THE Calasiao Police Station was ordered closed by Mayor Joseph Bauzon on March 31 for disinfection after its police chief, and 28 other policemen, and one person under PNP custody (PUPC) tested positive for COVID-19 . A message from Police Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand de Asis, Calasiao chief of police, “Covid…
NEVER TOO OLD TO FIGHT COVID – The 97-year old Antonia Cornel Ventenilla of Barangay Poblacion Oeste, one of 289 senior citizens inoculated at the Dagupan City Astrodome, gets her first dose of vaccine from the City Health Office’s team of vaccinators. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE first dose of Sinovac and AztraZeneca vaccines allocated to Region 1’s medical frontliners have been served to 24,362 front line health workers in both public and private hospitals as of March 30. This was revealed by Dr. Rheuel Bobis, medical officer IV and COVID-19 focal person of the Department…
KEEPING WITH RELIGIOUS TRADITION — Roman Catholics belonging to the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese lit candles as they filled the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral while observing the distance protocol for the early morning Easter Sunday mass. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
441st FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY MALACANANG has declared Monday, April 5, a special non-working holiday in Pangasinan to mark the province’s 441st founding anniversary, referred to as Pangasinan Day. Proclamation No. 1126 was signed by Executive Secretary Salvador C. Medialdea, by authority of President Rodrigo Duterte. Malacanang issued the proclamation “to enable the…
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas has reminded his fellow priests during the renewal of their vows in the Chrism Mass held at the St. John The Evangelist Cathedral in Dagupan City on March 31 “not to forget their first love, the Lord”. He said the priest’s parish, his graduate school diploma,…
AMID reports of heavy congestion in hospitals in NCR Plus Bubble, treatment of COVID-19 patients from these provinces wanting to be treated in hospital in any part of the region will require the official consent of the provincial task forces. This was stressed by Dr. Rheuel Bobis, Medical Officer IV…
TWENTY-three policemen assigned to the 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company in Camp Narciso Ramos in Tayug tested positive of COVID-19. In a joint statement last March 31, by Municipal Health Officer Ria Adora Loresto and Mayor Carlos Trece Mapili posted on the town’s official Facebook page, it said the infected…
FOOD AID FOR FIRE VICTIMS – JCI Senate Dagupan president Dada Reyna-Macalanda looks into the families affected by the Arellano riverside fire during food distribution by the organization on Thursday at the Doña Victoria Q. Zarate Elementary School. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
SIXTY families residing in 50 houses Sitio Riverside, Barangay Pantal in Dagupan City were left homeless after the fire struck 12:15 noon, Thursday March 30 that reached 4th alarm. Fire Superintendent Georgian Pascua, BFP Pangasinan fire marshal, said the fire quickly spread from one house to another, as they were…
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