Tabuk City – As one of his first official actions on the first day of office of 2013, Governor Jocel C. Baac signed the first Order which signals a busy month for the Kalinga provincial government in preparing for the celebration of its anniversary on February 14-17.
Gov. Baac issued Executive Order No. 2013-01 last January 2 mandating a multi-sectoral “observance and participation to the 18th anniversary of the province of Kalinga and the celebration of the 2013 Ullalim Festival”.
It is expected that the various committees created under this Order will begin a loop of meetings and planning workshops in order to come up immediately a proposed line-up of activities and the corresponding budget. As stated indisputably in the Order, “Kalinga Shines”, which is the mantra of the present dispensation, will be the theme of the celebration”, and all activities should give meaning to it.
Highlights of the anniversary celebration and Ullalim Festival will be the agro-industrial and tourism fair, cultural and tourism events, Miss Kalinga and Laga fashion show, skills fair, variety shows, municipal bands and social dances presentation, and drum and lyre competition.
It is recalled that the then Kalinga-Apayao province was subdivided into two distinct provinces on February 14, 1995 by virtue of R.A. 7878. Since then Kalinga province observes its founding anniversary and afterward institutionalized and integrated into its celebration the Ullalim Festival. **ken atiwag
