BALANGA CITY, Bataan – Bringing bird-like made kites, at least 25 barangays have joined this city’s kite flying competition on Monday as a prelude to the fiesta celebration on April 28 and for being the host of the International Bird Festival on October this year.
The day started with a mass celebrated by Bishop Socrates Villegas at the St. Joseph Cathedral followed by a parade along the major streets of the city after assembling at the plaza.
Participants in the parade composed of city and provincial employees and officials, public school teachers and members of non-governmental organizations all wore yellow shirts marked “Ako ay World Class”.
All the entries were patterned after birds. Some were prototypes of migratory and common birds like whiskered tern, kingfisher, owl, eagle, lawin, tagak, swallow, heron, bee eater and even the folklore “ibong adarna”.
Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III said the kite-flying contest with birds as motif was just to show that residents of Balanga can attain “world-class” achievements.
“Ito’y isang simbolo na sa tulong-tulong ng lahat, makagagawa ng magagandang bagay tulad nitong mga saranggola na kayang mapalipad ng mataas na adhikain ng lungsod na ito’y maging world-class,” the mayor said.
Balanga City was recently included by the Department of Tourism as among 13 bird-watching sites in the Philippines.
Gov. Enrique Garcia who attended the early morning mass expressed his full support to the project. City Administrator Rodolfo de Mesa showed off the new podium patterned after a clay jar that symbolizes the city with 25 barangays.
The “bee eater” entry from barangay Bagong Silang bagged the first prize of P30,000 and a trophy. Entries from barangays Cupang West and Ibayo were 2nd and 3rd receiving P20,000 and P10,000 with trophy, respectively.
The day started with a mass celebrated by Bishop Socrates Villegas at the St. Joseph Cathedral followed by a parade along the major streets of the city after assembling at the plaza.
Participants in the parade composed of city and provincial employees and officials, public school teachers and members of non-governmental organizations all wore yellow shirts marked “Ako ay World Class”.
All the entries were patterned after birds. Some were prototypes of migratory and common birds like whiskered tern, kingfisher, owl, eagle, lawin, tagak, swallow, heron, bee eater and even the folklore “ibong adarna”.
Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III said the kite-flying contest with birds as motif was just to show that residents of Balanga can attain “world-class” achievements.
“Ito’y isang simbolo na sa tulong-tulong ng lahat, makagagawa ng magagandang bagay tulad nitong mga saranggola na kayang mapalipad ng mataas na adhikain ng lungsod na ito’y maging world-class,” the mayor said.
Balanga City was recently included by the Department of Tourism as among 13 bird-watching sites in the Philippines.
Gov. Enrique Garcia who attended the early morning mass expressed his full support to the project. City Administrator Rodolfo de Mesa showed off the new podium patterned after a clay jar that symbolizes the city with 25 barangays.
The “bee eater” entry from barangay Bagong Silang bagged the first prize of P30,000 and a trophy. Entries from barangays Cupang West and Ibayo were 2nd and 3rd receiving P20,000 and P10,000 with trophy, respectively.
