{"id":45,"date":"2018-12-26T18:43:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T18:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infanta.org\/?p=45"},"modified":"2019-07-12T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:50:23","slug":"town-remembers-old-gabaldon-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infanta.org\/index.php\/2018\/12\/26\/town-remembers-old-gabaldon-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Town remembers old Gabaldon building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note Below is an article posted in 2008 shortly after town and school officials agreed to pursue the restoration of the the Gabaldon. Amb. Arizala suggested it&#8217;s worth reposting and we agree<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Delfin Mallari Jr.<br>Philippine Daily Inquirer&nbsp;<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>Posted date: October 08, 2008<br><br>INFANTA, Quezon \u2013 Five steps of mossy concrete stairs and three pillars remain in front, surrounded by cracked, coarse walls and thin columns with surprisingly rust-free steel bars protruding from the top. Rows of concrete beams that once supported wooden floors lay a few feet above ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nearly century-old Gabaldon-type school building has been reduced to its present state of deterioration in one corner of the compound of the Infanta Central Elementary School in Infanta town in northern Quezon. Iron sheets on its porch fence off students loitering on the grassy lot staked with banana plants.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/infanta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1DC78CA4-8883-465D-A7D9-F030F2CE7FB7-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/infanta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1DC78CA4-8883-465D-A7D9-F030F2CE7FB7-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/infanta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1DC78CA4-8883-465D-A7D9-F030F2CE7FB7-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/infanta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1DC78CA4-8883-465D-A7D9-F030F2CE7FB7-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/infanta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1DC78CA4-8883-465D-A7D9-F030F2CE7FB7-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/infanta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/1DC78CA4-8883-465D-A7D9-F030F2CE7FB7.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Gabaldon building sat ruins for nearly four decades<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It pains me to see it sitting the way it is right now.<\/p><cite>Mila Glodava<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have fond memories of the Gabaldon. It\u2019s my only other connection to Infanta, other than the Church. And so it pains me to see it sitting the way it is right now,\u201d said Mila Garcia Glodava, president of the US-based Metro Infanta Foundation (MIF). The nonprofit organization unites Filipino expatriates living abroad through an Internet website to initiate and fund worthy causes back home, especially in northern Quezon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note Below is an article posted in 2008 shortly after town and school officials agreed to pursue the restoration of the the Gabaldon. Amb. Arizala suggested it&#8217;s worth reposting and we agree. 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