BALANGA CITY – This component city of Bataan is all set for its 4th Ibong Dayo Festival on Friday with the theme “Ibong Dayo . . . Tagumpay ng Turismo”.
Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III said former Senator Anna Dominique “Nikki” Coseteng has confirmed her attendance as keynote speaker in the program to be held at the Wetland & Nature Park in Tortugas, a seaside village of this city.
The day starts at 7 in the morning with a long parade from the Plaza Mayor de Balanga to the park. Two to three bird mascots will lead every group of participants with respective drum & lyre corps from the public and private elementary schools here. After the program, the One Barangay, One Product (OBOP) Fair will be opened.
The nationally-awarded tuyo or dried fish will be one of the products to be featured in the fair. Representatives from the Wild Birds Club of the Philippines will lecture grade school to college students on the kinds of birds, both migratory and local, present in Balanga and how to protect them.
Various activities were lined up for the kids, among them bird origami, bird face-painting, bird coloring and draw-a-bird. There will be bird painting exhibit, bird kite-fl ying, take a peek, have a shot; bird watching and pick a trash, save the environment.
Mangrove planting will conclude the day’s activity. Gov. Albert Garcia and his father, Rep. Enrique Garcia and Director Ronaldo Tiotuico of the Department of Tourism Region 3, will grace the occasion.
