By Rex Catubig BECAUSE it is holiday and fiesta season, glorious food takes center stage in celebrations. And the lowly pig is undeniably the king of the festive table. Ham claims an exalted position, but the lechon with its crisp skin and flavorful meat is the all-time fave and…
SCREAMS of excitement were heard inside the Dagupan City People’s Astrodome when the Dagupan City Inter-Barangay Basketball Tournament made a comeback after three years of hiatus with the opening ceremony finally held on Sunday, December 4. It will be recalled that the last games held for the league was in…
UNLISERBISYO CSWDO staff train for VAWC’s psychosocial first-aid SERVICE providers of City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) recently underwent training for Psychosocial First-Aid Training for VAWC (Violence Against Women and children) clients. The training, initiated by Mayor Belen Fernandez, will further boost capabilities of the CSWDO in coping with…
GLAMOROUS WACKY LADIES – Candidates vying for Miss Diamond Dagupan 2022 do wacky poses apt for beauty contestants during the opening of Paseo de Belen on December 2, 2022. The “Darling of the Press” will be known on December 19, the pageant night at the City Plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE local governments of Bayambang, Natividad and Alaminos City won honors for Pangasinan in the recent Search for the 2022 National Literacy Awards (NLA). The Kasama Kita sa Barangay Foundation, Inc. of Bayambang, clinched the first place for the Outstanding Literacy Program category under the 1st to 3rd class municipality category…
IT all started over a decade ago. During the term of Priscilla Dimapilis, the Dagupan City Club of Southern California, Inc. initiated the Christmas distribution of rice packs to indigent families of Dagupan. With just a few sacks divided into packs, the gift-giving included only the blocks around Herrero street. Over…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! DECEMBER 11 – (Dagupan City) Medrano Bautista; (Manaoag) Aristotle de Guzman DECEMBER 12 – (San Jacinto) Cristina Duque, Louella Sandoval; (Calasiao) Monalisa De Vera DECEMBER 16 – (Dagupan City) Wendell de Guzman DECEMBER 17 – (Mangaldan) Diony Aquino, Minda Aquino; (Calasiao) Rowena Mae Santillan; (Mangaldan) Bonifacio Artacho …
DAGUPAN City is seeing its darkest hours yet in 75 years, a situation brought about by the vilest and ignoble collective political agenda of unscrupulous seven members of the majority at the Sangguniang Panlungsod, namely: Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Dada Reyna-Macalanda, Celia Lim and her daughter, Irene Lim-Acosta, Alvin Coquia, Alfie…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE Christmas fever is on… and I hate to be the one to break the holiday mood but some recent worrisome developments in governance can’t be ignored. Duty calls! So allow me…. * * * * The attempt of ex-BM Von Mark Mendoza to usurp…
CALASIAO’S FIRST CHRISTMAS VILLAGE – Mayor Manilyn Caramat and Vice-Mayor Kevin Roy Macanlalay, joined by the town’s councilors do the honors of the ceremonial switching of lights inside its newly constructed Christmas Village for the season. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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