PRESIDENT President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently appointed a Dagupeña as assistant Solicitor General. Atty Sarah Jane Fernandez graduated with a degree of B.S. Legal Management from the Ateneo de Manila University. She was conferred a Juris Doctor Degree (Second Honors) by the Ateneo de Manila School of Law in 1994. ASG…
HARVARD CLASSMATES — Rachel Arenas and her mother-philanthropist Rose Marie “Baby”Arenas recently honored Nileema Noble (right), UNDP resident representative at a reception held at Captain’s Bar of Mandarin Oriental, Manila. Noble, a classmate of Rachel at the Fletcher School of Management in Harvard is concurrently the United Nations Resident Coordinator….
ROLL out the carpet, sound the trumpets! Make way for the oldest living “Miss Dagupan”! Miss Dagupan Luisa Legaspi Maramba, will turn 100 years old on August 25 this year. She was chosen Miss Dagupan in 1930 when she was 24 years old. “Metring”, as she is fondly called by…
The University The University of Pangasinan last week launched “CESAR”, a community-oriented program that would put more meaning to its vow to transform individuals and communities. CESAR, an acronym for Community Extension Services through Action and Research in honor of its chairman Cesar Duque who inspired it, will use and…
By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. BARGING into the top four for the semis didn’t seem like a tall order for the defending champion University of Pangasinan Pitaki Boyz early in the tournament. Last Monday, the fourth day of hostilities of the PRISAA Pangasinan-Dagupan Intercollegiate Basketball Invitational Championship held at Dagupan…
Leave the electric poles alone What appears to be simply a legal tussle between two giants, the Dagupan City government and the Dagupan Electric Corporation over the payment of real property tax by the latter is actually a Damocles’ sword hanging over the heads of all Decorp customers. This is…
Decorp customers, the ultimate victims By Ermin Garcia Jr. There is definitely more to the brouhaha over the insistence of the Lim government to compel Dagupan Electric Corporation to pay real property tax for the hundreds of electric poles erected around the city. The real issue here is not really…
Choral rebirth in Dagupan? By Gerry Garcia The University of Pangasinan Glee Club’s bagging top honors, together with Russia, in the choral competition in Xiamen, China mid-July (dubbed the 4th World Choir Games 2006) involving daw the “best groups” from 10 countries was, for this writer at least, amazing. Utterly…
‘Cyberscam’ By Jun Velasco “The discerning heart seeks knowledge, But the mouth of a fool feeds on folly”- Proverbs l5:l4 WE had an interesting dialogue with young writers at a campus journalism seminar in Luna Colleges, Tayug, Pangasinan recently. School paper adviser Rene Ordona, a fellow traveler in the…
Tita Eggie By Al S. Mendoza I MOVED TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer because of Eugenia Duran Apostol, who is fondly called Eggie. That was in 1986, shortly after the bloodless February Edsa Revolt that toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. I was plucked out from the Bulletin Today (now…
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