BY: JOSEPH JOHN J. PEREZ
LEGAZPI CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) – It will be a three-in-one celebration as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared that this city will be the venue for its first ever national goodwill games slated on November 28 to December 2 this year.
“The event will feature Comelec’s anniversary on December 2; tribute to the retiring commissioners led by Chairman Sixto Brillantes and commissioners Lucinito Tagle and Elias Yusuph; and the historical hosting of the first national goodwill games held in Bicol,” Comelec Bicol regional election director Romeo Fortes told the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Bicol in an exclusive nterview.
According to Fortes, the event will also help boost Albay’s bid in hosting Palarong Pambansa next year.
“This will be sort of a dry-run especially for Department of Education (DepEd) Legazpi and Albay Divisions who will officiate the games,” Fortes added.
Aside from DepEd, Comelec Bicol asked for the assistance of the Local Government Unit (LGU) of Legazpi City to manage the event, Philippine National Police (PNP) to provide security and PIA to provide information and media support for the duration of the sports event.
Expected participants of more than 2,000 personnel coming from Comelec main office and its sixteen regional offices, the event will showcase not only sports events but regional cultures. Nightly cultural presentations will also showcase the three main island groups of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanaoed.
Featured team and individual sports events are basketball, bowling, volleyball, swimming, track events, badminton, table tennis, lawn tennis, chess, billiards, cycling, fun run, walkathon, and traditional games such as tug of war and sack race.
“The fun run will also serve as our voters education campaign for our on-going registration with our slogan, vote to validate, validate to vote,” Fortes said.
Preparations are now peaking up with the recent meeting with partner government agencies and private groups as Comelec regional offices already made reservations with hotels. “Chairman Brillantes will join the regional officials in preparatory conferences here on October 3 until 5 to finalize plans and transact with service providers,” Fortes told the PIA.
All Comelec regional officials are expected to come during the three-day conference to conduct ocular inspections of hotels, meet with caterers and transport services, finalization of events and rules, and selection of event’s logo.
Fortes assures that they are exerting all efforts for a perfect hosting alluding to Mayon’s perfect cone. “We are focusing on hosting, winning events are just secondary,” he said. Comelec Bicol is the defending champion for basketball, table tennis, track events and the highlight, the cultural presentation. “This will be a grand festival in Legazpi,” Fortes said.
Bicol was unanimously chosen to host the First Comelec National Goodwill Games during the recent meeting of the Comelec Regional Directors Organization (CREDO) of which Fortes is the incumbent president. (MAL/JJJP-PIA5)
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LEGAZPI CITY, Sept. 24 (PIA) – It will be a three-in-one celebration as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared that this city will be the venue for its first ever national goodwill games slated on November 28 to December 2 this year.
“The event will feature Comelec’s anniversary on December 2; tribute to the retiring commissioners led by Chairman Sixto Brillantes and commissioners Lucinito Tagle and Elias Yusuph; and the historical hosting of the first national goodwill games held in Bicol,” Comelec Bicol regional election director Romeo Fortes told the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Bicol in an exclusive nterview.
According to Fortes, the event will also help boost Albay’s bid in hosting Palarong Pambansa next year.
“This will be sort of a dry-run especially for Department of Education (DepEd) Legazpi and Albay Divisions who will officiate the games,” Fortes added.
Aside from DepEd, Comelec Bicol asked for the assistance of the Local Government Unit (LGU) of Legazpi City to manage the event, Philippine National Police (PNP) to provide security and PIA to provide information and media support for the duration of the sports event.
Expected participants of more than 2,000 personnel coming from Comelec main office and its sixteen regional offices, the event will showcase not only sports events but regional cultures. Nightly cultural presentations will also showcase the three main island groups of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanaoed.
Featured team and individual sports events are basketball, bowling, volleyball, swimming, track events, badminton, table tennis, lawn tennis, chess, billiards, cycling, fun run, walkathon, and traditional games such as tug of war and sack race.
“The fun run will also serve as our voters education campaign for our on-going registration with our slogan, vote to validate, validate to vote,” Fortes said.
Preparations are now peaking up with the recent meeting with partner government agencies and private groups as Comelec regional offices already made reservations with hotels. “Chairman Brillantes will join the regional officials in preparatory conferences here on October 3 until 5 to finalize plans and transact with service providers,” Fortes told the PIA.
All Comelec regional officials are expected to come during the three-day conference to conduct ocular inspections of hotels, meet with caterers and transport services, finalization of events and rules, and selection of event’s logo.
Fortes assures that they are exerting all efforts for a perfect hosting alluding to Mayon’s perfect cone. “We are focusing on hosting, winning events are just secondary,” he said. Comelec Bicol is the defending champion for basketball, table tennis, track events and the highlight, the cultural presentation. “This will be a grand festival in Legazpi,” Fortes said.
Bicol was unanimously chosen to host the First Comelec National Goodwill Games during the recent meeting of the Comelec Regional Directors Organization (CREDO) of which Fortes is the incumbent president. (MAL/JJJP-PIA5)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=2591411538662#sthash.1b6U7wLC.ARmTMoS7.dpuf
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