DAGUPAN was adjudged first runner-up in the city category’s Search for the Most Outstanding Local Government Unit Coastal Resource Management (LGU CRM) Implementer for 2011 by the Regional Development Council of Region 1. Mayor Benjamin Lim received the award in recognition of the city’s “exemplary performance and commitment in coastal…
AFTER the bloodletting program organized by the Calasiao municipal government with the Philippine National Red Cross last February 21, Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay now aims to set the activity as a regular twice a year event. An initial bloodletting was held in August last year during the mayor’s birthday.
MR. AND MS. LNU—The winners in the Search for Mr. and Ms LNU 2012 face the audience after their proclamation during the pageant on February 24 at Dr. Salvador T. Duque Fieldhouse. (From let to right): Exequel Vergara, 2nd runner-up (Tourism); Michelle Eligan, 2nd runner-up (Nursing); Edwin Hojilla, Mr. LNU 2012 (Medicine);…
A COFFEE table book about the EDSA Revolution from the perspective of a “few good men” written by Dagupeño writer Melandrew Velasco will be out soon. Titled “Silver Linings”, the book tells the story of the 1986 EDSA Revolution from the viewpoint of some of the personalities who put their…
MANO PO NINANG –A bride makes the traditional mano to 4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia after the congresswoman stood as one of the sponsors in a mass civil wedding of 226 couples from San Jacinto on February 19 at the town gymnasium. The other sponsor was former Senator Ernesto Maceda, the…
SAN JACINTO –Even after Valentine’s Day, there was no stopping 226 couples from tying the knot here in a civil wedding ceremony held February 19 at the town auditorium. The wedding ceremony was solemnized by Mayor Robert de Vera where Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia and former Senator Ernesto…
THE Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP) Pangasinan Council held its Junior Holiday and Senior Saranay Camp 2012 at the GSP Ating Tahanan in Baguio City from February 23 to 26, focusing on the theme “Save Our Planet”. In the opening program, guest of honor and speaker Cadet Sushen Jimbel…
PANGASINAN-BROTHEROOD-USA AWARDEES—The Ten Outstanding Pangasinan Entrepreneurs (TOPE) and two special awardees in Southern California cited by the Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA acknowledge the applause of the organization’s members after receiving their plaques from 2010-2011 President Dan E. Nino. From left: Mariano Aoanan (Loyalty Award), Virgil C. Aoanan (Dagupan City), Ads E. Diaz (Dagupan City), Eddie C. Ferrer (Dagupan City), Ester…
By Leonardo J. Galvez Los Angeles Correspondent A FORMER Dagupan-based media practitioner whose forte is broadcasting has been elected the 14th president of the Pangasinan Brotherhood – USA for 2012-2013. He will succeed Mangatarem son, Dan Nino. Eddie C. Ferrer, along with the new set of officers will be…
REUNION IN TORONTO–Villasis’ 92-year old matriarch Severina (Rening) Bustillos-Paca of Calgary, Alberta, is joined by her daughter Fe Paca-Taduran, wife of veteran broadcast and print journalist Jojo Taduran, and granddaughter Regine Andrea Taduran during her recent visit in Toronto. Rening, widow of the late Andres Ventura Paca of the Manila Police Department, was a…
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