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                    [ArticleID] => 294129
                    [Title] => Gapan eyeing Guinness with pair of giant slippers
                    [Summary] => GAPAN CITY — With a pair of slippers (tsinelas), this Nueva Ecija city hopes to make it big.


Slipper makers here are finishing work on a 30-foot long pair, which city officials hope would land in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest in the world.

Mayor Ernesto Natividad said it took eight people three weeks (eight hours each day) to make one of the pair, now displayed at his residence.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097277 [AuthorName] => Manny Galvez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 290257 [Title] => Gapan holds Tsinelas Fest [Summary] => GAPAN CITY — This Nueva City showcases its slippers industry, which generates an income of P500 million to P600 million yearly, in a 17-day Tsinelas Festival which kicks off today.

The festival, part of Gapan’s fourth cityhood anniversary celebration, aims to promote the city as the "footwear capital" of the North, said Mayor Ernesto Natividad.

The city’s slippers, mostly crafted in Barangays Mangino, Pambuan and San Lorenzo, have found their way to markets across the country. — Manny Galvez [DatePublished] => 2005-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ArticleID] => 294129
                    [Title] => Gapan eyeing Guinness with pair of giant slippers
                    [Summary] => GAPAN CITY — With a pair of slippers (tsinelas), this Nueva Ecija city hopes to make it big.


Slipper makers here are finishing work on a 30-foot long pair, which city officials hope would land in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest in the world.

Mayor Ernesto Natividad said it took eight people three weeks (eight hours each day) to make one of the pair, now displayed at his residence.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097277 [AuthorName] => Manny Galvez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 290257 [Title] => Gapan holds Tsinelas Fest [Summary] => GAPAN CITY — This Nueva City showcases its slippers industry, which generates an income of P500 million to P600 million yearly, in a 17-day Tsinelas Festival which kicks off today.

The festival, part of Gapan’s fourth cityhood anniversary celebration, aims to promote the city as the "footwear capital" of the North, said Mayor Ernesto Natividad.

The city’s slippers, mostly crafted in Barangays Mangino, Pambuan and San Lorenzo, have found their way to markets across the country. — Manny Galvez [DatePublished] => 2005-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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