BALANGA CITY, Bataan – This component city of Bataan on December 30 celebrated its 8th cityhood anniversary with grandeur and merriment turning its plaza and the adjoining streets in the commercial district into a huge open restaurant.
After a short program and fireworks display, the San Miguel Brewery held its whole night of music aptly dubbed as “Sayaw Musika sa Balanga” participated in by the Sponge Cola and Mocha Girls and local bands.
Merry-making lasted until past midnight. SMB products were served with broiled squid, pork, fish and other finger foods in abundance at the makeshift stalls put up for the evening.
Mayor Jose Enrique “Joet” Garcia III spelled the biggest accomplishments as well as gigantic plans for the city of more than 90,000 residents. Studies showed that the city’s population reached more than 150,000.
The mayor acknowledged the full support extended to the city by the provincial government under his father, Bataan Gov. Enrique Garcia and his brother, Rep. Albert Garcia of Bataan’s second district.
It was during the mayorship of Rep. Garcia that Balanga became a city on December 30, 2000.
Mayor Joet launched his scholarship program benefiting 2,000 college students in the city who have banded themselves into an organization with theater, dance and choral groups.
The city also shouldered payments of miscellaneous fees of elementary pupils in all public elementary schools that translate to P3.2 million in savings of parents.
The city division of schools topped the recently concluded National Achievement Test for elementary pupils from all schools in the country.
Through the city’s Galing Card Program, 2070 indigents received hospitalization benefits with the assistance of Philhealth and the Bataan Provincial Hospital.
Mayor Garcia recently went to London, England during the launching of 13 birdwatching sites in the Philippines where Balanga is one of them.
He mentioned other accomplishments in the field of education, livelihood programs and the favorable peace and order condition in the city. He added that “these have attracted big investments.”
Garcia’s said his biggest project is his ‘Univesrsity Town” program patterned after existing university towns in the world like in Oxford, Salamanca, Standford and Silicon Valley.
The university town will encompass 80 hectares of the city area. The city council has just passed a zoning ordinance that will prohibit red light district within the three-kilometer radius of the city.
Under the administration of Garcia, the barangay week program was launched where medical mission, mass wedding, skills training, mobile registration, animal vaccination, solid waste and project inspections are done in all 25 barangays in rotation whole year round.
After a short program and fireworks display, the San Miguel Brewery held its whole night of music aptly dubbed as “Sayaw Musika sa Balanga” participated in by the Sponge Cola and Mocha Girls and local bands.
Merry-making lasted until past midnight. SMB products were served with broiled squid, pork, fish and other finger foods in abundance at the makeshift stalls put up for the evening.
Mayor Jose Enrique “Joet” Garcia III spelled the biggest accomplishments as well as gigantic plans for the city of more than 90,000 residents. Studies showed that the city’s population reached more than 150,000.
The mayor acknowledged the full support extended to the city by the provincial government under his father, Bataan Gov. Enrique Garcia and his brother, Rep. Albert Garcia of Bataan’s second district.
It was during the mayorship of Rep. Garcia that Balanga became a city on December 30, 2000.
Mayor Joet launched his scholarship program benefiting 2,000 college students in the city who have banded themselves into an organization with theater, dance and choral groups.
The city also shouldered payments of miscellaneous fees of elementary pupils in all public elementary schools that translate to P3.2 million in savings of parents.
The city division of schools topped the recently concluded National Achievement Test for elementary pupils from all schools in the country.
Through the city’s Galing Card Program, 2070 indigents received hospitalization benefits with the assistance of Philhealth and the Bataan Provincial Hospital.
Mayor Garcia recently went to London, England during the launching of 13 birdwatching sites in the Philippines where Balanga is one of them.
He mentioned other accomplishments in the field of education, livelihood programs and the favorable peace and order condition in the city. He added that “these have attracted big investments.”
Garcia’s said his biggest project is his ‘Univesrsity Town” program patterned after existing university towns in the world like in Oxford, Salamanca, Standford and Silicon Valley.
The university town will encompass 80 hectares of the city area. The city council has just passed a zoning ordinance that will prohibit red light district within the three-kilometer radius of the city.
Under the administration of Garcia, the barangay week program was launched where medical mission, mass wedding, skills training, mobile registration, animal vaccination, solid waste and project inspections are done in all 25 barangays in rotation whole year round.
