Articles in the History Category

16 GenSan High schoolers assume city hall posts
Posted in GenSan News, History on 17 November 2008

Effective today, November 17th and until the 21st, sixteen students, from among the city’s premier high schools will immerse themselves in their new roles as the junior versions of the elected officials of the local government of General Santos, the Tuna Capital of the Philippines.
A yearly endeavor of Youth Affairs and Development Office under Elmer [...]

Mercury Drug rises in Barangay Lagao
Posted in History, Hot Spots on 22 October 2008

I was joyriding onboard my partner’s motorbike the other night when I saw a streamer along the corner of Lagao National Highway and Tiongson Street, which caught my eye.

Hey!  It’s an announcement about an upcoming branch of Mercury Drug!
The following day, I went back to the same place and took these pictures.

Now people from this [...]

Snacks of my youth: Ampao and Pop Rice
Posted in Food Trip, History on 24 September 2008

I was at the KCC Mall of GenSan supermarket yesterday, doing my grocery when I came upon some familiar chichiria or what people now call as “junk food”.
These are the home made pinoy snacks, AMPAO and POP RICE, two of my favorite snack foods during my youth which I could easily buy at the neighborhood [...]

(updated)Has anyone ever seen a Dadiangas Tree?
Posted in History, Hot Spots on 12 September 2008

Has anybody among you ever seen a Dadiangas Tree, the plant from which Gen. Santos City was used to be named after?

I have.  And that was just over a year ago when someone told me that one can be found near the flagpole of the Gen. Santos Park across the city hall building.  I lost [...]