PVB’S WW II TRAVELING EXHIBIT THE Philippine Veterans Bank’s award-winning World War II Traveling Exhibit, “War of Our Fathers,” is back in Dagupan for the third time, this time with a special message: General Douglas MacArthur first disembarked from his flagship USS Boise and landed on January 9, 1945 with the First Corps in…
POISONED BY TAHONG BOLINAO — The red tide has claimed its first fatality this year in this town after partaking of tahong (mussel) while 25 others were rushed to a hospital for food poisoning. The report was enough for the town mayor to immediately issue an order banning the harvest,…
CHRISTMAS IN DAGUPAN — The candidates for Miss Dagupan 2014 take their turn like everybody else, to have their pictures taken with the city’s giant Christmas tree and exploding fireworks as backdrop. The occasion was the lighting of the tree at the plaza last Friday to signal the start of…
30-DAY CELEBRATION A GRAND civic parade, the lighting of a giant Christmas tree in front of the City Museum, Mass Singing of Christmas Songs and a Concert by the Philharmonic Orchestra in full band at the city plaza, to be followed by fireworks, kicked off the month-long city fiesta in honor of St. John the…
CHURCH AND STATE TOGETHER –The organizations and network for the Ugnayan ng Barangay at Simbahan (UBAS) in Region One demonstrate a show of force and commitment during the symbolic signing of the memorandum of undertaking at the Parish Hall of the St. John Cathedral in Dagupan City last week. The…
GOVT-CHURCH PARTENRSHIP A DOCUMENT defining terms of partnership for transparency, public accountability and good governance was signed on Dec. 4 at the St. John Metropolitan Cathedral in Dagupan in launching the Ugnayan ng Barangay at Simbahan (UBAS). The signatories to the document were officials of the Liga ng Barangay (LnB)…
TRIVIA FOR 400th JUBILLE CELEBRATION DID you know that Dagupan has two candidates for sainthood who are now recognized as among the icons of the Catholic Church? The enlarged black and white photographs of the two have been posted conspicuously inside the St. John Metropolitan Cathedral since November 30, a week after the start…
BULK FOR MODERNIZATION OF HOSPITALS LINGAYEN–The provincial board passed on Monday a P2.77 billion budget for Pangasinan for year 2015 which is higher by almost P400 million over the current provincial budget of P2.3 million Sixth District Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr., the designated spokesman of the SP, said they already passed…
BCS CONTROVERSY RAGES BAYAMBANG—The legal battle over the raging controversy over the planned permanent transfer of the Bayambang Central School (BCS) to another site through a land swap has led to another case. This time the tables are turned on Bayambang Mayor Ricardo Camacho and businessman William Chua for alleged…
LINGAYEN- The campaign against illegal drugs in the province has gained momentum. The Liga ng mga Barangay provincial federation is set to hold a provincial anti- drug summit here tentatively scheduled on December 10 this year to discuss and plan an intensified campaign against illegal drugs at the barangay level. Board Member Amado…
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