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The 30th MassKara Festival celebration enters its third and final week with some of the exciting highlights during the weekend building for the final day on Monday next week when Bacolod City celebrates its 71st Charter Anniversary, a press release from organizers said.

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BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
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Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita will be the guest of honor during the 71 st Charter Day celebration in Bacolod City on October 19, Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson said yesterday.
The city has adopted the theme “Bacolod Going Beyond Expectations” for this year’s Charter Day celebration because as a highly urbanized city, the performance [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ
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Bacolod City ’s annual MassKara Festival is celebrating 30 years of smiles this month with something new – a dramatic fusion of public art and street entertainment.
“We are going to unveil a major work of art at the Bacolod public plaza in the evening of Oct. 14 that is our vision of [...]

BY ADRIAN NEMES III
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Despite the pressures joining the MassKara Queen 2009 pageant entail, these two girls said their families and friends inspired them not to give up.
Christine Daphne Villanueva, 19, said she does not want to disappoint her family and friends, so she is doing her best to win this year’s crown.

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BY CARLA GOMEZ
Senators Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and Manuel “Mar” Roxas will visit Talisay, Bago and Bacolod cities tomorrow to conduct consultations with Negrenses, former Negros Occidental Gov. Daniel Lacson Jr. said yesterday.
It will be the first visit of Aquino to Negros Occidental since he announced his bid for the presidency under the Liberal Party [...]

Welcome to Bacolod City – the Cleanest and Greenest and the Most Livable City in the Philippines. Bacolod City, the capital of the Province of Negros Occidental which is the Sugarbowl of the Philippines. Bacolod City serves as the entrance of the sugar-rich cities and towns of the Province. Visitor’s facilities abound, modern means of [...]

The word “MassKara” was coined by the late AAB president Ely Santiago from the two words “mass” which means “many or a multitude of the people” and the Spanish “kara” meaning “face”. The mask worned by the participants during the parade are always smiling. MassKara thus means a multitude of smiling faces. The annual MassKara [...]

BACOLOD CITY MASSKARA FESTIVAL
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MASSKARA FESTIVAL 2009

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