Love By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Valentine’s Day in its genuine significance and sound implications is but a mere concrete expression of the commandment of love. Love is not an option. It is mandatory upon all. Nevertheless, the reality of love becomes more felt and expressed between a man…
The annals of Mangaldan bikefest By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. MARCH 14, 1974 was the day when the first Mangaldan town fiesta bikefest was held. It was a project of the late Mangaldan hizzoner sports fanatic Atty. Macario G. Ydia, exclusively participated in by Pangasinan cyclists and dubbed as the…
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No Such Things By Emmanuelle Let’s talk about February 14. Postmen and drivers of mail delivery vans shout at the gates the names of lucky recipients of cards or flowers boxed in clear plastics and crimson ribbons. Red and pink roses sell as insolently as precious gems. So are the…
Feelings
CONTRACT OR MOA STILL MISSING But it’s not yet off-the-hook THE effort to determine if there was indeed a contract for the towing service in the city appears to have been foiled. After feeling the heat from under its collar, JLD Motor Works and Towing Service made a hasty retreat…
JLD stops towing operations
NIGHT club and bar owners in Dagupan need not worry about the newly-passed city council ordinance authored by Councilor Farah Decano if they are not peddling sex. Councilor Decano clarified that Ordinance No. 0032, which provides supplementary measures against flesh trade in the city, strictly punishes only those who are…
Anti-flesh ordinance wins massive support
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has turned down the request of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) that it be allowed to title the land that its office buildings are occupying at Tondaligan Park under its name. Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez said although the letter from the BSP was endorsed by…
City dads oppose BSP land titling
The official pressure is on. Vice Mayor and Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) presiding officer Alvin Fernandez said the city council has already received a letter from the Office of the City Mayor demanding for the passage of the resolution authorizing Mayor Benjamin Lim to enter into a contract with MetroState Realty…
VM pressed to sign Magsaysay Park edict
LINGAYEN– Provincial Administrator Virgilio Solis has stressed that the relief of Police Provincial Director Senior Superintendent Alan Purisima is not politically motivated and is simply part of the Philippine National Philippine’s (PNP) policy of limiting police officers’ term of service in one area to just two years. Meanwhile, Purisima…
Solis: No politics in Purisima’s relief
ALAMINOS CITY—Sorsogon Rep. Francis Escudero, a member of the senatorial ticket under the United Opposition, played ninong (godfather) to 160 couples who tied the knot on Valentine’s Day in a mass civil wedding ceremony in Lucap, the jump off point to the Hundred Islands. Mayor Hernani Braganza, who invited Escudero,…
160 couples tie knot in sunset wedding
A total of P662.7 million worth of infrastructure projects were built in the 4th congressional district of Pangasinan from 2001 to 2006 thru the initiative of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. A report released by Engr. Rodolfo Dion of the Second Highway Engineering District showed that Dagupan City got…