DAGUPAN’S PRETTIEST–Five of the prettiest among the 31 candidates led by Melanie Grace Heng of Lasip Grande (center) flash tootsie smiles after emerging winners in the search for Miss Dagupan 2007. The others are Plinkee de los Reyes of Caranglaan, 1st runner-up; Camille Ann Castro of Bolosan, 2nd runner-up; Alannah…
AFTER LOSING BY DEFAULT Sanitary landfill to be pushed SAN JACINTO–The city of Dagupan finally began a serious offensive to retake the whole 30-hectare land it bought in barangay Awai, San Jacinto in 2002, but lost the following year to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) by default. City Officials…
URDANETA CITY-Bound by history, Ordizia City in the autonomous Basque country in Spain, and Urdaneta City are now sister cities. Urdaneta Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. crossed continents to sign the sisterhood pact with Ordizia City Mayor Jose Miguel Sta. Maria in Ordizia on December 5, coinciding with the 500th birthday…
REGIONAL Trial Court Judge Rolando Mislang of Branch 42 has denied the motion for reconsideration filed by Engineer Ma. Virginia Rosario on his October 22 decision ordering her to issue a building permit to MetroState Realty Corporation, for lack of merit.
Jose de Venecia III, son of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., has called on fellow Filipinos, especially those with relatives in the United States, to write their US congressmen and senators to lobby for the passage of the Jubilee Act for Expanded Debt Cancellation and Responsible Lending.
LINGAYEN-The provincial budget next year is pegged at P1.32 billion from P1.14 billion this year, or higher by 16%. The 2008 budget was approved by the provincial board during last week’s session through Appropriation Ordinance No. 5 series of 2007. The bulk of the province’s General Fund goes to health-related…
HEAD TURNERS—Seven of the 31 Miss Dagupan hopefuls captivate the crowd that gathered during their official pictorial on Sunday at Leisure Coast Resort with their winsome smiles and shapely curves. Final judging for the beauties will be on Tuesday, December 18. (Punchphphoto by Willy Lomibao)
SIGNING OF SISTERHOOD PACT -Mayor Jose Miguel Sta. Maria (left) of Ordizia City in Spain sign the historic sisterhood pact of his city with Urdaneta City, Philippines while Urdaneta Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. waits for his turn to sign.
JDV’S MORAL REVOLUTION—Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz (right) appears to be whispering something to Speaker Jose de Venecia when both emerged from a one-on-one meeting at the Archbishop’s chancery on Sunday where de Venecia convinced the prelate to join his crusade for a moral revolution in government. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
CANCELLATION OF TAX DECLARATIONS WHILE the poor people do not have lands to erect their houses, some of the moneyed people in Dagupan City and Pangasinan managed to stake claims over large portions of the accreted land adjacent to the prime area of the Tondaligan Park over the years. However,…
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