LINGAYEN– One of the two two giant jars that will be installed as this town’s iconic landmarks was paraded thru the town’s barangays to signal the start of this year’s Bagoong Festival.

The 10 feet tall jar made of fiberglass by a team led by Patrick Bacolor, led the motorcade in the morning of January 22.

Locally known as ‘pasig,’ earthen jars are used traditionally to produce bagoong through fermentation.

Festival chairman, Councilor Judy Vargas, felt exhilirated after the ‘pasig’ completed the route that went through all the 32 villages of Lingayen.

“It took us more than three hours to reach the farthest barangays,” said Vargas, adding that the “the idea was to bring the Bagoong Festival to all the villages.”

There were eight bagoong manufacturing enterprises that joined the motorcade whose officers and employees joined the parade, said Vargas.

There are 29 accredited bagoong makers in the town.

The giant jar was made by a team led by Patrick Bacolor for about two months.

Bacolor told The PUNCH it took him and fellow Pangasinan artist Joel Buyagao, to make one jar colored brown made of fiber glass that resembles the original burnay jars traditionally used for bagoong making.

Bacolor said he took some pictures in some bagoong factories here to exactly get the design of the jars and did the casting themselves with Buyagao and some helpers.

Meanwhile, the other jar made from rubber, which is taller, is designed by the Anak Pawis artists led by Corlito Ignacio.

Vargas said the jars will be positioned in strategic places in the town after the festival concludes on Jan. 25. (Tita Roces/Johanne Macob)

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