A STORY OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE URDANETA CITY –Penniless, begging on the streets and most of the time uncertain where their next meal will come from, two street children showed jaded adults that their situation was not enough to give up one value that was taught them early on …
CAN a mere executive order of a local government official compel the relocation of students and pupils from one school campus to another? This legal question became the central issue during the hearing for the preliminary injunction on the civil case at the sala of Regional Trial Court Judge Hermogenes Fernandez of…
SHOES MADE FOR WALKING-–-Pangasinan Police Director Marlou Chan turns over a pair of brand new shoes to a patrolman for his use in his daily foot patrol. The shoes are part of the new logistical support for policemen in the country. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
LINGAYEN—The efforts to improve capabilities of the Philippine National Police in the province went into high gear with the recent issuance of newly acquired Glock hand guns to still unarmed elements of the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO). Provincial Director Senior Supt. Marlou Chan said the initial delivery of 399 hand…
BARANGAY POLLS LINGAYEN, Pangasinan Oct. 23 (PNA)—Amid an appeal by Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. to barangay candidates to help maintain a peaceful election, a 3,000-man security force from the Pangasinan police provincial office (PPO), police regional office 1 and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been deployed…
THE family feud sidelight that surfaced in the run for barangay chairman in Dagupan City’s Barangay Poblacion Oeste, where a mother is running against a son (and another candidate person), took an ugly turn just 10 days before election day. Councilor Guillermo “Emong” Vallejos, who is supporting his mother Lolita,…
THE Dagupan City government has taken the disaster preparedness program a notch higher. It wants individual families to be fully empowered to be able to make timely and appropriate decisions and actions to prepare them for any a calamity. In a pioneering move, families and volunteers, in Barangay Malued were…
THE LONGEST WAIT LINGAYEN—After almost two years of waiting for its completion, the residents of Calasiao and regular commuters thru the town can finally heave a sigh of relief when the town’s new Villamil Bridge is opened to traffic on Nov.30 this year. The bridge’s date of completion was confirmed by…
SCOUTS PLEDGE—Some 6,000 boys and girls of the scouts movement from the region and from Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Baguio City, Nueva Viscaya and Makati City recite their pledge at the opening of the BSP 3rd Ilocos Region Scout Jamboree held at Camp Amado Espino Jr. in Estanza Lingayen, Pangasinan last Oct. 19….
LINGAYEN— What could have been a completely successful hosting of the 3rd Ilocos Region Scout Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines at the Camp Amado Espino Jr. in Eco-Tourism Zone in Barangay Estanza here last week was marred by the drowning of a boy scout from Villasis. The fatality, Felix…
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