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HOW YOUR TOWN GOT ITS NAME
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF NARVACAN
Contents
1 Barangays
2 History
3 External links
4 Original Source
Barangays
Salcedo befriended the small tribe of indigenous valley peoples that resided
in the area while Spanish families established a township in 1576 . As part of
the modern township, a Roman Catholic parish was established by the
Augustinian religious order on April 25 , 1587. The Narvacan parish would
become one of the first Roman Catholic parishes in present-day Ilocos Sur.
Many, many years ago, before the advent of the Spanish consquistadores,
there was already in this part of the country settlements composed of
barangays made by the Malays dotting the narrow and regular coastline. One
of this was what the town of Narvacan is now. Tradition says that Narvacan
was named after an incident that occurred after the founding of Villa
Fernandina (now Vigan City).
The crew sought temporary shelter at the sitio south of Pantoc which
they named San Pedro, where they gave thanks to God for their deliverance,
when they reported to Salcedo; they have the expression they heard as the
name of the place. By slight phonetical change, it became Narvacan, the
present name of the town.
Municipality of Narvacan
OVERALL CATEGORY
There's something about Ilocos Sur Governor and Team Unity senatorial bet
Luis 'Chavit' Singson that reminds one of times past — and it's not because he
already qualifies for a senior citizen discount (he will turn 66 in June).
While Chavit has the almost requisite campaign website in these cyber
times, in many ways he seems very much the retro politician. He has been
spotted, for example, lugging around a comedy trio and dancing girls as part
of his campaign.
Just last week, Chavit was again caught on tape promising "50,000" to local
officials in Nueva Ecija who could help him become one of the top five
"senatoriables." Noticing that there were members of the media present,
however, he quickly said that he was going to give "50,000 amulets," not
P50,000.
Then there was the time he flew by helicopter from Ilocos Sur to Manila just
to help talk to habitual hostage-taker Armando 'Jun' Ducat, who was
keeping some 26 children captive inside a bus. In fact, Chavit even
clambered on the bus, and then gave the children P500 each. When Ducat
finally surrendered, the governor was seen holding Ducat's two hand
grenades.
The act was classic Chavit. It was also so politics circa 1970s.
Capers like these have made Chavit a media favorite in the campaign trail,
even though he has yet to break into the so-called "Magic 12" among the
senatoriables. But although his strategy for winning a Senate seat seems to
be suffering from a time warp (and perhaps from warped advice), anyone
who dismisses Chavit Singson too easily even this late in the game may live
to regret it.
Indeed, while Chavit burst into national consciousness only in 2000, the man
is nothing less than a political veteran. His politics reeks of the '70s because
he first gained prominence in that era, which was when the use of guns,
goons, and gold reached its peak. And while at first glance he seems out of
sync with the times, his presence in the senatorial campaign is actually a
reminder that feudal politics is still alive and well.
Chavit became governor of Ilocos Sur in 1971, and has since wielded power
there by combining charisma, patronage, and warlordism. The latter two, of
course, are part of the country's so-called "old politics." So are political
dynasties, of which there are several choice examples in Chavit's province.
He heads one, and is related to another clan, Crisologo, which also has
considerable political clout. The Crisologos, in fact, used to hold sway over
Ilocos Sur — until Chavit toppled them from their political throne.
For sure, many people have a hard time swallowing portrayals of Chavit
Singson as one of the "heroes" of Edsa Dos. But in Ilocos Sur, residents do
look at him as a folk hero, the one who "saved" them from the abusive and
violent Crisologos. Floro Singson Crisologo was congressman from 1946
until his assassination in 1970. Crisologo's wife, Carmeling was provincial
governor for a long time.
Together with their son Vincent or 'Bingbong' and their private army of
saka-saka (barefoot goons), they implemented the infamous "tobacco
blockade" in the 1960s that prevented tobacco farmers from transporting or
selling their produce outside the province. Instead, the farmers were forced
to sell their tobacco to Fortune Tobacco Company, then owned by the
Crisologos.
Floro Crisologo was Chavit's uncle. "My family supported my uncle... who
was then congressman, his wife was governor and his brother was mayor,"
Chavit said in a 2001 interview fueled by red wine. "It was a family affair."
In turn, Crisologo appointed Chavit, then just 21, Vigan chief of police.
