SOME 61 public schools in Region 1 are being eyed to participate in the ‘face-to-face learning ‘ pilot being proposed by the Department of Education. According to Education Secretary Leonor Briones out of 61,000 schools nationwide, 1,900 schools have been identified in the country as possible subjects for the pilot…
QUICK COVID-19 TEST RESULTS ASSURED THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan finally passed an ordinance during its virtual session last February 22 approving the schedule of rates for services to be provided to patients by the Pangasinan Molecular and Diagnostic Laboratory (PMDL). Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario, chairman on health of…
SOON IN MALLS THE Philippine Red Cross (PRC) – Pangasinan Chapter is set to open its saliva test drive-thru hubs on malls in the province. Krismar Brillantes, PRC-Pangasinan Chapter officer-in-charge, said negotiations and discussions of protocol with malls in Central Pangasinan for the establishment of said drive-thru kiosks started. He…
SENIOR citizens residing in Mangaldan town are set to receive more blessings set forth in the ordinance unanimously passed by the town’s Sangguniang Bayan. Councilor Aldrin Soriano said Ordinance No. 2021-2 mandates the local government to provide both financial and health benefits among these are: free medical consultations and medicines…
VILLASIS RAISES THE ALARM VILLASIS Mayor Nonato Abrenica of Villasis urges his constituents anew to exercise enhanced vigilance and discipline amid the rising number of active COVID-19 cases in the town that already lists 12 as of February 22. As chairman of the Villasis Anti-COVID-19 Task Force, Abrenica revealed that…
WHEN ACCIDENTS HAPPEN… IN search of rare orchids in a forested area in Barangay Malabobo, Mangatarem, a 14-year-old boy died when a heavy tree branch hit him on the head and fell from a tree. Mayor Ramil Ventenilla identified the fatality as John Michael Unay, a resident of the barangay….
FISHING FROM THE BRIDGE — A young man shows his catch using an air gun that shoots arrows from atop the Quintos Bridge on A.B. Fernandez Ave. overlooking the Pantal River in Dagupan City. The river has since become a source of food for some residents living near the area and other…
SUAL Mayor Liseldo Calugay, along with the members of the town’s Sangguniang Bayan, invited officials from the Food Terminal Inc. (FTI), and the National Food Authority (NFA), for a possible establishment of a fish processing facility and an NFA warehouse in the town. The town officials and guests conducted an…
THE development of the eco-tourism site in Brgy. Bocboc in San Carlos City can begin with the allotment of P17 million by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) for its construction. The plan of the city government to develop the river in the barangay as “San Carlos City Esplanade…
SWIMMING BAN – A lifeguard at the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City checks the state of the buoys that mark swimming areas in case the city government decides to lift the swimming ban that has been in effect since January. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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