PELCO 2: SEVEN MUNICIPALITIES WILL BE AFFECTED MAJOR POWER OUTAGE

MABALACAT CITY --- Seven mu nicipalities in Pampanga will be affected by a major power service interruption scheduled on Wednesday August 31. The Pampanga Electric Cooperative II or PELCO II said the towns of Sasmuan, Santa Rita, Bacolor, Lubao, Guagua, Porac and Floridablanca will experience the power interruptions.

All barangays in Guagua town will have no electricity from 7 am to 6 pm.

In Sasmuan town, majority of the barangays except for the coastal villages will also experience the 11-hour "brown-out." Batang 1st and 2nd, Mabuanbuan, Malusac, and Sebitanan on the other hand will only be affected by one hour power outage from 7 am to 8 am.

For Lubao town, majority of its villages will have one-hour service interruption from 7 am to 8 am. Some of its barangays are scheduled to have to power service from 5 pm to 6 pm.

Barangays San Roque Dau 1st and 2nd, Santa Monica highway, Santo Tomas highway, San Matias, San Jose Apunan, Concepcion except Purok 1, San Vicente Purok 4,5,6, San Francisco, (Sitio Quinto and Tramo 1), and Santo Domingo, all of Lubao town will experience the same 11-hour power interruption from 7 am to 6 pm.

Power service in majority of the villages in Santa Rita, except for some parts of Dila-Dila, Pitik and Becuran, will also be interrupted from 7 am to 6 pm.

In Bacolor town, majority of the barangays, except for Calibutbut and Maliwalu, will have no power service from 7 am to 6 pm.

Two villages in Porac town --- Salu and Balubad -- will also experience power outage from 7 am to 6 pm.

Barangays Gutad and Anon in Floridablanca town will encounter onehour power interruptions from 7 am to 8 am, and 5 pm to 6 pm.

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) scheduled the power outage to give way for maintenance works along Remedios-Guagua line segment.

Other reasons the NGCP cited for the scheduled power interruptions include the replacement of damaged transformer of feeder 4 at the Guagua substation, transfer of load to the newly constructed circuit of feeder 7, clearing of lines among others.

– Photo by Rhonie Dela Cruz, Bamban Historical Society. WORLD WAR II TUNNEL Members of the Bamban Historical Society Field Recon Team, led by Historian Rhonie Dela Cruz, measure the newly-discovered World War II Tunnel Number 8 in Bamban town, Tarlac province. The tunnel, which was cleared by the group, measures 48.2 feet long, 6.8 feet high, and 6.8 - 9.8 feet wide.