Banca Parada cruises on May 1
2015 PISTA’T DAYAT
LINGAYEN– Watch a fleet of colorful bancas cruise again along the Agno River from this town’s Sitio Bantayan, Pangapisan Norte to Baῆaga Bridge in Bugallon on May 1, now a traditional feature of the Pista’y Dayat celebration.
Expected to participate in this year’s Banca Parada are 140 contingents from various towns, national government agencies, non-government organizations, private sectors and other stakeholders that will be depicting the theme “I Love Pangasinan” in their fluvial float entries.
Banca Parada event chairman Alex Ferrer, Provincial Employment Services Officer, said registration period for fluvial float contingents is April 6 to 25. Only 70 entries shall be accepted for categories A (barangay) and B (NGAs, City and Municipal LGUs, business sector and stakeholders).
Banca Parada is a component of the “Ilog Ko, Aroen Tan Bilayen Ko” advocacy of the provincial government under the Coastal Resource Management Program of the Espino administration.
The winners in the contest categories will win Php25,000 and trophy (Best Fluvial Float), Php20,000 and trophy (1st Runner-Up) and Php15,000 and trophy (2nd Runner-Up).
Awarding of winners will be held below the Banaga Bridge at around 10 a.m. led by Mr. Espino. GMA Kapuso’s Aicelle Santos will also grace the event.
When Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. assumed his post in 2007, the provincial government mobilized the Task Force Kalikasan that launched a series of operations to dismantle the illegal fish pens and to dredge of silts that accumulated from the basins of Agno River. (PIO)
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