Luxembourgian Raymund Stoffel (left) with Bago City Mayor Ramon Torres, right, leads the countdown last night before the fireworks show at left photo.*/Gil Severino & James Toga photos

NEW YEAR REVELRY PEACEFUL
44 BLAST-RELATED CASES

By Teresa Ellera-Dulla

Negros Occidental and Bacolod City usher in the year of the ox peacefully with only 44 firecracker - related incidents that landed in different hospitals.

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Couple Raymund Stoffel, retired corporate lawyer of Luxembourg with wife Amie Arquilas of Bago City, initiated the Lights of Bago City which awed Bagueños last night.*/Gil Severino photo

Fireworks Display on New Year Wows Bagoeños, Negrenses

BAGO CITY - Bagoeños and Negrenses enjoyed the spectacular fireworks display held last night at the Manuel Y. Torres Sports Center in this city south of Bacolod.

A huge crowd of approximately 10,000 people within the stadium came to witness the biggest New Year’s event.

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NDB columnist Gil Severino (left) who teaches Filipino indigenous fairy tales for adults poses with Director Peque Gallaga after a press conference last December 30.*

The Lights of Bago City!!!

It’s a first in the history of Bago City, that fireworks display synchronized with music, that’s patterned after Europe, was conducted at the Manuel Torres Sports Complex, Bago City last night.The stadium was jampacked by people not only Bagueños but also coming from neighboring towns and cities, as far as Dumaguete.

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