BARANGAY POLLS LINGAYEN, Pangasinan Oct. 23 (PNA)—Amid an appeal by Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. to barangay candidates to help maintain a peaceful election, a 3,000-man security force from the Pangasinan police provincial office (PPO), police regional office 1 and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been deployed…
THE family feud sidelight that surfaced in the run for barangay chairman in Dagupan City’s Barangay Poblacion Oeste, where a mother is running against a son (and another candidate person), took an ugly turn just 10 days before election day. Councilor Guillermo “Emong” Vallejos, who is supporting his mother Lolita,…
THE Dagupan City government has taken the disaster preparedness program a notch higher. It wants individual families to be fully empowered to be able to make timely and appropriate decisions and actions to prepare them for any a calamity. In a pioneering move, families and volunteers, in Barangay Malued were…
THE LONGEST WAIT LINGAYEN—After almost two years of waiting for its completion, the residents of Calasiao and regular commuters thru the town can finally heave a sigh of relief when the town’s new Villamil Bridge is opened to traffic on Nov.30 this year. The bridge’s date of completion was confirmed by…
SCOUTS PLEDGE—Some 6,000 boys and girls of the scouts movement from the region and from Tuguegarao, Cagayan, Baguio City, Nueva Viscaya and Makati City recite their pledge at the opening of the BSP 3rd Ilocos Region Scout Jamboree held at Camp Amado Espino Jr. in Estanza Lingayen, Pangasinan last Oct. 19….
LINGAYEN— What could have been a completely successful hosting of the 3rd Ilocos Region Scout Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines at the Camp Amado Espino Jr. in Eco-Tourism Zone in Barangay Estanza here last week was marred by the drowning of a boy scout from Villasis. The fatality, Felix…
MORALLY WRONG STEM cell research and therapies that use stem cells derived from human embryos or aborted fetuses should be rejected and prohibited. This is the position preached by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas in his Pastoral Guidance on Stem Cell Therapy to the members of the Union of Catholic Physicians…
R1MC ISO CERTIFICATION—Dr. Joseph Roland Mejia (left), chief of the Region I Medical Center (R1MC) based in Dagupan City, receives from Paul Bagatsing, vice president and general manager of AJA Registrars Inc., the ISO 9001:2008 certification conferred to the hospital in simple ceremony last October 14. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez) Back…
THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC), the only tertiary hospital in Pangasinan, scored a new milestone in its 88-year history when it obtained an international certification for its preventive, curative, rehabilitative health care services. The ISO 9001:2008 certification was received by Dr. Joseph Roland Mejia, R1MC Director, from Paul Bagatsing, vice…
FIRE DESTROYS 10 CLASSROOMS VILLASIS—The town’s three firemen were relieved from duty after they failed to respond to a fire that gutted classrooms of the Unzad National High School, some five kilometers away from the town proper, at about 10:30 p.m. of October 12. Sr. Supt. Leonardo Consolacion of the…
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