The Negros Occidental Provincial Sports and Development Office will hold a swimming seminar in Sagay City this month as a preparation for its provincial mass-based sports program in 2006.

The Sagay City local government, through its sports coordinator Benson Fernandez, will sponsor the seminar, and PSDO will provide the technical expertise, Manuel De Oro, officer-in-charge of the PSDO, said.

De Oro said the Sagay City local government will gather the swimming aspirants willing to attend the seminar, while the PSDO will choose the resource speaker.

Swimming was part of the disciplines launched by the PSDO's provincial mass-based sports program last year as well as athletics and boxing with a P60,000 budget.

The PSDO is also planning to include taekwondo and table tennis in this year's grassroots project. The proposal will be presented on Jan. 14 when the Provincial Government officials meet at the Mambukal Resort in Murcia.

The PSDO also hopes to retain the P60,000 allocation for this year, but in case the taekwondo and table tennis activities will be approved, the budget will be increased, De Oro said.

He said that the PSDO is also supporting the whole-year round boxing program of Escalante City, spearheaded by Mayor Santiago Barcelona.

The grassroots project was launched in the cities of Kabanklan, Sagay, Bago and Escalante last year, and in Ilog town. *CIT

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