Chavit later morphed into the biggest shipper of tobacco in the province. He
resisted the Crisologo's tobacco blockade. To punish the young businessman,
Crisologo ordered Chavit, who also owned Vigan Electric Company, to
transfer the power firm's office to the provincial capitol and remit its
income to the provincial treasurer.
Chavit went to Manila and brought the case before the Supreme Court,
consequently declaring an open war against the Crisologos. "I did not want
to fight at first, but they took my livelihood. So I had to fight back," Chavit
recounted.
He did that through the courts, as well as with money and guns, which he
gave to people who were by then fed up with the Crisologos.
But that stopped when he took over, he said. "When I became governor in
1971, I arrested my followers who wanted to take revenge," Chavit said.
"There should be a stop to all the killings."
"I am not really a tough guy," he added. "I am just hardworking. In politics,
you don't have to say anything. You just have to keep your word. I always
keep my word unlike some people, unlike Erap."
Erap, of course, is ex-President Estrada, who Chavit says tried to get him
killed, which is why he turned against the former action film star. Chavit,
however, seems to have more lives than a street cat (the reason why, he has
said, people in Nueva Ecija were asking him "for amulets"). Just recently, a
helicopter he was riding while on the campaign trail crashed, leaving him
with several nasty bruises to display to the ever-curious media.
"Luckily, I was dancing with a fat woman and she took all the shrapnel," he
recalled.
When he had a heart attack, his wife said he was dead "for more than a
minute." She asked him what he saw while he was gone. "White, like
clouds," he answered. "No, those were not clouds," his wife said. "Those were
smoke. You were in hell."
Even in his youth, Chavit was very much acquainted with death — he was an
embalmer who dissected rotten cadavers in his family's funeral parlor.
He was barely out of his teens then and a college dropout. There was no
licensed embalmer to sign death certificates, he recounted, so "I had to study
and get a license from the health department. They gave me rotten cadavers
that were already eaten by rats to study, but I had to endure for the sake of
our business."
TEENAGE MILLIONAIRE
He studied architecture in college for two years before politics hijacked his
studies. When his family had to leave Vigan to escape the wrath of their
political enemies, Chavit stayed and took care of their businesses: a
construction company, movie houses, a tobacco plantation, and the funeral
parlor. "I was just a teenager but I was already a millionaire," he said.
"The family had a vast landholding and we had a lot of businesses. I was
giving away houses to politicians, including (then President Ferdinand)
Marcos." To protect the family's interests, Chavit had to enter politics.
He became councilor of Vigan in 1967. Two years later, he fought and lost
against his uncle Floro Crisologo as congressman of Ilocos Sur. In 1970,
Crisologo was shot in the head at the entrance of the St. Paul's Cathedral
after attending an afternoon mass. The murder remains unsolved, and no
case was filed.
Yet tongues wagged that the crime could be traced to Chavit, although no
one ever came forward with any evidence. Chavit was elected governor the
following year, beating his uncle's widow. Since then, Chavit has been either
congressman or governor of Ilocos Sur.
Now that he is aiming for the Senate, Chavit has anointed his vice governor,
Deogracias Victor Savellano, as his successor at Ilocos Sur's capitol. When
Chavit took a breather from politics in 2001, he also endorsed Savellano's
bid to take his place as governor.
Other political clans control town-level politics and have their own political
machinery in Ilocos Sur. But they seek the support of the provincial elite,
and particularly that of their governor, Chavit Singson, to strengthen their
political resources. Political alliance with the Singsons becomes more
critical as one aspires to be elected for congressional and provincial-level
positions.
The Singsons themselves have been quite busy in both provincial and
municipal politics. When Chavit became governor, his brother, Evaristo or
'Titong,' was elected mayor of Vigan, the province's capital, while his cousin
and now political opponent, Eric Singson, won the mayoralty position in
Candon town. Titong became governor in 1987 when Chavit assumed the
congressional seat for the first district of Ilocos Sur.
These days, Jerry Singson is a provincial board member, along with Chavit's
son Ronald and son-in-law Jonathan Justo Orros III. Chavit's cousins hold
elective positions in the province, too: Eric Singson is the representative of
the 2nd district of Ilocos Sur in Congress, while his son Allen is Candon
mayor and brother Alfonso a Candon councilor.
A few months after Edsa Dos, Malacañang returned to Ilocos Sur's coffers
some P107 million, the province's share of the excise tax from Virginia
tobacco. This was the same money that Chavit claimed was taken by Estrada
and which was one of the reasons Chavit bolted from his friendship with the
then president. "Binawi lang natin ito (We just took it back)," he said.
