By Rex Catubig I grew up in Calmay which was cut off from the población by the river. Our barrio had everything a village needed, but we would cross the river aboard a banca to partake of life on the other side. On Sundays, my mother and I would…
BISKEG NA BALEY DIAMOND AWARDEE – Former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. receives the highest commemorative award for the city’s 75th founding anniversary from Mayor Belen Fernandez. With him is his son Rep. Christopher de Venecia, himself a PINABLIN PANGIDAYEW DIAMOND Awardee. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE 76th Agew na Dagupan celebration with the theme “Ilaban su Baley” (Fight for the City), kicked off on June 20 with a wreath-laying at the foot of the monument of the late Speaker Eugenio Perez Sr., revered as the Father of Dagupan who authored Republic Act 170, the law…
UNLISERBISYO MAYOR Belen Fernandez presided over the mass wedding ceremony for 38 couples from different barangays in the city, billed as the first BEACH MASS WEDDING IN TONDALIGAN, last June 18, at the Tondaligan Beach. The ‘Diyamanteng Kasalan’ was an activity to celebrate the 75th Year Diamond Jubilee Anniversary of…
12th ASEAN PARA GAMES THE provincial board has commended an athlete with disability for bagging three bronze medals in men’s 100 meters T46, 400 meters T46 and 200 meters T46 track and field events during the recently concluded 12th ASEAN Para Games held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The shy Jerome Doria Fernandez,…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! JUNE 26- (Dagupan City) Rowell Fernandez, Menchie Fernandez JUNE 28 – (Dagupan City) Renato Cendana, Mylene Mendoza; (Mangaldan) Ernesto dela Vega JUNE 29 – (Calasiao) Armando De Vera; (San Jacinto) Rowena Santillan, Melody Ildefonso JUNE 30 – (Dagupan City) Clarissa Pioquinto; (Mangaldan) Resty Dimalanta; (Manaoag) Rose Ann dela…
MODERN science and technology still cannot predict where and when earthquakes will happen and how strong. The only thing that can be predicted is how the emergency response should be. So far, Northern Luzon has been spared from the strong tremors that hit Mindanao and the Visayas of late, and…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE release of the Department of Budget and Management’s decision finding Dagupan City’s 2023 annual budget as “inoperative in its entirety” was actually anti-climactic. That it even took DBM more than two months to make that decision is disappointing. There was simply no way for…
FUTURE JOURNALISTS – Some 2,000 campus writers and media production staff from 14 Division Schools in Region 1 take their oaths during the opening program of the 2023 Regional Schools Press Conference (RSPC) competition from the 14 schools division offices in Ilocos Region that started on June 15 at the Don…
FUTURE LEADERS TRAINING YOUNG city officials under the Manlingkor Ya Kalengwaran (MYK) program took over the reins of the city government last June 13 following their oathtaking officiated by Mayor Belen Fernandez at the E-Library in Bonifacio Street. In the MYK program, Fernandez yielded her post for one week to Young…
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