. Trinidad malapit Barangay San Nicolas at makanyan munaman ing malapit ya kng Sapang Balen.

Ing danum ning Sapang Balen makanyan ya naman tataglus papunta kng Lungsud San Fernando. Ing Ilug Kabalasan (o Mabalas) nung nu yang pekamaragul nang suli ning Sapang Balen pupulayi ya at durugtung yang mawli kng Sapa Calulut at Ilug Sindalan River bayu ya magisan a danum kng banding Barangay Maimpis. Inawus deng Ilug Kabalasan uling ing dake na ning sapang iti lulto ya pang mabalas dala na ning masalusu nang agus. Kabang kng banding Barangay Sindalan, ing danum na sisiku ya, at antimong sasandal makanyan yang mipamalagwangan “sindalan” ing dane pigulutan ning pisalingkwan ning sapa bayu ya magisan ing danum na, ing paimpis nang agus, ing “maímpis” ning Barangay Maimpis ngeni.

Mapilan karing matwang bale at lugal a mitalakad karing mingatbang kapangpangan ning Sapang Balen circa 1940s*














Maulagang petsang parikil kng Balen Culiat at ning Sapang Balen

1811
Ing retiradung I Don Angel Pantaleo, ikwa na neng alinis ing Culiat at makanyan na neng atalakad ing mumuna nang bale “on the northwest corner of the intersection of Sapang Balen creek and the road to Porac” (datang ing panaun, iti ing maging lugal ning dating Robin Theatre). Iti makanyan ne mu namang ibye kng pisamban para gawan kamposantung matua.

1850
Ing populasyun ning balen: 4,452. Kabilangan dng bale: 742. Dng pinaud (bale kubung gawa kng paud, bulung sasa) tutu la pang marakal kanita keti Angeles lalu na karing mingatbang kapangpangan ning Sapang Balen karing barangay Mangga at Pulung Bulu.

1851
Dng memalen, telakad de ing tete ning Santo Rosario, gawa keng batu, nung nu ya pakatalakad ing gusali ning Saver’s Mart Kantu Plaridel. Atlu mung banwa ing milabas, ing Tete Santo Angel mibuklat ya kng arapan ning kasalungusngang pisamban maragul. Kabang ing katlung tete na mitalakad babo ning Sapang Balen, iyapin ing Tete San Jose Bridge na meyari kalabas ning limang banwa..

1881
Ing banwang iti, ing Ilug Taug River linapo ya, at makanyan pilbug ing kabalenan, at inyud dng atlung tete at dakal a bale kng Baryu San Jose. Ing mapaminsalang ilug a iti maralas yang lalapo at maralas neng papalbug ing dane albugan ning kabalenan nung nu akwa na pang miraras ning danum angga kng lugal ning kasalungsungang Villa Teresa Subdivision.

1885
Ing Ilug Taug misan ya pang linapo angga kng Sapang Balen, misan pang sinira dng atlung tete.

1972
Ing Sapang Balen and Ilug Abacan menyalanta la kng kabilugan ning Balen Angeles ketang panaun ning matinding kauran ning banwang iti; marakal a bale at pibandyan ing minyud lalu na kng dake ning Pulung Bulu at San Jose.

1991
Anyang a-15 ning Junyu, ing bagyung Yunya dinalan ya kng lungsud a iti kayagnan ning pamamakbung ning Bunduk Pinatubu. Ing resulta, misamut a danum ning ilug, at burak a menibat kng saladsad ning Pinatubu ing dinagus a karagulan kng Ilug Abacan at menyira karing dakal a pibandian. Kabang linapo nemang karagulan ing Sapang Balen.

Kapangpangan ngeni at kanita
Karing dakal a amlat at kasalesayan dng balang balen keti babo sulip, dng mangatwang kabiyasnan o sibilisasyun memagumpisa lang mengatalakad karing kapangpangan da ring mangaulangang kailugan, karing sapa at paranaum na magsilbing peka dalan ning kulturang pangkabyayan. Ing matwang Ehiptu megumpisa ya kng Ilug Nile, ing awsan dang “Fertile Crescent” atin yang ilug ning Tigris at Euphrates, dng pipumpunan da ring Isik at Indianu atin lang Ilug Yangtse at Hindu. Makanyan munaman dng mengapapaunang tau keti Lusung (na datang ing panaun yang maging La Pampanga at ing dake ning Menila) atin lang Ilug Kapampangan, ing inawus da ring Español a “Rio Grande de Pampanga”. Nanupata keti la lalung mekilala dng manuknangan keti, dng tau karing “pangpang” – dng balu tamu ngening “Kapampangan”.
Kng Lungsud Angeles, iti megsilbi ya namang meulit ing matwang panugaling iti, anyang ing menatagan a I Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda ginubat de ing kakewan ning matwang lugal a iti para italakad ing Balen Culiat, sinarya neng pilinan ing malagung kapangpangan ning Sapang Balen. Iti ing dating malating ilug a daragul patse kauran, ing mitmu kng sentingan uli na ning mangalabung nang tanaman at karutungan. Iti ing dating lugal a emu masanting pitalakaran bale nunge pipanasanan, pipandilwan at pipamasyalan kanita. Kasalungsungan, magsilbi nemung maragul a kanal piyuyugsyanan basura, lugal a tutung mengapaburen at alang patugut a makakalingwan na karing taung manuknangan keti.











