By authority of the President, Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa issued Proclamation No. 1130 titled “Declaring Monday, 12 October 2015 and Friday, 23 October 2015, as Special Non-Working Days in the City of Angeles.”
It was signed last Sept. 24 but was announced only yesterday by the office of Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan.
The proclamation noted that “the City of Angeles marks the celebration this month of the Kuliat Festival and the Tigtigan, Terakan Keng Dalan, a festival which symbolizes the rise in the spirit of Angelenos after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption.”
The term kuliat refers to a vine that used to abound in Angeles at the time it was founded in 1829 as a town, while Tigtigan, Terakan Keng Dalan literally means music, dancing in the street.
The street dancing was initiated by Pamintuan when he assumed post as mayor soon after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 that devastated this city and other parts of Central Luzon. The project was seen as a measure to pep up the city after many local folk abandoned it amid continuing volcanic threat.
