By Julie
G. Fianza
BAGUIO CITY – A week away from the 2016
Baguio Flower Festival opening on Feb. 1, schoolchildrens’ drum and lyre groups
rehearse the Panagbenga hymn as landscapers prepare their site along Lake
Drive, Burnham Park.
According to Mayor
Mauricio Domogan, the opening parade starts at Panagbenga Park, Upper Session
road and winds up with performances at Melvin Jones, Burnham Park.
The grand street dancing
parade on Feb. 27 starts at the Panagbenga Park; while the float parade the
following day starts at the Regional Department of Interior and Local
Government office frontage, both to culminate at the Athletic Bowl, Burnham
Park.
Traffic plans for the
month-long celebration shall be presented in a coordination meeting this week
by the Baguio City Police Office Traffic Management Bureau (BCPO). Alternate
and one-way roads, and parking areas are designated; with notices and signs to
most-visited places, in strategic places for tourists’ early
information.
Police augmentation
for security concerns during Panagbenga from the Police Regional Office is
expected, the mayor also said.
Other Panagbenga
activities are: February 1 to March 6, Baguio Blooms exhibition and exposition,
Lake Drive, Burnham Park; Feb. 8, Chinese Spring Festival; Feb. 14,
HandogngPanagbenga Sa Pamilya Baguio at the Melvin Jones Grandstand and
Football grounds: Let A Tthousand Flowers Bloom, Kite-Flying Challenge,
Panagbenga Variety Show, Fireworks Display;
Feb. 19 to 21, PMA
Grand Alumni Homecoming; Feb. 19, Floral arrangement competition judging; Feb.
15 to 17, School-based landscaping competition; Feb. 27 to 28, Sponsor’s and
exhibitor’s Day at the Athletic Bowl; Feb. 29 to March 6, Session Road In
Bloom; March 5, Pony Boys’ Day, Wright Park; March 6, Closing Ceremonies and
Grand Fireworks display at the Athletic Bowl and other areas in the Central
Business District.
Barangay-based Clean
and Green Landscaping competition is still to be scheduled.The theme Panagbenga
2016 is “Bless the Children with Flowers.”
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