URDANETA CITY—A week-long celebration will be held here for the 16th anniversary of Urdaneta’s cityhood, starting on March 15 with a fun run called Urdane-Taray.

City Administrator Ronald San Juan said the activities lined up will focus on the delivery of basic services, including a job fair, tree planting and a city-wide clean up drive.

Urdaneta, currently a second class city with an annual income of P300 to P400 million, was vested cityhood through legislation authored by then Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr., now chairman of the Manila Economic Cooperation Office (MECO) in Taiwan, and father of incumbent Mayor Amadeo “Bobom” Perez VI.

Urdaneta, which is at the crossroads of eastern and western Pangasinan, has undergone a lot of  physical transformations since it became a city on March 21, 1998.

The city is now a center for investments, education, conventions, and trading in Pangasinan.

The recent opening of the Xentromart Bagsakan is the latest addition to the city’s growing trading activities.

Its vegetable and livestock markets, the two biggest sources of income of the young city,  are among the biggest in the Philippines today.

In a bid to further accommodate more traders and farmers bringing in vegetables to Urdaneta City, local government is now building its Agri-Pinoy Market with an initial P27.8 million funding from the Department of Agriculture.

Urdaneta City is the only local government unit in Pangasinan that has so far complied with the Solid and Ecological Waste Act having built its sanitary landfill  in 2010, that now takes in wastes from adjacent towns, including Baguio City.–LVM

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