Summer beach festival 2007 starts today
The 1.5 kilometers stretch of beach in Sto. Nino. Sur, Arevalo will be filled once again with food, music and entertainment as Santo Niño Sur Villa Beach Resorts, Hotels and Resto Bar Association holds its Summer Beach Festival 2007.
Sam Larrosa, president of the Santo Niño Sur Villa Beach Resorts, Hotels and Resto Bar Association said they will have a food festival. It will showcase the bounty of the sea and other produced. There will be an array of steamed and broiled oyster, barbecue chicken, roasted pig and other foods frequently served by the seaside restaurants. The week-long summer beach festival is participated by 30 establishments along Sto. Nino Sur area.
Other than the food festival, the group also come up with several sports activities as added attraction from its food festival. They divided the long stretch of beach into three areas which they called piers. In each pier, number of activities will be held from day 1 which starts today (Monday). Pier 1 starts from Breakthrough until Tatoy's Manokan; Pier 2, Tatoys until Egings Talabahan and Pier 3 Annie's until John B. Lacson Maritime University.
The primary purpose of the celebration which is already on its third year is to promote business activities along Villa Beach area especially this summer month and encourage the occupants of nearby restaurants and houses to observe cleanliness. Years ago, Villa Beach is the favorite place of every family to visit especially during weekends. It lost its touch when the beach area got dirty. Prior to the holding of the summer beach festival, there was a clean up along the beach line. The clean up was made Sunday in preparation for the opening day of the summer beach festival.
Larrosa said people will enjoy this year's summer beach festival as they have prepared lots of fun and excitement to draw crowd. They have several innovations in terms of attraction and activities. Among the sports activities are beach volleyball, marathon, boxing tournament, trisikad race, mini-paraw race, rowing competition, power bangka race, rock climbing contest, kapay-kapay (swimming competition) and jet ski competition.
There will also be disco derby, Miss Wow Villa, battle of the bands, porma balas, videoke challenge, Miss Seareyna, beach challenge shoreline, acoustic challenge, fireworks competition and bikini open.
The organizers assured all those who want to go to Villa of their security. The Arevalo police station and each barangay in Arevalo will send their barangay tanods to maintain peace and order along the shoreline.