56 farmers successfully completed the “Season-Long Farmers Field School on Sustainable Rice Production with Emphasis on Palay Check System” in Barangay San Pedro, San Carlos City, which took place on October 13. Farmers from Barangay San Pedro and Matagdem took the four-month training course organized by the local government’s Extension…
THE town of Pozorrubio registered another first as it celebrates the Month of the Elderly in October by holding a fund-raising popularity contest. The contest, organized the Federation of Senior Citizens Association of Pozorrubio culminated in a motorcade and coronation of the winning senior beauties on October 14 and 15,…
Pozorrubio holds first Senior Citizens Festival
SOME 1,356 Kiwanians from Northern Luzon will gather in different venues for the ‘Kiwanis One Day’ (KOD) celebration on October 28. Philippine Luzon District (PLD) Chairman for KOD activity, Past Lt. Gov. Stachys Neil Espino of Kiwanis Club of San Carlos City, said the Kiwanians from different divisions will conduct various…
Kiwanians celebrate ‘Kiwanis One Day’
THE San Carlos City Public Library, headed by City Librarian Nerissa Cabuay, was honored with two prestigious awards from the National Library of the Philippines. The city’s public library was awarded First place in the Exemplary Children’s Library Service category and honored Cabuay with Special Citation Award citing her Librarian…
San Carlos library bags 2 National Library awards
UNLISERBISYO IN her recent visit to Barangay Bacayao Sur for her #GoodbyeGutom ZERO Hunger in Dagupan Feeding Project, Mayor Belen Fernandez cited the possibility and potential of the Gulayan sa Barangay as an added source for the feeding program for the children. She said tests will be made how lettuce…
FRESH VEGGIES FOR FEEDING PROGRAM
By Leonardo Micua A recent move by the majority councilors in the Dagupan City council is deeply disconcerting. They tried but failed to ‘disapprove’ the minutes of the September 26 session, when the P1.3 billion annual budget of Dagupan was passed. Then they initially asked that approval of the…
Whimsical deletion of minutes
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN a blink, my suitcase was gone my passport, my documents my formal shoes, my camera gifts I bought for my friends, my lipstick I lost everything the police took my statement making me repeat my family name, spelling every letter “P as in property,…
Lost Things
By Farah G. Decano A few of my friends messaged me on Messenger and inquired about this Facebook post that did not reach only users in Pangasinan but also those in other parts of the Philippines. “Anyare?” they asked. I felt a certain shame. I did not sign up…
A hurting city
By Eva C. Visperas HOW does one feel when meeting one of the country’s richest businessmen for the first time? To say super excited is an understatement. A week earlier, after I received a formal invitation from PIO Dhobie de Guzman for a milestone event happening in Pangasinan, I…
Meeting the man they call ‘RSA’
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FIRSTLY, the talk of Philippine sports these days is about the stunning “positive” doping test result of our naturalized player, Gilas Pilipinas 5 guard-forward Justin Brownlee in the Hangzhou Asian Games where our country seized the elusive gold medal, our first after 61 years….