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Saturday, January 14, 2006
Capiz ready to host 2006 WVRAA Meet
ROXAS CITY -- Governor Vicente Bermejo said Capiz will put in place the necessary preparations to ensure the success of its hosting of the 2006 Western Visayas Regional Athletic Association (WVRAA) Meet on March 12 to 18.
Bermejo made this clear after officials of the Department of Education (DepEd) regional office and regional sports council informed him of the new schedule of the competition which was originally set for April of this year.
The governor immediately instructed Provincial Administrator Dante Bermejo to see to it that the Villareal Stadium and its sports facilities including the gymnasium, swimming pool and oval tracks would be ready by then.
The Capiz Gymnasium is one of a few sports centers in the country that boast of state-of-the-art basketball facilities. The province has already hosted two out-of-town Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) games at the gym last April and October 2005.
The governor has introduced several improvements worth several millions of pesos at the stadium to make it at par with other premier sports facilities in the country in line with the sports development program component of his 10-Point Agenda.
Villareal Stadium is so far the biggest sports center of its kind in Western Visayas and is among the top five throughout the country.
Vice Governor Tanco, together with representatives of the provincial school board and sports council, met with regional DepEd and sports council officials last January 10 Divisio of Capiz here to discuss the preparations for the regional athletic competition, which was last hosted by Capiz in 1998.
With Tanco, who has been designated by Governor Bermejo as provincial sports czar, at the said meeting were the Provincial Administrator, Provincial Tourism Officer Alfonso Bediones, Jr., Engr. Ernesto Agulto and officials of DepEd Division of Capiz represented by Schools Division Superintendent Lagrimas Ubal and PEHM Supervisor Annette C. Alagban, who is the overall division coordinator for the event.
Alagban said representatives from the province and DepEd regional office and sports council are scheduled to have a series of coordination meetings here to see to it that everything would be ready for the regional event that would take place before the end of the current school year.
The province would be ready by then, stressed the governor. (PIA-JSC)
(January 14, 2006 issue)
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