FISH wardens from the Dagupan City Agriculture Office (CAO) confiscated on Monday a small cargo of oysters harvested from red tide toxin- infected areas of Anda and Bolinao unloaded at the Magsaysay Fish Market. Seized from 12 dealers were 11 sacks of shelled oysters, six plastic bags of unshelled oysters,…
THE BUREAU of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) assured that the emergence of Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB), or red tide, in some coastal waters in western Pangasinan and other parts of the country will not affect the national shellfish research program. Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries…
BFAR: Shellfish program insulated from red tide
ORCHIDS EXHIBIT—The Pangasinan Orchid Growers Society is holding an exhibit at the CSI Mall in Dagupan City. It started in Dec 11, 2011 and will end on March 19, 2012. In photo are some of the exhibitors, namely: Agapito Servito, POGS president, Jovie Coquina, Pagsolingan Garden, Gemma’s Garden of Lingayen, Melody’s Garden, Jhoanna’s Garden of San…
ORCHIDS EXHIBIT
OLD and young, they sweat it out as they ran for a cause. An estimated 500 runners took part in the “Two One Two One Two Fun Run” held in Calasiao on February 12 for the benefit of the Abong ya Panangaro Sisters of Charity based in Dagupan City The…
Calasiao Fun Run raises fund for charity
DINNER FOR CHARITY—Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia hosts a fund-raising dinner for the construction of a Theology Seminary in Palapad, San Fabian, the project of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas (seated right). Joining them are (seated from left) Menardo Jimenez and Balsy Aquino Cruz. The seminary is envisioned to be…
DINNER FOR CHARITY
THE annual Mass Wedding in Alaminos City, held on Valentine’s Day, joined in wedlock 115 couples this year. Mayor Hernani Braganza attended the ceremony where Customs Commissioner for Intelligence Danilo Lim stood as godfather to newly married couples. The city government sponsors the event, including a feast for the newly-weds…
Alaminos hosts mass wedding on V-Day
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Feb. 15 (PIA) – Student journalists at the Pangasinan State University (PSU) Lingayen campus this town recently organized a two-day press conference with the theme “CAST Chronicle @ 12: Leveling up Campus Journalism through the creation of Interest Club Publications”.
PSU campus journalists hold ‘press conference’
DEPARTMENT of Social Welfare’s regional office recently organized a symposium to observe the Adoption Conscious Week, anchored on the theme, “Isulong! Legal na Pag-aampon” at the De Luxe Restaurant in Dagupan City on Friday. In attendance were prospective adopters and members of the local media.
Symposium on adoption of children held
PANGASINAN Merchant Marine Academy (PAMMA) Sea Lions will collide with AIE-College Golden Eagles in the best-of-three championship series of the Inter-Collegiate Invitational Basketball Championship of the 3rd Jimmy Fernandez Cup on Monday at the DWAD Gym. PAMMA and AIE-C earned the championship berths after notching the first and second top…
PAMMA faces AIE-C in Fernandez Cup championship
THE Palarong Media sports festival, organized by the Pangasinan Press Club (PPC), has been reset to March 3. The event will kick off with a Fun Run to be participated in by some 200 of the PPC’s members and other media practitioners, technical crew of media outlets affiliated with private…