HISTORY: The leaders of Capalonga, then and now.

Today, the new generation relish and bask in what most of us-oldies called future a long time ago.  While it took months before a very single message gets to your loved ones, all it takes today is a cellphone and of course a signal and voila, your "iluvu" gets to its recipient.  If years ago you need to transfer buses due to broken down bridge during storm season, now you only transfer if your air-conditioned van breaks down.  Nowadays, most kids don't need to walk through muddy streets when going to their class, or wake up with a blackish web on their nostrils from using gas lamps at night doing homework.  

My point?

It's been forever since the "Capalonga civilization" started.  And if only we could find someone who is willing to share more old pictures of our town, we can start appreciating how far we have gone.

But have you ever wondered who led Capalonga long before you were born? Here is a list of all the municipal mayors we have placed into power since our ancestors and down to our new generation.

Big thank you to the beautiful people of UPCA for coming up with a trivia like this therefore sharing additional knowledge to all of us, and to their President Mr Romy Valles for generously sharing the info to us.

 The LEADERS of CAPALONGA 

1877-1878 Felix Cano
1879-1880 Costudio Diezmo
1881-1882 Domingo Gonzales
1883-1884 Jose Diezmo
1885-1886 Roberto Lapak
1887-1888 Raymundo Fermo
1889-1890 Benedicto Fermo
1891-1892 Potenciano Fermo
1893-1894 Juan Gonzales
1895-1896 Basilio Rojo
1897-1898 Pedro Olila
1899-1900 Pancrasio Fermo
1901-1903 Basilio Rojo
1905-1906 Arcadio Gonzales
1907-1909 Vito Fermo
1910-1913 Juan Albino
1914-1916 Alejandro Roll
1917-1919 Rufo Diezmo
1920-1922 Francisco Roll
1923-1925 Paterio Jalgalado Sr.
1926-1928 Ireneo Gaite
1929-1931 Ruperto Lapak
1932-1937 Higino Fermo

under commonwealth government with the title Municipal Mayor

1941-1951 Lucio Jacob Sr.
1943          Jacinto Zaño
1945          Isidoro Talento
1946          Simeon Esturas
1948-1951 Lucio Jacob Sr.
1952-1955 Eufemio Esturas
1956-1963 Benjamin Dygico
1960-1963 Marcelo Marcilla
1958-1960 Emilio Lapak
1964-1967 Bernardo Gonzaga Jr.
1967          Simon Gonzales
1968-1971 Vicente Diezmo
1972-1980 Buenjeres Sasot
1980-1987 Vicente Diezmo
1987-1988 Vivien Lu Jalgalado
1988           Rolando Esturas
1990-1998 Ernesto Jalgalado
1998-2001 Vivien Lu Jalgaldo
2001-
2010           Senandro Jalgalado

IMPORTANT NOTE:  The information shared was only until 1998-2001 mayor and to refrain from making a mistake, the next 9 years were left intentionally blank by your blogger until such time that someone feeds us with the correct information.

So...don't be shy, who was the first Mayor you ever remember leading our town?

(Disclaimer: This post is NOT in any way used as a political propaganda or some sort.  Just a fun trivia we thought appropriate for everyone to know.  Not everyone remembers this being taught in the classroom or if this is even included in our school kids' day to day random info.)

As always, if you wanted to share information or pictures, don't hesitate to e-mail us or tag us via facebook our lovely readers sure appreciate the little things that could remind them of our town, so go ahead and share it with all of us.  And of course, if you have any problems with any of our posts, please don't hesitate to buzz us and we'll try and do what's best.

Thank you po!

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