Heroes mural inches way to completion

May 28, 2022 Metro BLISTT

The 32-face Heroes Wall of Fame mural works inch its way to completion as Ged Alangui goes full blast in his 10-athlete contribution to the Baguio athletic bowl walls.
The now barangay kagawad is on his eighth face, a draft, before putting “on the color” most possibly by Monday.
“I’m almost done with Hongitan,” said Alangui referring to the 2017 Southeast Asian Games bronze medalist for archery Kareel Meer Hongitan.
Alangui has been working almost non-stop since the middle of May with Daniel Parantac layout the first to rise, followed by 2019 kurash gold winner Estie Gay Liwanen.
Then the faces of Philippine volleyball team member and former De La Salle University Lady Spikers Majoy Baron. Like Hongitan, Baron is a graduate of neighbor Baguio City High School.
Chess International Master Haridas Pascua is also sketched on the 6 x 14 feet wall that has been painted white which is ideal for the mural painting.
Father and son car racers Carlos and Inigo Anton will be beaming from the wall soon as well as former Ateneo de Manila center and former Philippine Basketball Association star Doug Kramer will also fund permanency soon. He will be joined by a fellow former Ateneo graduate and former general manager of the Benguet Electric Cooperative Gerardo Verzosa.
Wrapping up Alangui’s work is former professional golf regular Mars Pucay, who is a product of the Camp John Hay courses where he started as a shag boy.
Not far from Alangui’s works are the four-wall, eight faces segments of the Wall of Fame works of Gladys Labsan.
Labsan is about to complete the faces of bodybuilders Sammy Ayochok and Nic Domlasin in the mural paintings backed by the Bureau of Copyrights and Related Rights of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines.
Labsan has done the faces of Olympics 2008 bronze medals Mariane Mariano and Benjie Rivera, former three-time world karate champion Julian Chees, former World Boxing Association junior lightweight champion Roberto Cruz, two-time, two discipline SEAG gold medalist Jearome Calica and former two-time SEAG marathon queen Christabel Martes.
She will also be doing the faces of University of Baguio founder Fernando Bautista, Sr., Narciso Padilla, the late former Philippine Track and Field Association – Cordillera director Pedro Mendoza, and wushu master Tony Candelaria.
Although a part of the third phase of the project, Greepo Comics’ Gerald Asbucan started with track and field great Alejandro Cabosura.
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