Feb. 14,2012 City Govt.

Of Maasin Spends P7M Plus As Host City Of The EVRAA Meet 2012 By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr., Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The City Govt of Maasin has spent P7M plus as host c ity of EVRAA meet 2012 here from Jan. 29 up to Feb. 3,2012. On Feb, 4, all the participating delegations have started leaving the place boun d for their home cities and provinces here in region 8(Leyte and Samar) otherwis e known as Eastern Visayas. This was the disclosure of Maasin Mayor Maloney Samaco in an interview at his of fice at City Hall. Samaco informed that the whopping amount was spent for uniforms of athletes,off ciating officials and coaches; sports equipments,meals,repair of billeting scho ols where all the delegations were lodged; repair and preparation of playing ven ues, funds for transportation services, rental of multicabs and motorcabs to ser vice the athletes, officiating officials and coaches, tarpaulin streamers use fo r the welcoming of all delegations in the entire region and postings of tarpauli n streamers in all strategic locations of the city about the implementation of s moke-free policy for the EVRAA meet. The sports-minded Mayor who is also a sportswriter revealed that only the gold m edalists of different sports games can participate in the upcoming Palarong Pamb ansa to be held at Lingayen,Pangasinan.He said that it s probably during the second or third week of May of the current year. He said that there are more than thirty who will comprise the Maasin delegation that he will lead.As it is, the group will compose of athletes,officiating offic ials and coaches. He said that the games that the aforesaid delegation will be going to compete ar e swimming, volleyball, taekwondo,table and lawn tennis and arnis. Asked when will be the next year s EVRAA meet and who will host it,he said that some delegations have problems yet to be solved in hosting the sports competitions. The Mayor implied that talks and discussions about it shall most probably be do ne at the Palarong Pambansa host city s sports center named Don Narciso Ramos Sport s Center. He added that all the Superintendents who shall be leading the participating del egates to the upcoming Palarong Pambansa in Lingayen,Pangasinan this coming May are the ones who will decide.(Quirico M. Gorpido,.Jr.)