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Friday, March 04, 2005
Town cancels 4th giant strawberry cake fest
By Jane Cadalig
BAGUIO CITY -- Residents and visitors alike would surely miss that slice of strawberry cake they have been enjoying every March in the town of La Trinidad for the last three years.
Municipal officials cancelled the fourth staging of the crowd-drawer Strawberry Festival this year reportedly due to budget constraint.
Benguet's main town of La Trinidad started baking the giant strawberry cake March 2002 to promote the town as the "Strawberry Capital of the Philippines". The festival doubles as the town fiesta of the municipality.
Last year, La Trinidad baked the biggest strawberry cake and it fed more than 42,000 individuals. The cake, which was shaped in the form of a giant strawberry fruit set amidst a field of vanilla confection, stood about eight feet high, 12 feet long and nine feet wide and was the town's official entry to the Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest strawberry cake ever baked.
The first and second servings of the monstrous cakes fed 11,000 and 28,000 people, respectively.
Budget constraint was seen as the major reason in the cancellation of this year's Strawberry Festival.
Mayor Nestor Fongwan said Thursday the local government has focused much of its resources on the ongoing construction of the town's solid waste facility at Sitio Induyan, Alno.
The town already shelled out P10 million merely for the purchase of the lot where the controlled dumpsite and the sanitary landfill would be constructed.
The Benguet Provincial Board (PB) also allotted P5 million as the Province's counterpart to the construction of the facility in compliance with the provisions of Republic Act 9003 or the Solid Waste Management Act, which bans the use of open dumpsites.
(March 4, 2005 issue)
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