One Week of UnliSerbisyo By Belen Fernandez AY naku, we had a busy week last week, topped by our feverish preparations to make Dagupan safe sa bangis ng bagyong “Karding”. Mabuti at si “Karding” became tamer when it hit the Sierra Madre mountain range. At kung hindi, its wrath would…
THE exposé of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano about DPWH’s “fund parking’ or the illegal realignment of billions of pesos in the infrastructure department’s 2023 budget is an indication that the 30-40% “S.O.P.” from favored contractors is back with a vengeance. This involves allocation of projects in various districts, and it…
UNLISERBSIYO By Belen Fernandez ON board motor boats, nagsagawa tayo, kasama ang personnel ng DPWH, City Engineering Office at CDRRMC, ng inspection sa Pantal-Sinucalan River last Wednesday afternoon para makakuha ng important data na maaring gamitin in preparing a master plan kung paano maibsan ang pagbaha sa ating mahal na…
FESTIVAL OF BARANGAY FOOD – Teenagers gamely participate in the tinapang manok eating contest held at the SM City Urdaneta Central to boost the city government’s Festival of Food featuring popular food items in barangays. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
UNDER PRESSURE IN LONELY TASK – A personnel of the Waste Management Division in Dagupan City goes about collecting as much of the garbage in Barangay Tapuac after a radio report took the division to task for failing to pick up all garbage in the area daily. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
TRADITIONAL RICE FARMING – Rice farmers in Barangay Umangan in Mangatarem, like in many other towns, plant palay without mechanized equipment and financial subsidy from the national government yet they are expected help ensure food security for the country. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
ZUMBA FOR LINGKOD BAYANI – Provincial government employees take part in the Zumba Para Sa Lingkod Bayani, an activity of the Grand Health and Wellness Day 2022, early morning last Friday at the Capitol Baywalk in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
COLOR PAGE – The senior students of Dagupan City National High School display their Art Wall entitled “Arts for Peace, Peace in the Arts” with 532 pieces of artworks from Grade 12 students’ illustrating concept of peace through a colorful canvas that formed a massive mural highlighting the theme of the celebration, “End…
THE discovery of deliberate misuse and exploitation of the scholarship fund program by unscrupulous officials of the Brian Lim administration for political purposes and, obviously, for self-aggrandizement is the height of contemptuous conduct of a public official. The temerity of councilors belonging to the majority in the Dagupan Sanggunian to…
Photos and short story by Art Valenzuela (Exclusive to the Sunday Punch) Whenever I think of taking a long vacation, “away from it all,” there is one place that always comes to my mind as it weaves back pleasant memories of the past — Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte. It is…
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