PHILIPPINE Red Cross (PRC) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Gordon visited Dagupan last week for the ceremonial turn-over of transitional shelters for typhoon “Pepeng” victims and water sanitation (Watsan) projects in schools.

GOITER AWARENESS WEEK THE Provincial Health Office has launched a campaign urging mothers to use iodized salt as part of the celebration of the Goiter Awareness Week (GAW) on January 23 to 29.

PNoy LOOK-ALIKE–Shoemaker Venancio Medina (in yellow shirt) chats with Dagupan City newsmen about life as a look-alike of President Benigno “PNoy” Aquino III. Back to Homepage

MEDINA, like PNoy, stands 5’8”, has a wide forehead and receding hairline, the same complexion and built, and also sports eyeglasses. He also usually goes around in maong pants and the trademark yellow T-shirt that PNoy has been known for.

SPECIAL JOBS FAIR– Pangasinan Employment and Services Office (PESO) Chief Alex Ferrer (standing left) gives some pointers to applicants while waiting for their turn for the interview (right photo) during the Special Jobs Fair held January 18 for engineers and industrial and construction workers to be deployed here and overseas….

IT happened in a town with its own fire truck but no firemen. The Urbiztondo Central School in Poblacion, Urbiztondo caught fire twice for two consecutive days, January 11 and 12, over the same cause – faulty electrical wiring.

THE national government’s controversial conditional cash transfer program labeled as the expanded “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program” (4Ps) is now ready for implementation in Dagupan City. Under this program, some 3,000 of the city’s poorest households will be listed as beneficiaries.

BUGALLON–Farmers of this agricultural town shared honors with the late General Jose Torres Bugallon, the local hero after whom the municipality was named, during the celebration of the 16th Bugallon Day on January 12.

ALAMINOS CITY–By the year 2013, this city intends to go on record as having a zero malnutrition rate through its unique ‘Expanded Feeding Cum Livelihood Program’. This is an ambitious goal for Alaminos, which in 2005 had the highest malnutrition rate in the entire Ilocos Region at 22.1% among the…