• GILBERT P. BAYORAN
To continue what was started by their patriarch, Feliciano “Morito” Malacon Jr., E.B. Magalona Mayor Marvin Malacon and his family formally donated a portion of their one-hectare prime property, which is occupied by about 50 informal settler families, in Barangay Tabigue.
The donation also included the space occupied by a chapel and the-right-of way.
Siblings Matthew Louis and Maia Malacon, and their aunt, Marlyn Malacon, turned over yesterday the individual land titles to the 21 donees, whose houses are occupying the property of the Malacon family.
The mayor witnessed the turn-over together with his mother, Josefina, sister Marnie Malacon Ganon, and wife, Mae Ross.
He paid the P245,000 tax arrears and penalties of the lots granted to them by his late father in 1998.
“It is our pride as a family to continue the dream of our father,” Marlyn said during the ceremony held at the E.B. Magalona public plaza Asenso Hall.
In February this year, the Malacon family also donated a 1.8-hectare land in Barangay Tuburan for the site of the Carlos Hilado Memorial State University Center for Extension, Community Development, and Psychological Services.
The lot beneficiaries and barangay officials of Tabigue, led by village chief Sally Arsenal, took turns in acknowledging the generosity of the Malacon family. | GB
