12th ASEAN PARA GAMES THE provincial board has commended an athlete with disability for bagging three bronze medals in men’s 100 meters T46, 400 meters T46 and 200 meters T46 track and field events during the recently concluded 12th ASEAN Para Games held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The shy Jerome Doria Fernandez,…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! JUNE 26- (Dagupan City) Rowell Fernandez, Menchie Fernandez JUNE 28 – (Dagupan City) Renato Cendana, Mylene Mendoza; (Mangaldan) Ernesto dela Vega JUNE 29 – (Calasiao) Armando De Vera; (San Jacinto) Rowena Santillan, Melody Ildefonso JUNE 30 – (Dagupan City) Clarissa Pioquinto; (Mangaldan) Resty Dimalanta; (Manaoag) Rose Ann dela…
MODERN science and technology still cannot predict where and when earthquakes will happen and how strong. The only thing that can be predicted is how the emergency response should be. So far, Northern Luzon has been spared from the strong tremors that hit Mindanao and the Visayas of late, and…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE release of the Department of Budget and Management’s decision finding Dagupan City’s 2023 annual budget as “inoperative in its entirety” was actually anti-climactic. That it even took DBM more than two months to make that decision is disappointing. There was simply no way for…
FUTURE JOURNALISTS – Some 2,000 campus writers and media production staff from 14 Division Schools in Region 1 take their oaths during the opening program of the 2023 Regional Schools Press Conference (RSPC) competition from the 14 schools division offices in Ilocos Region that started on June 15 at the Don…
FUTURE LEADERS TRAINING YOUNG city officials under the Manlingkor Ya Kalengwaran (MYK) program took over the reins of the city government last June 13 following their oathtaking officiated by Mayor Belen Fernandez at the E-Library in Bonifacio Street. In the MYK program, Fernandez yielded her post for one week to Young…
UNFINISHED BUSINESS THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan continues its investigation into the road accident that happened on March 2 that killed four persons and injuring 35 others, in Sitio Mapita, Barangay Laoag, Aguilar when an overloaded mini-dump truck crashed on a hillside. Those killed and injured were workers of the Sumec Corporation, one…
DAGUPAN City’s Barangay Health Workers (BHW) received the updated Barangay Health Workers’ (BHW) Reference Manual and BHW Manual on Health Policies and Services last week from the Department of Health (DOH) – Ilocos Region. They were the first in the region to receive the copies. The newly updated manuals are…
IN the aftermath of the Intensity 2 earthquake that struck Dagupan and the rest of Pangasinan at 10:19 a. m. on June 15, whose epicenter was in Calatagan, Batangas where it was felt at Magnitude 6.3, LGU Bayambang ordered the suspension of classes in all levels in the afternoon of…
WATCH OUT FOR NEW EMERGING FARMERS — Diane, a 21-year-old farmer in Pangasinan drives the tractor back to her cooperative that was selected by the Department of Agriculture to own and manage. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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