My experience during our On-Job-Training at the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). We are three students from Filamer Christian College (FCC).College of Computer Studies who applied student trainee at the DILG. Mr. Jose Aurelio B. Roldan is the OIC-CLGOO of DILG. And Miss Bing is the Secretary.

April 15,08, is the starting of our On Job Training. Both of us are feel nervous and shy before interring the office of DILG. Because this is the first day of our On Job Training. And we are scared because we experience on how mingle with the employees of DILG. When we encounter the OIC-CLGOO of DILG he told us that Miss Bing his Secretary is the one who teach us of what to do inside the office. And Miss Bing is automatically teach us. Our work that day are filling and encode important things. Ob course from the demand of Mr. Roldan. And that day also we start to faced any kind of people from every Barangay of Roxas City. Like the Brgy. Captains, SK Chairmans and Secretarys of every Barangay and so on. And we are the student trainee who entertain the visitors and ask what they are needs. Sometimes the visitors went to the office to gather Certification,and we are the student trainee who give their needs. When the DILG have a seminar or session with the Provencial employees. And they have visitors from Ilo-ilo and manila.We are the student trainee who assist the visitors. We are blessed because the employees of DILG are good to us. Some of the employees threat us as a daughter. Sometimes if we have’nt work we talk with the employees. we are very thankful because we are the student trainee of DILG,because we encounter the secretary of Brgy. Dumolog.Her name is Mrs. Gina. She is our Mother in the office because everyday she went to the office to do her  work.She is closer to us,because she is funny when she talks.We like her attitude she threat us also as a daughter. She loves us,. Sometimes we recieve phone calls from the other places.We are also funny experience about phone calls,when the time phone rung.And the student trainee are inside the office and no one employees are inside the office. No one of the student trainee get the phone  to ask who is in the line. instead both of us laugh and laugh. We laugh because we acting like an innocent..

In the end of our On Job Training. We Successfully finish our !00 Hrs OJt.   

Roxas City, known as the municipality of Capiz is the capital of the province of Capiz. It is 20 minutes away from the municipality of Ivisan and Panitan.

In 1569, Captain Diego de Artieda who was sent by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi from Cebu, landed on the town of Pan-ay and proclaimed it as the capital. Later the capital was moved to its present site upon discovering that the town of Capiz was near the sea where they can have better docking facilities. The Spaniards saw the long coastal cover and envisioned a trading and shipping center. Ports were constructed in Libas and later in Culasi.

A river meanders across the town, cuts it at the heart and divides it almost equally into two. Tributaries from the mountains flowed into the head of Panay River through settlements formed along its shores, irrigating and fertilizing the land to provide food to the people. Following its course into the sea, it provides water to fishponds during high tide.

In 1590, the Navy of Acapulco, Mexico made Capiz port its arsenal (naval yard) where they can seek shelter when the sea was rough. Capiz then eventually grew into a bustling port and several houses of stones were built. The social and political status enjoyed by the native chieftains of Capiz often resulted in mixed marriages with the Spaniards. The mestizo descendants became the base of the principalia or influential citizens. Their privileged positions allowed them to build houses around the favored square of the poblacion – around the church and the government complex. Their children became the beneficiaries of the Augustinian mission in 1593.

In 1746, Capiz was made the seat of the politico-military government, although it was ecclesiastically controlled by the Bishopric of Cebu. In the latter part of 1795, under Gobernadorcillo Miguel Bautista, the old road to Baybay Beach was built as an extension of San Roque Street.

The town of Capiz was frequently attacked by Muslims that in 1814, stone forts at Baybay Beach (Baluarte) were built through the initiative of Gobernadorcillo Jose Consolacion.

In 1870, the ground was broken for the foundation of the Cathedral of Capiz under the guidance of Reverend Apolonio Alvarez. It was built by sturdy hands, sweat and blood of Capizeños who were victims of forced labor.

In 1876, the diocese of Jaro in Iloilo was erected and Capiz came under its jurisdiction. In 1877, the cathedral was finally finished. Prior to its construction, a chapel was built in Burgos Street beside the municipal building.

In August 1899, the Spanish colonial government represented by Governor Juan Herrero formally surrendered to General Ananias Diokno in Baybay Beach.

Economic debacle hit the town of Capiz in 1914 when the Ayala Distillery grounded to a halt. What could have been an ambitious forerunner of nationalized industrialization became the victim of the Internal Revenue Law under American control.

In 1917, Division Superintendent of Schools F.E. Hemingway founded Capiz Trade School for intermediate pupils and offered woodworking as the only vocational course. The next division superintendent opened Capiz High School.

In 1926, Division Superintendent Arthur Wittman authorized teaching of complete secondary curriculum in the Capiz Trade School. In the same year, Culasi Port was built to accommodate inter-island ships.

On February 15, 1951 the diocese of Capiz became a separate ecclesiastical jurisdiction from Jaro. Its first bishop was Msgr. Manuel Yap. In the same year, former Vice Mayor Libertad Conlu became the first female mayor of Capiz.

Capiz became a chartered city on May 12, 1951 through House Bill 1528 sponsored by Ramon Acuña Arnaldo, the representative of the First District of Capiz. It was approved by President Elpidio Quirino on April 11, 1951 as Republic Act 608. Consequently, the town was named Roxas City after her greatest son, President Manuel Acuña Roxas, the last president of the Commonwealth and the first president of the Philippine Republic.

The first appointed mayor was Lorenzo Acuña Arnaldo followed by Ramon Berjamin Blanco, Jose Dorado and Juliano Alovera Alba. In 1959, Lorenzo Acuña Arnaldo again became the head of the city as the first elected mayor. The next mayor was Teodoro Roxas Arcenas who was succeeded by Juliano Alovera Alba who was also the representative of the First District of Capiz at the House of Congress when Martial Law was declared. The incumbent mayor of Roxas City is Mayor Vicente B. Bermejo, who is the former governor of the province of Capiz.

Location

Roxas City is situated at the northeastern tip of the island of Panay within the geographical coordinates of 11°35′ N, 122°45′ E. Its boundaries are: the Visayan Sea to the north, the municipality of Panitan to the south, the municipality of Ivisan to the west, and the municipality of Panay to the East. It is located 250 nautical miles (460 km) southeast of Manila, 135 kilometers northeast of Iloilo City, and 86 kilometers east of Kalibo, Aklan. Travel time to Manila is 45 minutes by air and 18 hours by sea.

Festivals

 Sinadya Sa Halaran

The Sinadya sa Halaran Festival is celebrated every first week of December in commemoration of the founding of the city followed by the Diwal Festival signifying the city’s importance as the country’s “Seafood Capital” along with the Aswang Festival that symbolizes the rich heritage of myth and folklore in the province. There used to be two separate and distinct festivals, the Halaran (“Offering”) and the Sinadya (“Celebration”), the latter celebrated by the Province of Capiz and the other by the City of Roxas. The Halaran used to be held at the same time as the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which was celebrated by the Immaculate Conception Metropolitan Cathedral. However, considering the huge costs of holding two festivals in a year, the two festivals were merged, with both the Province of Capiz and the City of Roxas contributing to the expenses.

 Diwal Festival

The Roxas City Seafood Festival is held to commemorate and promote the resurgence of the Angel wing clam or diwal, which neared extinction until protected and cultivated in Roxas City.

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