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Wednesday, April 28, 2004
No more Bikini Open in Kapistahan Fest
By Christine Mae A. Pelayo
BLAME it on the conservatives? The staging of the Bikini Open Competition in the forthcoming Kapistahan sa Baybayon Festival is already taboo.
This came after the Church and various women organizations protested the holding of the event saying it "exploits and degrades" a woman.
During last year's staging of the Kapistahan sa Baybayon held in April, the Bikini Open was one of the events that drew the biggest crowd.
The festival held along the city's coastal areas was participated in by Barangays 1, 2, 10, 13, 16, 35, Punta-Taytay, Sum-ag, Pahanocoy, Singcang-Airport, Banago and Tangub.
Instead of staging the event during summer, Mayor Luzviminda Valdez said the 2nd Kapistahan sa Baybayon Festival celebration was moved this year to June 12-15.
She said the postponement was because it was still the campaign period for the May 10 local and national elections.
Valdez added the Commission on Elections (Comelec) banned incumbent public officials from gracing the event due to the election period.
For this year's affair, all village heads of the coastal barangays agreed that they will end the festival on June 24, the celebration of the feast of St. John the Baptist.
Valdez said a Chicken Inasal Festival of different flavors will also be added to the list of programs for the Kapistahan.
(April 28, 2004 issue)
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