THE City Supermarket Inc. (CSI) which owns a chain of malls and grocery stores in northern Luzon is going green by discarding initially the use of colored plastic bags for its customers in favor of transparent plastic bags believed to be more environments friendly. Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez,…
SAN CARLOS CITY–Better is more. A case in point is the improved situation at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in Barangay Bolingit. The ongoing expansion activities have increased the level of confidence of the sick here as evidenced by the surge in number of patients being served in the hospital.
GO ORGANIC—Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, speaking during a one-day seminar on organic farming at the Dagupan City museum on December 9, offers her own land for development as a model organic farm. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)
URDANETA AGRO-INDUSTRIAL FAIR—Each barangay in Urdaneta showcases its products in booths at the Urdaneta Cultural and Sports Complex during the agro-industrial fair in celebration of the city’s fiesta last week. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)
THREE major bangus-producing areas in the province have been given special monitoring equipment to help avoid recurrence of fishkill which cost fish farmers’ huge losses amounting to millions of pesos in the past. Distributed to the local government units (LGUs) of Dagupan City, Lingayen and Binmaley by the Bureau of…
STO. TOMAS–This town is not resting on its laurels. After bagging a Guinness World Record for the longest barbecue using its white glutinous corn harvest early this year, the local government is now developing a livelihood project on corn husk handicraft under the One Town, One Product program.
MANGALDAN–A two-day career fair was held at the municipal hall here last week to recruit call center agents from this town and neighboring areas. This was the second career fair conducted by NCO Philippines Clark Inc, an information and communication technology company. The first was held August 19 -20 and…
DR. WILLIAM D. Dar, a noted son of the Ilocos Region now the director general of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India, has urged bail-out measures for poor farmers across the world, especially those cultivating the drylands of developing countries such as the Philippines.
SAN FERNANDO CITY–Bountiful palay harvests in Ilocos Region led the National Food Authority (NFA) to purchase more than it targeted for October. According to NFA Regional Director Joseph de la Cruz, the government agency procured 446,659 bags of palay in October, more than double the target of 264,000 bags.
ROSALES—Pangasinenses will experience shopping in the renowned ‘SM’ environ for the first time right in their own front yard when SM City Rosales, the 32nd SM Supermall, opens its doors on Friday, November 28. Located along MacArthur Highway in Barangay Carmen East, Rosales, it will be the first SM Supermall…
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