TO MINIMIZE EFFECTS OF HIGH TIDE THE Dagupan City Engineering Office (CEO) will soon construct temporary floodgates along Dagupan’s river tributaries to reduce the adverse effects of high tide in the city. This, after City Mayor Marc Brian Lim met with the CEO and the City Planning and Development Office…
CONTINUOUSLY alarmed that today’s farmers are getting old and their children don’t appear keen on taking over farming because of their lack of interest and insufficient incentive, Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia refiled his bill providing for a Magna Carta of young farmers to address the impending crisis. Citing…
De Venecia refiles bill for Magna Carta of young farmers
THERE is now a Children’s Aqua Farm School inside the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-National Integrated Fisheries Technology and Development Center (BFAR-NIFTDC) sprawling compound in Barangay Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City. Children learn about organic farming. (Contributed) Mary Joy Agustin, a BFAR aquaculturist said it was established to teach children…
School teaches children organic farming
PREPARING FOR DISASTER – Members of Eagle Response Team, a non-government organization direct exercises of volunteers from Pangasinan and other provinces on disaster awareness and preparedness, earthquake simulation search and rescue, disaster medical operations at the West Central Elementary School covered court last Sunday. Participants came from Pangasinan, La Union, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and…
PREPARING FOR DISASTER
CALASIAO – After relatively unscathed by Tropical Storm Falcon, the town’s local government is gearing up for more rains and possible flooding from habagat. Kristine Joy Soriano, Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office spokesperson for the said barangays have already been alerted to prepare for more efficient disaster response efficiency…
Calasiao braces for more rains
SINCE its launching on January 26, Kalinisan Karaban, the “plastic for goods” program of the provincial government, has become a positive tool for promotion of proper management of solid wastes in communities. On July 15, teachers and students from the different elementary and high schools, senior citizens, in Bugallown town…
Kalinisan Karaban goes to Bugallon
100% HIGHER THAN OTHER BARANGAYS THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod finally passed a resolution approving the supplemental budgets of 25 of 31 barangays of Dagupan after a lengthy debate on the requested P400,000 budget of Bonuan Gueset, higher by P200,000 than others. Almost all barangays proposed a uniform P200,000 supplemental budget…
Bonuan Gueset’s P400k supplemental budget questioned
2020 BARANGAY, SK ELECTIONS THE Commission on Elections announce last Thursday that the registration of voters for Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections that will take place on May 11, 2020 will start on August 1, 2019 until September 30, 2019. Those who are still not registered voter and at…
Voters registration starts in August
SUDDENLY A PEDESTRIAN’S HAVEN – Dagupan residents woke up last Thursday to see the congested market vendor’s paradise cleared for market shoppers and motorists. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
SUDDENLY A PEDESTRIAN’S HAVEN
BUGALLON — Residents of Sitio Nalbagan, Barangay Umanday bade goodbye to darkness which has been their old friend, after two solar-powered street lights were installed by the barangay council on Thursday. For decades, Nalbagan residents walked through dark corners and the street every night. They admitted they only managed it…




