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==[[Sarangani News]]==
==[[Sarangani News]]==
'''Glan stages 12th Lubi-Lubi Festival'''
'''Soldier, NPA rebel killed in Sarangani clash'''
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r12&id=58694
*Source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/10/13/11/soldier-npa-rebel-killed-sarangani-clash
*Tuesday, October 11, 2011
*10/13/2011 6:25 PM
:by PIA Press Release
:by abs-cbnNEWS.com




GLAN, Sarangani, Oct 11 (PIA)--The twelfth staging of the Lubi-Lubi sa Glan Festival last October 8, was a rousing success, with
SARANGANI, Philippines - A communist New People's Army (NPA) rebel and a government trooper were killed in a gunbattle in Sarangani province on Thursday, the military said.
previous Lubi-Lubi combined.
 
Throughout the week-long festivities, which hit the ground running on October 1, the festival area, particularly the party zone, was thronged with revelers out for a good time, and the kiosk operators and vendors had never it so good, making a killing from sales on foods, drinks and other fun items.
Troops belonging to the Philippine Army's 102nd Division Reconnaissance Company and 73rd Infantry Battalion were on patrol in Glan town when they enountered the NPA rebels in Datal Bukay village just before noon.
“The festival mood was unprecedented. People from all walks of life, from far and wide, turned up in almost all events we had put on for this year’s celebration. I promise you we will go one better next Lubi-Lubi,” said Mayor Victor James “Tata” Yap, Sr.
 
The festivities opened at 7 p.m., October 1, with a great basketball game at the Atty. Enrique D. Yap, Sr. Cultural Center, followed by a pop & rock concert at Plaza Rizal by the DXMD band.
An MG-520 attack helicopter reinforced the government troops, said Colonel Leopoldo Galon, spokesman of the military's Eastern Mindanao Command.
Day 2 and 3 saw two other great basketball matches and a Moro song and dance contest, which the town’s multi-ethnic public enjoyed to the
 
hilt.
The body of the slain rebel, who has yet to be identified, was later found in the area.
Early morning of Day 4 was greeted with a fun run from the Municipal Ground to the Marker, where a Thanksgiving Mass was held, then back to the municipal gym at 7 p.m. for the Global Glanians Social Night, where they danced the night away. Another concert, featuring the town’s very own Glanians Band and sponsored by SMB/Coca-Cola, wrapped up Day 4.
 
October 5 was literally a red-letter day for the SK Federation of Board Member James P. Yap, which conducted a blood-letting at Glan Training Center between 8 a.m. and 12 noon. At 1 to 6 p.m., it was the turn of the senior citizens and the womenfolk for their own show and celebration.
Soldiers also recovered an M-16 rifle, an M-14 rifle, a handheld radio, an improvised scanner, a Claymore mine, a grenade, a solar charger, and documents at the site.
Serving as finale for the day’s events was the hilarious DOBLE KARA & Hip-Hop Dance Contest conducted jointly by the SK Federation and Bombo Radyo at the Atty. Enrique D. Yap, Sr. Cultural
 
Center.
The name of the slain soldier has been withheld as his family has yet to be notified, Galon said.
Day 6 and 7 came and went with amateur boxing, basketball and concert,on the one hand, and a safari photo contest, coco fun game, the much-awaited Mutya ng Glan and another concert, featuring the highly popular Alamid band, on the other.
On Day 8, Foundation Day, it was showtime, kicking off with a civic military parade at 7:30 a.m., followed by the spectacular Lubi-Lubi
street dancing, the basketball final, a disco concert and a dazzling fireworks display that had the crowd "star-gazing" until the wee hours
of the morning.
“The festival was beautiful while it lasted. We look forward to the next Lubi-Lubihan sa Glan,” said a visitor, who came all the way from
North Cotabato.
This only goes to show that the Lubi-Lubi sa Glan is here to stay.(Glan Information and News service/PIA General Santos City)


==Photo Gallery of Sarangani, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Sarangani, Philippines==
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