Mandaue Metropolis is popping 57, and for the primary time, pickleball will get to be a part of the celebration.
The game debuts within the metropolis’s annual workers’ sports activities pageant this August, becoming a member of basketball, volleyball, and badminton as a part of a month-long celebration constructed across the theme “Mandaue at 57: Unity in Movement.” It’s a small addition on paper, nevertheless it says one thing about how far pickleball has traveled domestically—from a sport the Metropolis Council was lately requested to fold into faculty and grassroots packages, to at least one now sharing a stage with town’s extra established workforce sports activities.
The lineup, unveiled at a media launch on Wednesday, stretches nicely past the courts. Metropolis Administrator Atty. Gonzalo Malig-on Jr. tied the “Movement” theme instantly again to Mayor Thadeo “Jonkie” Ouano’s recurring branding round unity—the Unity Run, the Unity Cup—framing this yr’s addition as proof that the message is supposed to be acted on, not simply repeated.
A Sports activities Competition With a New Form
Pickleball’s debut comes alongside a structural change to how the workers’ video games are run. Mandaue Sports activities Fee officer-in-charge Mary Pleasure Tabal-Jimenez stated contributors will now compete in blended clusters fairly than the previous inter-department format, a shift designed to get workers from totally different metropolis workplaces truly mixing fairly than sticking to their normal departmental silos.
The sports activities slate sits inside a a lot greater calendar. The One-Cease Serbisyo Caravan, a 5.7-kilometre Unity Run, the Mandaue Constitution Push Bike Race, and the Constitution BXC Race spherical out the athletic facet, whereas the cultural program brings within the DepEd Dance Palabas, the Liga Constitution Beats 2026 battle of the bands, an Workers’ Expertise Evening, the Lantugi Cebuano freestyle rap and spoken phrase competitors, and a meals park constructed round international delicacies. Taxpayers’ Evening returns 26 August to recognise town’s enterprise companions, and the celebration closes out with the Mandaue Metropolis Paralympic Invitational Event on 11 and 12 September 2026.
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The month’s centerpiece, although, has nothing to do with sport. Ouano delivers his first State of the Metropolis Tackle on 28 August, adopted by Constitution Day itself on 30 August—a date that additionally brings the Constitution Day PNight, Adlaw sa Pasalamat, and a Constitution Day Live performance Evening headlined by Silent Sanctuary.
None of it comes low cost. Kristian Marc Cabahug, govt director of the Mandaue Funding Promotions Tourism Motion Heart, confirmed town has put aside ₱23 million for this yr’s celebration, up from ₱20 million final yr, with the rise pushed largely by the added price of staging the mayor’s first SOCA.
Metropolis workers stand to learn from the event too. The Mandaue Metropolis Council has accredited, on first studying, a further two-month honorarium as a Constitution Day bonus for job order and different non-regular workers, whereas common workers are set to obtain the third tranche of their up to date wage schedule below Government Order No. 64, in step with a Division of Funds and Administration round issued in July.
Between a brand new sport on the roster, a reshuffled competitors format, and a mayor stepping as much as ship his first deal with to town, Mandaue’s 57th Constitution Anniversary is shaping as much as be busier than the one earlier than it.
