Janurary 6, 2010, Valencia Mayor Leandro Jose Catarata, New Market

The mayor of Valencia City in Mindanao announed that they would be building a building to house the street markets, click here. The old market burned over a year ago and the temporary structures also burned on December 27. Hopefully the new buildings will give stabilty to the local economy. I met Mayor on my trip to Valencia and wrote about the meeting HERE. He impressed me as being a very intelligent man, well educated and very progressive. His desire is to increase the standard of living for his people.