BAILE: A Festival of Dances (Year 2) was staged September 29 at the SM Rosales The Event Center, featuring the best dancers and dance groups in the northern area, including Pangasinan, La Union, Benguet and Ilocos. Each of the unique dance routines – in three categories: cultural, modern, and interpretative…
FOR two years in a row, Colegio de Dagupan (CDD) accountancy students have dominated the Sycip, Gorres, Velayo and Co. (SGV) Cup in the National Federation of Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants Regional 11th Midyear Convention. This year’s champion is Armando P. Alvendia, Jr., a senior BS Accountancy student and…
BATANG PINOY NAT’L VOLLEYBALL LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan volleybelles, aged 15 and below, trounced Rizal team, 3-2, and bagged the Batang Pinoy national volleyball championship after the final 5-set games played in Marikina City recently. The Pangasinan team advanced to the finals after a sweep of the series early on in the…
“DIBDIBANG Takbuhan“, a fun run organized by the Northern Cancer Trust Foundation, Inc. (NCTFI) based at the Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Hospital in Dagupan to raise funds for poor cancer patients in Pangasinan, is set October 21. Up to 1,000 runners are expected to kick off at the Jose R. De…
LINGAYEN–The Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC) is confident it is now the dominant party in the province and has announced its support for the re-election bids of Governor Amado Espino Jr. and Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr., both party members. Former Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco, son of NPC founding…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has named Atty. Marino Salas as the new provincial election supervisor for Pangasinan, which has one of the biggest voting populations in the country at more than 1.5 million as of August 22. “Malaki ang Pangasinan but with my experience, kaya ko naman gampanan ang…
DASOL—It will be a neophyte versus a veteran in the mayoralty race here in the May 2013 election. Eric Verzosa, son of retired police director general Jesus Verzosa, has announced he is running for mayor in this coastal town under the ruling Liberal Party (LP). He will be facing incumbent…
INTERNATIONAL trader Wilson de Vera and former Calasiao Vice Mayor Ferdinand Galang announced their plan to team up and run for mayor and vice mayor in the May 2013 election. In a press forum in Dagupan City last Wednesday, the duo said they are going to “clean and reform” the…
STO. TOMAS—A suspected drug pusher who reportedly sells marijuana and shabu to students was killed in a shootout with lawmen Thursday afternoon in Barangay San Jose here. Senior Inspector Allan Emerson Dauz, officer-in-charge police chief here, identified the suspect as Regino Tugade, 28, single, tricycle driver and a resident of…
LINGAYEN–The police are still facing a blank wall in the investigation of the hijacking of an oil tanker truck loaded with premium and regular gasoline, and diesel crude oil while en route to San Manuel town from Manila at about 3:00 a.m. of September 21. The truck driver, John Harold…
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