After being rejected in Celerina, Sils and finally in St. Moritz due to the Badrutt family's huge power, Count de Renesse succeeded in purchasing some 140 hectares of land in Maloja, at the Lake of Sils.
Ciriaco Balangkig Saloma, manager of the Bohol Power Grid of the National Power Corporation in the 1980s and Celerina Gatal Aya-ay, a public school teacher, both from Baclayon, Bohol.