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2 Pangasinan towns cancel fiesta event amid Covid-19

By Hilda Austria

March 3, 2020, 6:51 pm

<p><strong>CANCELED TOWN FIESTA</strong>. The Senior Tesoro Association held a board meeting Tuesday (March 3, 2020) and decided that this year's town fiesta should be done and celebrated religiously. Bayambang town has also canceled its town fiesta celebration amid the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). <em>(Photo courtesy of Mayor Joseph Armand Bauzon's Facebook page)</em></p>

CANCELED TOWN FIESTA. The Senior Tesoro Association held a board meeting Tuesday (March 3, 2020) and decided that this year's town fiesta should be done and celebrated religiously. Bayambang town has also canceled its town fiesta celebration amid the threat of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). (Photo courtesy of Mayor Joseph Armand Bauzon's Facebook page)

CALASIAO, Pangasinan — The towns of Bayambang and Calasiao in Pangasinan have canceled their respective grand fiesta celebration this year and instead opted for religious and charitable activities amid the threat of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19).

In his Facebook post on Tuesday, Calasiao Mayor Joseph Arman Bauzon said the Senior Tesoro Association has agreed that the town fiesta be done and celebrated religiously.

“Due to the popular Covid-19, earlier known as the 2019-nCoV, the board of trustees decided to comply with the directives issued by the higher authorities and the recommendations of the Department of Health; avoiding the attendance, participation, organizing of public events that draw a huge number of attendees,” he said.

Bauzon said big social events and gatherings for the town fiesta are canceled to avoid possible local transmission of the virus.

Instead, he said a nine-day novena will be observed in honor of Senior Divino Tesoro until May 2.

“The novena will be concluded with a procession and fireworks display. On May 3, there will be a Eucharistic Celebration and to be followed by a whole day medical mission,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Bayambang Pista’y Baley 2020 committee also decided to cancel all the activities for this year’s town fiesta, and the funding for the celebration will be used instead as seed money to start a revolutionary fund for the Bayambang poverty reduction plan projects.

The funding amounts to PHP5 million donated by the Kasama Kita sa Barangay Foundation, Inc. here.

The committee assured there are still no cases of Covid-19 in the town. (PNA)

 

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