Aguilar Mayor Shelves Festivity, Gives Foods to People

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

AGUILAR, Pangasinan - The mayor in this rustic town has foregone the celebration of the Ansakket Festival by instead giving grocery and food items to his marginalized constituents in the remote villages here.

One of the villages the chief executive and his party trekked recently was the mountainous area of Daang Katutubo Mapita in Barangay Laoag.

MEDICAL MISSION. Aguilar Mayor Roldan “Boyet” Sagles, a dental doctor (second row, sixth from left), poses for posterity with government officials and members of the Rotary Club of Downtown Dagupan on the November 7, 2021 medical mission in Daang Katutubo Sitio Mapita, Aguilar in Pangasinan.This was in coordination with the office of Governor Amado “Pogi” Espino, III and the Provincial Health Office Medical Check Up and Roll Vaccination.

“Mayor Roldan “Boyet” Sagles intention was to give the food items to those in the remotest places of the town. Aside from Sitio Mapita in Barangay Laoag, Sagles and his team continued to give their benevolence to the people of the eight villages here,” a video narrator at Facebook said.

The office of the mayor foregoes the extravagance of the fiesta due to the danger poses by the pandemic by instead using the funds collected for it to procure the distributed food items.

“Buong pananalig at tiwala ng ating lokal na pamahalaan na tuloy-tuloy ang paghilom ng ating bayan mula sa COVID-19 para sa mas makulay at masayang pagdiriwang ng Ansakket Festival sa susunod na taon,” the narration continued about the recovery the municipality undergoes to the ravages done by the Corona Virus Disease-19 that paralyzes economic and social activities in and out of here.

In his more than two years being the mayor here, Sagles had already accomplished more what his predecessors have done to this once sleepy third class town.

He procured new dump truck, new ambulance -  additional to the first one where the funds came from the award he got from the Seal of Good Governance last year-, and new fire truck. He helped create too the new plaza and the warehouse of the National Food Authority here where the local government unit donated the lot for it, and other laudable programs and projects.

“Tunay ngang Rendering Best Care and Service ang ibinibigay ng ating Mayor sa bayan ng Aguilar. Patuloy pa rin tayong aarangkada kabaleyan!” the narrator at the social media continued.

Indeed, the rendition of being the best care chief executive will continue as the funds of the local government unit under Sagles continues to swell as seen on its annual budget next year.

The proposed town budget for year 2022, according to the mayor, will be P229, 812, 015 – an increase of almost P70, 000, 000 from the present P160, 178, 604 budget.