TUGUEGARAO CITY, -- The Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) – Region 2 announced the regional champions in nutrition program, based on the 2012 monitoring and evaluation of local level plan implementation.

For the outstanding province, Quirino garnered the green banner and was automatically elevated into Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN).

The municipality of Sta Fe, Nueva Vizcaya successfully snatched the first place in the outstanding municipality category, followed by Sabtang, Batanes and Penablanca, Cagayan as the third place winner.

Cauayan City was proclaimed as outstanding city.

Rhodora Maestre, Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator, said all winners will be given due recognition in an awarding ceremony on October 25 at Santiago City, Isabela.

Maestre said the two local government units (LGUs) are also contenders of the region in the National Honor Awards, the highest recognition on nutrition program implementation in the country.

The LGUs include Batanes province for the province category, Santiago City of the city category while Lallo, Cagayan is being validated for its first year CROWN maintenance award.

She added that the results of the three national contenders are yet to be revealed soon.

Maestre is very positive that the contenders will again bring home the award as that of the previous contenders.