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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.

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 [...]

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
S C H E D U L E   O F   E V E N T S
MASSKARA FESTIVAL 2009

BY CARLA GOMEZ  (www.visayandailystar.com)
A Research Institute for Tropical Medicine test yesterday confirmed that one of the two American missionaries earlier confined at the Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital in Bacolod City was positive for Influenza A(H1N1), Health Regional Director Ariel Valencia said.
Found positive for H1N1 was a 20-year-old male from San Diego, California, who [...]

By Carla Gomez (visayandailystar.com)

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines—A blog with over 2.5 million worldwide visitors a month has featured The Ruins in Talisay City, Negros Occidental as among the 12 of the world’s most fascinating ruins.
Oddee at www.oddee.com, a blog that “features, odd, strange and bizarre things” in the world, ranked The Ruins in the [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (www.visayandailystar.com)
Bacolod City was able to set up a 3.985-kilometer chicken barbeque grill at the North Wing Parking area of SM City-Bacolod yesterday in its attempt to break the world record.
However, this has yet to be validated by the representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records.
The current world record for [...]

BY CARLA GOMEZ
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo yesterday had lunch at The Ruins, a once grand mansion built by a Negrense sugar baron and ancestor of her husband in Talisay City, which has been turned into a tourist attraction.
The president who is pushing the Visayas as the tourism hub of the country said The Ruins “is [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO
The first Chicken Inasal Festival will kick off today with a grand parade and the recognition of public officials and private citizens who have contributed to the establishment of the Manokan Country in Bacolod City during the opening ceremony.
To receive public service awards are former Mayor Jose “Digoy” Montalvo as the “founding father” [...]

BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO (visayandailystar.com)
The contractor of the flyover project in Bacolod City is now processing their permit to conduct soil boring test along Lacson Street, Bacolod City, from the Office of the Building Official, OBO head engineer Teresita Guadalupe said yesterday. 
The soil boring test conducted along Lacson Street for the flyover project stopped Friday [...]

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An ordinance requiring the full disclosure of entities receiving public funds from Bacolod City through a single searchable website is being proposed before the Sangguniang Panlungsod.
The measure, proposed by Councilors Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, Dindo Ramos, Wilson Gamboa Jr., Catalino Alisbo, and Celia Matea Flor, aims to strengthen the transparency and accountability in the spending of public [...]

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DATE
EVENT

Oct 1
Senior Citizen Week Celebration
Opening of MassKara Festival
AAB “Cover Up” MassKara Exhibit
(Ongoing until Oct 15)

Oct 2
DepEd Div Athletic and Cultural Meet
Senior Citizen Medical Dental Eye Camp
An Ilonggo translation of Rosencrantz and
Guilderstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Oct 3
DepEd Cultural Contest
Trash to Cash
An Ilonggo translation of Rosencrantz and
Guilderstern are [...]

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As a celebration of the diamond year when Bacolod was chartered as a city, the 2008 MassKara Festival will highlight its membership in the global community of cities. It will celebrate in its world-famous MassKara festival, the things that make it unique and therefore [...]