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                    [Title] => Vizcaya celebrates 174th founding anniversary today
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It will be a special non-working holiday here today for both the government and private sectors as this landlocked province, the threshold to the Cagayan Valley region, marks its 174th founding anniversary.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 901872 [Title] => Jan. 30 non-working holiday in Isabela [Summary] =>

It’s a non-working holiday throughout Isabela on Jan. 30, the highlight of its four-day Bambanti festival, which kicked off yesterday with the unveiling of a statue of Queen Isabella II after whom the province was named.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 847345 [Title] => Quirino marks 41st founding anniversary [Summary] =>

Quirino, this province’s former territory, marks its 41st founding anniversary today with a grand parade, floral offering and street dancing, showcasing its culture, economy and tourism potentials. 

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 275344 [Title] => All set for world’s longest tupig [Summary] => SOLANO, Nueva Vizcaya — This province’s premier town will attempt to create a name in the Guinness Book of World Records by creating the world’s longest tupig on May 14, the fourth day of this town’s five-day fiesta.

Tupig
is made of glutinous rice, known in the Iluko dialect as diket. With sugar, the milled diket is flavored with pulverized peanuts and corn, wrapped in banana or coconut leaves and grilled for at least five minutes. A kilo of flavor-mixed diket can produce at least 100 pieces of the Ilocano sweets.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 268619 [Title] => N. Vizcaya eyeing world feat with longest tupig [Summary] => SOLANO, Nueva Vizcaya — The "longest and biggest fever" catches on. This time, it’s this Nueva Vizcaya town which is eyeing a Guinness feat by churning out the longest tupig.

Tupig
is made of glutinous rice known in Iluko as diket. With sugar, the milled diket is flavored with semi-pulverized peanuts and corn or any desired flavor, and wrapped in banana or coconut leaves. It is then grilled for at least five minutes.
[DatePublished] => 2005-02-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 204778 [Title] => Vigan comes alive with ‘Binatbatan’ [Summary] => VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur — The "Heritage City," as Vigan is known, burst into merry colors yesterday as it staged its Second Binatbatan Festival, luring hordes of local and foreign tourists to its streets lined up with ancestral houses.

The festival got its name from the Iluko term batbatin, or separating cotton balls from the seeds of the local fruit tree kapas sanglay.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 136600 [Title] => Weather forecasting by rural folks [Summary] =>
(First of Two Parts)
Even as people in urban and urbanizing areas already rely on the weather forecasts of Pagasa, those in the remote barangays of Ilocos Norte still cling to traditional methods or weather lores that were handed down by their forefathers.

These weather lores include the unusual behavior of ants, earthworms, dragonflies, dogs, frogs, birds and honeybees as predictors to an upcoming rain, typhoon or bad weather.
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1750993 [AuthorName] => Sosimo Ma. Pablico [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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