By: pedro a. dasing
Columbus, the elder of the view deck vigilantes, puts it, "the liberation of the View Deck and the whole Road 4" from the hands of the rowdy YICL / CICL is starting to glimmer in the pitch darkness as they, the former, continue to occupy the frontage of the View Deck especially at night; allowing valid visitors to enter for limited time only to avoid hanging out and possible illegal activities; disallowing entrance of minors (w/o the company of adults) during curfew hours and the blacklisted truants, troublemakers, and other delinquent and problematic person/s; and when given a time to check the deck in the day time, is to clear it of playing children because the structure is not as safe as a well-planned children's playground, and to apprehend minors allegedly smoking cigarettes after their class dismissal in the afternoon.
Why spending much energy on this particular place? Because, first, it has two institutions built near it - a church and an elementary school, secondly, youths and minors from other places (inside and outside the city) were already trying to get a foothold and take control of the area as theirs, as observed, they use the place as rendezvous, for dating, drinking liquor, hanging out in the night with loud noises and disturbing dispositions which annoy the residents in the area.
Last night (January 13, 2020), the vigilantes composed of parents, concerned residents, public servants in the persons of Columbus Lewis, Richard Sagandoy, Imelda Cadaweng, Cristy Sinnay, Leticia Bacolong, Zenaida Baluran, Susan Binaysan, Imelda Zamora, and Pedro Dasing held station at the view deck to continue recovering the place from the control of the inexperienced (and maybe misguided and/or neglected) green hands, trying hard enough to chase them in order to indentify the youths and minors, who are truly in need of protection and/or services of the government's social welfare programs, to behold them and then to turn over them to the appropriate agency for proper action.
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