Dagupan’s Historical, Culture and Arts Commission created
THE 67th Agew Na Dagupan will yet be remembered by future generations as the day Mayor Belen T. Fernandez signed Executive Order No. 01, Series of 2014 creating the Dagupan City Historical Culture and Arts Office.
The local commission will be chaired by lawyer Gonzalo T. Duque, with Fernandez as honorary chairman.
Its members who took their oaths are Elmina Fernandez, Councilor Marcelino Fernandez, PUNCH editor Ermin Garcia Jr., Dr. Lourdes Jacinto, Punong Barangay Bryan Kua, Aurora Samson Reyna, Dr. Lee Rivera, Dr. Chito Salazar, Councilor Jeslito Seen, Dr. Gloria Torres, Dr. Ashok Vasandani, Architect Alex Villaflor, Rey Sto. Domingo, lawyer Cornelia Español and Archbishop Socrates Villegas.
The group is initially tasked to undertake studies and research on the city’s history and cultural heritage to be published as the Dagupan History Book.
It will be the body that will coordinate with the National Commission on Culture and Arts for the promotion of the same.
“The city of Dagupan is engrained in the history as one of the cities with rich and flourishing historic and cultural heritage worth promoting and preserving. That is why we thought of immortalizing it in an official history book as it is the most valued and important assets of Dagupeños so that future generations will have something to read and be guided with,” Fernandez said.
Meanwhile, the annual search for Sampluran Pinablin Dagupeño (Ten Outstanding Dagupeños) ˆhas been established with the mayor’s approval of the ordinance passed by the sanggunian panlungsod making it as the city’s annual awards program.
The ordinance listed the following sectors where nominees have excelled can be named: medicine, education, community service, public service, public administration, science and technology, heritage arts and culture, mass media or communications, law enforcement or military service and business and entrepreneurship.
The mayor said the nomination process shall start as soon as the criteria for the selection are finalized but the deadline for nomination has been set on December 15, 2014
Another highlight was the recognition of Aurelia Dimacali Landingin, a resident of Bonuan Guest Sabangan, as the known oldest living Dagupeño at 101 years old. (CIO/ J.C. Bacani)
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