“CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS DURING A PANDEMIC”

 

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'. The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.


Clearly, the 2022 holiday season is unlike any other in modern history. The Center for Disease Control strongly recommended that people should not travel for Thanksgiving. Public health experts said that the safest, most prudent approach to the holidays this year is to stay home. Due to the pandemic, the City Government restricted the public to attend this year’s opening ceremony but instead have them witness it live online through the City’s official Facebook Page. Regardless of all the odds caused by the pandemic, the Christmas vibes in the Heritage City continuous as the annual Artes Ita Paskua of the City Government of Vigan got its way with the new normal set-up in which most of the events were done online and the others were with limited participants to comply into the Minimum Health Standards set by the City Covid-19 Task Force.

To prevent mass gathering while still enjoying the season, the City Events, Promotions and Protocol Office steered barangay and home based competitions such as the Inter-Barangay Christmas Installation Contest which was held last December 7-8, 2020 wherein different barangays of the city putted up their Nativity Scene, Christmas Trees and other colorful and bright Christmas related decorations in their respective Barangay Halls and covered courts made into recycled materials.

References:

http://vigancity.gov.ph/its-christmas-season-in-vigan-city/

http://vigancity.gov.ph/artes-ita-paskua-carries-on-amid-pandemic/


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