BREAKFAST FEEDING–Dagupan Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez is welcomed by school children at the Federico Ceralde Elementary School in Bonuan Binloc, her next stop for her ongoing breakfast feeding program. It already benefited some 10,000 school children from Grades 1 to IV. (Photo Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
THE Dagupan City peace and order council has been reorganized, with Mayor Benjamin Lim now serving as chairman while Vice-Mayor Belen Fernandez is vice-chair. In an executive order dated August 3, Lim also named 18 council members as part of the group, including Councilor Luis Samson Jr. chair of the…
A MILLION trees each year will be planted around the 4th District starting this month through a program initiated by Rep. Gina de Venecia. De Venecia will set up a tree nursery at the De Venecia residence in Dagupan City. The program will start with the planting of fire trees along…
DAGUPAN City is looking at the sanitary landfill of Urdaneta City as a possible option to ease its worsening garbage problem. Mayor Benjamin Lim, in a talk with newsmen, said first he will have to find out the rate per ton of garbage which Urdaneta will be charging other local…
MONEY AND GARBAGE—Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim fields questions from the local media about the city’s financial state and the garbage problem, during the Engkwentro sa Jurassic Ark forum on Wednesday. Flanking them are Pangasinan Press Club president Allan Sison, City Information Officer Behn Hortaleza and City Councilor Marc Brian Lim,…
REPRESENTATIVE Gina de Venecia of the 4th District of Pangasinan is spearheading a coalition of ‘women for change‘ in the House of Representatives following a fellowship dinner she hosted for them last August 4. Included in the coalition are the other Pangasinan lady representatives: Rep. Rachel Arenas, 3rd District; Rep….
WOMEN IN THE HOUSE–Rep. Gina de Venecia of the 4th District of Pangasinan, who is spearheading the formation a coalition of women in the House of Representative, sits with Reps. Imelda Marcos of Ilocos Norte and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of Pampanga during a fellowship night she hosted and attended by 37…
NO rotten or rotting rice stocks are stashed in National Food Authority (NFA) warehouses in Pangasinan. This assurance was made by Ramon Cuaresma, head of the NFA western Pangasinan branch, during the KBP Forum at the Philippine Information Agency last week. “Walang bulok at wala ring nabubulok sa aming warehouses,” Cuaresma…
THE Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) has developed a low-cost SHEGA III grain moisture meter, which is now available for palay and corn farmers and traders. The PHilMech moisture meter costs about P12,000 each, cheaper than the imported variety that costs P15,000- P30,000.
CALASIAO, a town known for its puto product, will soon be the site of a Robinsons shopping mall. Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay, speaking during the Engkwentro forum of the Pangasinan Press Club Tuesday, said the Gokongwei company is now undertaking backfilling activities at a six-hectare site along the Calasiao diversion…
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