Cycling and basketball crazy Mangaldan By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IN the 70s and 80s, my town, Mangaldan, was described by the national scribes as the ‘cradle of Philippine cycling’ for producing three national Tour champions: this writer of Barangay Buenlag (1973 and 1977), the Carino brothers, Samson and Ruben…
Sports Eye
Post Grad Speech By Johanne R. Macob MY Facebook newsfeed has been filled with graduation/recognition/completion posts the past days. There were by proud parents who uploaded numerous pictures of their kids along with medals/ribbons/certificates and other proofs of achievement; by graduates themselves who shared grad pictures showing them mostly…
Young Roots
NO DRYING FACILITIES FOR SMALL FARMERS. We went around Pangasinan recently and the familiar sight we saw along the road were bags of palay being unloaded by farmers to be dried on the newly paved roads that are supposed to be for motor vehicles only. This sight seemed to indicate that farmers…
Random Thoughts
SUMMER IS FOR KIDS — One knows it’s summertime when children begin to clamber on anything that promises a fun dive into the ocean, river or a lake, like the kids in Infanta town who couldn’t care less why their fathers and elder brothers no longer go farther out to fish in…
SUMMER IS FOR KIDS
IF the illegal drug trade in Pangasinan continues to worsen in spite of intensified campaign by the Pangasinan police, it is because there are still 15 drug syndicates that continue to operate in the province’s towns and cities. The continued active operation of the 15 syndicates in Pangasinan was recently…
15 drug groups active in Pangasinan
HOLY WEEK BUSTS LINGAYEN–While Pangasinenses took time off during the Holy Week, the provincial police intensified its operations against fugitives and collared three of the province’s most wanted persons for various crimes in their homes. The series of operations were conducted since it is usually on special occasions like Holy…
Province’s 3 most wanted criminals arrested
ELECTION WATCHLIST AREAS FROM among the 20 towns in Pangasinan placed under the Election Watchlist Areas (EWAs), the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) will keep a closer watch on Bayambang, San Carlos City, Malasiqui, Urbiztondo and Bugallon, during the campaign period and on election day. Fearing that violence will occur…
Five towns under tight watch
IT’S all systems go for the 2016 Bangus Festival! A grand parade on April 8, along the city’s main thoroughfares followed by the Gilon Gilon ed Dalan will signal the official start of the festivities in the city. According to Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, over-all chairman, and City Councilor Marvin V….
