Oh ok! I think I can now place Schubert Vaz family since he mentioned his grandmother - Donvaddo I presume - the late Mr.Dominic & Mrs.Betty Vaz eh? But then most of us in Donvaddo are Vaz/Vas or were Vaz/Vas. I remember one daughter - I think Zinnie was her name! & if I remember right, you Schubert are related to Allwyn & family & as the saying goes, everyone in Saligao is related - then the proof of that is I am related to Allwyn too. & yeh the "Gurgulette" is still being used in my house in Donvaddo. & we drank the water at the Salmona Spring & Donvaddo Spring (I think the Westend has come up by that particular Spring) straight - as we believed it had medicinal properties. Now of course, if you dare to drink, you will be ingesting various strains of E-Coli & all the rest of the paraphernelia. & we still carry our own shopping bags, cloth, gunnybag etc. to Mapusa besides a few plastic bags to place the fish in so as not to dirty the cloth bags, & these plastic bags are washed dried & kept for next trip to the fish market.....some of us havent changed in certain spheres whilst struggling to catch up with the rest of the modern techno world. (as in this mail of yours which I have copied & pasted since it seems to have got entangled with some other personal mails of mine which I dont want the world & its mother to read when I "reply" - huh!) Anyway Schubert, you are right about "catching them young in school"! But your suggestion about forwarding the "suggestions" to the "Education Minister" to be implemented.....well you & those working towards that goal would have their work cut out for them, considering ...... but then, better to die trying than not at all eh? So we have to leave that gargantuan task to those you mentioned in the mail - the doers, the makers & all Saiganvkars who are in a position to work from the village itself. including M&M (Muriel & Mario to you, Schubert). Umm! at one point in time, a long time ago, Dr. Willie did start & dabbled vis-a-vis the garbage issue ...perhaps he would be pleased to do so again, then Saliganvkars would have more backing, wouldnt they? I for one am quite ready to sign the letter/petition to be sent to the Education Minister and/or the Garbage Minister....is there one??? Ah yes! right again Schubert!.....Ice Age, Stone Age, Plastic (Toxic) Age ... did we miss any Age then?... but I think we will be heading towards perhaps Mad & Rage Age?? Thought I read somewhere that toxins in our blood could lead to rage & madness ...... but then I am no scientist - perhaps Dr. Dilip, Dr. Suresh, Dr. Queenie, Dr. Donald (havent heard about the Sequeiras since long except that they are well placed in the States, so perhaps they are PhD by now - Marbrouk to the Sequeiras if so!) and others could enlighten us? Now that would come under "putting our hands and heads together" ...wouldnt it? & then continuing with the job in hand...garbage job.....a hell of a job and a stink of a job! All the best to one & all! Annette
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:03:47 +0530 Subject: Fwd: [SALIGAONET] Educate and eradicate !! From: [email protected] To: [email protected] I was shocked to hear about the pollution upon our Saligao hill especially near our dear old Salmona spring . Our visit to our home in Saligao would never be complete without a visit to the fountain( Salmona spring) .We also used to carry the water back home in our little ‘ Gurgulette ‘ as my grandmother would call it as it was supposed to contain medicinal properties (Does this theory still hold good considering the garbage seepage into the underground water table ? ). I still remember my grandma the late Mrs Betty – would never go shopping without her Goa shopping bag in hand ( no plastic bags then ) Hats off to anti – garbage guys like M&M ( sorry pal didn’t get your name ) , Yvonne ,Fred, Alwin ( for his excellent suggestion which I think should be forwarded to Education Minister Babush Monseratte to be implemented !) Civic sense can only be inculcated in the people by educating them against the evils of garbage and best time is catching them young in school ! First we had the Ice Age , then came the Stone Age etc and this presently can be rightly called as the Plastic ( Toxic ) Age. Let the inputs help you guys put your hands and heads together to do something for our beautiful Saligao Schubert Vaz -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected]
