Tuesday, May 22, 2012

GCC 5th Year Anniversary


Posted by Steven Egay
For Gigaquit Civic Club
May 22, 2012


The Gigaquit Civic Club will be 5 years old this coming May 23, 2012!  On this date, there will be a simple gathering at Bo's Coffee, Glorietta 5 in Makati City from 6pm to 10pm.  Interested Gigaquitnons may join.

Design by Emil Canda

GCC MILESTONES:

October 2006 - First organizational meeting in Makati City

May 23, 2007 - Formally registered at the Securities and Exchange Commission

August 19, 2007 - Gigaquit Online formally launched

December 2007 - GCC began discussions on education projects including scholarship

March 24, 2008 - Jinawa revival and Gakit Amazing Race discussed by GCC with then Municipal Tourism Officer Buboy Pingal at the Mall of Asia

September 8, 2008 - Jinawa Festival formally discussed with Gigaquit LGU at the Municipal Hall in Gigaquit

November 1, 2008 - First Jinawa Festival held in Gigaquit

December 2008 - Gakit Amazing Race modified to Gakit Festival and was scheduled on January 25, 2009

January 2009 - Gakit Festival postponed as Doot Beach damaged by water surge

February 2009 - very first screening for GCC Tabang Paeskuyla (GCC Scholarship) was held at the GNSHI

March 13, 2009 - First Gakit Festival was finally held at Doot Beach

April  2009 - First GCC Scholar chosen

May 2011 - Scholar # 2, #3 and #4 selected

April 2012 - Scholar # 5, # 6 and # 7 selected

April 9, 2012 - Tree planting project discussed by GCC representative Steven Egay with Gigaquit LGU, Surigao Economic Dev't Foundation, Barangay Poniente Officials and Poniente-Camboayon (Poncam) Multi-Purpose Cooperative in Barangay Poniente Poncam office

May 2012 - Gigaquitnon Service and Multi-Purpose Cooperative spinned off from GCC to pursue business-related discussions

May 2012 - GCC advocacies on Gigaquit heritage where transferred to Gigaquit Historical Society.  From thereon GCC will focus on education, environment and wildlife conservation.

2 comments:

  1. Repost from Steven Egay
    Before GCC, there was the so called original 5 composed of Setnecer Ram , Emil Canda , Tatz Borja Molina , Rey Tupal and Steven Egay .

    Sometime in late 2005 or early 2006, had a meeting with Igso Yoyo (then Captain Mar Recentes) at Gateway Mall in Cubao, Quezon City. He presented to me the idea of creating an internet forum of Gigaquitnons. At that time there was no facebook yet and internet forums were quite in vogue. I liked this suggestion as it has a lot of merit.

    Am not sure who was the first one I asked to join in this project but maybe it was Emil Canda as i saw him in Gigaquit during 2006 Holy Week. I had some contact with Tatz Molina and Rey Tupal so it was not difficult to reach them.

    All of them liked the idea also and we began our initial meetings around June and July 2006. Igso Yoyo was already assigned in Africa around that time under a United Nations mission but we kept him in the loop via emails.

    Around August 2006, we finally came out with the forum site made by Tatz Molina. It is still existing now. To see it, please click this >>

    http://gigaquitorg.proboards.com/index.cgi

    GOL Forum - Home
    gigaquitorg.proboards.com
    May 24, 2012 at 9:12pm · Like · Remove Preview

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  2. Repost from Steven Egay
    Around August 2006, somebody was inviting me to join the Rotary Club. When i was deliberating if i should join or not, i thought why should i spend time for some communities in Manila instead of doing it for Gigaquit which needs more help? That was then that i thought of creating the "Gigaquit Civic Club".

    Actually, the name that i wished to propose was Gigaquit Development Forum, but when I called for a meeting with the original 5 and some other Gigaquitnons like Mr. Samuel Senoren, I had to tell them that what we are going to do is to form a sort of a Gigaquit Civic Club. I used this description because the idea is to pattern it after the Rotary Club. There were several names proposed . . . but the name Gigaquit Civic Club sticked on . . . and the rest is history.
    May 24, 2012 at 9:13pm · Like · 2

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