COMMUNITY SPIRIT. Participants take part in Baguio City's month-long "Panagbenga 2023," which opened on Wednesday (Feb. 1, 2023). The festival was originally conceptualized to help lift the city's economy after the 1990 earthquake. (PNA photo by Liza T. Agoot) BAGUIO CITY - The city's most famous month-long festival, Panagbenga, opened on Wednesday to a bevy of community-led activities, including two opening grand parades participated in by students and groups both from the public and private sectors. The Panagbenga was started in 1996 to help boost the spirits of residents as they get back on their feet after a major earthquake from a few years back. Twenty-seven years later, the city arrives at another flash point as the festival once again helps the city recover from the global coronavirus pandemic. "Panagbenga was born because time there was a need for the city to recover from the devastation of the 1990 earthquake and there was a need to have activities