Local karate players and aficionados will be treated to an entirely new form and discipline when six grandmasters of the Okinawan Shorin-ryu Karate-do Association (OSKA) arrive in Dagupan City on May 8 to12 for the 3rd Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. Karate-do Cup to be held at the People’s Astrodome. The…
Too late for the 2008 Bangus Festival, but better late than never. The inauguration and opening of the P1.3 billion Dawel-Pantal-Lucao Road, which is seen to decongest vehicular traffic in Dagupan’s downtown area, may finally take place by the second week of May. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez said the city…
MALACAÑANG’S PLEDGE OF SUPPORT—Presidential deputy spokesperson Anthony Golez presents to Governor Amado Espino Jr. a framed picture of a Malacanang meeting that the latter attended, during the opening of the photo exhibit on the ‘Super Region: North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle’ in Lingayen last Friday. It was presented as symbolic of…
BRIDGE INSPECTION—Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and City Engineer Virginia Rosario pore over plans for the new bridge across the Pantal River during their ocular inspection of the Dawel-Pantal-Lucao Highway last Monday with officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways and Toyo Construction. (Photo by…
2.7 MILLION PANGASINENSES DARED LINGAYEN—Be tourists in your own province. This was the exhortation made by Gov. Amado Espino Jr. to the 2.7 million Pangasinenses in a bid to spur tourism in Pangasinan. Espino made the call when he spoke before mayors and heads of different government agencies in the…
SO far, so good. This was the assessment of Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, executive chairperson of this year’s Dagupan Bangus Festival, two days into the 19-day festivities, which will last until May 4. Fernandez hailed the huge crowd that lined up the streets even under the blazing sun to watch…
HARDWORK, determination and humility. These are the virtues that Filipino-Chinese business tycoon Lucio Tan urged new graduates of Lyceum-Northwestern University during their commencement exercises on Wednesday at the CSI Stadia. Tan brought his audience down to memory lane to recount how the seeds of business entrepreneurship were planted in him…
The Dagupan City government is not one to be taken seriously. This appears to be the sentiment among the illegal fish pen owners who were repeatedly warned to tear down their contraptions in the past because their pens remain untouched. But the good news is they stopped stocking their pens…
TO HONOR ANDA’S ANCIENT PAST ANDA–Elephants in Anda? Definitely, says Anda Mayor Nestor Pulido as he slammed his critics who chided his efforts to promote the culture and the arts on the island by building elephant statues. Pulido said elephants are part of the ancient history of Anda as verified…
URDANETA—Although a leading rice producer in the province, this city is not taking the looming rice crisis lightly with the traditional lean months ahead. Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. met with farmer leaders last week to personally urge them to save part of their produce for the lean months even as…
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