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January 2009

Sports Eye

By | Opinion, Sports Eye

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…

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Sports Eye

By January 6, 2009Opinion, Sports Eye

Feelings

By | Feelings, Opinion

A new leaf is a birth is a new leaf . . . By Emmanuelle   The native recognizes a fellow-native. One does not have to be a native of the mountain (and plateau, valley, terraced fields, etc.) by blood and birth. One needs only to have loved and lived…

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Feelings

By January 6, 2009Feelings, Opinion

Editor’s Note

By | Editor's Notes

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…

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Editor’s Note

By January 6, 2009Editor's Notes

God is pleased

By | Punch Forum

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…

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God is pleased

By January 6, 2009Punch Forum

The cold cash

By | Punch Forum

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…

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The cold cash

By January 6, 2009Punch Forum

Where is God?

By | Punch Forum

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,…

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Where is God?

By January 6, 2009Punch Forum

Fernandez twits DENR on reclamation project

By | Headlines, News

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…

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Fernandez twits DENR on reclamation project

By January 6, 2009Headlines, News

Pangasinan tops in health insurance in Region I

By | Headlines, News

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…

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Pangasinan tops in health insurance in Region I

By January 6, 2009Headlines, News

New Year revelry: 43 hurt

By | Headlines, News

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…

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New Year revelry: 43 hurt

By January 5, 2009Headlines, News