{"id":113,"date":"2013-12-24T18:19:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/?p=113"},"modified":"2013-12-24T18:20:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:20:45","slug":"city-of-vaughan-delegation-visited-their-sister-city-baguio-for-the-penagbenga-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/city-of-vaughan-delegation-visited-their-sister-city-baguio-for-the-penagbenga-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Vaughan delegation visited their sister city, Baguio, for the \u201cPenagbenga\u201d festival."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Penagbenga-pic01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-115\" alt=\"Penagbenga pic01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Penagbenga-pic01-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Penagbenga-pic01-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Penagbenga-pic01-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On February 18, 2013, delegation from the City of Vaughan participated in the \u201cPenagbenga\u201d festival otherwise known as Flower festival.\u00a0 Panagbenga is the largest festival in the region. The festival is always celebrated in February for a month. The highlight of the festivities was February 23 &amp; 24 where the delegation participated in the street and float parade attended by over a million people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Penagbenga-pic03-PCCT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-114\" alt=\"Penagbenga pic03 - PCCT\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Penagbenga-pic03-PCCT-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Penagbenga-pic03-PCCT-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Penagbenga-pic03-PCCT-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Canada Trade Mission headed by Oswald Tugadi, president, Philippine Chamber of Commerce, Toronto and coordinated by Cora dela Cruz, Executive Director, Canadian-Philippine Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines were also in Baguio to explore economic opportunities between Canada and the Philippines. They also participated in the Street Parade.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation from Vaughan also participated in the planting of Sister City trees, Sister City forum and the Business forum.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the Vaughan delegation and the Canada Trade Mission had a wonderful time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 18, 2013, delegation from the City of Vaughan participated in the \u201cPenagbenga\u201d festival otherwise known as Flower festival.\u00a0 Panagbenga is the largest festival in the region. The festival is always celebrated in February for a month. The highlight of the festivities was February 23 &amp; 24 where the delegation participated in the street &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/city-of-vaughan-delegation-visited-their-sister-city-baguio-for-the-penagbenga-festival\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fcav.ca\/sitepages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}