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Editorial
Celebrating today’s women
THERE’S much to tell about our women today but on such a topic, nothing beats hearing it all from the women themselves beyond an occasion “to spotlight women’s accomplishments and address ongoing and emerging issues related to women’s empowerment and gender equality,” or “empowering your girls around the nation with…
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Punchline
A call for respect, integrity
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE resolution issued by Associate Provincial Prosecutor Maychelle Ablog-Sergio, acting City Prosecutor for Dagupan City in response to the motion for reconsideration (MR) filed by Dagupan City Councilor Irene Lim-Acosta is, indeed, refreshing. It came across as a distinct call to all and sundry for…
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Out of the fire
Fluent and intelligent resolution
By Gonzalo Duque I happened to get hold of a copy of a resolution of Maychelle Ablog-Sergio, acting city prosecutor for Dagupan, denying the motion for reconsideration made by Councilor Irene-Lim Acosta, one of the respondents in the case filed by Vice Mayor Bryan Kua against the three majority…
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Random Thoughts
No annual budget again from the majority
By Leonardo Micua I HAVE a gut feeling that the seven majority councilors who boycotted the regular session of the Dagupan Sanggunian again last week are giving the message that they have no intention of passing the 2024 annual budget after three of their group were indicted by the…
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G Spot
Andromeda’s Vortex
Efforts to waste
By Farah G. Decano I am extremely happy that Dagupan’s version of the Smokey Mountain located in Bonuan is now being addressed by the present administration. It is not to say that Mayor Belen Fernandez sat on the garbage problem during her first two terms in the years 2013…
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Newsy News
Sports Eye
Revival of Mapandan bikefest set on March 18
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER five years, the revival of annual Mapandan bikefest regularly conducted in the past in conjunction with the celebration of its Pandan Festival, will finally be realized on March 18 under the leadership of the town’s new chief executive Karl Christian F. Vega. According…
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Entre’acte
Sabel of the night (Part 2)
By Rex Catubig SABEL, for her part, chooses to set up her “pakanan” -- a street version of fast-food, further down the main street, in front of a store that is already closed for the night, and just slightly across the CSI Square. In a departure from the carinderia-caldero-caserola…
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Life with my lens
A PHOTO ALBUM OF “PROMDI” LANDSCAPES
Photos and short narrative by Art G. Valenzuela I would consider myself as one lucky guy as I am both a city boy and a “promdi” who has access to both city life (as in Dagupan City and Metro Manila) and rural-provincial life. Every week – coming from either Dagupan…
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Punch Forum
Greetings Mayor Belen Fernandez – My name is Victor Reyno Junio, a resident and a registered voter of Sitio West America, Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City. I have now returned to Canada after my 5 months stay in our City. I am blessed and privileged to have 2 countries I call…
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WEAKENED WAWA BRIDGE - A part of the Wawa Bridge, renamed Romulo Bridge, collapsed when two loaded dump trucks, one loaded with aggregates and the other fertilizer- crossed at the same time 3:17 p.m. last Thursday, halting vehicular traffic between Bayambang, Pangasinan and Camiling, Tarlac. (Punchphoto by Butch UKa)
Magandang araw po! Ako po si Christian Mark V. Rico, isang mag-aaral sa pampublikong paaralan sa Dagupan. Sumulat po ako upang ipaalam ang aking saloobin tungkol sa mga kaso ng COVID-19 dito sa ating bayan. Nakita ko po na mas dumadami ang gumagaling sa COVID kesa sa pagdami ng kaso.…
Dear Mr. Garcia; I visited your office Sunday Punch and got interested in your column (Punchline) about garbage of Dagupan City. There is a solution to solve this perennial problem of the city I had proposed this to the newly elected young Lim. Now, clearly my proposal will not…
UNLISERBISYO MAYOR Belen T. Fernandez reported the team of lectures from the City Population Office (CPO), City Nutrition Office (CNO) at City Social Welfare and Development Office were at the Barangay Bolosan Child Development Center (CDC) last March 7 for 70 residents on nutrition education, Kalalakihang Tapat sa Responsibilidad at…
MISS HUNDRED ISLANDS BEAUTIES -- The winners in the final selection for the titles wave to their supporters after receiving their crowns and sashes. Denise Joy Flores (center), 4th year BS Psychology student at the Lyceum Northwestern University is Miss Hundred Islands. She is joined by (from left) 1st Runner-Up Jessalyn S. Espinoza, Kyrie…
FIVE non-profit Filipino-American organizations that fulfilled their role in serving mankind made the list of top organizations recently selected by the Pangasinan Brotherhood-Association-USA based in Los Angeles, California, and other associations. They are United Specialist Healthcare Foundation (USHF), APO Global Foundation, PBA-USA, Kalayaan, Inc. and Philippine Disaster Relief Organization (PeDRO)…