Sagip Sapang Balen
Karing mengapalabas a panawun, atin naring dakal a grupu dng memalen dng memagnasang sumapwup ban linisan yang pasibayu ing mipaburane at marinat nang bili ning makasalesayang Sapang Balen. Anyang a-12 ning Oktubri ning banwang 2003, dakal a grupu at aguman a menibatan karing pribadung sector at barangay dng mikyabe kng programa na kanitang Meyor Meyor Carmelo F. Lazatin at ning Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ban mikaprogramang magpanatili kng kalinisan da ring ilug at sapa ning Lungsud Angeles – partikular pin keti ing Sapang Balen.

Ing Holy Angel University (HAU), nung nu penimunan na kanita ning dati nang presidenti I Bernadette M. Nepomuceno, ing mengakung sumawup kng pamanyagip at pamaglinis. Kayabe karing sinuporta kng programang iti dng kapitan dng apektadung barangay anti di Benito Tiatco, Jose "Jiji" Paras Jr. ning Sto. Rosario at Gloria S. Tanhueco ning Pulung Bulo.

Banwang 2009 naman, a-23 ning Mayu kanita anyang mibyayan yang pasibayu ing kimutan ning pamanyagip kng ilu ning Sapang Balen. Dakal amemalen dng mititpun-tipun kanita dng miyakit-akit kng arap ning Pisamban Sto.Rosario ban umpisan pasibabyu ing pamaglinis. Imbes na kandila, plakard, palis at saku dng karelang darala anting magprusisyun papunta kng Sapanga Balen na penimunan na kanitang Obispo Auxiliary Pablo Virgilio David. Kkng lalam ning programan ning Social Action Center ning mesabing pisamban ning Sto. Rosario, ing pamaglinis a iti pemansagan deng “Sagip Sapang Balen,” nun gnu nasa da ing mayagyga la pa dng aliwa pang mangaintulid antimo dng kng sektor ning gubyernu at manungkulan keti, dng negosyanti, at dng kabilugan a memalen ning Lungsud Angeles.

Kng kasalungsungan, ing matuling at marinat a bili ning sapa ditak-ditak nemong lilinis a sinulad. Iti pauli na ning parakal nong parakal dng magmalasakit kng pamaglinis kng sapa. Dakal a grupu daring memalen lalu na karing dane da ring estudyanti anti dng mag-NSTP, mag-scouting, at aliwa pang grupu dng regular a makisawpan. Dng aliwa pang mengakung makisawpan mula pa kanitang banwang 2009 kayabe la dng kng Rotary, Knights of Columbus, Kuliat Foundation, Angeles Businessmen's Association dng iskwelang kalupa na ning Holy Angel University, Angeles University Foundation at Holy Family Academy. Dng aliwa pang makisawpan kng kimutan a iti dng representanti ibat karing barangay Cuayan, Cutcut, Pampang, Sta. Trinidad, San Nicolas, Sto. Rosario, Pulungbulo, San Jose, Sto. Domingo, dng kng Barangay Council; miyaliwang representating manibat karing aliwa pang pampubliku at pribadung iskwela, ing lokal a gubyernu, miyaliwang asosayun dng homeowners, grupung negosyanti, agumang pang-sibiku at pang-pisamban at aliwa pang makipagmalasakitan dng parakal na karing makyabe.

Kng daratang a a-13 ning Marsu mika-konsyertu para kng Sapang Balen. Iti “Sagip Sapang Balen” nun gnu I Noel Cabangon ing pekapandangal a magkanta. Kabang dng grupu daring pintor at potograper naman dng gagawang kanya-kanyang obra na magpapakit kng bili at legwan ning Sapang Balen ban ieksibit la reti kayabe munaman kng proyektung pamanyagip kng mesabing sapa ning Lungsud Angeles.

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