Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte wants a complete makeover of the Quezon Memorial Circle, a 27-hectare national park just within the Elliptical Road in Diliman as the city’s “crown jewel” in 2023.
During the Christmas tree lighting at the park, she instructed the park management chief Wilson Bueno to implement development projects and offer more activities that would encourage QCitizens to come over and spend quality time with their family.
“This park, we want it to be our crown jewel. Let us bring our people closer to nature,” she said.
“We want our QCitizens to bring back (the days) when families gather together. Let us take advantage of this park and other open spaces as instruments of family bonding,” she added.
She lamented that members of the family may be together physically “but not together in mind and in spirit.”
While children are too engrossed playing games on their gadgets or using Instagram or Facebook, the parents, too, are busying themselves texting or shopping online.
“I am asking families to come over here. Let’s be one with nature,” Belmonte said.