September 8 is widely known to all Catholics as the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. No less than Mayor JR Seares himself recognized the importance of this date when he posted this on his facebook account Saturday Morning:

“Happy birthday to our blessed Virgin Mary, let us start our day by doing what is just n right..Relief operations (Municipal Wide)”

Accompanied by Municipal Employees and soldiers from the Philippine Army, the Mayor started a 3-day (4 by tomorrow) quest to visit all 15 barangays of Dolores and distribute 2 kilograms of rice to each household.

While most of the rice was procured by the Local Government of Dolores, Sangguniang Panlalawigan Member Chari Bersamin extended a helping hand by donating 9 cavans. Also, Dolores is fortunate to be the only town in Abra gifted by the Office of Civil Defense with another 10 cavans of rice.

The Mayor also took the opportunity to address some concerns by the residents and to also inform them of upcoming projects for their Barangays.

Pictures of the Activity can be found at our facebook page.