LINGAYEN- -In observance of Tourism Month, the Provincial Tourism and Cultural Affairs Office (PTCAO) will hold the first-ever Pangasinan Tourism Quiz Bee on September 28. PTCAO chief Luisa A. Elduayan said the quiz bee is open to all Grade 10 students of both public and private schools, and competitions will…

THE academic community of Pangasinan State University (PSU) officially installed Dr. Dexter Buted as its sixth president in an investiture ceremony held last September 10 at the CSI Stadia in Dagupan City. Dr. Manolito Manuel, PSU vice-president for student services, said the investiture ceremony – as one of the oldest…

LINGAYEN—The officers and members of the newly formed Dagupan City Athletic Association (DCAA) were inducted into office on Monday by Mayor Belen Fernandez at the city museum. DCAA is headed by Manuel M. Ferrer, principal of Bonuan Boquig Elementary School is the City School Division’s working committee for planning and…

THE Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) head stressed that “abortion remains a grave and serious wrong”. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, CBCP head, in a statement Thursday titled “Understanding Pope Francis’ gesture rightly”, said that in the traditional language of older catechisms, it (abortion) “is a mortal sin, a…

GALING POOK GOVERNANCE FAIR—Mayor Belen T. Fernandez (3rd from left) and members of the city’s Millennium Development Goals-Family Based Actions for Children and their Environs in the Slums core team join the Local Governance Fair at SMX Convention Center, Pasay City on September 1.Dubbed as Mamamayan, Mamamayani, the Local Governance Fair was meant…

MANGALDAN– The Provincial Employment Service Office (PESO) held a Special Membership Day for the families of the overseas Filipinos workers in this town last week to encourage them to affiliate with the association in order to facilitate delivery of services intended for them. PESO Manager Alex Ferrer said the event,…

AN APPEAL TO MILLENIALS DAGUPAN CITY—The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) expressed the need to reach out to the millennial generation, most especially in helping to take care of the environment. “We need the millenials. The home that God entrusted to us is dying and it’s…

THE newly organized Pangasinan Federation of Disaster Officers has proved to be a big boon to the members’ operation in times of calamities, according to Ronaldo de Guzman, city disaster risk reduction and management officer (CDRRMO) of Dagupan City. Speaking at the KBP Forum in Dagupan City last week, De Guzman said the federation became…