PUNCH’S Associate Editor Eva Visperas won in the 2023 NCCA Writers’ Prize sponsored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the grand prize of P250,000 that goes with it. In its letter to Visperas on November 6, 2023, NCCA wrote: “Please accept this Commission’s felicitations as your…
NOV. 13, SPECIAL NON-WORKING HOLIDAY PANGASINAN will observe a non-working special public holiday on November 13 (Monday) to commemorate the 127th birthday anniversary of one of its famous sons, Speaker Eugenio Perez, the first Pangasinense Speaker of the House of Representatives. This is pursuant to Republic Act No. 6721, signed…
RELATIVES HELP THEIR DISADVANTAGED KIN –-The Electoral Boards allow an elder sister to assist younger brother, a new voter, while a doting daughter helps aging mother follow instructions on how to fill out their ballots. (Punchphotos by Willie Lomibao and Butch Uka)
INAY Maria Castro Alcaide, a 97-year-old resident of Barangay Lucao and a registered voter in Dagupan City, the oldest voter not only in Pangasinan participated in the recently-concluded Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) 2023. Known as “Mother” in her barangay, and affectionately called “Mary” by those close to her,…
IN keeping with Dagupan Jayceeken’s cultural heritage advocacy, the group trooped to the northern town of Sison, Pangasinan to observe the town’s Indigenous People’s Month celebration held October 26 upon the initiative of Mayor Danny Uy. The celebration started off with the ritual slaughter of a pig, followed by the program highlighted…
SINAGLARAWAN 2023 – The Punch’s chief photojournalist Willie Lomibao holds the certificate of excellence for his photograph ‘Gold Harvest, (a tobacco farmer drying his harvest), as a finalist in the SinagLarawan 2023: Ang Pinoy Matibay photo contest sponsored by the Japan Tobacco International. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
THE town of Pozorrubio registered another first as it celebrates the Month of the Elderly in October by holding a fund-raising popularity contest. The contest, organized the Federation of Senior Citizens Association of Pozorrubio culminated in a motorcade and coronation of the winning senior beauties on October 14 and 15,…
SOME 1,356 Kiwanians from Northern Luzon will gather in different venues for the ‘Kiwanis One Day’ (KOD) celebration on October 28. Philippine Luzon District (PLD) Chairman for KOD activity, Past Lt. Gov. Stachys Neil Espino of Kiwanis Club of San Carlos City, said the Kiwanians from different divisions will conduct various…
THE San Carlos City Public Library, headed by City Librarian Nerissa Cabuay, was honored with two prestigious awards from the National Library of the Philippines. The city’s public library was awarded First place in the Exemplary Children’s Library Service category and honored Cabuay with Special Citation Award citing her Librarian…
NO GUN, NO HITMAN — Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia’s suspected ‘hitman’ (later identified as Mr. Manaois) empties the content of his bag in front of him and Councilors Alfie Fernandez, Alvin Coquia and Marilou Fernandez, all members of the majority bloc to show that he was not concealing a gun as charged by…
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