Fifty Sagay City residents are expected to attend the swimming seminar of the Negros Occidental Provincial Sports and Development Office in Sagay City this month.

The seminar is the first project of the PSDO for 2006, but it will not be considered as part of the provincial mass-based sports program since the Sagay City local government will shoulder the expenses of the event, Manuel De Oro, officer-in-charge of the PSDO, said.

The PSDO will consider the seminar as an aspect of its regular office function because it will only provide its technical expertise and choose the resource speaker for the project, he added.

De Oro said the Sagay City local government, through its sports coordinator Benson Fernandez, will sponsor the seminar by providing the food and venue for the participants.

Swimming was one of the disciplines launched by the PSDO's grassroots sports program last year including athletics and boxing with a P60,000 allocation.

The PSDO is also planning to include taekwondo and table tennis in this year's provincial mass-based 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 a P60,000 allocation for this year, but in case the taekwondo and table tennis activities will be approved, the budget will most likely 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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