TWO Pangasinan cyclists now based in Guam scored a convincing 1-2 finish in the “Hell of Marianas” bikefest in U.S. Commonwealth Island of Saipan last October 19 participated in by 49 contestants from Saipan and neighboring islands of Marianas. Mangaldan born and two-time Olympian Jazy Garcia clocked the 44-kilometer hilly…
FVR WITH TORONTO’S FILIPINO NEWSMEN—Former President Fidel V. Ramos together with former first lady, Ms. Ming Ramos, and Ambassador Jose Brillantes, join Filipino newspapermen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 22 after a press conference with members of the Philippine Press Club – Ontario (PPCO). Others in photo include Larry Torres, Ramon…
FVR WITH TORONTO’S FILIPINO NEWSMEN
IT was Christmas in October in Dagupan, particularly at the CSI Stadia where the Second Sari-Sari Store Fair was held from Oct. 24 to 26 that attracted more than 80 producers and distributors from Manila. Lion dancers welcomed sari-sari store owners and prospective entrepreneurs to the fair as the activities…
2nd CSI Sari – Sari Store Fair, boon to workers
Jess Delfin 26 Oct 2008 To Al Mendoza: Once again, you display your ignorance about guns and your sexist views towards women. Wake up! We are now in the 21st century where the women have the same rights as the men. Just so you’ll know, that means men and women…
Sexist attitutde
MAKING A STATEMENT—Street children, Dagupan’s most vulnerable sector in the global problem on poverty, makes a symbolic statement by tearing up the pieces of paper on which letters for the word POVERTY were written during the observance of the National Children’s Month by the Dagupan City SK Federation. (CIO Photo…
MAKING A STATEMENT
SARI-SARI STORES DAY—Carl Cruz of Unilever, Department of Trade and Industry Regional Director Florante Leal and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chairman of the board and president of CSI Group of Companies cut ceremonial ribbon to signal the opening of the 2nd Sari-Sari store Fair.
SARI-SARI STORES DAY
FUTURE LIONS ISLAND—Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the research center of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources(BFAR) based in Dagupan City, shows to newsmen the spot on the where an island in the famous Hundred Islands National Park will be renamed Lions Island. (Photo by Cesar S. Ramirez)
FUTURE LIONS ISLAND
BIKES FOR PATROL AND QUICK RESPONSE—Mangaldan Chief of Police P/Supt. Gerardo Roxas receives the four mountain bikes donated by the Sangguniang Bayan of Mangaldan through the initiative of Mayor Herminio A. Romero and Vice Mayor Pedro A. Surdilla, Jr. The bikes will be used for patrol and quick response to…
BIKES FOR PATROL AND QUICK RESPONSE
HELL OF MARIANAS—Jazy Garcia and Bobby Mandapat (third and fifth from left), both from Pangasinan, join bikers from Saipan and the neighboring islands of Marianas at the starting line for the ‘Hell of Marianas’ bikefest held on October 19. They finished first and second, respectively. The race was won by…
HELL OF MARIANAS
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