31st Southeast Asian Games Silver Medalist Helen Talongen Aclopen paid a courtesy call to Bontoc Mayor Franklin Odsey on May 26, 2022, at the Mayor’s Office of the Bontoc Municipal Capitol.
Aclopen who traces her roots in Barangay Dalican, Bontoc, Mountain Province represented the country for the Kurash women’s 48kg division and won over Thailand’s Duangdara Kumlert and Myanmar’s Khin Khin Su at the Hoai Duc Gymnasium in Hanoi, Vietnam. She was accompanied by Municipal Sangguniang Kabataan Federation President Sherwin Chamkas.** Christy Mae F. Che-es