LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas and Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim will lead the praying of “The Angelus” to be aired simultaneously over local radio stations every six o-clock in the evening starting the Holy Week observance. The Angelus, a prayer in honor of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, is traditionally recited…
SENATOR Francis “Chiz” Escudero has cautioned the government against pursuing proposals to revive the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), saying other sources of safer and cheaper energy should be pursued first. The warning came just as the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, through Board Member Ranjit Ramos Shahani, announced that former 5th…
2011 BANGUS FESTIVAL DAGUPAN’S 31 barangays will participate in the Gilon Gilon ed Dalan street dancing competition on April 28, one of the highlights of the city’s annual Bangus Festival. “Cash prizes will be much higher than last year for the champion, first and second runners-up while the special awards…
TSUNAMI-PREPAREDNESS —Office of Civil Defense Regional Director Andrew Alex Uy explains objectives a tsunami-disaster preparedness program when he spoke at the KBP forum at the Philippine Information Agency Center last week. Also in photo are City Administrator Vlad Mata with Bernie Errasquin and Daniel Sagun, hosts of the forum. Back…
PUGARO, an island barangay in Dagupan City, will be the pilot area for the tsunami preparedness and training program in Region 1 that will be conducted by the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). OCD Regional Director Andrew Alex Uy said the choice of Pugaro as the first site is based…
MARCH 26 marked the holding of the first synchronized Barangay Assembly Day and the second is already scheduled on the third Saturday of October. During the assembly, barangay chairmen discussed their problems and issues on solid waste management and disaster preparedness after they presented both their July-December 2010 accomplishment and…
NEW CLASSROOMS–Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (right) and Dagupan City Schools Superintendent Alma Ruby Torio join Columbia International Food Corporation, Inc. president Reynaldo Yap Go during the ribbon-cutting of two newly-built classrooms donated by the company to the Carael Elementary School on March 17. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
TWO island communities received two new classrooms each funded by Columbia International Food Products, Incorporated through the Don Go Peng Kuan Foundation. The classrooms were turned over to the Salapingao and Carael Annexes of the Dagupan City National High School here last March 17 by Reynaldo Yap Go of Columbia…
Provincial government upholds role of women LINGAYEN–“Behind the success of a man is a woman” This was echoed by Pangasinan First Lady Priscilla Espino at the recent celebration of Provincial Women’s Month with the theme “Magna Carta of Women, The Philippines convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination…
SPOT CHECK–Members of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) of the Dagupan Police conduct check on identity of motorcycle riders along Mayombo District in Dagupan in the campaign against the rash of killings by motorcycle-riding armed men riding in tandem in Pangasinan. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka) Back to Homepage
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