Olongapo City-Guide book

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ZAMBALESLIFESAVINGINC.<br />

toassisttheZambalesTourism andResorts<br />

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ADVERTISING<br />

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 />

¼X11 half page and quarter page can be 4 1/4X4 1/4 or 2 X 11, inches, can be .jpg,<br />

.docx, .pdf) Full details can be obtained from the associated website here.<br />

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.

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OLONGAPO<br />

CITY<br />

Established in 1750 and achieving city hood in 1966.<br />

This is the only city in Zambales and has a population<br />

of almost 235,000. It boarders with Subic on the North,<br />

the Subic Bay Freeport Zone on the South and Bataan<br />

on the East.<br />

<strong>Olongapo</strong> is very much a <strong>City</strong> and comprises mostly businesses and service related industries, it<br />

also houses two SM Malls.<br />

However it also hosts a very popular beach area and two resorts that offer inflatable aquatic<br />

recreation areas, referred to as "Inflatable Islands".<br />

Tourist attractions:<br />

Beaches and aquatic recreation abound is the areas of Barrio Barretto and Baloy Beach, these<br />

areas were very popular for R & R during the Vietnam era and when the US Bases remained,<br />

Barrio Barretto also hosts a number of Nightclubs.<br />

Pagasa Market, a bargain center for made to order and RTW clothing.<br />

Shopping, also the <strong>City</strong> market has an exceptionally good wet market, especially for fresh<br />

seafood's. Cinemas, the SM Malls both offer cinemas, the new <strong>City</strong> Mall also offer Ice skating.<br />

There are a number of Hotels in this area and major transport terminals.

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