Miss Earth beauties grace 100 Islands

By November 3, 2008News, People & Events

ALAMINOS CITY–What better way to launch the Giant Clam Garden of Asia at the Hundred Islands National Park than to have the presence of fourteen of the 85 candidates of this year’s Miss Earth beauty pageant?

The candidates from 14 countries joined city officials led by Mayor Hernani Braganza and representatives from from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), and the Lions Club International in the launching and reseeding of clams in the area.

Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the BFAR’s research center based in Dagupan City, told The PUNCH four species of clams, sea cucumber, abalone, and winged-pearl oyster were put in place.

The candidates, joined by their hosts, went swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, and trekking in the islands after the launch.

The day before the launch, the Miss Earth entourage joined Alaminos city officials in feeding of hundreds of day care pupils and indigent children, a feeding program of the city government.

Braganza told The PUNCH that the program, currently feeding 19,000 school children three times weekly and will end in December, is a component of the Bright Child project of this city.

The Miss Earth candidates here also joined a tree-planting activity in a mountainous barangay Sabangan and in the mangrove planting activity in barangay Bued.-CSR

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