How time flies and before we knew it, The Post is exactly 27 years old next Saturday, July 13. Still counting? But of course. For a publisher who according to Mike Ligalig, has the guts of an Akyat Bahay artist, we will not stop counting, until we breath our last. Indeed, for a newspaper that survived the vagaries of changing climate patterns, The Post stands in the threshold of more years ahead of us in the service of the Boholano reading community. We also owe our gratitude to our burgeoning audience abroad that religiously follow us through our web page. As we mark another milestone in the history of Bohol newspapering, please do bear with us as we pay glowing tribute to our mentor, the late Jun Dejaresco of the Bohol Chronicle fame.

Learning the ropes of newspaper management under his doting tutelage, we survived in this dog-eat-dog arena of the newspaper business because of the late dean of Bohol newspapermen (the moniker in newspaper circle of the late Dejaresco). It was also under his guidance that we learn our marketing savvy adding that to learn the tricks of the trade one should know the nuances of the business even if it smells two kilometers away. A known tickler for honest-to-goodness discipline, our late mentor was known in his lifetime as one guy who cannot take no for an answer. Passing the torch of his writing prowess to his deserving heirs, this BGlante feels that a tribute is in order if only to acknowledge the impact of the Dejaresco influence to what the Post has achieved all through its 27 years in public service. Our gratitude goes to the Dejaresco heirs, Bingo and Peter, who at this time of the Post existence has accepted the paper as a friendly competitor.

It is worthy of mention in this essay our debt of gratitude to the Dejaresco siblings after they accepted this BGlante as a “lost prodigal son” in the case of the top-rate radio program “Inyong Alagad”. A sheer case of barging into the annals of a broadcast firewall, it was a coup of sorts when the Dejaresco duo offered us to join the anchor chores of Inyong Alagad likening our re-entry of a come backing kid lost in the welter of competition involving two competing stations. While before it was perceived as taboo in the city’s broadcast industry, we virtually established the precedent of a competitor being coddled in the warm bosom of another competing entity. At this juncture therefore of the 27 years anniversary of The Post, we sit and relax at the reality of slaying the myth in media competition that there’s no such thing as conflict of interest that stands in the way if friendly competition is the name of the game.