Gwen to inaugurate park, P600,000 toilet in Dumanjug

CEBU Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia will inaugurate today the first public toilet in Dumanjug town, western Cebu, and a heritage park named after her grandmother.

Mayor Nelson Garcia said the three-hectare park in front of the Dumanjug church was 98 percent complete.

The public toilet located in the park has three cubicles each for male and female users, said provincial engineer Eulogio Pelayre and will cost P600,000. Each toilet has railings and safety handles for persons with disabilities. A total of 37 toilets will eventually be built in 37 Cebu towns at a cost of P22 million.

The heritage park will be named Doña Josefa Paras Garcia based on as town resolution.

The public toilets are an offshoot of the Capitol’s efforts to improve the Suroy-Suroy sa Sugbo program. The Suroy-Suroy takes busloads of tourists on a tour of Cebu’s countryside. Lack of public toilets along teh route for visitors to use has long been identified as a need.

Other heritage sites preserved and developed by the Capitol include heritage parks in towns of Alegria, Oslob and Boljoon in the south, and Borbon, and Sogod towns in the north.

The Dumanjug heritage park inauguration is part of Cebu province’s celebration of its 442nd founding anniversary. Correspondent CArmel Loise Matus