Every third Saturday of May, the Dipolog faithful to the Catholic traditions celebrates its fiesta to celebrate the annual feast of the city’s Patron Saint, Saint Vincent Ferrer. This year, the city ensures that the celebration of the fiesta will be colorful and fun-filled.  For this, the holding of Pagsalabuk 2002 takes center stage as it was held on the eve of the fiesta on May 24.

When city councilor Alton Ratificar was interviewed personally by The Daily Dipolognon, the accommodating councilor explain the changes the street dancing festival occurred after its creation on 1999, “Karong tuuiga gipaningkamotan nato na malahi na gyud ang Pagsalabuk.  Last year, the dances were of European-inspired karon gisugurado namo na Lumad steps and dances would prevail”, say Ratificar.

The street dancing started past more than one hour late from its previously announced time it would have started around 1 o’clock.  But the failure to start was attributed mostly to the heat by the scorching heat of the afternoon sun.

For this years’ contest, there was only five contingents, namely: Gata Cultural Dance Troupe of the Jimenez, Misamis Occidental (a visiting contingent) Sangguniang Kabataan ng Barangay Biasong and Barangay Council, Tribu ni Tino of the municipality of Manukan; Sangguniang Kabataan of Barangay Estaka; and, Sangguniang Kabataan ng Central Barangay.      

Judges had a hard time of deciding who should be declared as winners that they had to make two announcements of final results. The first prize for the contest of PhP 50,000 goes to the visiting contingent, the Misamis Contingent.  The second prize of PhP 30,000 goes to the Central Barangay Contingent and the third prize goes the Barangay Estaka contingent that went home with PhP 20,000.