Now You See It Now You Don't

October 23. 2012

the old building sitting in front of the new building

Within three days it’s been a now you see it, now you don’t. The Legislative building that is. This was where Chito and Benji’s worked out of the Municipal Agricultural Office. This was where the Sangguniang Bayan (City Council) held legislative sessions as well.

Now the old building is gone, those people and the mayor and staff, are moved into the new building even though construction work continues.

They mayor decided it would be a good idea to let children and any and all community members salvage the sellable metal out of the demolition debris. I think every hacksaw, hammer and mallet in town was being used to wrestle rebar out of the hunks of concrete. The tractor/backhoe thing was busy scooping, crushing, digging and dumping demolished pieces of the old building with people jumping in and out of its way.

The mayor was right about this being an efficient way to speed up the project. In two days every bit of metal was gone.