DENGUE AWARENESS MONTH DENGUE cases in the province from January to May 31, 2013 dropped by more than 50 percent compared to the same period last year. This year, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) recorded 646 dengue, less than half of the almost 1,400 cases last year. Eugene Paragas, dengue…
LINGAYEN—Re-elected Governor Amado Espino Jr. and Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr. along with the elected members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan will take their respective oath of office on June 28, 2013 at the Sison Auditorium here. “It will be a very simple affair… A mass will be officiated by…
RESPECTING ELDERS AT West Central Elementary School (WCES) in Dagupan, the children are reminded to keep the Filipino tradition of pagmamano, the touching of an elder’s hand on the forehead as a sign of respect. Dr. Reynardo Barrozo, the embattled school principal, said aside from including the lesson in the…
SYMBOLIZING INDEPENDENCE—Dagupan City celebrates the Philippines 115th Independence Day on June 12, 2013 led by Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez (6th from right) and Secretary Antonio Villar Jr. (7th from left) of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) chair as the guest speaker with a symbolic releasing of balloons in the colors…
OUTGOING City Administrator Vladimir Mata has backflipped on his claim before the Sangguniang Panlungsod two years ago that the three barges-turned-boats for the Dagupan river cruise are city-owned. He told Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez that river cruise boats are actually owned by outgoing Mayor Benjamin Lim.
GOVERNOR Amado Espino Jr., re-elected for a third term last May 13, spent P4,652,193.86 for his campaign expenditures, based on documents submitted to the Commission on Elections (Comelec) provincial office here. His defeated rival, outgoing Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza, reported expenses of P3,568,345.20.
MALASIQUI—Third District Representative-elect Rosemarie “Baby” Arenas, known as a stylish socialite as much as a fervent philanthropist, took her oath of office in a simple rite last June 12. Arenas was sworn into office by Judge Edgardo Caldona of the Regional Trial Court Branch 65 in Makati City, also a…
TREE-PLANTING AT THE DAM––San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC) employees hold a tree planting activity at the San Roque Dam watershed on June 10, 2013, part of the massive tree planting activity launched by the company two years ago, which is also in support to the National Greening Program of the…
SAN MANUEL—The best seismic station in the Philippines was installed by the San Roque Power Corporation which operates the hydro-power plant here inside a tunnel leading to the San Roque Dam. Philippine Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) Director Renato Solidum revealed this during a forum following the successful holding last Monday…
JUMP FOR JOY—Children have the time of their lives jumping off the Dawel Bridge, newly-painted in the international safety orange color by the Department of Public Works and Highways as part of a nationwide program, totally oblivious of Dagupan City’s missing three barges-turned-riverboats supposedly moored at the Daongan ed Dawel…
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