TIME FOR SOLAR POWER. Finally, a solar panel loan from PAG-IBIG is, indeed, a good news for members like me who also want to avail of free electricity from the sun but cannot afford the technology.

It is high time we consider renewable sources of energy given the possibility of a power crisis next year owing to rising demand for electricity plus the ill-effects of climate change already felt, ironically partly due to other sources of energy we have been using.

I hope and pray that a part of the government’s program, with the expected President’s ‘emergency power’, is the adoption of renewable sources of energy, including a solar power plant among others. Let’s cross our fingers. – Hilda Austria

 

SIZING UP CROWD SUPPORT. There’s no doubt Dagupan City set the benchmark for gathering the biggest support for its anti-drugs abuse campaign through its “Walk of Hope” last month. Jubilant participants, estimated at 15,000, danced and walked, from the De Venecia Highway to the CSI Stadia where a program was held. The crowd overflowed that some had to leave as they could no longer be accommodated inside the Stadia.

The provincial government of Pangasinan tried to emulate it. Although the Sison Auditorium , where the anti-drug abuse summit was held, was almost full, it still paled in comparison in terms of numbers. (The summit was an initiative of gubernatorial wannabe, Board Member Amado Espino III, president of the provincial federation of Liga ng Barangay).

The province is composed of 44 towns and four cities yet the Lingayen crowd could not match Dagupan’s. I was there, from start to end, in both events, so I know whence I speak. So what happened? Only a handful of mayors showed up. The mayors from fifth district, the bailiwick of gubernatorial aspirant Mark Cojuangco, comprised the majority of local chief executives’ attendance, set aside politics to show support for the sake of the province.

Dagupan has only 31 barangays and yet the crowd was overflowing. Pangasinan has 1,364 barangay kapitans. So where were they? –Tita Roces

 

A CAUSE FOR UNITY. Why bring politics into the anti-illegal drugs campaign? This was posed by Gov. Amado Espino Jr., noting that only a handful of mayors and not 100 percent of the barangay captains attended the Pangasinan Anti-Illegal Drug Summit held Dec. 10 at Sison Auditorium.

This campaign may finally defeat the menace that had long  hounded the society and must, therefore, unite  all sectors, including the media, for the sake of the future. The summit itself is not the final answer to the province’s drug problem but it was one bold, giant step taken by the provincial government and the Liga ng Barangay to bring all stakeholders together so that each one would know their respective roles in the massive campaign to defeat a common enemy, that is illegal drugs. – Leonardo V. Micua 

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