HUMANIZED RED CROSS – (Upper panel) Some 5,000 volunteers in blood red shirts and caps trooped to the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen to fill every inch of the space on the ground to give the Red Cross icon (Lower panel) a human face on the occasion of…
LINGAYEN – Over five thousand volunteers in red bandanas joined the Philippine Red Cross Pangasinan Chapter’s 70th anniversary on May 22, at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center. Led by Florame S. Magalong, PRC Dagupan Chapter Administrator, they even formed the I AM HUMANITY @70 human cross. Vice Governor…
Human cross formed for PRC’s 70th year
CAPITOL NEWS LINGAYEN, Pangasinan—Pangasinan takes pride in receiving an honor for the fourth time yesterday (May 23) as one of the few provinces in the country to be conferred with the 2016 Rice Achievers Awards. Aside from Pangasinan, the provinces of La Union, Nueva Vizcaya, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Lanao del…
Pangasinan bags Rice Achievers Award for the 4th time
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS THE city’s biggest summer sports clinic was a resounding success with completion of the program of 640 children enrolled in 11 sports events from May 5 to 26. The 22-day summer sports clinic dubbed as Sports Kontra Droga was facilitated by the Dagupan City Sports Commission (DCSC)….
DCSC’s summer sports clinic ends
FOURTH District Rep. Christopher De Venecia has filed a bill in Congress seeking to strengthen and streamline the functions of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts to make it more relevant. House bill No. 5308 filed by De Venecia early this year is a proposed Act that seeks…
De Venecia files bill seeking to strengthen NCCA
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS MAYOR Belen Fernandez said the city government will provide the rice to all volunteers mobilized by barangay chairmen in clearing esteros in the city. Fernandez said the clearing of esteros, which is being done yearly before the big rains set in, will reduce the threat of flood…
MBTF: Dagupan to provide rice for estero cleaning
CAPITOL NEWS MASSIVE ANTI-RABIES VACCINATION CAMPAIGN. Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim, Atty. Nimrod S. Camba and Provincial Veterinarian, Dr. Eric Perez flash the Pangasinan number 1 sign along with members of the Provincial Veterinary Office and Department of Animal Industry after the Flag Raising Ceremony on May 22, at the…
MASSIVE ANTI-RABIES VACCINATION CAMPAIGN
ILLEGAL GUNS SEIZED BANI—The municipal administrator and two barangay captains in this town were nabbed in simultaneous raids on May 24 by joint police elements for illegal possession of guns and ammunition. According to a report from P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Lee, Pangasinan police director, arrested were Tammerlane Olores, municipal administrator…
Bani administrator, 2 kapitan nabbed
SISON –A rice mill owner was stabbed dead inside his establishment by a self-confessed drug user on May 24 in Barangay Labayug this town. Samuel Dapyusin, 64, resident of Barangay Inmalog, Sison, was stabbed dead with a kitchen knife by the suspect Jay-Ar Tampoya 32, laborer, resident of Barangay Labayug,…
Rice mill owner stabbed dead by drug user
CALASIAO—A restaurant owner was wounded in a gun attack by motorcycle-riding suspects in his establishment on May 24 along Barangay Poblacion West this town. The victim is Benjamin Cabugao, 53, resident of said barangay who manages Broadway Kambingan in this town, was in his kitchen when the unidentified suspect approached…