DAGUPAN CITY — Every first day of January, it has been the tradition of residents of barangay Pogo Grande, this city, to meet the new year with a bang — and a big bang it is!
Dubbed as “Balon Kaaguan” (New Noon), residents donate and gather up unsold firecrackers and hang then up along the main barangay road. This snaking away of firecrackers is lit at the strike of 12 noon of January 1 with all the excitement of a fiesta.
More than a hundred meters of small and large firecrackers put together to build the longest Judas’ belt estimated to cost more than P100,000 never fails to draw people from all over the city to witness the event.
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