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Baguio residents urged to clean, plant flowers

Philippine Information Agency

posted 25-Mar-2012 ·

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Residents here were urged anew to maintain cleanliness and beautification of their surroundings to contribute to the city’s campaign to retain its title as the ‘cleanest city’ and ‘city of flowers.’

Councilor Elmer Datuin sought to reiterate Resolution No. 17 series of 1989 which asked residents to clean their surroundings and plant ornamental or flowering plants in preparation for the coming summer months.

Datuin however hopes to make it a year-round undertaking among households.

“Even the Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. said that our city has the opportunity to become the next ‘Flower Capital of Asia’ and that he suggested for the city to start developing its potential as a flower capital through massive planting of flowers all over the city and that visitors entering the city should notice these flowers in its outskirts to reinforce this marketing strategy,” Datuin noted in a proposed resolution.

“We can only achieve (this) goal through the cooperation of the whole community by planting flowers in front of their houses or establishments especially those located beside the roads.”

Mayor Mauricio Domogan made the same pitch after the Baguio Flower Festival staging last month where observations were aired on the vanishing flowery spots in the city.

He encouraged both the private and public sectors to develop more flower gardens and transform available spaces into flower pocket gardens to beautify the city.

He said he will ask the barangay officials to spearhead the conversion of available spaces in the barangays into flower gardens with the help of the residents.

This is in keeping with the city’s reputation as a tourist haven and home of the now popular Baguio Flower Festival. (JDP/Aileen Refuerzo/Baguio City PIO/PIA-CAR)

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