{"id":48216,"date":"2015-05-05T02:46:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=48216"},"modified":"2015-05-05T02:46:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:46:37","slug":"abs-cbn-cancels-forevermore-thanksgiving-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/05\/abs-cbn-cancels-forevermore-thanksgiving-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"ABS-CBN cancels \u2018Forevermore\u2019 thanksgiving concert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enrique Gil and Liza Soberano. Facebook Photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sitio Pungayan, which served as the setting of ABS-CBN\u2019s teleserye \u201cForevermore,\u201d continued to draw more businesses and tourists in their small and quiet village.<\/p>\n

As a thanksgiving event for the success of Forevermore, the network shared its plans to hold a concert on May 10 at La Presa\u2019s setting, which is in Poblacion village.<\/p>\n

Although ABS-CBN had not yet applied for a concert permit, but Tuba town mayor Florencio Bentrez was firm on his stand that he would not allow them to hold a concert in their watershed area.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not received any request and I won\u2019t grant it. It\u2019s dangerous. Unsafe. It will draw too many people,\u201d Bentrez said in a text message.<\/p>\n

Bentrez also ordered their town\u2019s licensing office to stop issuing permits to small businesses in the area.<\/p>\n

Sitio Pungayan inhabitants and other concerned citizens were also unhappy with the thanksgiving event that would be held in their village. They then led a campaign which sought to protect Mt. Sto. Tomas watershed.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, the group\u2019s petition prompted ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation chairperson Gina Lopez and ABS-CBN president Charo Santos-Concio to change the venue of the concert.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps you are not aware that the area in question is within a critical watershed, one of the last forested areas in southern Benguet, which is an important source of potable water for residents and visitors of Baguio City, including downstream communities until Tubao and Rosario in La Union,\u201d the petitioners wrote in their statement addressing the network.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The show\u2019s popularity] continues to attract tourists by the hundreds to the area every weekend since late last year [and] the normal weekend crowd already impacts heavily on this fragile ecosystem, with the garbage left on the mountain and aggravated pollution of Amliang Creek; the trampling of young trees, natural biodiversity, and the crops of the local farmers; the traffic congestion; and the sudden influx of business interests,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n

Last Saturday, ABS-CBN announced that it cancelled its thanksgiving event due to environmental concerns. The network also acknowledged the fact that \u2018the quiet village has become a tourist phenomenon of sorts, transforming local businesses and attracting unheard-of levels of traffic,\u2019 after it was popularized by their teleserye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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