BREAKFAST FEEDING PROJECT–Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (left, foreground) personally supervises feeding of school children in Lucao during the launching of the 31-day CSI Breakfast Feeding Project last Thursday. The launching coincided with the observance of the 33rd Nutrition Month under the auspices of the City Nutrition Office headed…
TUTORIAL CENTER—Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez assisted by Dynamind’s Kharmina Velasco and Eileen Bitong with Pastor Jomel Fernandez of Victory Christian Fellowship cuts the ceremonial ribbon during the opening of Dynamind Stimulation Tutorial Center last July 7.
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“Gifts” – again! By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. From roads to bridges, houses to water pumps, irrigation projects to electrification—these and other government projects and public works are customarily and proudly, shamelessly even, are called “Gifts” (“bigay”) from the national leadership as again recently reported from Northern Luzon. The…
Getting down to business IT looks like the new set of Dagupan’s servant leaders are dead-serious about not wasting any time to get the city’s affairs in order. They are not giving much space for some honeymoon period with the city hall employees. They’re arriving, sitting down, meeting up, and…
More bad news from Guv Spines By Ermin Garcia Jr. Here’s my first piece of unsolicited advice to Governor Spines. Beware of the notorious “Kurbata Boys” of my then favorite mayor Benjie of Dagupan City who I am told are now being recruited by your newly appointed provincial administrator Raffy…
Why we’ve stopped singing “O say, can you see…” By Gerry Garcia We were graduating seniors of the Dagupan Institute High School on Arellano on December 8 of 1941 when World War II reached our shores through the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, dawn of the same…
Spines looks beyond himself By Jun Velasco AT the Wednesday victory party of Governor Amado Espino at the Narciso Ramos hall for his 4th district constituents, we saw a new approach in governance in the province. Spines, the spitfire’s nickname, wants to serve notice that the office is made for…
Opposition senators self-destructing too soon? By Gonzalo Duque WE in the education sector paid a courtesy call on Speaker Joe de Venecia at his beautiful residence at Forbes recently. All of us from Cocopea and Pacu were impressed by the warm and touching hospitality of the speaker and his lovely…
Lotto, best proof of the absence of peace and order By Al S. Mendoza AN American couple recently won $126 million in lotto play in Oklahoma. Before that, a Filipino from the Visayas reportedly won P98 million in lotto play in the Philippines about a month or so ago. I…
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