Isabel LGU lights giant Christmas tree
ISABEL, Leyte – In making the Christmas season more festive, the lighting of one of Christmas’ most recognized symbol – the Christmas tree – become this year’s most awaited event here.
Hundreds of Isabel residents from all walks of life witnessed the lighting of a giant Christmas tree Thursday night in the middle of the wide and well-maintained town plaza fronting the Isabel Municipal Hall.
Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla and Isabel Mayor Saturnino “Jun” Medina Jr. led the ceremonial lighting of the giant Christmas tree which was even made more colorful as a grand fireworks display left residents in awe.
The giant Christmas tree stands more than a hundred feet off the ground and is lighted at least by 2,500 bulbs. The Christmas tree has been decorated with a variety of Christmas hues in green, reds and gold.
Mayor Medina said putting up the giant Christmas tree is one way of enticing the people to feel the spirit of Christmas as it likewise symbolizes Isabel’s vision of a grander future for their town and its constituents.
Isabel has remained the industrial capital in the province of Leyte being the site of the Leyte Industrial Development Estate (LIDE), a fully developed industrial area, which houses two of the country’s major industries, the Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corporation (PASAR), and the Philippine Phosphate Fertilizer Corporation (PhilPhos).
With the big income derived from PASAR and PhilPhos, the town has been classified as first class municipality from being a fourth class municipality in 1988, and can even vie for cityhood in a period of five years, Mayor Medina previously disclosed.
Meanwhile, he added that with the giant Christmas tree now the “center of attention” at the town square, people even from the barangays would have a reason to entertain themselves and earn a quick respite in the evenings during this Christmas season.
Gov. Petilla, on the other hand, lauded the efforts of the local government of Isabel for initiating activities that would promote their locality.
“This is the first time that I have seen such a very, very tall Christmas tree in the province. And it is nice to know that there are LGUs who take the initiative themselves,” Gov. Petilla said during his short speech prior to the ceremonial lighting ceremony. (AHLETTE C. REYES)
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