MASTERPIECE IN URDANETA—Work on the Urdaneta monument is being rushed for its scheduled unveiling in March 2009. (Inset) Urdaneta City Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. joins President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during the briefing by National Commission on Culture and the Arts executive director Cecille Alvarez in front of the scale model of…
2008 MISS DAGUPAN AND HER COURT—Aimee Flor Romero (center) of Barangay Lucao hams it up as Miss Dagupan 2008 with other winners. From left, Arlene Tamondong, 2nd runner-up; Agnes Santiago, 1st runner-up; Maria Lotis Vallejos, 4th runner-up; and Lorievine Tinte, 3rd runner-up. Other title holders include Jennifer Barrozo, Miss Photogenic…
CITY’S RELOCATION OFFER DEEMED FAIR THE illegal settlers in Sitio Russia can end up losing all instead of coming out winners if they refuse to enter into an amicable settlement with the Dagupan City government. This was gleaned from the statement of Judge Genoveva Maramba of Regional Trial Court Branch…
LINGAYEN—First District Board Member Alicia Pulido has asked two of her fellow board members to inhibit themselves from the deliberation of the administrative case against her husband, Anda Mayor Nestor Pulido. Mrs. Pulido said Board Members Alfonso Bince Jr. and Danny Dizon have evident biases against her husband and should,…
THE more than four-kilometer Dawel-Pantal-Lucao Road has been officially named Jose R. de Venecia Highway Extension in honor of the late father of its builder, 4th District Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. The Dagupan City Council, in a special session on Wednesday, approved a resolution assigning the name to the…
THE Dagupan council passed and approved the city government’s P448 million budget for 2009 during its special session on Wednesday. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, presiding officer of the council, said the approved budget is only five per cent higher than this year’s budget in the amount of P427 million.
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan was adjudged the Best Local Government Unit in the Ilocos Region under the Regional Project Monitoring and Evaluation System (RPMES) for its Millennium Development Goals, besting three other provinces. Governor Amado Espino Jr. said the award is “the fruit of labor of the entire province” as reflected in the…
COLLEGE BEAUTIES—Grace Ann Caldez (center), a business administration student was adjudged Ms University of Luzon 2008 during the pageant night held at the Dagupan City Plaza on Dec 16. Other winners are Aimee Flor Romero (left) 2nd runner-up and Maureeen Mendoza, 1st runner-up. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
The colorful calesas are back in Dagupan City’s streets with a vengeance after being eased out by the motorized tricycles in the 70s. This time around, they are hailed for tourism purposes, no longer treated as lowly derelicts of the past. In addition, leisure and recreational horseback-riding was restored in…
LINGAYEN—Some 3,000 employees of the provincial government, including regular and casual staff, received an extra cash gift of P10,000 on December 16. Provincial Budget Officer Hilaria Claveria said the amount is on top of their 13th month pay, plus P5,000 cash gift as provided for in Republic Act 8481, both…
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