Alaminos City ready for Gawad Kalinga eco-village
ALAMINOS CITY-The homeless and landless here will soon have a place to call their own.
A Gawad Kalinga (GK) eco-village will be built in Barangay Pandan here, located within the vicinity of Bolo Beach, an alternative eco-tourism destination in this city where the Hundred Islands National Park is located.
GK Community Development Foundation Inc. national president Antonio Meloto, Mayor Hernani Braganza and Lyndon Bonzon, GK regional coordinator, recently inked a Memorandum of Agreement for the project.
Under the agreement, the local government will provide counterpart funding for the construction of horizontal infrastructure and housing units while GK will prepare the site development plan, feasibility from various towns and cities in northern Luzon will take part.
According to her, this year will be the first time that two giant television networks will have their own separate live shows here, GMA 7’s SOP on April 20 and ABS-CBN’s ASAP on April 27.
Also, this will be the first time that seven national popular big bands including Bamboo, Parokya ni Edgar, Kamikaze, Black Jack, Spongecola among others will perform in one concert that will be staged along A.B. Fernandez Avenue for the Bangusan Street Party on April 30.
It will be on this same day that the famous bangus grill, which won Dagupan a Guinness Book of World Records in 2004, will be held but no longer to bid for the longest grill title.
Dagupan businessmen will also have the chance to showcase their wares with big discounts and giveaways to their patrons in the citywide Great Dagupan Day Sale from April 16-30, Fernandez said.
Sporting events, beauty competitions and other attractions such as a dog show, bangus rodeo, cookfest, kundiman contest, sand castle making contest, beer drinking, visual arts festival are also scheduled.
“We promise to give our visitors and guests a festival worth remembering and we hope to maintain Dagupan’s image as the best producer of the tastiest bangus in the whole world through this festival,” Fernandez said.
The festival will officially close on May 4 with badminton and golf tournaments.#
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