ALAMINOS CITY—Forty five poor but deserving students have qualified for the City Comprehensive Scholarship Program (CESP) for school year 2008-2009. Mayor Hernani Braganza handed the scholarship grants to the beneficiaries whom he described as the “creme de la creme” last Monday at the city hall grounds.
Solve or bust. Senior Supt. Isagani Nerez, the provincial police director, is now implementing a stricter deadline policy for solving crimes. All police chiefs have a maximum of three months to solve crimes in their areas of jurisdiction or face removal from their posts. The police chief in Malasiqui town…
SUAL-Let there be light. And then there was light in Cabalitian Island where a community had thrived without power throughout the decades. The island, located about a kilometer away from Pangasinan’s mainland or a 10-minute boat ride away from the mainland, is within sight of the Sual Coal-Fired Power Plant.
LINGAYEN- Believe it or not, there has always been and still only one government-licensed tourist guide serving the province’s tourism industry. Reynaldo Livara, 26, is the only known holder of a professional tourism guide license that lends to his credentials in his work in his hometown, Alaminos City, site of…
The significance of corporate responsibility was recently underscored in the fight against illegal drugs. Taking the lead is the CSI Group of Companies owned by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez. It has vowed to do its part to help the country realize its dream to become completely drug free by year…
ROSALES-A proposal for a fertilizer subsidy scheme to help poor farmers as well as improve rice production in the country has been put forward by Engr. Rosendo So, chairman of the Abono partylist based here. The proposal, titled “Buy Three, Take Three”, was forwarded to Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and…
The Panda Fighter Brigade of Dagupan City recently visited and distributed school bags and supplies to pupils in three schools. The beneficiaries were pupils of the city’s island schools, namely Salapingao Elementary School, Pugaro Elementary School and Suit Elementary School.
SAN FABIAN-Meet another source of pride for Pangasinenses. Seven-year old Danica Alexis Ablang, a second grader at Joyland School here and playing for Team Philippines, won four medals in the recently concluded 9th Asean Age Group Chess Championship held in Danang, Vietnam from June 9 to 18, 2008.
THE Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) of Mangaldan will hold a bowling tournament beginning July 4 at RG Bowldrome in Dagupan City. According to Abraham de Asis, barangay chairman of Bari and chairman of the event, the bowl fest, dubbed as the “First LMB Mangaldan Inter-Color Bowling Tournament,” will be…
BOOK DONATION—Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez joins the Grades III, IV, V and VI pupils of the East Central Elementary School who received their share of the donated 1,000 science books for a photo op with Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan 2000 Lucy Horado, principal Soc Dimalanta and Barangay Captains Samuel…
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