Naga to mark 6th anniversary as chartered city

CEBU, Philippines - It’s all systems go for the Naga City’s commemoration of its 6th anniversary as a chartered city.

The celebration will start on Aug. 31 and end on Sept. 5. 

Activities include contests in dancing and singing, free spay and neuters of cats and dogs, the opening of an agro fair, the opening and blessing of new schools, and concreting of roads, medical mission, mass wedding.

Mayor Valdemar Chiong’s State of the City Address will highlight the celebration. 

Naga, situated 21 kilometers from Cebu City, is dubbed as the “Industrial hub south of Cebu” because of the presence of vital industries.

Even before its elevation to a city, Naga was an industrial town with the 147-MW Salcon Power Corp. coal-fired plant and Apo Cement Corp. which produces 4,000 metric tons of cement daily.

Considered as one of the oldest settlements in the province of Cebu, Naga became a municipality on June 12, 1829 and has gone through a series of reclassification simultaneous with

its healthy economic development as it grows.

Naga gained its new status from first class municipality into a component city in the first district of Cebu by virtue of R.A. 9194 which was ratified through a plebiscite on September 02, 2007 under the sponsorship of former Cebu congressman Eduardo R. Gullas, now respected as the “Father of the City of Naga, Cebu.” (FREEMAN)