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SINCE THE LAUNCH OF SRM IN 2007 OUR MAGAZINE HAS BEEN GROWING AND EVOLVING whilst maintaining its mission to show the world that life in the Philippines and particularly in Santa Rosa City consists of much more than the bad news of corruptions and killings that most foreigners read in their newspapers or see on their televisions.
      The two informative official websites Santa Rosa City Government and Santa Rosa City Council cover much local ground in a better way than we could, because elected officials are themselves the heart of our city and the driving force behind its progress. We are blessed with one of the best city governments in the entire Philippine nation, and we highly recommend that you visit both official websites frequently.
      They enable us to spread our wings by including stories from other parts of the Philippines and even from overseas. Stories that still impact in some way our lives in Sta. Rosa. This adds another dimension to our mission by showing the world that Santa Rosa City is part of the global community, and Filipinos - whichever part of the Philippines they come from - are increasingly a force to be reckoned with in every aspect of human achievement from business to design to sports to science to medicine to entertainment and the performing arts.
      There is nowhere on our planet where OFWs, who for too long were the neglected unsung heroes of the Philippines, have not left their positive mark to improve our nation's tarnished reputation and open the world's eyes to our future potential.
      Metro Santa Rosa, which is the title of Santa Rosa Magazine's special features section, will also grow and evolve. We welcome your comments and suggestions as we go along. We also welcome submission of features, both from corporate public relations departments or from communication consultants and from readers anywhere in the world.

      One day the world will know the Philippines for what it can and will be: a truly great cosmopolitan nation. One day the world will also know Santa Rosa for what it can and will be: a truly great cosmopolitan city. In our own small way and with the support of all our readers and advertisers we will do our very best to help make it happen.
      When it does, there will be no more crooked brokers or agents of human trafficking in the Philippines. OFWs will no longer be unsung heroes. In every corner of the globe Philippine OFWs will be respected, sought after, head-hunted and rewarded with top salaries and top conditions of their own choosing and to their own specification. They have proved their worth for too long without ever receiving it. After so many personal and family sacrifices, they will all finally receive it.
      What's more they will fully deserve it, and in doing so they will confirm their qualities as Filipinos and provide further proof to raise the reputation of the Philippines even higher in the eyes of the world.
      If you are a wife whose husband is an OFW or if you are a husband and your wife is an OFW, please feel free to contact us. We would love to post your personal story, and don't worry if the publicity would embarrass you. We can make your story anonymous or give you a pen name, and we don't need to say where you live. If your preference is to be a protected source of information, we guarantee that your identity will never be revealed.
                                                                                                                    - Sarina Fernandez, Editor of Santa Rosa Magazine

FOOTNOTE AT THE INSISTENCE OF THE COMPANY DIRECTORS:
Many emails received have suggested that the Editor might make personal appearances to promote Santa Rosa Magazine, and Sarina told us when we first interviewed her that she does not wish to do this. We admire her professional qualities and respect her wishes. She values her family life above all else and has no ambition to become a celebrity of any kind, even a local one. At the same time, Sarina's dedication to our mission is second only to her family.
      If readers could see Sarina's children, one of whom is a newborn baby, we are sure they all would agree with us that she has got her priorities right. God has truly blessed her in ways that no job ever could. Our mission is not and will never be to maximize potential profits to the detriment of mothers and children.
      God has a way of telling people whether they are doing right or wrong, and the directors are unanimously convinced that God is telling us now that Sarina's faith, honesty and integrity are right for Santa Rosa Magazine. Sarina, we all love you.
                                                                                                                                               -- Al Collins, Chairman of the Board
("Whatever 'chairman of the board' means in cold, northern, less idyllic environments, we don't have a boardroom or chairs. When we come here we breathe fresh air, we meet and delight in the sunshine and coastal scenic beauty that God has blessed the Philippines with. Don't knock it. Western business men and women would give their right arms, their left arms, and both legs to live and work in the environment that Filipinos take for granted and daily enjoy as birthright. Our OFW Directors have already known this for so long that they jokingly claim investors like me are ignorant foreigners who missed out by being born somewhere else. In response to their good-humored jibes, I wish I had some kind of rational argument to protect my dented foreign ego, but I don't, and I know it, and I wholeheartedly agree with them. The fact is I sincerely believe the Philippine nation has it all: wonderful talented friendly people, dazzling beauty of scenery and people both, huge precious metal and mineral resources that other countries of the world are desperate for, and the most astonishing variety of healthy fruits vegetables and seafoods in the world. My personal feeling is that God has blessed the Philippines above all other countries." - Al)

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