Vergara, youth clean roads, hold street plays in Earth Day rites

BAGUIO CITY -Armed with brooms with scores of youngsters including grand daughter Ysabel de Vera at his back, former three-term and one time mayor Bernardo Vergara Thursday during Earth Day assured of a cleaner Baguio once he gets back in office.

“I assure that protection of environment will be one of my priorities once I get back to office,” said the Timpuyog ti Baguio congressional bet.

The “Musika At Walis Para Sa Mundong Malinis”, a Sangguniang Kabataan Federation initiated activity in coordination with Baguio artists and musicians saw scores of youngsters armed with brooms as they swept Session Road literally and with street plays on environment protection.

Outgoing Baguio Rep. and Timpuyog mayoralty bet Mauricio Domogan later on joined him as the two try to repackage Baguio as the “Cleanest and Greenest” highly urbanized city in the country, a feat they have done as the then top ranked city officials when Baguio was named as such for three straight years from 1994-1996.

Vergara said among his priorities will be the cleanup of Baguio and a solution to the garbage problem which has hounded the present administration and costing the city hundreds of millions just to rid of the 250 tons of garbage produced by the more than 350,000 city residents.

The street “performance” ended at the Igorot Park where the children once again showed their dramatic side and urging people to be more environment conscious.

Earth Day is a day designed to appreciate the world. It was founded in April 22, 1970 by American Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin where 20 million Americans joined its initial staging as an organized protest against the deterioration of the environment. – Dexter A. See