Aguilar celebrates with 1st Ansaklet Festival

By July 20, 2014Inside News, News

WITH “GLENDA’S” BLESSING  

AGUILAR—Typhoon Glenda threatened earlier to do its worst in Pangasinan and spoil this town’s street party for its first 1st Ansaklet (Glutinous Rice) Festival but thankfully, she decided against it on the day of the party, July 16.

This allowed the town’s residents to proceed with their planned activities to celebrate the agricultural town’s 209th founding anniversary.

Streetdancers performed despite the dark rain clouds that hovered over the area for the highlight of the five-day festival from July 12 to 16 in honor of the town’s farmers.

Mayor Eduardo Ballesteros said residents and visitors thoroughly enjoyed the Filipino kakanin (snacks/ desserts) made of glutinous rice like bibingka, suman, bilo-bilo, sapin-sapin, kutsinta, biko, among others that were prepared and sold by the barangay booths installed in the Poblacion area.

The municipal government provided P1,000 financial assistance to each of the 16 barangays to help defray preparation costs for the kakanin that each barangay was assigned to prepare.

Proceeds from their sales will go to the barangays, Ballesteros said.

All the 16 barangays participated, he added.

Unlike the regular rice consumed heavily by Filipinos, products mainly from glutinous rice are eaten primarily for light breakfast, snacks or dessert by most Pinoys. (Tita Roces)

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