Cagayan de Oro City is one of the biggest cities in Mindanao. And this month of august is the fest celebration of the city. There are various events that will cater by the government itself for the visitors and for the patron. The fest is all about how the city survives and became now the famous place to visit. Visiting here during the festival is the best days to enjoy because of the events provided. 

One of the most awaited events is the KUMBIRA 2012. The event theme is “eats more fun in kumbira”. This event is all about cooking matter. The contestants of this event are the students of the entire schools of the city. They need to present their different cooking style at least according to the theme. All the presenters should be qualified of the requirements from the organizer. There are two divisions of the competition, the professional people and the student division. Both the division should meet the required qualifications. Each individual or team should also need to pay the registration for it is needed for the preparation of the event. 

The viewers can also taste the foods of each presenter during the event as long as they have the ticket of registration. While the presenters demo their recipes non-presenters can view and free to look on how to cook the foods. This is why all visitors cannot just get new ideas about cooking they can also get old recipes and make it more special. The event is for those people who are interested in cooking or it may also for non-cookers who want to learn more about the cooking ideas. 

The show is this coming august 15, 16 and 17 at atrium Limketkai, center Cagayan de Oro City. Come and visit the celebration of the Cagayan de Oro City and see for yourself how kagay-anons celebrate the festival.

LIGHT A PRAYER OF HOPE (Light a Sky Lantern for a Cause)
"Light a sky lantern for a cause"
January 7, 2012

BEACON Road (Behind SM City Cagayan de Oro's Car Park Building)

Registration/Pre-program: 6PM; Ground Floor Event Center/Beacon Rd.
Holy Mass: 7:30PM; Beacon Area (Mass to be officiated by Fr. Boy Salvador)

Spread the word! This activity is specialy dedicated to the victims and volunteers of Sendong, lets be involved.

PRESS RELEASE: KAGAY-AN FESTIVAL 5th FLOAT PARADE

August 18, 2011

There will be major changes in parade route for the Float Parade this year in consideration of the ongoing construction of Marcos Highway fly-over. The 5th Float Parade is set on August 27 Saturday and supervised by Pueblo de oro Development Corporation for Promote CDO.

Spectators are advised that the parade will still kick off from Rodelsa Circle by 7am passing thru Velez St. But instead to going straight towards Velez-Licoan-Recto junction, the parade will turn from Velez Street to Luna St then go straight to Osmena St. From Osmena, the participants will turn right towards Coca-Cola plant in Claro Recto and proceed to Limketkai Drive main entry point in Lapasan where the end point of the Parade will be held.

There are 69 confirmed participants which will include 15 competing floats, 2 sponsor floats, 22 drum and bugle corps and some civic organization groups, including from the PNP, Philippine Army, Coast Guard among others.

5th Float Parade participants are requested to be at the assembly area as early as 5:30am. The City PNP has assured the organizers that security will be tightened for the participants and spectators.

There will be showbiz personalities who will join the parade, including the winners of Ms. Kagay-an 2011, city officials and a lot more.

Limketkai center will serve as the last judging point for the float parade competition and drum and bugle corp. Gean T. Cesar, Kagay-an Festival Media Coordinator

COHARA or known as the Cagayan de Oro Hotel and restaurant association has been in the field of competitions for over 15 years. It was launched last last week, the KUMBIRA 2011. It says that this is the longest culinary show in the country.

The exhibits are all about several competitions of cooking foods, displaying beverages, cooking competitions, demonstrations of different table arrangements, and bartending competitions.

The festival is addressed how important is health in our world. It gives opportunity to different hotels, restaurants and schools to show what they’ve got and what they had. This will certainly helpful for the region to increase the standard of the culinary skills.

All the students are free to join here together with their unique and creative foods, not just the taste but also the look of those foods.

This year, because it is their 15th, there are about 15 competitions for professionals and students.

They also include the Mindanao Chef Wars which will mix by professional and student teams to represent Mindanao in the chef wars national competition for the year 2011.

Last year it has been recorded that during the events there are 18,000 visitors within just 3 days. This year the event expects to increase that number. There are 17 professional and 40 schools last year attended, and it is expected to grow this year 2011.

This coming August 17-19, 2011 will be held at Limketkai Mall. People from different areas here in Mindanao will surely here to witness the blasting festival of KUMBIRA.

