A FORMER doctor at the Region I Medical Center in Dagupan City is now making waves in the United States as a top Drug-Free World crusader. Dr. Alfredo Quinto, who was officer-in-charge of R1MC’s Drop-in Counseling Center, was recruited in 1997 by the International Narcotic Enforcement Officers’ Association (INEOA) of…
SOME 60 Coca-Cola System employees took part in the Coca-Cola System Employee Volunteer Day (EVD) last June 9 at the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) grounds in Teresa, Rizal. This year’s EVD was aimed at helping the environment and the community by planting 400 saplings of mahogany, acacia and…
SOME 3,000 jeepney drivers, operators and their respective families benefited from a day-long medical mission held on Thursday at the Simbaan Ya Bato in barangay Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan City. City Councilor Jesus Canto, former director of Region I Medical Center, conducted the medical mission for jeepney drivers to help…
FOR the second time in a row, another alumnus of the Mother Goose Special Science High School landed 7th place in the recent 2008 Pharmacist Licensure Board Examination. ARCINUE Jasson Louie R. Arcinue graduated magna cum laude in B.S. Pharmacy from UST and was also the president of the UST…
FORMER Dagupan Councilor Manuel A. Yao Jr. has joined his Creator on July 17 due to lingering illness. He was 52. His remains lie at Funeria Quiogue on A.B. Fernandez Avenue East and interment will be at the Eternal Gardens on July 24, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. after a mass…
Pedro V. Balingit (This article was published in the July 22, 1956 issue of Sunday PUNCH. We are reprinting it here to honor Don Pedro Balingit who marks his 100th birthday this week. “People of Consequence” was the title of the column feature and while no author was named in…
THE Rotary Club of Dagupan East will hold its induction program on July 18 at the Star Plaza Hotel with Health Secretary Francisco Duque III as guest of honor and speaker. Leading the officers to be inducted for Rotary Year 2008-2009 will be Dominador “Boy” Rayos, director for student affairs…
Lancaster Atrium Condotel, one of the hottest condotel investments located at Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City, Metro Manila and the setting of the new TV series “My Girl”, presented Pia Torio-Galapon an Award of Recognition for registering 100 million pesos of volume sales in less than eight months. She joined the…
NUTRITION FOR ADULTS AND KIDS—Acting Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez personally distributes packs of Ensure milk to senior citizens of Barangay Calmay, after she started her own feeding program for children dubbed Project Belen in different public elementary schools in the city targeting malnourished pupils, in support of the nutrition…
SOME 700 pupils in three public elementary schools in Dagupan will be given nutritious food everyday under Project Belen, a citywide feeding program which aims to reduce, if not eliminate, malnutrition. Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez, the project initiator, launched the feeding program on Friday at the Carael Elementary School, Calmay…
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