{"id":110854,"date":"2017-08-09T03:16:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=110854"},"modified":"2017-08-09T03:16:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:16:45","slug":"psc-throws-support-to-kadayawan-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/09\/psc-throws-support-to-kadayawan-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"PSC throws support to Kadayawan Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110856\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110856\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/butch2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110856\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/butch2-1.jpg\" alt=\"PSC chair William \u201cButch\u201d Ramirez (in photo) and Commissioner Charles Maxey will lead government sports leaders who will grace the occasion  next week. (PNA photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/butch2-1.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/butch2-1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PSC chair William \u201cButch\u201d Ramirez (in photo) and Commissioner Charles Maxey will lead government sports leaders who will grace the occasion next week. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Aug. 9 \u2014 Preserving Philippine\u00a0 culture through\u00a0 sports,\u00a0 the\u00a0 Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) has thrown its support to the world\u2019s famous\u00a0 Kadayawan Festival\u00a0 set in Davao City, starting August 12.<\/p>\n<p>The government support is in line with the President&#8217;s directive to give access to the peripheries &#8211; communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>PSC chair William \u201cButch\u201d Ramirez and Commissioner Charles Maxey will lead government sports leaders who will grace the occasion\u00a0 next week.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Maxey on Tuesday said\u00a0 the sports agency has allotted PHP 900,000 for co-organizing two sports events \u2013 girls\u2019 volleyball and tribal games.<\/p>\n<p>Participants of the volleyball competition will be coming from the various public schools , representing\u00a0 the three districts of Davao.<\/p>\n<p>Tribal games will also\u00a0 highlight the festival which will be participated in by the indigenous people of Davao-Lumads.<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, Ramirez, who was then the city\u2019s sports development officer, and Commissioner Maxey, himself a sportswriter, organized the tribal games.<\/p>\n<p>This support of the PSC is to sustain its grassroots sports development. Early this year, the sports body has organized childrens\/ Indigenous\u00a0 games in Mindanao especially in the beleaguered Marawi City and in Ifugao (Cordilleras), site of the world\u2019s scenic Rice Terraces (Banaue). (Primo P. Agatep\/PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Aug. 9 \u2014 Preserving Philippine\u00a0 culture through\u00a0 sports,\u00a0 the\u00a0 Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) has thrown its support to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":110856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[20833,20298],"class_list":["post-110854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-kadayawan-festival","tag-philippine-sports-commission-psc","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}