BOLINAO—If you are looking for something worthwhile to adopt, visit the University of the Philippines-Marine Science Institute (UPMSI) Bolinao Marine Laboratory and say you want to adopt a baby giant… a baby giant clam! The university launched on April 20 its Adopt-A-Clam project, an extension project of the UPMSI Bolinao…
THERE is no misuse of the funds allocated for the training of members of the Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Council (BADAC), according to DILG provincial director Agnes de Leon. De Leon vehemently denied a charge being circulated through text messages that she was “spending only P500 of the P721 budget” for…
“I AM PREGNANT” VOLUNTARY and self-employed expectant mothers can now use the Text-SSS facility in submitting maternity notifications to the Social Security System. SSS President and Chief Executive Emmanuel F. Dooc has described the Text-SSS facility for individually-paying members is an option open to them to notify SSS about their pregnancy aside…
FISHERMAN’S KIDS’ SUMMER BREAK -– Unlike other children on summer school break frolicking everywhere, the children of one fisherman help pull in his fishing net, a fishing method locally known as ‘Kulokor’ along Lingayen Gulf in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
BEAT THE SUMMER HEAT — Residents and visitors find respite from the hot summer sun at the clear beach water on Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan recorded 18 measles cases in the year to April 9, a substantial decline of 71 percent from last year’s 62 cases, according to newly released data from the Provincial Health Office’s Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit. The rate of decline is better than the national average of about 60 percent…
LINGAYEN—Four persons drowned in separate incidents last week. According to the Pangasinan police, Salvador de Asis, 52, drowned in the Angalacan River in Mangaldan on April 8. His body was recovered only the following day. The police said the victim left home at 1:00 a.m. with his wife to report for work…
TWO persons involved in rain-soaked preparations for the Kalutan ed Bayambang celebration April 10 died from electrocution after accidentally touching live wires. SPO2 Simeon Dela Cruz, chief investigator at the Bayambang police station, said that Philip Aquino, 21, from Mangaldan, was electrocuted at around 4 p.m. while connecting a cable…
MANGALDAN— Poverty is not an excuse for failing in life for this 18-year old who worked as construction worker to sustain his schooling and eventually graduate valedictorian of his senior high school class, the first batch of Gueguesangen Integrated School here on April 3. Michael Español graduated with a 95 percent…
THE integration of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an economic community is also pursued in the academe sector through exchange students program with Thailand. The University of Luzon in Dagupan City welcomed last Tuesday the latest batch of students from the Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University in Thailand, along…
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