Ed Pontaoe 8 June 2008 Van de Leon jumped the gun. Like in the 100 meter relay he took off before the gun was fired. Illegal. It’s good while it last. Now, the waiting game who’ll blink first, the City Council or the wide eyed interlopers at the Forum….
COSME’S WRATH IN INFANTA — (Top panel) Nagom Elementary School is a picture of despair and desolation after Typhoon Cosme ripped it apart. (Bottom panel) Two pupils of Maya Elementary School volunteer to help dry the soaked school books under the sun needed for the school’s opening. (Photos by Willie…
OUTSTANDING COMMUNITY PAPERS —The representatives of this year’s winners take a bow before the assembled community publishers and editors who attended the 12th National Press Forum of the Philippine Press Institute, namely (weekly category) Pampanga News, Balikas, Baguio Midland Courier, Metro Post and Mabuhay; (daily category) Sun.Star Davao and Cebu…
DECORP’S POWER REPORT—Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez listens intently to Engr. August Sarmiento’s (Dagupan Electric Corp.) while he reports on the progress of the company’s restoration work in the city to the Sangguniang Panlungsod. DECORP has restored power in 80% of the city and expects full restoration of electricity…
RECOVERING FROM ‘COSME’—Corazon Ayap of Barangay Portic, Bugallon sits inside her damaged house, one of thousands destroyed by Typhoon Cosme. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has constructed a new house for the 78-year-old woman and her husband, Rodrigo, who were among those visited by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo…
BACK IN TOWN—Fourth District Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. delivers relief goods, construction materials and financial assistance to the victims of Typhoon Cosme in San Fabian town upon his return from speaking engagements overseas. Receiving the aid were town officials led by Mayor Mojamito Libunao. The congressman’s wife, Gina, assisted…
TORNADO DAMAGE—Cheryl de Guzman, principal of Quibaol Elementary School in Barangay Quibaol, Lingayen lays out textbooks under the sun for drying after these got soaked again when the roof of one of the school buildings was again ripped off by a tornado on June 4. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)
CHECK FOR PANGASINAN—Governor Amado Espino Jr. receives a P5M check for the rehabilitation of Pangasinan from President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo upon her arrival in Portic, Bugallon last Wednesday with Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (right).
Administrator 6 June 2008 Apparently there is a misunderstanding about the posted message of Mr. van de Leon re naming of the highway. The fact is, there is still no council resolution naming the highway after EG, and there is nothing to indicate that the city council will do just…
Nic R. 6 June 2008 “Sir, the Dawel-Pantal Highway from now on, in this forum, is now called Ermin Garcia Sr. Memorial Highway”. “in this forum” and without it still is Dawel-Pantal Highway?
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