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Article: Opening of new airport excites mayor.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- January 17, 2008
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BACOLOD CITY, Jan. 17 (PNA) -- Silay City Mayor Jose Montelibano is excited with the scheduled inauguration of the Bacolod-Silay Airport of International Standard Friday as this will bring tremendous economic gains for the city.
"I feel like a kid who is waiting so excitedly to receive a Christmas gift. I feel this way with the opening of the airport," Montelibano said.
The mayor said that the airport of international standard is actually one of the priority projects of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Thus, she sent Vice President Noli de Castro to lead the official opening of the new airport, together with her son Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel Mikey" ...