PARENTS with adopted childrend are urged to legitimize the adoption instead of resorting to fake birth certificates and risk being discovered by the government. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the region has been on a campaign encouraging adopting parents, explaining the easy legal process when taking…
CONGRESSIONAL SPOUSES’ VISIT–Former Trade and Industry Undersecretary Carissa Cruz-Evangelista (left), daughter of Pangasinan Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia, welcomes the entourage of the Congressional Spouses Foundation, Inc.(CSFI) at their residence in Dagupan City during their visit to the province last week. Back to Homepage
MEMBERS of the Congressional Spouses Foundation Inc. (CSFI) visited the 4th District on Thursday to observe some best practices and projects and to interact with local officials, members of non-government organizations (NGOs) and stakeholders in various industries.
LINGAYEN–Farmers and cooperatives are being called on to revalidate their passbooks in time for the coming harvest season for the second crop rice so that they can avail of the government support price for palay. Ramon Cuaresma, provincial manager of the National Food Authority (NFA) in western Pangasinan, issued the…
SINGAPORE-based Pangasinenses who are there as overseas workers can acquire entrepreneurial skills for free through the non-government organization ASKI Global Ltd. ASKI Global was recently established in Singapore by the Luzon-based Alalay Sa Kaunlaran Inc. to help overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) there make sound investments from their earnings.
THE local government of Bugallon and the German government donated 30,000 fingerlings to fisherfolks in three barangays in the town that were affected by typhoon Juan in 2010. Sixteen fisherfolks from barangays Magtaking, Salasa, and Asinan received the donated fingerlings on March 1.
ANOTHER small town is making its mark in domestic tourism with the celebration of its first Tupig Festival last week. Laoac, a rural town in the eastern side of Pangasinan and the youngest municipality in the province having been created only in 1980, had a unique launch of its festival…
ATTY. Gonzalo Duque, columnist of The Sunday Punch, was unanimously elected president of the Pangasinan Press Club by the newly constituted board of directors last February 16. Duque, also president of Lyceum-Northwestern University, headed the Reformist Party that won most of the seats for the PPC board of directors in…
DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY–JCI-Dagupan Banus celebrates its 60th Diamond Anniversary with an induction and turnover ceremonies for its new set of officers on March 5 at the CSI Stadia, Dagupan City. Back to Homepage
LAWYER Farah G. Decano was elected president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) Pangasinan chapter last February 26. Decano, a former three-term councilor of Dagupan City, was unopposed in the election, together with all her fellow officers.
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