After twelve long years of planning and developing the USLS Granada Campus, the Ecological Park has finally been inaugurated last Dec. 8.

With its inauguration and blessing recently, USLS opens the ten- hectare Center to students and teachers, families, NGOs, professional societies, civic organizations and corporations which they can utilize for different occasions and purposes.

The Granada Ecological Park offers services such as day retreats and recollections, family and community picnics, group tours and outings, leadership training camps, field trips, and other special events.

A worth visiting site for family and friends is the Vaugirard which has cabanas, picnic huts, swimming pools for children and adults, a fishing lagoon, camping and picnic grounds, and campfire ring for recreation and leisure.

There is also the Butterfly Park, a notable spot which beholds over 20 different species of butterflies.
The Ecopark is suited not only for wellness, recreation and leisure. It is also a venue that offers facilities intended for environmental education as well as for field laboratory research.

Among the many facilities that are intended for education and research include the Ecopark Center, which has a library, two laboratories, a lecture, an exhibit hall, and the Rainforest Exhibit;  the Acacia Hall which has a lecture room for 100 students and a camping hall for overnight fieldtrips.

With all the facilities of the Center, Ecopark coordinator Lilibeth Cordova believes that the Center is a landmark for the City of Bacolod and the whole province.

The Granada Ecological Park will be fully operational on February 2010.

by: Mark Christopher Dueñas, www.usls.edu.ph

If you have been to Goldenfield a few years back you would say that it’s all about Bars, Beers, Hotels, Restaurants, Bowling Alley and the like. But who would think that a new resort for the Family would rise in that area? It completely changes the image of Goldenfield that is “a place for adults only” to “a place where both adults and children can enjoy.” Located beside the Bowling Alley this water park is Bacolod’s newest resort for the entire family. It has a huge swimming pool (only up to 4 ft deep) having 2 swirling slides (up to 30-foot high slides) that can really give you a whole splash of fun and excitement.

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