Balilihan prepares for virtual “Sumad” presentation
The town of Balilihan is preparing for a virtual presentation of this year’s Sumad.
Mayor Ma. Pureza Chatto met with other personalities tasked to prepare for the Sumad in a Zoom meeting on Tuesday, August 25, 2020.
This year’s celebration will carry the theme:”Balilihan Through the Years”.
The team members tasked for prepare for this year’s Sumad include Fr. Lito Geangan and Nimia Lungay as scriptwriters, Dedee Racho and Cecile Fegi as documentors, Harold Bonso Lansang as video/photographers, JD Abenaza as director and Rep. Edgar Chatto as adviser and executive producer.
Sumad is the program that celebrates the Foundation Day of the town.
This year, the town will be celebrating its 122nd Foundation Day next month.
MISSION POSSIBLE. Balilihan Mayor Pureza Chatto says bringing back the overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and locally stranded individuals (LSI) home, to some, may be simple, but the reality, the mayor says, the preparation by the people behind the scenes is ardous. They are doing their best to bring the OFWs and LSIs home through thick and thin. The mayor adds that she feels great relief when everything turns out fine. She also points out the additional burden for those working behind the scenes when their are unexpected arrivals of OFWs and LSIs. Nonetheless, the people behind the scenes are able to bring home 217 LSI and 41 OFW with some still under quarantine, while others are already with their families after completing the 14 days quarantine, and obtaining a negative rapid antibody test or polymerase chain reaction test result.