The year that was in Pangasinan sports By Jesus Garcia Jr. A HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone. Hopefully 2009 will be fruitful, peaceful, glorious and prosperous to all of us. Year 2008 I believe is rewarding to most of our local athletes who competed in our region, national and…
Dear Online PUNCH readers and Kabaleyans – I sure hope you were pleasantly surprised on seeing our new website design after viewing the same old template for over 10 years! Yes, it has been that long. Your SUNDAY PUNCH was the first Filipino community newspaper that dared to take that…
Editor’s Note
Lucia Paragas 6 Jan 2009 GOD BLESS YOU all for this endeavor. As a cradle Catholic, it’s just great to read something like this in Dagupan City. 900 children baptized – – – what a way to welcome the children of God. Amazing! I will forward this to my parish…
God is pleased
Eduardo Pontaoe 5 Jan 2009 Edwin Farias: You never abstained to put me in wonderment. You never listen. You never read the newspapers. Well, here we go gain. Ex-Congressman Jefferson was never expelled from the committee he was serving in the House because of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the…
The cold cash
Eduardo Pontaoe 5 Jan 2009 Mr. Chito Soriano, Hello to you, too. It’s not the rhetorical side of discourse, Newton, Einstein and Hawking, are realities in the flexibility of the mind sans God. I’d been there in the intricacies of religious beliefs. Been there where religious culture collided with reason,…
Where is God?
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD AN ongoing reclamation project at the Calmay River just beside the Jose R. de Venecia Sr. Expressway Extension in barangay Poblacion Oeste caught the ire of Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. Fernandez fumed and said DENR violated its own rules by issuing the Environmental Compliance Certificate to a reclamation…
Fernandez twits DENR on reclamation project
THE province of Pangasinan has one more thing to crow about, aside from being Best Local Government Unit under the Regional Project Monitoring System (RPMS). Records of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) show that Pangasinan tops three other Ilocos provinces of the region in the number of indigent families…
Pangasinan tops in health insurance in Region I
WHO says only people can live in a condominium? At the sprawling 24-hectare lot of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, African catfish or Clanas gariepinus hybrids, a very popular table fish, are quartered in 14-D and 28-D Fish Condominiums.
‘Fish condos’ launched for a new lifestyle
FEWER fireworks were lit in Pangasinan this New Year but the revelry still ended in pain and tragedy to some people, mostly children. Ten year old Jeffrey Malong of barangay Bangsal, Sta. Barbara, was rushed by an ambulance to the Region 1 Medical Center at 10:00 a.m. Thursday after he…