STUDENTS ADMISSION: P 45.00 per day P 115.00 season pass (for 3 days)
GENERAL ADMISSION: P 60.00 per day P 150.00 season pass (for 3 days)

In 1966 COHARA was established and immediately put up KUMBIRA for the employees to show their skills through trainings and workshops together with professional lecturers in the hotel and restaurant industry. Members here are expert instructors which are from Canadian Executive Service Organization. They are teaching hotel and restaurant staff through conducting trainings specifically hotel and restaurant operations.

The organization is expanding by attending international conferences today.

Registration is Free!
Elimination Sched: July 11, 12, 18, 19, 25,26, 2011
Final Round: July 29, 2011

When: June 15, 2011 at 7am - 6pm
Where: Tourism City Hall
What: The City Government of Cagayan de Oro will celebrate its 61st city charter day. Together with the Celebration, Mayor Dongkoy Emano will sponsor a job fair for overseas and local employment.

Need to bring:

• Resume
• Transcript of Records
• Diploma
• Picture
• and other important documents

For more inquiry, feel free to contact city hall cdo (8575057) local 307.

See yah there!!!

The top 3 places to spend Holy Week 2011:

1. Guadalupe Shrine in Tablon, Cagayan de Oro City.
2. The Divine Mercy in El Salvador, Cagayan de Oro City.
3. Malasag in Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City.

Theme: "Strong Cooperative Enterprises: Building Better Member's Lives, Communities and Environment"

Vision: A member-centered cooperative which provides a diversified range of financial, business and social services to change the lives of the members and communities.

Mission Statement: To offer financial, business and social services in-order to help improve the quality of life of the members and communities.

Objectives:
1. To have a sound, healthy, strong and robust cooperative.
2. To help improve the financial conditions of the members.
3. To help improve and expand the enterprises of the members.
4. To serve general interest / concerns of the community.
5. To network with allied organizations, local government units and other strategic partners.

Today, April 17, 2011 – the 45th general assembly is very successful. We are about to reach a dividend of 9.50% from last years 9.15%. Good news to all the members of OIC.

To My Fellow Alumni:

From Batch 1995 to 2010, those people who graduated at Macanhan Elementary School are invited for the First Grand Alumni Homecoming this coming May 28, 2011 with the theme: “MACANHAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – Through the Years”.

SEE BELOW THE SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES:

1:00pm – 2:00pm Thanksgiving Mass

2:00pm – 3:00pm Program

3:00pm – 4:00pm Parlor Games / SPORTS

4:00pm – 5:00pm Alumni Election of Officers

5:00pm – 6:00pm Batch Salu-Salo (Dinner)

6:00pm – 8:00pm Dance for All (Disco)

God Bless All

May you find peace, joy and love this Christmas.

Have a wonderful day,
and
Have a Merry Christmas to all
From Your Kagay-Anon Family

A special thanks to Mindanaoan for this information. The very much awaited event that happened Today (Nov.12, 2010) at 5pm in SM CDO, a grand launching of "Digital Theater".

You will experience the difference "so clear, so real".

I hope to see you there!!!

The Sanuk Sandcastle building competition 2010 was held first in Manila, Davao and now, here in Cagayan de Oro City. This competition was open to all students, professionals and enthusiasts. In which, here in Cagayan de Oro, Eight groups joined the said competition and a chance to win 20,000.oo as Champion, 14,000.oo as First Prize and 10,000.oo as Second Prize.

Please see below some of the pics for the competition:

Yellow Team - Champoppers

Red Team- Noah

Orange team - Adcashemanic

Lightgreen - Debuho Fliganon

Lightblue Team - Tagaca

Dark Green Team - Sand Nuke

Dark Blue - Smileys

Beige Team - Fungee

Filipinnovation : The Way Forward

DOST - Department of Science and Technology
Mindanao Cluster Science and Technology Fair 2010

From Oct. 8 - 10, 2010
Rotunda, Limketkai Cagayan de Oro City

The Kagay-anons would like to send their appreciation and recognition to their teachers since elementary until college days. They are a big part of our life because they are the one who teach us to read, to write and to dream big.

We are greatly and honor to thank you ALL.

Happy World Teachers Day