By Gonzalo Duque OUR school, Lyceum Northwestern University, was established by my parents, Dr. Francisco Q. Duque and Mrs. Florencia T. Duque, in the late 1960s, then a college, located at our Polyclinic Hospital fronting the Dagupan City Plaza. When our enrollment was already growing, my parents decided to transfer…
By Leonardo Micua OUR sincerest prayers go to the people of Taiwan and the 170,000 Filipinos working and living in that country, hoping that with God’s miracle they can easily recover from the deep wound wrought by the 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck in the morning of April 3….
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I MEAN, your garden, your personal planned space for the cultivation of plants including other forms of nature. What happens, after you’re gone? At Teachers Village where our family stayed for more than ten years at an 800 square meters of vacant space, I had…
By Farah G. Decano “FILIPINOS do not yield.” I stand with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as regards his position regarding the West Philippine Sea dispute. He does not appear to be China’s lap dog. While the Asian giant seems to be flexing its power over our relatively puny country,…
By Eva C. Visperas WHERE could we go for our annual Visita Iglesia? That was the question lingering in my mind last week, just two days before Maundy Thursday. We’ve explored many churches in Pangasinan for our pilgrimage over the years, spanning from east to west, and even going…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS not stunned but felt so sad when I learned from somebody last March 3 that my former cycling teammate, my town mate and most of all my cumpadre, the well-known Pangasinan cycling legend Cesar Catambay just passed away. I was not so…
By Rex Catubig SHE is known as a shrewd businesswoman, a smart entrepreneur, an astute politician, a public servant nonpareil. But behind all this, is a facet rarely seen, thus, unappreciated. She hardly stays put in City Hall. Because the city is her office. And she’s always on the…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WE were taught way, way back that observance of Holy Week is a period of deprivation, to cleanse ourselves of sins and wickedness while recalling how and why Jesus Christ (JC) died on the cross for us. It calls for fasting and abstinence… and personal…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN the beginning, we walked together, some walking ahead, some taking time for conversations. Sundays were intended for bonding with family members, those who live in the Philippines, with the exception of Lydia, who was busy with her grandchildren, the renovation of her house, or…
By Gonzalo Duque PALM Sunday is the day when Catholics go to mass and bring with them fronds of coconut or palm tree inside the church and ask the priest to bless these in observance of the old tradition centuries back. This tradition reenacts the triumphal entry into Jerusalem…
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