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Sports Complex
Funding Assistance Project
Project Description.
As provided for in the 5-Year Development Plan, the Sports Complex consists of
Physical Education and Athletic Facilities proposed to be built during the
SY 2007-2008. It may be started sooner pending receipt of pledges from
alumni.
The Sports Complex, proposed
on the site of the current basketball court on the Athletics Field, will house
the following:
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Covered Courts with 2 sets of latitudinal playing
areas and 1 longtitudinal competition court for basketball and volleyball.
The area can also serve as courts for badminton and as an assembly area for
school functions like graduation and school mass.
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A stage for concerts etc.
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Shower and Changing Rooms for boys and girls
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Equipment storage
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Offices for the proposed Athletic and Activities
League (currently being set up) among the following schools: St. Mary’s School,
Sagada National High School, St. James School, and Besao National High School.
Other schools like Bangaan National High, Antadao HS, and Suyo also have
expressed interest in joining this league. The league’s program will
include interscholastic sports like basketball, volleyball, and table tennis to
start, and cultural exchanges in music, drama, dance, and forensics (debate
etc).
Estimated Project
Cost.
Based on the 5-Year Development Plan the estimated cost of the project amount to
two million Philippines Pesos [P2,000,000] or about thirty six thousand four
hundred U. S. Dollars [$36,400] at a "55-pesos to one-dollar" exchange rate.
The itemized costing follows:
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Estimated Cost: Sports Complex |
| 1. Covered Courts
Roof |
P
500,000.00 |
| 2. Lighting and
Floor |
200,000.00 |
3. Offices and
Shower Room
(including pipe system) |
400,000.00 |
| 4. Stage, Lighting
& Sound |
500,000.00 |
| 5. Bleachers |
400,000.00 |
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T o t a l |
P
2,000,000.00 |
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Or |
$
35,400.00 |
Project
Status. The immediate target is to come up
with $10,000.00 to cover the cost of finishing the steel structure and roofing of the
sports complex in time for the next SMS Alumni and Friends reunion sometime
in December of 2007. As of 8 January 2007,
$6,906.00 has already been raised by the
Sports Complex Funding
Assistance Committee
See:
A brochure
has been crafted by Edwin Abeya and company. Copies has already been out to concerned SMSSAFF committee members as well as to members of the BOT for dissemination in their respective areas.The
brochure is hereunder posted for any interested
individual to download.
Target date
for finishing the whole sports complex is year 2008 hopefully in time for
the SMS alumni and friends reunion scheduled for that year.
Project
Volunteers. The descendants of the following Sagada matriarchs, led
by Norman Longid, have volunteered to lead in the fund-raising initiative
for the sports complex.
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Masinnay: the grandmother of
Pacyaya and Malecdan among others,
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Kangkangan: the grandmother
of Banagui and Gayagay among others,
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Kalugidan: the grandmother
of Abeya, Bacagan, Olat among others, and
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Bistanga: the grandmother of
Alagon, Andawi and Longid among others.
The above-named
matriarchs were orphaned sisters. Notwithstanding the difficulties they
had to hurdle in their lives they were able to raise and nurture
offspring who became successful and respected individuals not only in Sagada
but in other communities they have settled in.
Team play [as in
ob-obbo], fair play [as in "inayan" or "lawa"], honesty, persistence and
hard work must have been among other social values that the four orphaned
sisters regimented in their offspring; otherwise not many of them
would not have reached prominence in society.
These
social values rank high in the ladder of virtues characterizing the lives of
most successful businessmen, scientists, statesmen, religious leaders,
as well as simple folks whose lives made a difference to their fellowmen.
Such virtues must
continue to be inculcated in our Igorot youth and one effective way of doing
this is by dedicating the SMS sports complex to these four orphaned sisters
who epitomized said time-honored values.
It is particularly the
value of team play and fair play which Norman Longid [an avid baskeball
player during his high school and college days] would like to instill in SMS
students. This was a key factor in his volunteering to lead the fund-raising
challenge for the sports complex. Norman Longid is, therefore, calling
all descendants of their "four- orphaned-sister-ancestors" to share a little
of their time, talents or treasures towards the realization of the SMS
sports complex.
Likewise, Norman is
appealing to all SMS alumni and friends who would rather see Igorot youth
engaged in sports where they can learn the values of team play and fair
play, rather than hanging out in liquor establishments or engaged in
nefarious activities [i. e. drugs and gangs] or lured to the mendicancy
trade in the streets of metro-manila and other urban centers.
Norman is appealing for
volunteers to join him in the funding committee on this project [click the
following hyperlink to read details]:
Sports Complex Funding Assistance
Committee.
To make a donation go to the
For other help options,
click on any of the hereunder hyperlinks:
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Sponsor A Faculty Chair Project
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Library Facilities Improvement
Funding Assistance Project
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Dormitories Funding Assistance Project
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Sponsor A Student Funding Assistance
Project
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Endowment Fund Build-up
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Computers and Related Equipment
Funding Assistance Project.
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School Building and Facilities
Renovaion/Upgrading
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Book Campaign
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Memorial Funds
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Raffles
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