THE Central Electric Cooperative denied that it increased its billing rate, instead, it has lowered the rate by 87 centavos per kilowatt hour. Cenpelco’s per kilo watt hour is at P9. According to Engr. Rodrigo Corpuz, Cenpelco manager, said the complaining customers failed to realize that the increase in the…
PERFECT SCENERY — A fisherman goes about his business fishing near a sandbar between the Lingayen Gulf and the Limahong Channel unmindful of the perfect scene he projects with the smokestack of the Sual Power Station in the background. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
THE Provincial Tourism Office and the Pangasinan PNP have issued an advisory: Tourists must secure a travel pass before visiting tourist destinations in Pangasinan. A travel pass consists of travel authority and medical certificate. According to Malu Elduayan, Provincial Tourism Officer, while some popular tourist destinations spots in the province,…
IMPACT OF FIRECRACKER BAN — Regular firecracker vendors were disappointed lot at the firecracker zone in front of West Central Elem. School before December 31, 2020 when no one rushed to buy and grab their items for the usual revelry. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FEW hours before New Year, the police across Pangasinan simultaneously swooped down on several firecracker stalls and seized thousands of pesos worth of illegal and unauthorized firecrackers and pyrotechnics from different vendors. In Malasiqui town, police seized on December 31 were P6,220 worth of banned firecrackers from seven vendors who…
THE government’s Convergence on Livelihood Assistance for Agrarian Beneficiaries Project (CLAAP) that started in 2019 has already benefitted more than a thousand agrarian reform beneficiary (ARB) farmers in Pangasinan. CLAAP focused on rice production in 2020 with the distribution of P12.45-million worth of sacks of seeds and bags of fertilizers…
PUTO-BUMBONG FOR SIMBANG GABI – Families that attend Simbang Gabi cannot do without the tradition of bringing home puto-bumbong or bibingka after the mass. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Alaminos City Police will arrest anyone who sells firecrackers in the city without permits from the city hall. P/Lt. Col. Garie Noel Pascua, city police chief, said Mayor Arth Bryan Celeste had made it clear that he did not, and will not issue permits to sell firecrackers in the…
MOTORCYCLE, ESSENTIAL FOR LIVELIHOOD – It’s not uncommon to see farmers transporting their produce using tricycles but it’s another innovation for farmers to tow their cows to the grazing field with a motorcycle. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
LINGAYEN’S SUNDOT KULANGOT ANYONE? – Unknown to many, the favorite sweet coco jam candy concoction inside a coconut shell that needs a finger to scoop it out, is a product of Lingayen town. It is one of the products sold at the Pamanang Yaman Produktong Pangasinan. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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