Tabuk City - With high hopes that the petition against the legality of its conversion into a city now pending before the Supreme Court (SC) will be junked, the leadership of this city is gearing to mark its first foundation anniversary June 24.
With the theme "Abante Tabuk: The City of Life," the four-day celebration which starts on June 23 will revolve around the city's reputation as one of the country's leading producer of hybrid rice and the main white water rafting destination in the north and aims to project Tabuk as the "city of life."
The city will also play up its rich amalgam of indigenous culture as majority of its population are native Cordillerans.
One of the new attractions of the foundation day celebration otherwise known as Matajoan Festival - matagoan is the Kalinga word for place of life - will be the "Longest Hybrid Rice Linudag Show" where hybrid rice will be cooked in bamboo cuts placed horizontally over the fire. The show will link Bulanao and the Poblacion, the two centers of the city, which are seven kilometers apart.
Mayor Camilo Lammawin, Jr. said that one of the aims of "Longest Hybrid Linudag Show" which fuses the traditional and the modern is to place the city in the Guinness Book of Records later on but that more than the record, "we want to send the signal that our city is contending for the title 'Hybrid Rice Capital of the Philippines'.”
In 2004, the Department of Agriculture has adjudged Tabuk as the town with the widest area planted to commercial hybrid rice. It is also widely accepted by hybrid rice experts that Tabuk possesses the ideal convergence of soil, altitude and climate for the production of hybrid rice seeds.
Acknowledging that without the people who labor in the fields, Tabuk would never have attained and maintained its title "Rice Granary of the Cordillera" and could never contend for the accolade "Hybrid Rice Capital of the Philippines," Lammawin said that the farming sector will get centerstage through games and competitions such as manual rice hauling or karyada and carabao racing on the second day of the festival.
The third day will showcase the culture of the city. It will be kicked off by the 8Km Matagoan Fun Run where the runners would wear nothing but G-strings to be highlighted by competitions in cultural street dancing and in other native cultural practices.
For those who seek adventure and sports, the action will shift to the Chico River morning of the fourth day of the festival for a taste of white water rafting.
City Tourism Officer Designate Loyda Saboy says that this year and as part of the city's continuing tourism promotion, fresh graduates from the city's high schools will be given free rafting rides because of the idea of the Mayor Lammawin that with personal experience in rafting, these students will become effective promoters of the city's foremost tourism draw wherever they would be enrolled.
The province of Kalinga is known as the "Whitewater Rafting Capital of Northern Philippines" and the busiest rafting section of the Chico River is the stretch which passes the city.
Invited as guest of honors of the festival are Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and Cordillera Tourism Director Purificacion Molintas.
The League of Cities of the Philippines is challenging the legality of the conversion of Tabuk and fifteen other municipalities into cities in the SC claiming that it violates RA 9009 which increased the local income of towns applying to become component cities to P100M. **By Estanislao Albano Jr.
With the theme "Abante Tabuk: The City of Life," the four-day celebration which starts on June 23 will revolve around the city's reputation as one of the country's leading producer of hybrid rice and the main white water rafting destination in the north and aims to project Tabuk as the "city of life."
The city will also play up its rich amalgam of indigenous culture as majority of its population are native Cordillerans.
One of the new attractions of the foundation day celebration otherwise known as Matajoan Festival - matagoan is the Kalinga word for place of life - will be the "Longest Hybrid Rice Linudag Show" where hybrid rice will be cooked in bamboo cuts placed horizontally over the fire. The show will link Bulanao and the Poblacion, the two centers of the city, which are seven kilometers apart.
Mayor Camilo Lammawin, Jr. said that one of the aims of "Longest Hybrid Linudag Show" which fuses the traditional and the modern is to place the city in the Guinness Book of Records later on but that more than the record, "we want to send the signal that our city is contending for the title 'Hybrid Rice Capital of the Philippines'.”
In 2004, the Department of Agriculture has adjudged Tabuk as the town with the widest area planted to commercial hybrid rice. It is also widely accepted by hybrid rice experts that Tabuk possesses the ideal convergence of soil, altitude and climate for the production of hybrid rice seeds.
Acknowledging that without the people who labor in the fields, Tabuk would never have attained and maintained its title "Rice Granary of the Cordillera" and could never contend for the accolade "Hybrid Rice Capital of the Philippines," Lammawin said that the farming sector will get centerstage through games and competitions such as manual rice hauling or karyada and carabao racing on the second day of the festival.
The third day will showcase the culture of the city. It will be kicked off by the 8Km Matagoan Fun Run where the runners would wear nothing but G-strings to be highlighted by competitions in cultural street dancing and in other native cultural practices.
For those who seek adventure and sports, the action will shift to the Chico River morning of the fourth day of the festival for a taste of white water rafting.
City Tourism Officer Designate Loyda Saboy says that this year and as part of the city's continuing tourism promotion, fresh graduates from the city's high schools will be given free rafting rides because of the idea of the Mayor Lammawin that with personal experience in rafting, these students will become effective promoters of the city's foremost tourism draw wherever they would be enrolled.
The province of Kalinga is known as the "Whitewater Rafting Capital of Northern Philippines" and the busiest rafting section of the Chico River is the stretch which passes the city.
Invited as guest of honors of the festival are Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and Cordillera Tourism Director Purificacion Molintas.
The League of Cities of the Philippines is challenging the legality of the conversion of Tabuk and fifteen other municipalities into cities in the SC claiming that it violates RA 9009 which increased the local income of towns applying to become component cities to P100M. **By Estanislao Albano Jr.
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