Tayag, Bautista, other city mayors and the big crowd, all wore yellow T-shirts marked “Ako ay World Class” which is the slogan of Balanga City. Elementary school pupils cheered heavily as they joined their teachers in the dance-exercise. High school and college students, senior citizens, police officers, city and provincial governments’ employees and others started the“hataw” at 5:00 in the morning.morning. Tayag, Garcia, Bautista and other city mayors with some elementary schoolpupils walked about 400 meters before joining the crowd.The school children carried a streamer saying “Tara na’t Lakad na.”The city mayors are officers of the National Executive Board of the League of Cities of the Philippines on a two-day executive planning session.
