Carmona, Cavite’s ‘Sorteo’ Festival underway

CARMONA, Cavite - This historical and fast-developing municipality is celebrating its week-long 159th founding anniversary along with the triennial Sorteo Festival, a one-of-a-kind harvest fair in the country and Asia.

The festival, which showcases Carmona’s best produce vegetables and rice got underway last Tuesday with thousands of residents and tourists witnessing the morning parade of floats and street dances participated in by women and men in green and yellow crop and flower-themed attires while clutching palay threads which symbolize a good harvest.

Mayor Dahlia A. Loyola, her husband, 5th District Rep. Roy M. Loyola, and municipal officers organized the program for the anniversary events, with the theme “Gintong Butil, Ani ng Kinabukasan” (Golden Grain, Harvest of the Future). ‘Sorteo ng Bukid’

prize galore The highlight of the once in every three years festival is the four-night “Sorteo ng Bukid ng Bayan,” (Town Field Lot Lottery) starting tomorrow, February 19 Friday, where raffle prizes include when prizes 110 land parcels, R100,000 cash (four winners) and R40,000 cash (150 winners).

“Sorteo” is a Spanish word which means lottery or raffle. The Carmona version, as in the past, have land parcels and separate cash as prizes that are picked in giant and small “tambiolos” (lottery round cases). (Anthony Giron)