About 5,000 members of the Foundation University community joined this year’s Dal-uy Festival, held once again at the Pantawan People’s Park Rizal Boulevard in Dumaguete City Aug. 31.
They released to the sea lanterns bearing their handwritten prayers for success in their academic and professional pursuits, and for world peace, the city said Sept. 1.
Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo congratulated Foundation University president Dean Sinco, the faculty, students, staff, and alumni of one of the venerable institutions of higher learning in this part of the country.
Dal-uy, a festival of hope adopted from the Japanese tradition, is celebrated every year by FU with the participants sending lanterns bearing messages of hope, resolutions, dreams, prayers, and aspirations afloat in the open sea.
Remollo’s own lantern invokes for world peace, clean government, and message of felicitations for Sinco and Foundation University, which like Dumaguete City is also celebrating its 75th Diamond Jubilee founding anniversary.
Assistant city administrator Dinno Depositario and City Tourism Office OIC Katherine Therese Aguilar also joined the celebration.
In keeping with the rules, all lanterns and their wooden platforms were collected by assigned personnel at the conclusion of the event to be recycled next year. ||
