Chicken future By Marifi Jara I LOVE chicken. 101 ways: Lechon manok; marinated in sweet barbecue-style sauce and grilled; tinola cooked with lots of ginger, chili leaves, and sayote; adobo; afritada; cooked in curry and coconut milk; in macaroni soup; ground and made into hamburger patties (a healthier alternative to…
Dads staying away from possible suit THE city engineer of Dagupan City has laid it out plain and simple: It is illegal. But the public wonders why the construction continues unhampered. The construction work at the former Magsaysay Park for a tourism park complex has been going on for about…
LINGAYEN–Pangasinan’s new governor-elect Amado Espino Jr. considers his victory, which ended the 27-year rule of the Agbayani family, as “very sweet”. “This is a very sweet victory for me. Together, we did what many thought was an impossible mission,” Espino told The PUNCH. He expressed elation that the electorate supported…
Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., who was reelected as congressman for the Fourth District, is confident that the speakership of the House of Representatives is again in the bag for him. In a phone interview on Thursday, De Venecia, who was in Manila, said he has received assurance from all…
SAN CARLOS CITY—Thousands of people joined a two-kilometer long caravan that brought Mayor Julian Resuello to his final resting place on May 20 at his family-owned Holy Garden Memorial Park in barangay Agdao here. The interment of the 54-year old Resuello patriarch was held after a holy mass at the…
PROVINCE’S FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN LINGAYEN–It was a close contest but the more aggressive and determined candidate eventually emerged victorious. And that was Rachel Arenas, whose campaign in the third district of the province made her presence more felt and her more visible than all her three male opponents. Arenas, who has…
ARENAS PROCLAIMED–Harvard-educated Rachel Arenas (center) is proclaimed by Provincial Elections Supervisor Reddy Balarbar and Schools Division Superintendent Armando Aquino while Provincial Prosecutor Segundino Ferrer smiles in approval. Also in photo is Rachel’s mother Rosemary ‘Baby Arenas. (Punchphoto by CSR)
PANGASINAN’s new 17 mayors will formally assume their posts on July 1 while 31 re-elected mayors are expected to continue what they started. In the First District, the new mayors are: Arthur Cabantac (Agno town), Marcelo Navarro Jr. (Bani), Noel Nacar (Dasol) and Carlitos Reyes (Mabini). Re-elected mayors are: Mayors…
PRIESTS should not turn into politicians. This is the view of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, a former president of the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, when asked to comment on the election of Fr. Ed Panlilio as governor of Pampanga. Panlilio, running as an independent bet, trounced veteran…
SAN CARLOS CITY—A priest from the St. Dominic Church here refers to the new mayor of San Carlos City as “Spiderman” a.k.a. Peter Parker, who, he said, inherited his web from his dead father. Fr. Jaime Catungal said in his homily during a Holy Mass for the slain Mayor Julian…
© 2024 Sunday Punch. Dagupan.
