RIZAL DAY CELEBRATION SIMPLE but meaningful celebrations were held around the province on December 30 in observance of the 1117th death anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal, the country’s national hero. In Dagupan City, public officials underscored the role of the young in nation-building as advocated by Rizal. The Rizal Day…
DURING his teenage years up to early adulthood, Dr. Jose Rizal frequented Lingayen to visit kin, including his cousin and childhood sweetheart Leonor Rivera. The maternal roots of Rizal’s mother Teodora Alonzo Quintos Rizal lived for several years in Sitio Parian in Lingayen. While in the province, the young man…
RIVER BOUNTY––Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and fiesta hermano mayor Atty. Liberato ‘Ope’ Reyna, Jr. await while Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas blesses the fingerlings to be released into the Pantal River during the Agew na Managsigay celebration on December 27, one of the highlights of the 2013 City Fiesta….
CELEBRATING the river as a valuable resource and honouring fisherfolks were the focus of the Agew na Managsigay held December 27, one of the events of the 2013 Dagupan City Fiesta. More than 60 decorated boats joined the fluvial parade and fingerlings of bangus, tilapia, seabass, and shrimp were released…
FOURTH District Rep. Gina de Venecia hailed Dagupan City’s disaster risk reduction and management plan which focuses on preparedness at the household level to ensure that families know what to do in case of disasters. De Venecia vowed her support to the plan and urged all barangay officials to do…
IT’S the “Year of the Laity” for the Catholic Church and Lingayen-Dagupan of the Philippines, has called on the faithful to “wake up from passivity”. In his Jan. 1 letter posted in the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese website, Villegas rallied the people to “be fired by the Spirit and dare to change…
BELEN SA BARANGAY CHAMPION–Barangay Lasip Grande Chairman Rodolfo S. Siapno (2nd from left) receives the award as the grand winner of the ‘2013 Belen sa Bawat Barangay’ contest during the Barangay Night on December 27 at the city plaza from Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez (3rd from left) and…
BARANGAY Lasip Grande was awarded first place with a cash prize of P100,000 in the ‘Belen sa Bawat Barangay’ (Nativity Scene in Every Barangay) contest in Dagupan City. Lasip Grande Chairman Rodolfo Siapno received the cash and trophy from Mayor Belen Fernandez and lawyer Liberato Reyna Sr., hermano mayor of 2013…
ELEVEN-year old Caila from Bani has earned a spot in the national search for Exemplary Pantawid Pamilya. As the representative of Region 1, she is also now being considered to stand as the region’s child advocate in the Regional Council for the Welfare of Children. Now in 6th grade, Caila…
THE Siberian cold wind blowing from dawn to morning, forcing the temperature to dip to as low as 11 degrees centigrade in Baguio at one time, is a bane to the bangus industry in Dagupan City and other parts of Pangasinan City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina explained that when it…
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