Former Olympian Gillian Akiko Thomson, now commissioner of the Philippine Sports Commission was a guest of the municipality of Gasan in connection with a sports clinic for women. Thomson was accompanied by other PSC officials during the 3-day event that ended yesterday with a fun-run from Bacong-Bacong to the poblacion. The run was participated in by women who joined the two-day competitions in volleyball, softball, badminton and sepak takraw. Thomson won two gold and two silver medals in swimming during the Southeast Asian Games in 1992. 
The PSC officials also graced the "Pinaka" food contest held at the Guingona Park activity area where Gasan's barangays competed for the biggest and tastiest native delicacies like bibingka, suman, espasol, puding na balinghoy with new ingredients introduced like malunggay, mongo, peanuts and pork.
These activities are part of the town's quadricentennial celebration that falls on August 20 this year. Activities include other competitions in different sports, "Layag Ko", drum and lyre, cheerdance, modern dance, ballroom dancing, walkathon for senior citizens, beauty pageants (Bb. Gasan and Miss Gaysan), and Kalesayahan Festival.
(In photo: Akiko Thomson (right) with Gasan Mayor Vicky Lao Lim; a girl tries her hands at volleyball)
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