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Thursday, January 2, 2014

Zambo City celebrates New Year peacefully, “quietly”

By Jocelyn P. Alvarez
ZAMBOANGA CITY - Zamboangueños celebrated the  New Year peacefully and “quietly” with the absence of the usual head banging and noisy blasting of firecrackers and pyrotechnics following the city government’s vigorous campaign against their sale and use during the yuletide season.

The “no sale and use of firecrackers and pyrotechnics” policy was based on   Executive Order No. 23 which mandates temporary suspension, display and use as well as the sale and distribution for use of the firecrackers and pyrotechnics in the city.

City Information Officer Sheila Covarrubias said “the new year revelry in the city was generally peaceful. Hospitals recorded zero firecrackers and stray bullet injuries.”

Covarrubias said that Mayor Beng Climaco had lauded the FESAGS, PNP, AFP and LGU personnel for the strict enforcement of firecracker ban in the city.

Covarrubias informed that violators would be apprehended and penalized.

“The unity of Zamboangueño revellers of the New Year is a positive sign of cooperation,” Mayor Climaco said.

“If we were successful in zero-casualty as law abiding citizens then we can start obeying traffic rules to set order and safety in the streets in 2014,” Climaco added.

Zamboangueños used alternative means in making noise during the New Year celebration such as banging of kitchen utensils,   blowing of horns or “torotot”,   sounding on vehicles and vehicle alarms, banging of gates and several others. (PIA9)