Chicken inasal grill
hits 3.9 kilometers
BY CHRYSEE SAMILLANO

Andy Alvarez photo

Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Senator Chiz Escudero, right, cook chicken inasal to help organizers break the Guinness Book world record.*

Bacolod City was able to set up a 3.985-kilometer chicken barbeque grill at the North Wing Parking area of SM City-Bacolod yesterday in its attempt to break the world record.

However, this has yet to be validated by the representatives of the Guinness Book of World Records.

The current world record for the longest grill is held by Sto. Tomas, Pangasinan at 3.8 kilometers.

The proposal of the Bacolod City Water District to increase its water rates by 30 percent this year is untimely, Bacolod Mayor Evelio Leonardia yesterday said.

Water is very basic, so everybody is going to be affected, he said.

If at all Baciwa has to raise its water rates, it should not be 30 percent, he added. However, he also said, if possible, Baciwa should postpone its proposed rate increase.

Candoni Mayor Cicero Borromeo, 64, suffered from a stroke Sunday night and underwent brain surgery at the Pablo O. Torre Medical Center (Riverside) in Bacolod City Monday night, Dr. Melvin Ibañez said yesterday.

Borromeo was hosting a radio program over DYEZ at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday when he suffered from severe dizziness and was vomiting as he was rushed to the Bacolod Adventist Medical Center.

Borromeo suffered from brain infarction due to hypertension, Ibañez, the mayor’s attending physician, said.