THOUSANDS JOIN DAGUPAN’S BATIK ULOPAN

DAGUPAN CITY – At least 7,000 Dagupeños, including school children and high school students from the different schools in the city, joined the historical platinum unity fun run dubbed as Batik Ulopan along the De Venecia Expressway Extension in the early morning of    June 9.

PLATINUM UNITY RUN – Mayor Belen T. Fernandez (5th from left, front row) joins some
7,000 Dagupeños who joined the historical platinum unity fun run dubbed as Batik Ulopan
along the De Venecia Expressway Extension in the early morning of June 9. (CIO photo
 by Jojo Tamayo)

From the foot of the Pantal Bridge at Barangay Pantal, the runners raced up to the CSI The City Mall helipad where everybody were given free Pocari Sweat to quenched their thirst.

Batik Ulopan is just one of the several activities prepared by the 70th Agew na Dagupan Committee chaired by Schools Division Superintendent Froserfina J. Bravo with Mayor Belen T. Fernandez as Executive Chairman.

Students from different universities and colleges including government employees, different government and non-government agencies joined the fun run.

Mayor Fernandez is thankful for the good weather condition and the participation of many Dagupeños in the unity fun run.

“We will make a compilation of these events for future generations to know and learn what we did during the 70th year of our city,” said Fernandez. (Joseph C. Bacani/CIO/June 9, 2017)