By Ahikam Pasion Minor dies in San Nicolas road mishap A 16-year-old boy was declared dead on arrival after the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a parked harvester in San Nicolas town on Tuesday, February 22. Victim Russel Mendoza Oriña, grade 9 student, a resident of San Nicolas, was…
MORE TAKE THE AKARESTAS’ CHALLENGE – What better way to stay healthy than do what Akarestas do – to take early morning (5 a.m.) leisure walks with friends, reminiscing the fun, good old days…sharing funny, amusing rumors and gossips of the week…then enjoy a sumptuous breakfast together in a designated…
MORE TAKE THE AKARESTAS’ CHALLENGE
THE Hundred islands Festival will kick off on March 4, the first time that Alaminos City will celebrate its exciting annual festivity face-to-face after two years of staging it virtually and hybrid. Four major events are lined-up, namely, Hundred Islands Festival, City Patronal Fiesta, Talaba Ihaw-Ihaw Festival and 22nd City Charter…
Hundred Islands Festival activities set March 4
UNLISERBISYO “WE have to be prepared. Let us do the best we can.” This was the marching order of Mayor Belen Fernandez to officials and personnel of the city government as she underscored the urgency of preparing for the worst scenario similar to what happened to Turkey and Syria ….
DAGUPAN PREPARES FOR EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI
By Rex Catubig IT’S been thirty seven years since the EDSA People Power Revolution—that historic event on a February love month in 1986 that made the world sit up and do a double take on this tiny patch of islands, whose simple folks became giant poster figures overnight of…
“Jopay” in the time of power outage
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! FEBRUARY 28 – (Dagupan City) Antonio Ballesteros MARCH 02 – (Dagupan City) Arnold Fernandez; (Calasiao) Maxine de Guzman; (Mangaldan) Mary Grace Almonte MARCH 03 – (Bautista) Arnel Santillan Happy Birthday! BETHANY C. QUINTO & GRACE TABAYOYONG (February 25 – KSA & USA) Happy Birthday! KATHERINE JIMENEZ, ARNOLD BARROZO…
Birthdays/Anniversaries February 26 – March March 4, 2023
VALENTINE’S DAY BEACH WEDDING – Sixty-one couples exchange I Do’s during the civil mass wedding ceremony late afternoon at the beach in Lingayen on Valentine’s Day officiated by Lingayen Mayor Leopoldo Bataoil. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
VALENTINE’S DAY BEACH WEDDING
61 COUPLES EXCHANGE “1 DO” WITH the picturesque and historic Lingayen Beach as their backdrop, 61 couples made a first-of-its kind beach wedding in this capital town perfectly timed on Valentine’s Day. Several minutes before sunset, the pairs, she in her wedding or white long dress, and he in Barong…
Mass wedding in historic Lingayen Beach on Valentine’s Day
THE members of the majority at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod have lost all sense of reality, shame, and civility when they believed they could turn facts into fiction by deleting accounts and minutes of the proceedings of a regular session, like these never happened. The totally unexpected move of the…
When harebrained politicians go berserk
By Ermin Garcia Jr. HOW stupid and how far will reckless politicians go to serve their bloated misplaced egos? I say let’s give full credit to the 7 epaLiFes at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod for showing us how. Their antics last week wanting (and succeeded) to “disapprove minutes of …