THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to plant one million seedlings of forest and fruit trees on 1,184 hectares of forestland in Pangasinan to replace the burned trees due to high temperature this year. Celso Salazar, community environment and natural resources officer in Dagupan City, said…
BEFORE THE STORM — A young boy carries a bundle of freshly harvested tobacco leaves to a collecting area in a tobacco farm in Barangay Amamperez, Villasis to be air-dried for days inside a barn. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
BEFORE THE STORM
FISHPOND owners in the province are in distress due to the invasion of “Gloria Tilapia,” locally named as “mol-mol”, Dr. Westly Rosario, center chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center in this city, said fishpond owners already sought his advice on how to…
“Mol-mol” tilapia invades fishponds
SRP ON SCHOOL ITEMS AS the opening of classes draw near, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has started monitoring prices of school items being sold in the market and warned all retailers in the province to follow the suggested retail prices (SRP) set by the government. Peter Mangabat,…
DTI warns retailers of violations
TO help uphold children’s rights to education, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is collecting new and old pencils for the ‘One Million Lapis’ project of the Council for Welfare of Children (CWC) in celebration of the National Children’s Month in November. “Lapis” is a symbolic representation…
DILG joins ‘One Million Lapis’ campaign
THE Association of Private Schools, Colleges and Universities (APSCU) Region 1, in partnership with the University of Luzon, will host the regional launch of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Youth Award, a recognition for young people who practice CSR. Dr. Carmelo Vidal, director for the Extension Services of the University…
APSCU to launch Youth Awards in Region I
MANGALDAN—A local television reporter of ABS-CBN Dagupan was elected municipal councilor here. Aldrin Soriano, 24, substituted for his father, then re-electionist Councilor Alfredo Soriano, who died during the campaign due to heat stroke. The elder Soriano was to seek his third term. “This is for daddy. Truth is, he advised…
Son substitutes father, wins mandate
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS CITY IMPLEMENTS CLEAN-UP DRIVE – The city’s Waste Management Division conducts water flushing and cleanup along the stretch of Zamora Street especially in front of the Old Catholic Church and the Archbishop’s Palace on Wednesday, May 18 in line with the city’s cleanliness and orderliness drive against…
CITY IMPLEMENTS CLEAN-UP DRIVE
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS THE City Engineering Office on May 18 has started serving notices to vendors along Zamora Street in front of CentroMart asking them to voluntarily dismantle their illegal extensions and other forms of obstructions as the city is bent on clearing the streets from ambulant vendors and other…
City starts cleaning streets from ambulant vendors
CAPITOL NEWS Dr. Enrique A. Tayag (seated, 3rd from left), Former Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla (seated, center) and Zuellig Family Foundation (ZFF) Pres. Ernesto Garilao (extreme right) laud 26 Pangasinan health leaders led by Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. for being the first local government unit in the country…