It takes a well-meaning person to right a wrong.
It takes as well an expert to correct misinformation/disinformation about a published article in multimedia.
And it definitely takes a linguist to revise an erroneous detail about the baybayin, an ancient Filipino writing system.
The story goes like this.
The Pila, Laguna LGU conducted a search for the Municipal Arch Design Contest in 2023 and there were many participants.
The first prize went to Justin Jim D. Suinan from Barangay Pansol.
But polymath, historian, heritage conservationist, writer, visual artist and teacher Gem Suguitan, who had lived in Pila for a long time, noticed on picture/paper the deconstruction of a baybayin word in the winning design so she called on the attention of the former mayor, Edgar "Egay" Ramos about the error which the latter acknowledged.
And then the arch was built.
Although Gem might not be familiar with the exact date of the physical construction of the arch, she did contribute to the change of a misinformation to the correct one.
Suguitan also supplied us readers of OpinYon Laguna the meaning of the baybayin inscribed and embossed in the arch--Ang Bayang Pinagpala (A Blessed Town).
Now the arch is proudly erected and beautifully displayed for locals as well as guests of the town; its new mayor Queen Alarva must also feel secure about the true information of the famous arch.
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