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Post by tracymack on Apr 15, 2008 23:44:16 GMT 8
That's right, our city has been recognized by the Regional Development Council as this year's cleanest, greenest & safest city in Pangasinan and is second in Region 1 trailing only the heritage city of Vigan. This is great news considering how urbanized Urdaneta is relative to other region 1 cities (with the exception of Dagupan) and that Urdaneta does not have a natural tourist attraction. Urdaneta even bested Alaminos (a tourism-oriented city & home of the hundred islands) and San Fernando (promoted as a botanical garden city). I'm optimistic that Urdaneta would retain this status (at least the best in Pangasinan) because the city council's focus for this year is livelihood & the environment as per Mayor Perez. (kindly refer to this thread) Here's the list of winners: CLEANEST, GREENEST & SAFEST PROVINCE/CITY/MUNICIPALITY IN REGION 1 | Province | City | 1st-3rd Class Municipality | 4th-6th Class Municipality | Champion | Ilocos N | Vigan | Cabugao, Ilocos S | Nueva Era, Ilocos N | 1st Runner Up | Ilocos S | Urdaneta | Rosales, Pangasinan | Mapandan, Pangasinan | 2nd Runner Up | La Union | San Fernando | San Nicolas, Ilocos N | Caba, La Union |
More details can be found here: Ilocos Region Information Sharing Network
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Post by tracymack on Jun 2, 2008 10:39:42 GMT 8
Apparently, Urdaneta is a recipient of multiple Cleanest, Greenest & Safest City in Pangasinan Awards. Here is an old article stating Urdaneta winning the award in 2004 and the year before (2003). Wow! Urdaneta doesn't even have parks & tourist spots. What more if we have those? This year, one of the city government's focus will be the environment. Add to that the construction of the Fr. Andres de Urdaneta park! It's all good in our hometown. ****************************************************Sunday, August 08, 2004Cleanest LGU tilt winners revealedwww.sunstar.com.ph/static/pan/2004/08/08/news/cleanest.lgu.tilt.winners.revealed.htmlLINGAYEN -- Governor Victor E. Agbayani congratulated this year's winners of the "Gawad ng Pangulo sa Kapaligiran" clean and green program. Agbayani pointed out that the success of the program depends heavily on community participation and the active support of the local government units. Melba Bravo, interior and local government provincial director, said that most local governments have improved in terms of implementation of their cleanliness and beautification program. This year's awardees are the municipalities of Bani as perennial winner for Category A, followed by Bolinao and Binalonan for the second and third spots respectively. Mapandan town, last year's most improved LGU, romped of with the top prize in Category B, followed by Aguilar in second place, and Alcala in the third spot. Urdaneta City is AGAIN this year's cleanest and greenest city besting three other cities in the province, which include San Carlos, Alaminos, and Dagupan. Three-time national finalist Balingasay River in Bolinao made it as the cleanest and greenest inland body of water in Pangasinan. This year's search committee is composed of Department of Interior and Local Government, Department of education (Pangasinan I and II), Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Provincial Health Office and Provincial Governor's Office. Winners in the provincial level will automatically advance to the regional search level, which will kick off anytime this month. The regional winner will move on to the national competition. Meanwhile, Agbayani is bent on pursuing the province's coastal resource management program in partnership with the DENR and the coastal municipalities. He said the provincial government is ready to extend technical and financial support to the LGUs in the preparation and implementation of their respective coastal resources management plans provided they also put up counterpart funds for various projects. ****************************************************
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