HIGH NOON AT POGO GRANDE– Barangay residents of Pogo Grande in Dagupan City string and fuse together thousands of firecrackers early morning for the traditional January 1 noon revelry that has drawn visitors to the place to witness the once-a-year spectacle. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
BARANGAY Pogo Grande in Dagupan City, a known top producer of firecrackers and other pyrotechnic materials has a unique tradition: every 12 noon on New Year’s Day, residents fuse together all the firecrackers unlit the previous night’s revelry for sequential explosion.
A REFOCUSED health intervention program will be implemented in Dagupan City beginning this year to provide improved services to barangay communities in the city. Mayor Benjamin Lim said the program, with the City Health Office (CHO) leading the implementation, will involve the deployment of more skilled health staff to the…
HEALTH and education will be the top priority of Calasiao Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay in 2011, starting with the construction of a maternity lying-in station at the Senior Tesoro Hospital. Another strategy is to increase the number of PhilHealth enrollees in the town. Macanlalay said his administration will also focus on…
UPDATE ON FISH PENS–Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim gives members of the local media a river cruise tour as his on-site update on his program rehabilitating the rivers in the city by removing fish pens. Eighty five per cent of fish pens identified for demolition have reportedly been removed. Back…
A nine-year-old boy from Binalonan, now rues the day he unwittingly picked up a lighted firecracker lit by neighbors. He will have to live through his adult life without his right hand after doctors at the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) amputated it from the wrist on December 27 to…
FOURTH DISTRICT’S WOMEN LEADERS–Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and Rep. Manay Gina de Venecia of the Fourth District of Pangasinan are all smiles during a segment of the ceremony transferring the Episcopal Seat of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese from the old to the new cathedral, the Saint John Metropolitan Cathedral. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio)…
LINGAYEN—To disabuse minds of the public about indiscriminate firing of guns by policemen before and during the New Year revelry, chiefs of police across the province directed the sealing of nozzles of the service firearms issued to personnel under their command beginning December 27. The sealing of nozzle of firearms…
AT least P25 million is now underway for the initial construction of a dormitory for patients of the Regional Drug Rehabilitation Center being built by the Department of Health in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City. Rep. Gina de Venecia said the amount was part of the Priority Development Assistance Fund…
LINGAYEN— Nine fishermen from Bolinao were rescued a day after their fishing boat was hit by big waves and capsized in mid-sea December 27. The police said the nine are all residents of Barangay Balingasay, Bolinao. Rescued were Elmor Hernandez, Victor Ocampo, Roberto Pacheco, Dericko Gastillano, Vicente Arisgado, Abraham Renuhis;…
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