LINGAYEN—More than 20 persons with disabilities (PWDs) were given the opportunity to showcase their talents and skills during “Kakayahan 2014,” the regional skills competition for PWDs held on August 13 at the Dagupan City Astrodome. Noemi Escalona, focal person for PWD affairs at the Capitol, said the activity highlighted the PWDs skills…
LINGAYEN– Here’s good news for parents who have children born with cleft lip or cleft palate. A center for “Operation Smile, Bridging the Gap,” has been established s in the province to provide free checkups and surgery for children in collaboration with the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) last week….
Operation “Smile” in Pangasinan launched
POTENTIAL TOOL CONTRA FISH KILL WITH some help from nature, fish kills in the province will soon be a thing in the past and bangus production will be more profitable. Thanks largely to an innovation in technology developed by a Japanese research insitute. Reason: The bangus producers in this Bangus…
Solar-powered aerator experiment begins
‘KALOKOR’ PROJECT THE Samahan ng Maliliit na Mangingisda sa Dagupan City Inc. in Barangay Pugaro received P500,580.00 as livelihood assistance from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the city government the amount of for the purchase of the materials needed to catch fish using the beach seine (kalokor) method….
Pugaro fisherfolks get financial aid
DAGUPAN City’ government’s efforts to promote “Dagupan Bangus” gets a boost from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Under a new memorandum of agreement between the city government and DTI, the latter will provide P898,735 worth of equipment and machinery to the city that will include a heavy duty…
Dagupan, DTI sign agreement for shared facility
LINGAYEN – The 100 students hired by the provincial government as summer jobbers for the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) in collaboration with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), received their remaining remuneration for the services they have rendered from April 14 to May 14. Led by DOLE Regional…
SPES summer jobbers receive final paychecks
Lingayen- – -Twenty year-old Michelle Alegre of Bautista town, daughter of a security guard at the Capitol, will represent the country in the Miss Global Tourism tilt Toronto, Canada on December 1, 2014. In a courtesy call on Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. the beauty queen, who was adjudged 2nd…
Pangasinense will represent PH in Miss Global Tourism pageant
BREEZE ActivBleach is treating mommies across the country to a day-off from their laundry chores with the simultaneous nationwide 1Laba Day event on August 28. Moms throughout the country are invited to 1Laba Day venues and let Breeze’s revolutionary ActivBleach take care of their stained clothes while they take part…
Moms invited to Breeze’s 1Laba Day
THIS year’s “Buntis Congress” of the provincial government will host some 500 pregnant women residing in Binmaley and nearby towns to be held on August 29 at the provincial training center in Lingayen. Dr. Anna Theresa De Guzman, provincial health officer, said “Pre-natal and post-partum check-ups are also important and…
Buntis Congress in Binmaley, Aug 29
COJUANGCO UPDATES CALASIAO—It’s now 100 percent certain that Calasiao Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay will be the running mate of former Pangasinan fifth district Congressman Mark Cojuangco who is eyeing the gubernatorial post in 2016, as vice governor. In a press conference held Thursday, Cojuangco, provincial chairman of the Nationalist People’s Coalition,…