WARMING UP FOR THE BIG NIGHT–The 12 candidates for Miss Dagupan 2009 strike playful poses for the media during a Fun Shoot on December 13 at the Governors’ Island in the Hundred Islands. They are from left to right: (upper photo) Kristine Grace Avelino, Charlotte Visperas, Stephanie de Guzman, Denielle…
DANGER SIGN AT THE BANGUS PROCESSING PLANT–A boy points the extent of soil erosion just a little more than 10 meters away from the P100 million Seafood Processing Plant being constructed in Sitio Russia, Barangay Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City. The erosion was caused by rampaging waters of the Lingayen Gulf at…
AMUSED BY IT ALL–Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. (with back behind camera) reads a copy of The PUNCH where a front page story about malicious text messages that spread about his alleged demise appeared. Fernandez gamely laughed off the text messages with mediamen during the Media Night on December…
LIGHTING UP THE CHRISTMAS TREE–Dagupan City officials led by Mayor Al Fernandez and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez stand in front of the city’s giant Christmas tree after the ceremonial lighting to signal the start of the fiesta celebration. Joining them are Elmina Fernandez, wife of the mayor; Councilors Karlos Reyna…
POLITICS HEATS UP EARLY IN DAGUPAN WITH still three months to go before campaign period starts, the political fireworks in Dagupan City have already been lit. Come-backing mayor Benjamin Lim fired the first salvo. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, however, was just as quick to the draw and picked up the…
“STRONG as a bull.” This was how Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez described the health condition of Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. in reaction to a text message circulated by a still unidentified group last week saying the mayor was hospitalized and died.
LINGAYEN—The provincial government has not backed out of its plan to make officials of the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC) and the National Power Corporation (NPC) accountable for the damages wrought by the big flood in Pangasinan in October.
JUST like most everywhere else in the country, local politics in Pangasinan is a family affair. In several towns, it’s either father and son, father and daughter, or husband and wife tandems vying for the mayoralty and vice mayoralty posts in the 2010 elections.
CLAD in black and white t-shirts printed with the now very familiar message “Stop Killing The Journalists”, Pangasinan newsmen joined their colleagues nationwide in staging a prayer rally as part of the continued and growing call for justice for their 30 fellow journalists who were massacred in Maguindanao.
ALIVE AND KICKING—Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. joins Councilors Lino Fernandez and Karlos Reyna, hermano mayor of the Dagupan City Fiesta this year, on Friday evening for an inspection and chat with stall owners at the city’s nightly Food Strip on Zamora Street which is part of the fiesta celebration. Malicious…
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