IT’S A non-working holiday in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) on Monday, as it celebrates its 32nd founding anniversary. In the week leading up to July 15, the region’s local government units held the gong relay as a symbol of unity. It started and will end in Kalinga, this year’s host of the main anniversary celebration. Representatives of the region — composed of the provinces of Abra, Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga and Mountain Province plus the independent city of Baguio — have committed to re-file in the upcoming 18th Congress the bill that will create the Autonomous Region of the Cordillera (ARC), with inputs for amendments on previous proposals from a multi-sector drafting committee organized by the CAR-Regional Development Council.

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