ACTING-Mayor Mayor Belen Fernandez requested the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) to build housing units for families of scavengers living in the city’s garbage dumpsite in Bonuan as well in addition to its other identified beneficiaries. Fernandez visited the dumpsite on Wednesday and was appalled when she saw about 20 families, who…
INCOMING freshmen high school students for school year 2013-2014 can now apply for scholarship to the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). Engr. Felipe D. Andrada, director of the DOST-Pangasinan Science and Technology Center (STC), announced Thursday that application forms are already…
“KALUSUGAN Pangkalahatan”, the Department of Health’s (DOH) program aimed at improving medical care for everybody, is in full swing with various projects targeted to benefit those who have the least access to health services. “The DOH is implementing the ‘Kalusugan Pangkalahatan’ to provide healthcare to the poorest of the poor,”…
EFFORTS TO clean and de-clog rivers and creeks in Dagupan City received a boost from Senator Pia S. Cayetano who set aside P500,000 from her Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) as a contribution to the city’s work program Dagupan under a food-for-work scheme. Acting-Mayor Belen Fernandez received notice of the allotment from…
FOURTH District Gina Rep. de Venecia and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez led the blessing and inauguration Friday afternoon of the newly-built Community Precinct 8 of the Dagupan Police in Barangay Tapuac to protect residents and students in the school belt of Tapuac. De Venecia thanked Atty. Gonzalo Duque, president of the…
LINGAYEN–Two suspected members of a guns-for-hire and a robbery group operating in Pangasinan were among four persons arrested in separate raids by law men early Thursday in San Fabian and San Manuel towns. Arrested separately at 7:00 a.m. Thursday in San Fabian were Allan Solis, 38, businessman, of Barangay Cayanga; and Alejandro Roca, 38,…
EIGHT more groups composed of graduates of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Specialists Techopreneurship Program will soon be setting up their own businesses in different parts of Pangasinan with help from TESDA. Last year, two groups located in Binmaley and Lingayen, set up businesses in massage therapy,…
THE second “MY City, My SM, My Cuisine” culinary roadshow was recently launched in SM City Rosales with Pangasinan flavors taking center stage. The launching started with a parade of the Talong Festival Dancers of Villasis and the Corn Festival Dancers of Sto. Tomas.
MULTINATIONAL company Procter & Gamble (P&G) is donating 150 brand new laptops to still unidentified public elementary schools in Dagupan City. P &G has tapped the CSI Group of Companies, the firm’s biggest customer in Northern Luzon, to help select the pilot schools that will receive the donation.
ERFES FETE MATRIARCH AT 97—Children, relatives and friends of Paciencia Erfe Verzosa (seated 4th from left), matriarch of the Erfe clan of San Fabian, gathered at the San Fabian Parish community room to celebrate her 97th birthday last May 1. “Bae Pacing”, a former school principal, is one of two…
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