Bad officiating in Mangaldan SK cagefest By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I HAVE said it before and I will say it again: in any sports competition the most controversial persons are the referees, umpires, judges, table officials (timers and scorers) as well as the organizers. It already happened countless times,…
Pursuing Excellence By Johanne Macob LAST February 27, the UP-Baguio recognized the academic excellence of its students. With hard work, I have been a part of this very fulfilling event since I was a freshman. As it always has been, the feeling of happiness and pride were still there during…
BSL humiliates the Mighty 8 By Ermin Garcia Jr. IF the Mighty 8 in the Dagupan sanggunian still cannot see it, the recently uncovered plot of Mayor Benjie Lim’s office to deceive, mislead and humiliate them says it all. This time, the mayor pushed the envelope further by making his…
Anything in excess is a sin By Jun Velasco “It is vain for you to rise up early, to retire late. to eat the bread of painful labors; for He gives to His beloved even in his sleep.”– Psalm l27: 2 WE were aghast at the violent manner our two…
Cultural confetti By Gonzalo Duque THANK you, Mayor Benjie and the city government for gifting our Rotary Club of Uptown Dagupan with, according to a COA report, P2 million. Being its charter president, we are so grateful with this benevolent act. We wish to inform that during the presidency of…
Pursue Cristy’s case versus Azkals By Al S. Mendoza (Congratulations to Minnie Lopez for passing the last bar exams! Proud are Minnie’s parents, Dr. & Mrs. Fernando T. Lopez of Mangatarem, Pangasinan, whose only other child, Maricel, has also passed the board for physicians only a while back. Two daughters,…
Threat to Life By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD CRIMINALITY as a matter of course. Killings left and right. Girls violated, murdered, thrown away. Bodies mutilated, blown away. Corpses placed in trunks, in sacks. Body parts found here and there. Fetuses left in toilets, garbage piles. Life is cheap. Living is…
Mangaldan sportsfest 2012 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AS of this writing (Friday), my town Mangaldan is still celebrating its town fiesta 2012. Four of the main highlights in the celebration were sports activities including a footrace, bikefest, shootfest and basketball exhibition games. And of course, the numero uno of…
Integrated farming is profitable By Roberto Garcia IF you have a small fishpond and you want to double your income, perhaps you can go into integrated farming. Now what is integrated farming? Integrated farming in brackishwater fishponds entails the culture of two or more commercial species of either animal or…
Giving credit where it is due By Allanah Paragas “Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.” – George A. Moore What is the first word that comes to your mind when you hear or encounter the word ‘plagiarism’? Well, if I haven’t yet encountered this word,…
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