Time for Baguio to cash in on flower festival
By Vincent Cabreza
When the Panagbenga, or the Baguio Flower Festival, was started in 1996, it was designed to bring back business to a city ravaged by the 1990 earthquake.
When the Panagbenga, or the Baguio Flower Festival, was started in 1996, it was designed to bring back business to a city ravaged by the 1990 earthquake.
Food and handicraft products displayed annually in the street bazaar called “Session Road in Bloom” here have not been about the “big business boys” for sometime now.
During the last week of January, John Kimo and his three companions started sorting scrap lumber, iron mesh, old cracked tiles and other stuff, which others might have used as firewood or discarded to end up at the city dump.
