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AND THIS HERE IS NOT AN ASTRONAUT, HE’S A FIREMAN. In full-heat protection suit, a city fireman models for House Speaker Jose de Venecia’s introduction of the Austrian-made firefighting gear he gave the Dagupan City Fire Station and the Panda Volunteer Fire Brigade, also in the city. Some 30 more of the modern protection gear costing US $5,000 each will be given to various fire stations in the country. Witnessing the demonstration held at the Speaker’s residence are Dagupan Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez, City Fire Marshall Manuel Manuel, (right) Lyceum Northwestern University president Gonzalo T. Duque and Philhealth Regional Manager Ernesto Beltran. (Please click here for the story.) (PStar Photo by Butch F. Uka)



THE odds for the Lim city administration to at least start its long proposed Bangus Fish Processing Plant for Dagupan seems greater and graver than ever.

As though getting the nod of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) regional office to grant ownership of the proposed site of the plant — a 31-hectare stretch of accreted land in Bonuan Binloc – to the city government was not difficult enough, there now emerges a bigger stumbling block: a very influential politician’s hand is seen delaying grant of the city’s Miscellaneous Lease Agreement over the lot.

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BAYAMBANG – It looks like there’s no stopping sixth district Rep. Conrado Estrella III in his gubernatorial bid in the 2007 elections.

Over the weekend, Estrella met with barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan officials in the different barangays of this vote-rich town.

“Congressman Estrella is here because he finds his district already small and he wants to extend his services even outside his district,” said Bayambang Mayor Leo de Vera in introducing Estrella during a simple program in Barangay Wawa here.

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The deadline for the payment of business taxes in the city has been extended to February 17, 2006.

The new deadline was set by the Sangguniang Panlungsod after the Pangasinan Accountants and Bookkeeper Association asked the city government for extension saying they are still “in the process of computing the annual sales and securing barangay clearances for their clients.”

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