A POPULAR Filipino folk song listing 18 vegetables around a tiny nipa hut, a bahay kubo for which it is titled, has been brought to life at the Bonuan Boquig Elementary School in Dagupan City. A walk through the school’s vegetable garden, as the song goes, delightfully features “Singkamas at…
LINGAYEN—The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is getting ready to open a consular office at the Robinson’s Place in Calasiao town by May, bringing its services closer to Pangasinenses. The consular office, now under construction, will be DFA’s first provincial satellite office in the country outside Metro Manila.
DFA satellite office in Calasiao soon
BUGALLON–Residents of this town need not travel to the municipal center to avail of frontline services. The local government is bringing these to the communities through the Organized, Nurtured, Empowered (ONE) Bugallon program.
Bugallon munisipyo goes to the communities
ONE BARANGAY, ONE FISH PROJECT––Mayor Belen T. Fernandez leads the fingerlings dispersal composed of different fish species like malaga, talakitok, alangat, sea bass and lapu-lapu on January 30 for her administration’s “One Barangay, One Fish Project”, which aims to provide livelihood to small fishermen in the island barangays. Twenty-five families…
ONE BARANGAY, ONE FISH PROJECT
BAYAMBANG–To sustain this town’s billing as the top producer of onions in Region I and improve farmers’ income, Mayor Ricardo M. Camacho has called for various reforms. Camacho initialy urged the national government to place lands being planted under the agrarian reform program to enable farmers to own the farms…
Bayambang pushes for improved onion industry
SEVERAL job fairs have been lined up by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Pangasinan for both local and overseas work opportunities. The schedule in February is as follows:
DOLE skeds February job fairs
LINGAYEN–The provincial government is tapping all municipal and city governments to help in the campaign to address the dwindling carabao population in Pangasinan. A two-day caravan that will start on February 13 in the western part of the province will be held to distribute copies of the ordinance containing the…
Capitol acts on dwindling carabao population
SIGAY STREETDANCING—The centuries-old Our Lady of Purification Parish, built in 1674, serves as a backdrop to the dance routines of the groups that participated in this year’s Sigay Festival streetdancing in Binmaley held February1. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
SIGAY STREETDANCING
SAN FABIAN—The new building of the Mary Help of Christians Theology Seminary (MHCTS) in Barangay Palapad here, the third seminary of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese, will be blessed and its new chapel consecrated on February 11.
3rd archdiocesan seminary blessing on Feb 11
MARIAN DEVOTION—A devotee is in deep prayer before the image of Santa Maria Madre De Dios during the opening of the Marian Exhibit last February 5 at the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Bugallon which is celebrating its 300th anniversary. The exhibit will be open until till Feb. 11. (PUNCHphoto…