As the CDO’s annual festival events going on, it held its Housing Festival in Limketkai Center, Rotunda yesterday, August 17, 2010. The event was participated by different housing developers and the other businesses. Here are few of the participants: Jhondorf Ventures Corporation, Plumbline Development Corporation, Liberty Land, Fresno Parkview (in Robinsons Land Inc.,), Golf Estates (in Pueblo Development Corp), and of course, the Tuscania (served by RPM Realty); there were also the Gold Star Daily, Tri star, The Daily Corridor and the Periodico News Network, The Philcom/ PLDT, AEG Power Tools, Union Galvaster Corp, Solerex, Bayswater and Gaisano Enterprise and there are others.

The housing festival was encrusted with magnificent house models, with its costs that are worth with its great amenities and services offer. Each has its own uniqueness and beau that are very enticing to many personalities here in the city. The display was collaborated with the prepared program by the organizer, the Jatico. Diverging steps and thundering dance moves were presented, and uttered speeches by Cagayan de Oro’s Vice- Mayor Acenas and BPI Vice-President Franky Ramos. The program lasted only for almost two hours. After that, shared table’s boons to every participant followed.

The event was successfully done at exactly 8 o clock in the evening that gave inspiration and dreams to those enthusiasts to start a living in the house of their choice and taste!

Everybody is invited to experience and enjoy the Emano’s administration well-prepared and presented activities for the upcoming KAGAY-AN FESTIVAL this year. This is for all Cagay-anons and for all enthusiasts to enjoy the bountiful City of Friendship-Cagayan de Oro.

The festival events for the whole month of August are as follow:

This is another year of success for all of us Cagay-anons; another moment for each of us to show our gratitude for all the boons we have here in our ever-loved and treasure city. Let’s once gain experience to solidify, feel peace and to sustain its palpable name for Friendship. Come and enjoy!

CAGAYAN de Oro is now on a hyper stage as the whole city not just the Catholic community is preparing up for its yearly traditional fiesta this August 28. Cagayan de Oro’s patron saint is Augustine and the clergy here are emphasizing that the focus of the fiesta must not be on secular activities but on religious ones. Of course, the traditional nine-day novena is here implemented as well as the various masses during the day of the fiesta itself, August 28 but the private sector has initiated among itself various activities to enliven the products and services they offer.

Foremost among the fiesta organizers is Promote CDO Foundation which has been tapped by the city government and even inked a contract which is authorized by the City Council to organize fiesta activities such as Miss Kagay-an 2010. The whole festival is named Kagay-an Festival and the logo of which was achieved through a contest that was organized in 2007.

The beauties of Cagayan de Oro, around 12 of them, will be paraded around Limketkai Atrium on August 26, the coronation night. There are already beauties who have stood out above the rest such as Diva Opina who was once a Miss Teen contender and who was adjudged as Miss SM Fashion during the swimwear tilt which was held at Hotel Koresco last August 7.

THE recent fiesta of St. Augustine, the patron saint of Cagayan de Oro, last August 28 was really a success. There were admittedly mixed bittersweet emotions among the residents and visitors during the affair which extended up to a whole month due to quite a number of factors.

First of all, the economic crisis has dangerously seeped into our beloved Northern Mindanao and of course, that included Cagayan de Oro even though by far we are still the fastest growing economy outside of Metro Manila. This can be gleaned through the sorry low number of participants in the Kagay-an Dance Fest. That’s because it is hard for contingents to participate due to the expenses incurred in a troupe of 40 dance members.

Yet people still flock to the city during the fiesta. This can be deduced by the number of people who witness various events from the concert of Rivermaya to the 1^st Pyro Festival. Believe me, I cannot describe to you the tremendous volume of people witnessing the various events since Day One of the festival opened with Mayor Constantino Jaraula banging the agong to signal the start of the festivities via Kumbira 2009.