REMEMBERING SPEAKER PEREZ, DAGUPAN’S FATHER – Acting Dagupan Mayor Bryan Kua leads the wreath laying before the bust of Speaker Eugenio Perez at the former Perez Market in observance and celebration of the Speaker’s 127^th birthday. Perez authored R.A. 170 that created Dagupan as an independent component city, the only one in Region 1. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)