City officials lead Independence Day celebration, urge citizenry to work together
Posted on | Monday, 13 June 2011 | No Comments
by Lito Dar
BAGUIO CITY - Congressman Bernardo Vergara and Mayor Mauricio Domogan led yesterday the city’s celebration of the 113th Philippine Independence Day. The celebration was joined in by thousands of people that included: city and government officials and personnel, city government departments and personnel, city schools/colleges, and non-government organizations and civic groups.
Vergara, in his keynote address during the program at the Baguio Convention Center, called on the citizenry to unite in protecting and pushing forward the freedom that Filipino heroes fought with their own blood and lives for the people and for the country.
According to Vergara, the celebration of independence day is not just commemorating the struggle and sacrifices of our heroes, ‘but also for us to work together, and be worthy of such freedom and make independence inherent to us, to our daily lives, in pushing for a better life to every Filipino people and for the development of the country, as a whole.’
Domogan shared the same view as Vergara. He said the declaration of independence by General Emilio Aguinaldo 113 years ago, is just the beginning of our unending struggle to preserve the freedom handed down to us.
“We must not only continue to enjoy this freedom and to forever valiantly fight for its preservation but also to view freedom in a much deeper and meaningful context. To live with our freedom in its fullest term and be the best in our own lives, free from bad attitude, bad habits, self-centeredness, disunity, selfishness, divisiveness, inflicting harm to others and most of all freedom from poverty,” Domogan said.
According to the mayor, exercising freedom in our own personal life does not simply done by proclaiming it but also in living it. Thus, he called on the people’s help to re-live our heroes' sacrifices and help in the government’s effort to lift fellow Filipinos from poverty.
“We, your public servant, we cannot emancipate our people from the bondage of poverty alone, we need your help, we need to work together, to replicate our freedom as an opportunity to help others, to bring others in our journey towards a better and more meaningful life”, Domogan stressed.
Vergara and Domogan also joined all the participants for a civic parade from the Baguio Convention Center down to Session Road then to Melvin Jones grandstand along Harrison Road. *(JDP/LD-PIA CAR)
BAGUIO CITY - Congressman Bernardo Vergara and Mayor Mauricio Domogan led yesterday the city’s celebration of the 113th Philippine Independence Day. The celebration was joined in by thousands of people that included: city and government officials and personnel, city government departments and personnel, city schools/colleges, and non-government organizations and civic groups.
Vergara, in his keynote address during the program at the Baguio Convention Center, called on the citizenry to unite in protecting and pushing forward the freedom that Filipino heroes fought with their own blood and lives for the people and for the country.
According to Vergara, the celebration of independence day is not just commemorating the struggle and sacrifices of our heroes, ‘but also for us to work together, and be worthy of such freedom and make independence inherent to us, to our daily lives, in pushing for a better life to every Filipino people and for the development of the country, as a whole.’
Domogan shared the same view as Vergara. He said the declaration of independence by General Emilio Aguinaldo 113 years ago, is just the beginning of our unending struggle to preserve the freedom handed down to us.
“We must not only continue to enjoy this freedom and to forever valiantly fight for its preservation but also to view freedom in a much deeper and meaningful context. To live with our freedom in its fullest term and be the best in our own lives, free from bad attitude, bad habits, self-centeredness, disunity, selfishness, divisiveness, inflicting harm to others and most of all freedom from poverty,” Domogan said.
According to the mayor, exercising freedom in our own personal life does not simply done by proclaiming it but also in living it. Thus, he called on the people’s help to re-live our heroes' sacrifices and help in the government’s effort to lift fellow Filipinos from poverty.
“We, your public servant, we cannot emancipate our people from the bondage of poverty alone, we need your help, we need to work together, to replicate our freedom as an opportunity to help others, to bring others in our journey towards a better and more meaningful life”, Domogan stressed.
Vergara and Domogan also joined all the participants for a civic parade from the Baguio Convention Center down to Session Road then to Melvin Jones grandstand along Harrison Road. *(JDP/LD-PIA CAR)
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