PINYAHAN FESTIVAL

With thanks to the designer

     Once upon a time Barangay Cannery Site was a farm of the settlers who migrated from the Visayas.  The land was planted with various crops, corn, palay, cassava, potatoes, leaf onions, and others.  There's no water around.  Water was transported from an artesian well at the center of a once striving from scratch municipality of Polomolok and other far distant rivers and springs.
     Rat infestation and locusts often discouraged farmers but the strong-willed struggled and persevered.  When a multinational company that plants pineapple arrived and constructed their factory at the very place which is now barangay Cannery Site, the once desolate-like, could-be-abandoned land became alive with people coming from different places of the country.
     Pineapple has changed the lives of these people.  It is undeniable that parents has found a living, acquired properties and sent their children to schools.  Now we celebrate Pinyahan Festival as a gesture of gratitude to this specie of plant, pineapple. Pineapple is now a way of life of the people of barangay Cannery Site, it is ingrained in their culture, it acquired a place in their hearts.  Long live the  Pinyahan Festival!