DELBROS and DELWATER president Jose Eduardo C. Delgado (JED) personally visited the proposed site for a Boy Scout tree nursery in Baguio City on May 16, 2008.

JED is an active member of the Scouting Movement and is concurrently the National Program Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) and a member of the BSP National Executive Board.

According to JED, the primary objective of the Baguio visit is “to determine if it is feasible to establish a highland Tree Nursery on the property. Specifically to grow and produce endemic pine trees.”

It is no coincidence that the Baguio visit came a few days before the official and formal launching of the BSP’s “Go Green, Go for the real thing,” on May 20, 2008. “Go Green,” a brainchild of JED and project-managed by his National Program Committee, is a flagship project of the BSP in partnership with the Coca-Cola Export Company. The first, and the model, tree nursery under the “Go Green” project is now operational at the BSP National Office grounds. The Baguio nursery can be the second nursery to be put up by the “Go Green” project. Should it push through, the Baguio nursery is expected to be the primary resource and knowledge center for pine tree propagation for all scouts, especially those from the highland communities in Northern Philippines.

The proposed Baguio site is located along South Drive beside “ANG ATING TAHANAN,” the Girl Scouts National Program and Training Center. Its exact address is Lot 4, Residential Section “C”, Forbes Park Reservation, Baguio City.

With JED during the site ocular inspection were Regional Scout Director Florencio Atinyao, CSE Ramon Jacinto, and RFSE Mark Cambod. JED was also joined by two BSP National Office personnel in the Baguio visit. They are Sophie Castillo, National Program Assistant, and Derek Bonifacio, BSP’s in-house artist and photographer. # /RUS