by: Alex Sanchez
Pagadian City – Mr . Arnold Gavenia,
a city councilor of Pagadian City for 6 -consecutive years. Gavenia is modest, friendly and
hardworking. He earned his engineering degree as a working student. His stint
as an OFW for a few has made him doubly industrious, mentally and physically
sturdy and has also broadened his outlook and insight about life.
Gavenia who has earned the “monicker
spark plug sa Konseho“due to his advocacy for the economic well-being of motorcab
drivers and operators. He is a businessman who is in selling
replacement parts of different brands of motorcycle. He also operates one of
the best restaurants in the city. He is chairman of the Committee on
Transportation and Communication in the City Council for the last six years.
His experience of making a living as a motor cab driver when he was very young
has enabled him to know the problems of motor cab drivers and provide solution
to them, thereby endearing him to this sector of the community.
A-G is the typical person whom
everybody would want to be a friend. He is not ambitious but has an intense
desire to help improve the business climate in the city to provide employment
to the thousands of graduates from various colleges here.
A-G is the IDOL of the masses because
he frequently roams around the city and visits its 54 –barangays and had been
doing this ever since he was elected from 2007, trying to know the problems of
each barangay.
Gavenia is not swell headed and not
the type of politician that feels he is the masters of the people and not their
servants.
A legacy he will surely leave to the
Pagadianons is the scholarship he has granted for under privileged constituents
in the 54- barangays.