A LEAP FOR GOLD—Marla Felice Ellaga of the Baguio City National High School clears the 1.6 meters bar that won her the gold in the secondary girl’s high jump event. She was also cited the most outstanding athlete in the 2008 MILO Little Olympics held at Narciso Ramos Sports and…
PRACTICAL SHOOTING CHAMPIONS—Team Dagupan Practical Shooting Association (DPSA) top guns Alvin Pastoral (left) and Rob-Rob Erfe-Mejia, emerged as champions in their respective divisions in the Mamang Pulis All-Glock Challenge Invitational Shooting Competition held on September 12-14 at the PNP Firing Range, Camp Crame, Quezon City. Pastoral and Erfe-Mejia were awarded…
PACA OFFICERS–The executive officers and members of the board of directors of the Pangasinan Association of Canada (PACA) headed by its president Willie Rapanan (standing 6th from right) and Dr. Ernie Quinit (standing 7th from right), founder, get together after an assembly (Photo by Mogi Mogado)
By Jojo Taduran TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA–Most Filipino associations throughout the world are undertaking projects that will benefit their respective kababayans and their places of origin in the Philippines. No different is the Pangasinan Association of Canada (PACA) or the Annak Ti Pangasinan, which continuously develops and works for more projects…
A Dagupena, now a certified Montessori teacher in Illinois, USA, recently launched her interactive website ‘Child LoveLifeLight’ for benefit of parents worldwide. Josefa Garcia, directress & child education consultant & tutor of Montessori Children’s Home in Deerfield Illinois, said she designed her website to empower parents in “nurturing the moral,…
OUTSTANDING Dagupan Jaycee leaders were elected to national positions during the 28th JCI Philippines Area 1 Conference. Ryan Ravanzo, incumbent president of JCI Dagupan Inc, was elected as 2009 national executive vice president for Area I; Maximo Alexis Tan ran unopposed as 2009 national vice president for Northern Luzon; and…
FEEDING of malnourished children in Dagupan continues with the distribution of 1,543 boxes of chocolate cereal in three public elementary schools by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez. The vice mayor said the recent distribution was in support of the feeding program of Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. for malnourished pupils in the…
URDANETA CITY–Four national artists have been commissioned for a collaborative work on the monument of Padre Andres de Urdaneta, the Spanish Augustinian friar after whom the city was named. Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr., who last week escorted the creative team for a site inspection, said the city is honored for…
A former barangay captain and a balikbayan known for his advocacy for backyard gardening, is set to launch another ‘green revolution’ in his neighborhood in barangay Lucao in Dagupan. Alfredo Dawana, barangay head of Tapuac from 1966 to 1978, is busy preparing for the launch of his “Green Revolution at…
SOME 1,000 residents among Dagupan City’s urban poor were given free tooth extraction courtesy of “Libreng Bunot” dental mission sponsored by the city government last Sunday. Vice Mayor Fernandez, whose own CSI Group of Companies co-sponsored the dental mission, said the dental mission was organized to help the city’s urban…
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