CSF bares ‘healthy places’ for 2016
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO---Ten giant lanterns representing ten barangays will take centerstage in the annual “Ligligan Parul” or Giant Lantern Festival (GLF), 6:00 pm today at Robinsons Starmills in this city.
A tough battle of GLF superstars---legendary giant lantern makers---is expected as each crew powers their respective 20-foot kaleidescopic wonders composed of thousands of light bulbs attached to a complex yet “primitive”system of rotors, which control the interplay of lights with music.
This year, the artistic geniuses and electrical mavericks rolled into one are Efren Tiodin, who at 57 is the oldest participating giant lantern maker making a comeback for his home barangay of Del Pilar; Teddy Aguilar 44, of defending champion Barangay Dolores; Mark Flores, 21, of Barangay San Juan; Edmar David, 32, of Barangay San Nicolas; Arvin Quiwa, 42 of Barangay Sindalan; Karl Ernest Quiwa, 22, of Barangay Santa Lucia; Omar Quiwa, 38 of Barangay Sto. Niño; Arnel Flores, 46, of Barangay Telabastagan; Florante “Dante” Parilla, 45 of Barangay San Jose; and Eric Quiwa, 44, of Barangay Calulut.
During the competition, each crew will finally reveal their lanterns’much awaited “secrets” in three rounds of lights, colors and music display before an expected crowd of 30,000 to 40,000.
This year’s winner will take home the revolving CITY
OF SAN FERNANDO---The Local Government of San Fernando, through its City Health Office, announced on Thursday the healthy places in the city for the year 2016.
The awarding was divided into seven categories namely healthy hotel, healthy hospital, healthy barangay, healthy school, healthy workplace, healthy eating places and healthy resort.
Mayor Edwin “Edsa” Santiago said the recognition was originally initiated by the Department of Health and was adopted by the city to promote health and safety awareness.
“We have been doing this for five years now to give credit to different places and establishments that offer quality services to our beloved Fernandinos,”Santiago added.
This year’s healthy hotels are Pampanga Greenbuck Corporation for SFP Bliss Hotel (grand winner), Hotel Victoria De San Fernando (first place), and Otel Wall Street Corporation for Pampanga (second place).
For healthy hospital, the winners are Mother Teresa of Calcutta (grand winner) followed by Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Medical Center (first place).
Water Splash Resort was awarded as healthy resort for this year.
Meanwhile, winners for the healthy school, barangay, workplace and
eating places were divided into small, medium and large subcategories that depend on the size or number of population.
With a total of 7,259 enrolled students, San Fernando Elementary School was named as 2016’s most healthy school (large category) while Nuestra Senora Del Pilar Integrated School and Lara Integrated School were awarded as winners for medium and small category, respectively.
Healthy barangays are Barangay San Nicolas (large category), Barangay Baliti (medium category) and Barangay Juliana (small category).
The awardees for healthy workplace are PEPSICOLA Products Philippines Incorporated (large category), Deliscents Incorporated for Mister Donut (medium category) and RPO Fine Foods Corporation for Wow Mani (small category).
Healthy eating places are The Red Rickshaw (large category), Maygreen Restaurant Incorporated for Cookbook Kitchen (medium category) and Susie’s Cuisine MAH Dolores Branch (small category).---
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