GLAN, Sarangani (October 11, 2011) - The twelfth staging of the Lubi-Lubi sa Glan Festival last October 8, was a rousing success, with better performances and bigger crowds than all 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.
The festival atmosphere was so thick you could cut it with a knife.
“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.
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.
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. 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.
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)
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