Open sesame! This was the call made last week by members of the Dagupan City council who, like the rest of the citizenry in the city, have become excited yet anxious over the continued delay in the opening of the Dawel-Pantal-Lucao Road to the vehicular traffic. Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo,…
THIS year’s Bangus Festival scored the highest in visitor arrivals and boosted revenues of big and small business establishments in the city. Dagupan Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, who chaired the executive committee for the celebration, said the business sector reported brisk sales and increased revenues for the duration of the…
Senator Rodolfo Biazon, who visited Umingan town on May 2, said he is initiating a Senate inquiry on the delay of the construction of the irrigation component of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam. “I’m going to ask irrigators why San Roque Dam has not delivered the irrigation component,” Biazon said….
POZORRUBIO—The University of Luzon is opening a new campus here in June, offering the usual regular college courses and DepEd’s pet project of a ladderized education. UL officials said evening and weekend classes for graduate and post-graduate courses may also be introduced later. The Samson-Reyna clan, majority stockholders of the…
UL IN POZORRUBIO—(Upper photo) Dr. Azucena Elegado, dean of the University of Luzon Graduate Studies, consults with Pozorrubio educators and parents regarding the planned 2008 courses and subject offerings of UL Pozorrubio Extension, which will open in the town in June. Other participants present in the consultative meeting were (Lower…
LINGAYEN–The fiesta fever is on. So how about one for celebrating bagoong and bucayo? A festival revolution continues to catch fire in Pangasinan after the very successful staging of the Dagupan Bangus Festival and the Puto Festival in Calasiao. Refusing to be left out, capital town Lingayen is now planning…
SMILE OF SUCCESS—Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez is all smiles as she speaks to members of the local media in a press conference, which coincided with the celebration of her birthday, for an assessment of the recently concluded Bangus Festival in Dagupan. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)
TOP CROWD-DRAWER, TOURIST ATTRACTION Bigger prizes vowed ALTHOUGH rained out, there’s no doubt that the “Festivals of the North” held at the city plaza will return next year as one of the top features and crowd drawers of the Dagupan Bangus Festival 2009. Mayor Alipio Fernandez and Vice Mayor Belen…
ROSALES–Rice millers in Pangasinan offered to sell to the government 200,000 bags of rice at discounted prices starting for the month of May. The group made the offer during a dialogue last week with Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap at the latter’s office in Manila. Rosendo So, president of the Eastern…
THE Bonuan Blue Beach was transformed into a virtual sea of humanity as far as the eyes can see when Dagupan celebrated its annual Pista ng Dagat on Thursday as part of the 19-day Dagupan Bangus Festival. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair person of the Dagupan Bangus Festival 2008, and…
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