DAGUPAN CITY – A mango, bamboo, and bangus (milkfish) festival and two beauty contests will open on Monday in Pangasinan province.
A Mango-Bamboo Festival will be formally opened with Vice President Jejomar Binay as guest of honor and speaker in San Carlos City.
The celebration will start with a Thanksgiving Holy Mass in honor of the city’s patron saint Domingo de Guzman, to be followed by a grand parade.
A beauty contest that will determine the next Miss San Carlos City will be held later that same evening at the Arenas-Resuello auditorium.
On Tuesday, the city will try to make the world's biggest mango pie. To be participated in by 86 barangays and other government and non-government groups, the event plans to create a 100-square-meter mango pie that by the 86 barangays and other government and non-government groups.
In Lingayen, the province’s annual Pista’y Dayat (Sea Festival) celebration will commence on Monday with the opening of the Tourism and Trade Expo dubbed as “Panagarte La! Art Exhibit.” This will be held at the newly opened Pangasinan Training and Development Center located at the back of the Sison Auditorium and Regional Trial Court at the Capitol Compound.
At 11 a.m., the nineteen Pangasinense beuties vying for the title Limgas na Pangasinan 2011 will be formally presented to the media at the Capitol Resort Hotel. The Limgas na Pangasinan is one of the highlights of the Pista’y Dayat.
Meanwhile, the events scheduled on Monday in Dagupan City’s Bangus Festival are the Drum and Lyre competition at nine in the morning, Bangus ed Karosa (float parade) at two in the afternoon, and the much-awaited unveiling of the new seal of the city.
In the evening, a Bikini Open which will be held at the city plaza.
The new Dagupan City seal will be unveiled in a simple program at the Museo na Dagupan by Mayor Benjamin Lim and the member of the city council led by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.
The new seal was designed by Dr. Carmelo John Vidal of barangay Poblacion Oeste. He is the director of the Center for Intregrated Extension Services and National Service Training Program Unit of the University of Luzon (UL) as well as director of the Philippine Red Cross-Pangasinan chapter.
Lim issued last year Executive Order No. 41, series of 2010, creating the ad hoc committee tasked to study, initiate, and supervise the redisigning and registration of the official corporate seal of the city. An offshoot of the proposal is the launch of the competition.
Accordingly, the idea of creating a new seal came about after creation of a new seal after Lim’s attention was was called by Chad Buala, head of the research, publications, and heraldry division of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP).
That the 62-year old city seal has not been registered at the NHCP.
Thus, Lim deemed it necessary to register this at the NHCP. The redesigned seal is expected "to reflect present realities as well as the true historical, economic, and cultural values of our city.”
