PROVIDING a common training ground for home grown talents to hone their skills worked well for Catigbian, whose annual Katigbawan Festival lent the town the luxury of putting up two quality performances during the recently concluded Sandugo Festival Sunday, July 26.
In fact, Immaculate Mary Academy (IMA) Katigbawan 09 grand champion brough home the honors for the town by placing second to grand champion Maribojoc in the province-wide streetdancing and ritual performances at the CPG Sports Complex.
Mayor Roberto Salinas, in an interview could not contain his excitement with his contingents’ performances seeing them “now at par with the best of Bohol’s famed street dancing contingents”.
“All of the credits must go where they are due,” Salinas said, adding that the two secondary school dancing contingents of his town should be accorded the praises.
Catigbian sent Immaculate Mary Academy and Catigbian National High School dancers who vied for the annual Katigbawan Festival street dancing competition last month. Now throwing in their hats for the province-wide competitions last week, both contingents carried Catigbian as their official entry name.
“The honor should go to the school administration of both schools, their trainors, the students and their parents who believe that the town could put up a good fight and give other dancing contingents a good sweat,” the mayor who heads the mayors’ league here commented.
“The town’s support may not be as big for the two dancing contingents but with the people”s growing desire to excel even in the local competitions has proven to be a huge motivation for these dancers to be in their best at the Sandugo.” he admitted.
Asked about the town’s future plans, Salinas said with the town’s snagging a Sandugo award, “it should motivate us to double our efforts and support and extend to them the right atmosphere for the students and their contingents to perfect their routines”.
Now also bracing for a program in tourism and cultural renaissance, Catigbian has eyed the development of the town’s signature attractions, Salinas revealed.
“It’s still a long way to go”, the mayor, who is still into his second term of office, said.
But making the people confident about what they have, what they can do and how they fare against the best is the first step, everything else should happen in time, he summed. (PIA)
TWO IN ONE. Catigbian’s trick during the recent Sandugo streetdancing festival was a rare feat for a town putting up two competing contingents. IMA and CNHS contingents both wowed the crowd and pleased the judges for their world-class performances. Of the two, IMA Catigbian, Katigbawan Festival 09 grand champion picked third among nine participating contingents. (PIA)
