THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC), the only tertiary hospital in Pangasinan, scored a new milestone in its 88-year history when it obtained an international certification for its preventive, curative, rehabilitative health care services. The ISO 9001:2008 certification was received by Dr. Joseph Roland Mejia, R1MC Director, from Paul Bagatsing, vice…
FIRE DESTROYS 10 CLASSROOMS VILLASIS—The town’s three firemen were relieved from duty after they failed to respond to a fire that gutted classrooms of the Unzad National High School, some five kilometers away from the town proper, at about 10:30 p.m. of October 12. Sr. Supt. Leonardo Consolacion of the…
BUGALLON—The pupils in the town of Bugallon were shown the benefits good health practices by the Lingayen District Hospital Inter-local Health Zone last week as part of the latter’s child health advocacy programs. Different lectures on child health advocacy programs such as on essential health care (handwashing, toothbrushing, deworming), common…
ALL IN THE FAMILY THE incumbent chairman in Barangay Poblacion Oeste in Dagupan City, 82-year old Julita Vallejos, is facing her 41-year old son, Councilman Joseph Vallejos, in her re-election bid during the October 28 poll. The younger Vallejos said he is pushing through with his candidacy against the advice…
BINMALEY—The Commission on Election (Comelec) provincial office organized a briefing last week for some 50 members of the 702nd battalion army brigade of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) who have been posted in Pangasinan as augmentation force for the October 28 barangay election. Lawyer Marino Salas, provincial election…
LINGAYEN—To boost the boy scouts movement in the province, the provincial government built a two-storey building in the town as headquarters of the BSP Pangasinan-San Carlos City Council. The building located at the Maramba Boulevard was finally inaugurated last week. Officials of the provincial government and Boy Scouts of the Philippines…
7th SARI-SARI STORE FAIR––Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez (left), Uniliver Philippines’ Vice President for Costumer Development Carl Cruz (center) and City Nutritionist and Social Welfare and Development Officer Leah Aquino lead the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the official opening of the 7th CSI Sari-Sari Store Fair which runs from October…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez has vowed to push for the full development of new growth centers and corridors within her term to make Dagupan competitive with other fast-growing cities and municipalities in Pangasinan and Region 1. Noting that Dagupan’s central business district is now congested, apart from being vulnerable to flooding, Fernandez announced…
LINGAYEN—“We have to fast track coconut industry development in the province.” Thus said Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) Region 1 Manager Domingo Frugal representing PCA Administrator Atty. Euclides Forbes during the provincial board inquiry on the status and development of the coconut industry in Pangasinan during their regular session last October…
LINGAYEN– Three companies for local employment and one company for overseas employment hired new job-seekers during a mini jobs fair organized by the Provincial Employment and Services Office (PESO) on October 18, 2013 at the PESO, Ground Floor, Kalantiao Bldg, Capitol Complex.
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