BOAT OR KOLLO-ONG?–A bulky piece of an old wood, waiting to be determined whether it is a boat or a rice-pounding implement known as kollo-ong, was retrieved from the bottom of the Lagasit River in Casanicolasan, Rosales where it was believed to have been buried for centuries and is now…
BOAT RELIC OR KOLLO-ONG? ROSALES–Is it a boat or a “kollo-ong”, an old implement for pounding palay to separate the stalks from the grains? This is a question that is waiting to be answered since after an old piece of wood that had the shape of a boat and a…
LINGAYEN–School district supervisors from around the country, who gathered here on November 24, were called upon to strengthen their role as frontline managers of the educational system at the community level. “The future of our youth and our country is in your hands, and the choice of a better future…
PEOPLE caught throwing garbage irresponsibly in Dagupan City will face penalties from P300 to P1,000. The fines are outlined in a new ordinance intended to help manage the city’s pressing garbage problem. Those caught disposing garbage in public areas including rivers will be penalized with P1,000 fine while fine for…
QUINTOS Bridge on A.B. Fernandez Avenue and Magsaysay Bridge on Perez Boulevard are being spruced up to make them look like small replicas of the London Bridge in England in time for the Dagupan City fiesta from Dec.14 to Jan. 5. Councilor Jesus Canto, hermano mayor of this year’s celebration, said arches…
BARANGAY and Sangguniang Kabataan officials who were elected during the October polls were sworn in during a ceremony administered by Mayor Benjamin Lim on November 24 at the Dagupan People’s Astrodome. All the 496 elected officials were present in the mass oath taking.
DSPP INAUGURATION ON NOV. 29 THE PHL-Korea Dagupan Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan City finally went on a test run last Friday, three days before its scheduled inauguration on Monday. Funded by a more than P100 million grant provided last year by the Korean government through the Korean International Cooperation…
UMINGAN–Brand new heavy equipment worth P13.8 million was recently procured by this town for rehabilitating farm-to-market roads and for the use of the Municipal Risk Reduction Management Council (MRRMC) during calamities. The equipment, consisting of three dump trucks, two garbage trucks, two L-300 vans, one loader, one grader, one road…
“IT is not demolition, it is reconstruction”. Calasiao Municipal Administrator Vivencio Vallo made this clarification as stall owners, other vendors and tricycle drivers raised their opposition against what they thought to be the planned demolition of the Calasiao Public Market.
NANAY G WITH MANNY P–Rep. “Manay” Gina and husband former Speaker Joe de Venecia join the world’s Pound-for-Pound boxing champ Manny Pacquiao pray during the Holy Mass in Arlington, Texas USA before Pacquiao’s historic boxing match with Mexican Antonio Margarito at that Cowboys’ Stadium last November 14. “Nanay G” is Pacquio’s term…
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