Published Date: February 9, 2010

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THE parish priest of Bacolor town in Pampanga said his parishioners missed the television soap opera that gave additional earnings to residents and filled the town with hope.

The soap opera “May Bukas Pa (There is Still Tomorrow),” which was shot almost entirely in Bacolor that was ravaged by volcanic eruptions in 1991, aired its last episode last week, but residents still admire the show with “lots of deep gratitude,” said Father Jesus Manabat, Bacolor parish priest.

“May Bukas Pa” was supposed to be only an eight-week production, but it stretched to a year as its ratings went up.

Manabat said the shoot started in the town on Jan. 15, 2009. He said the production team chose Bacolor as the site of the fictional town Bagong Pagasa (New Hope) for a variety of reasons.

Manabat said the architecture of the church of San Guillermo (St. William the Hermit), the signs of destruction left by Mount Pinatubo’s 1991 eruptions and lahar onslaught in 1995 and Bacolor’s stature as a a capital of the Philippines during the 1898 revolution against Spain, might have attracted the production team to the place.

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