Dateline LIBACAO
By: Alex E. Dionela
Longtime best friends Rolly Estrellado, a “balikbayan” and Willie Barretto meet in Aklan recently after many years of not seeing each other when the former migrated with his family to the US. In this vacation the two stayed in Malinao, the hometown of Rolly’s wife Nellie then they toured the world-famous Paradise Island of Boracay and experienced for the first time the adventure inland trek and the “wild river” bamboo rafting in the town of Libacao, considered the next tourist destination in the country.
The two gentlemen became best friends in the ‘70s in Mindanao in the course of their work as medical sales representatives of multi-national drug companies.
Rolly is from Laguna but now permanently residing in Chicago, Illinois with his family. He is also considered a “Libacaonon” by affinity because his eldest daughter Rinah is married to Orven Rey Ortega, the second to the eldest of 4 sons of Michael and Marilou Ortega of Poblacion, Libacao, Aklan while Willie is an Ilonggo, permanently residing in Cagayan de Oro City with his family and manages his own business enterprises there.
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