CHEF JOE—Former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. dons the apron as he whips up vegetable pasta and other dishes for editors of local newspapers and other guests whom he invited for dinner as his with him and his wife Gina’s guests Wednesday night at their residence in Dagupan City. Back…
WWII VETERANS SALUTE—A veterans of the Second World War salutes the Philippine flag as the national anthem is being sang during the commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the historic Lingayen Gulf Landings at the Veterans Park in Lingayen on January 9. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez) Back to Homepage
PVB’S WWII EXHIBIT—Gov. Amado Espino Jr.(right), accompanied by Philippine Veterans Bank president Ricardo Balbido Jr., and Vice Gov. Marlyn Primicias-Agabas, makes the rounds of the historical panels featuring photos and paintings of the second World War. The panel exhibit is on display at the Veterans Park in Lingayen during the…
EBOLA-WATCH—Experts from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Health Organization, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), and a technical team from the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) hold a press briefing in Lingayen on January 8 to explain their fact-finding mission…
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD AN ongoing reclamation project at the Calmay River just beside the Jose R. de Venecia Sr. Expressway Extension in barangay Poblacion Oeste caught the ire of Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. Fernandez fumed and said DENR violated its own rules by issuing the Environmental Compliance Certificate to a reclamation…
THE province of Pangasinan has one more thing to crow about, aside from being Best Local Government Unit under the Regional Project Monitoring System (RPMS). Records of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) show that Pangasinan tops three other Ilocos provinces of the region in the number of indigent families…
WHO says only people can live in a condominium? At the sprawling 24-hectare lot of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, African catfish or Clanas gariepinus hybrids, a very popular table fish, are quartered in 14-D and 28-D Fish Condominiums.
FEWER fireworks were lit in Pangasinan this New Year but the revelry still ended in pain and tragedy to some people, mostly children. Ten year old Jeffrey Malong of barangay Bangsal, Sta. Barbara, was rushed by an ambulance to the Region 1 Medical Center at 10:00 a.m. Thursday after he…
LINGAYEN— Developmental tourism and environmental consciousness will take center page during the week-long commemoration of the Lingayen Gulf landings and the ‘Agew ya Kawayangan ed Pangasinan 2009’ (Pangasinan Veterans Day 2009) from January 5 to 9 will center on. According to Ret. Colonel Paterno Orduna, over-all chairman of the affair,…
AFTER the inauguration of the Jose R. de Venecia Sr. Expressway Extension, Dagupan City officials were back knocking on former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.’s doors for the funding of another project to complete his envisioned circumferential road. This time, it will be a Dawel- Mamalingling-Tebeng extension.
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