But Chavit's alliance with the Palace, as well as renewed popularity at the
local level, have sidestepped efforts to hold him and the rest of provincial
government accountable to the alleged misuse of tobacco excise taxes, among
other things.
In January 2001, a few days after People Power II, the Save Ilocos Sur
Alliance (SISA) was formed. SISA was initially composed of 40 individuals
from the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP)-Ilocos Sur chapter, some
Catholic church-based groups, former members of the Social Action Center
(SAC), a church-based organization, the leftist Alab Katipunan, and the local
media.
Since 1994, the Roman Catholic Church under Archbishop Orlando Quevedo
and some church lay individuals have been issuing statements against the
untrammeled jueteng operations and the persistence of political dynasties in
the province.
At the height of the Erap Resign protest in Ilocos Sur, Alab Katipunan
towed a "resign all" line: a call for both Estrada and Chavit to resign, a
position distinct from the other anti-Estrada groups in Ilocos Sur. The
impeachment process in Manila that led to People Power II dulled these
efforts.
The excess was estimated to be more than P41 million. The plant was
registered as a private corporation, which makes one wonder why it was
then funded by the provincial government.
SISA members also want the prosecution of Chavit and those who
participated in the alleged re-channeling of the tobacco excise tax funds out
of the province. Several days after the 2001 local political campaigns
started, however, the Ombudsman granted Chavit immunity, by virtue of
Presidential Decree 749, from all the cases that would be filed against
Estrada.
The immunity does not only constrict the space for the democratic
opposition's legal battle but also limits the conditions for political change in
the province. Chavit's strong alliance with the new political leadership
reinforces his position as Ilocos Sur's political kingpin.
Worse, SISA doesn't have the institutional support of the Catholic Church
leadership under Archbishop Edmundo Abaya, whose brother, Arnulfo, was
the head of the federation of tobacco-based cooperatives drawn in the COA
report. Unlike the time of Archbishop Quevedo, the Catholic Church in the
province has remained silent on the issue.
It's not clear why Chavit has decided to run for national office after decades
of being a local political kingpin. Officially, he has said that he wants to
"fight for decentralization of local government units from imperial Metro
Manila." He has also said in jest it was to needle Estrada's son Jose (better
known as Jinggoy) in the Senate.
But even if he has a way of telling folksy tales and has kept the media
entertained in the present campaign, there is no doubt Chavit has a serious
motive for making a try for the Upper House. Chavit always knows when to
get dead serious. And whether he lands a seat or not, he is likely to make
sure he comes out a winner in some way.
ECONOMIC HISTORY LIVELIHOOD IN THE
PAST UNTIL NOW
According to a local story, bagnet was the first served to Captain Juan de
Salcedo, Spanish conquistador, during the discovery of the town.
Bagnet Recipe
Kinds of Bagnet
First - Meat and skin of pork, which is the most expensive. It is sold per kilo.
Third - Bagnet crumbs - these are grated from the side of a couldron used. It is
also sold per kilo and can be put in pakbet.
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Bagnet Festival
Last year's celebration of the Bagnet Festival, December 2012, was its third
year. The festival of celebrating the bagnet started on December 2010 under
the administration of Mayor Zuriel S. Zaragoza when Narvacan celebrated its
434th founding anniversary and fiesta celebrations. The festival showcased
the culture and tradition of the Narvacaneos.
The festival aimed to promote their rich heritage, culture and tradition of the
town, looking forward to invite more investors who can help boost the
economic growth of Narvacan.
The celebration included many colorful and exciting activities but the
highlight of the event is the Bagnet Culinary Competition wherein about 50
participants battle featuring Bagnet as the main ingredient.
The town is not just known for its historical attractions but is now popular
for its Bagnet Festival. Narvacaneos continue to move and inspire with their
vivacious and active dedication in upholding, promoting and developing their
unique heritage.
Just like the other festivals, the Bagnet Festival is also being adopted by other
localities in the Philippines.
Narvacan Town
Narvacan Tourism
Sulvec Beach is popular among the beaches that can be visited in the town.
Narvacan Tourism Lounge can accommodate visitors during their vacations.
Tourists can also visit and take pictures with the Suvlec Watchtower. It is a
brick tower that was built by Spaniards to warn the town of pirates coming
from offshore.
Narvacaneos
The people of Narvacan are known as a strong people and are proud of their
glorious past.
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