To give Irigueños a chance to truly celebrate the 2012 Tinagba Festival, Malacañg Palace officially declared Saturday, February 11, 2012 as a Special Non-working day in the city. This is by virtue of Proclamation 319 issued by His Excellency President Benigno Aquino, Jr. through his Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa, Jr. on January 19, 2012.

The Archbishop of Caceres urged attendees in the traditional Misa de Aguinaldo to express their love through deeds.

“Ipahiling nindo an saindong pagkamoot sa gibo,” the Most Rev. Leonardo Z. Legazpi O.P., D.D., told the hundreds  who attended the 8^th day Simbang Gabi at the St. Anthony of Padua Parish here.

“Those who have two clothes  should give the other to those who need them.  Those who have extra food should feed the hungry,” he said in a prepared Bicol homily.  

A household registration will be conducted in all barangays in Camarines Sur and Masbate and 18 other provinces in the country, next year. The registration will gather profileS of farmers, farm laborers, fisherfolks and their various activities under the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture(RSBSA), a collaborative project of the Department of Budget and Management(DBM), the Department of Interior and Local Government, the Department of Agriculture, Department of Agrarian Reform, National Statistics Office and Local Government Units.

Despite the downpour, the lighting of the dozens of trees at the Rizal park ushered in the celebration of the Christmas season here on Tuesday evening. The trees were spruced up and decorated with varicolored Christmas lights by private sector groups and organizations under the Adopt-A-Tree program of the city government. In a simple lighting ceremony, Mayor Madelaine Alfelor-Gazmen echoed the hopes of the representatives of students from the various schools in the city for a blessed Christmas and a united Iriga.

A little over three thousand families have been identified and registered by the city government for the national government’s poverty alleviation program, the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, or better known as the 4Ps. According to Bon Alfelor, a member of the group which conducted the validation and listing of the potential beneficiaries under the program, the number constitute those who have fully complied with the documentation requirements of the program.