THE first Material Recovery and Composting Facility (MRCF) in Dagupan located near the dumpsite in Barangay Bonuan Boquig is now on test-run, according to Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. Dedicated to process and reduce waste to be put into the dumpsite, the MRCF was first tested last February 6 with the assistance of Frederick…
PREPARING FOR EARTHQUAKES A SIX-DAY training on the use of the Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment System (REDAS) software will be conducted by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) for Dagupan City officials and volunteers starting today February 9 at the CSI Stadia in Dagupan.
LESSONS ON FOOD PRODUCTION—Students of Bonuan Boquig Elementary School in Dagupan City listen to their school principal, Manuel Ferrer, as he teaches them the right amount of feeds for the tilapia at the aquaponics area of the school’s Bahay Kubo and Garden. (PUNCHphoto by Cesar Ramirez) Back to Homepage
A POPULAR Filipino folk song listing 18 vegetables around a tiny nipa hut, a bahay kubo for which it is titled, has been brought to life at the Bonuan Boquig Elementary School in Dagupan City. A walk through the school’s vegetable garden, as the song goes, delightfully features “Singkamas at…
LINGAYEN—The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is getting ready to open a consular office at the Robinson’s Place in Calasiao town by May, bringing its services closer to Pangasinenses. The consular office, now under construction, will be DFA’s first provincial satellite office in the country outside Metro Manila.
BUGALLON–Residents of this town need not travel to the municipal center to avail of frontline services. The local government is bringing these to the communities through the Organized, Nurtured, Empowered (ONE) Bugallon program.
WATERMELONS OF BANI—Watermelon growers in Barangay San Simon, an upland village in Bani, load their harvest in a truck that will take the produce to fruit stands in Metro Manila. Bani’s watermelons are known to be the country’s sweetest, reddest and juiciest because they are grown in farms with soil…
LINGAYEN—Police visibility around the province will soon get a boost with the launch of the Community Assistance and Referral Team (CART) booths with at least one to be set up in every town and city.
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan is host to two independent power producers (IPPs), the 1,000-megawatt coal-fired Sual Power Plant and the 110-megawatt San Roque Hydro-Electric Plant, but only one of four electric distribution companies in the province are getting power from these local sources.
SAN CARLOS CITY–The Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (Cenpelco) and the local government of this city will be meeting again soon for the settlement of their longstanding dispute over taxes and electric bills.
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