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BACOLOD City – The city government allotted P5 million for the preparations of the 13th Bacolaodiat Festival.
The festival – which will be held from Feb. 15 to 18 – is a celebration of the first day of the year in the lunar calendar, which is being followed in China, Vietnam, and Taiwan, among others.
Councilor Caesar Distrito, chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod committee on finance and appropriations, said the city council approved Mayor Evelio Leonardia’s request to grant the financial aid to the festival organizers.
The amount will be sourced from the city’s donation fund, Distritio stressed.
According to the councilor, the amount will help ensure that the celebration of the Chinese New Year in the city is successful.
He added that the festival attracts thousands of tourists from all over Western Visayas, thus improving the local economy.
On the other hand, the festival organizers said they are one with the city government in its stand against the use of high fructose corn syrup in soda products. Thus Coca-cola products will be banned in the festival.
“This is for the protection and promotion of the sugar industry,” the organizers said in a statement.
Earlier, Leonardia said he supports the Sugar Alliance of the Philippines’s call to ban Coke products in the Bacolaodiat Festival./PN
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