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Advertising is available at very reasonable rates, as intent is to cover costs and any<br />
profits will be used to finance the Scholarship we have to train unemployed youths,<br />
Male and Female as Lifeguards so as they have employment.<br />
You can visit the program here.<br />
Also to increase the free to the public Swim-safe program for children.<br />
Advertising rates: (Just supply your finished add in Letter size, 8 ½ X 11 full page, 4<br />
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Full page P 7.500.00 per year.<br />
Half page P 4,500.00 per year.<br />
Quarter page P 3,000.00 per year.<br />
About the Author.<br />
I am originally from Australia, I first visited the Philippines in 1969, loved the country, its people and its<br />
potential.<br />
I migrated to the Philippines in the mid 1980’s and started investigating potential areas to start a<br />
business. In 1987, I leased a vacant property in Iba and with Board of Investment approval, built Rama<br />
International Beach Resort, opening in December of 1988. This, I sold in 1997 and does still operate as<br />
Palmera Garden Beach Resort.<br />
I met my wife in 1988 and we married in 1992. In 1994, we decided to expand and purchased a defunct<br />
prawn hatchery property in Binoclutan Botolan and started to develop that through to opening that in<br />
1995 transferring the Rama name to there in 1997 after selling the Iba business and lease.<br />
I was instrumental in starting the Zambales Resort Owners Association (ZamROA) to promote the area and<br />
also commenced a water safety program to encourage resorts to have trained and capable lifeguards for<br />
the safety of their customers, including the training of same.<br />
After my retirement in December of 2013, I continued the water safety program with ZamROA until they<br />
dropped it in March 2014 due to concern that if some untoward accident occurred, that the association<br />
would be liable.<br />
In 2015, I formed Zambales Lifesaving Inc. (ZLI), a non-stock, non-profit organization to continue the water<br />
safety program and applied for accreditation with the Philippine Coast Guard, who, under RA9993 are the<br />
controlling body of lifeguards in the Philippines. In 2016, ZLI gained its accreditation and has operated<br />
from then until now, training Lifeguards and other programs to make Zambales Beaches safer for locals<br />
and visitors, both local and International.<br />
Thus, I have a background of almost 30 years in the Zambales Resort Industry and more than 50 years in<br />
water safety and Lifeguard training including my earlier Australian background.<br />
I am proud to say that our Resort had never, during our time running it, ever experienced a fatal drowning<br />
incident since it was never without trained lifeguards who were knowledgeable in drowning prevention as<br />
well as emergency response.
Santa <strong>Cruz</strong><br />
Established in 1612, it has a population nearing 60,000<br />
and is the Northern most municipality. It boarders with<br />
the Province of Pangasinan to the North and East and the<br />
Zambales Municipality of Candelaria to the South.<br />
Attractions:<br />
Sagrada Famila Caves, this<br />
vast network of limestone<br />
caves is quite easily<br />
accessible. In fact,<br />
someone has made<br />
stairways in the steeper<br />
parts of the terrain that<br />
one needs to transverse.<br />
The walk from the nearest<br />
accessible area by vehicle<br />
takes less than an hour. At<br />
one point, you will pass a<br />
lookout that offers<br />
fantastic views of the<br />
coastline and the nearby<br />
islands of Hermana Mayor<br />
and Hermana Meno. To<br />
reach the area of the<br />
caves, you pass through<br />
some beautiful tree lined<br />
areas that are almost<br />
tropical rain forest in<br />
nature. It is rumored that<br />
many of the caves are still<br />
unexplored and that some<br />
actually lead to an<br />
underground river.
There are a few of the caves that transfer through to open cavern areas.
The Alter cave
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