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PANAG-APOY.The practice of residents in Sagada, Mountain Province where they light pine twigs beside the tomb at the cemetery every afternoon of November 1 will again be set aside this year as the national Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) and the municipal IATF have ordered the closure of cemeteries from October 29 to November 3. Sagada Mayor James Pooten said the practice is the resident's way of remembering the dead much the same as lighting a candle. (Filephoto of Dodie Mendillo taken in 2016) BAGUIO CITY -The usual observance of All Saints Day in Sagada, Mountain Province where the town appears to be "on flame" will not happen again this year after the local government unit (LGU) ordered cemeteries to be closed on November 1. "We will not have the usual observance of November 1 where residents light a "saleng" (pine twig) together at the cemetery in the afternoon," Mayor James Pooten said. Pooten, in a phone interview with the Philippine News Agency

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