DRIVER’S ERROR – Curious onlookers take pictures of the brand new car that plunged into a fishpond when it tried to avoid a slow moving motorcycle carrier (garong) on a narrow road in Calasiao town. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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COMMISSION on Higher Education (CHED) chairman Prospero De Vera said he is confident the limited face-to-face classes allowed by the President for some medical schools and other allied health science courses will succeed. Speaking to local newsmen at Monarch Hotel on Feb. 9, De Vera said people will just have…
CHED chair optimistic about face-to-face class in Med schools
TWO colleges in Pangasinan operated by local governments received the Gawad Parangal from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) in ceremonies held at the Monarch Hotel in Calasiao on February 9. CHED Chairman Prospero de Vera III bestowed the recognition to Binalatongan Community College in San Carlos City and the…
Two colleges run by LGUs get CHED’s Gawad Parangal
THE Sanggunian Panlalawigan approved the ordinance creating the Pangasinan Provincial Blood Bank Facility to ensure adequate supply of safe blood in the province. The Provincial Ordinance No. 32-2021, “An Ordinance Creating the Pangasinan Provincial Blood Bank Facility and Providing Guidelines for the Collection, Processing and the Operation of Blood Bank…
Creation of Prov’l Blood Bank Facility OK’d
HUSBAND-WIFE TEAM – A young couple in Malasiqui town find time to bond while stringing tobacco leaves for drying. Tobacco farming is a major source of livelihood to most residents in the town. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
HUSBAND-WIFE TEAM
IN a bid to revive the once thriving hog industry in Pangasinan that lost heavily to the African Swine Fever (ASF) and to check if the lethal hogs disease is finally contained, the Department of Agriculture will soon allow a limited number of raisers to re-start hog raising. This was…
DA to re-start hog raising in Pangasinan soon
COOL BUKO DRINK FOR SUMMER – Buko juice vendors are expected to earn more in the next two months in spite of the pandemic because it’s what children like to drink during summer, with or without the face masks. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
COOL BUKO DRINK FOR SUMMER
AGRICULTURE teachers in Speaker Eugenio Perez National Agricultural School (SEPNAS) in San Carlos City did not just get themselves busy preparing students’ modules for their online classes but also devoted their time planting cacao seedlings with the onset of the pandemic. A novel project called ‘Cacao Now, Chocolate Tomorrow’ was…
It’s a ‘Wow with Cacao’ for San Carlos teachers
TWENTY-five displaced Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Sta. Barbara, received P5,000 financial assistance each from the provincial government on February 9 through the Tulong Pangkabuhayan sa OFW program. The financial assistance program, component of the Abig Pangasinan recovery program, was launched by Gov. Amado I. Espino III, to address the…
Capitol assists 25 displaced OFWs
NEW DIVERSION ROAD – Today’s stressed motorists regularly plying the Lingayen-Binmaley route will soon be happily traversing the diversion road once fully opened. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
