NARVACAN, Ilocos Sur – President Arroyo has been asked to release the province’s P300 million share from the excise tax on Virginia tobacco.
Carlos Cachola, president of the Philippine Association of Tobacco-based Cooperative (PATCO), made the request saying part of the amount will be used to operate the moth-balled Multiline Food Proceesing Plant in barangay Labut, Santa.
Cachola said there is a need to put back into operations the food processing plant, especially after tobacco crops were massively damaged by recent early rains.
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LINGAYEN – Five schools in Pangasinan were among the initial batch of recipient- implementors of the Arroyo administration’s new high school vouchers program that will help qualified public school students enroll in private schools.
Mrs. Arroyo distributed vouches to five public elementary schools during her visit last Monday to open the PRISAA games here.
Each of the 50 student recipients in each of the five schools were given high school vouchers at P4,000 each which they will use to enroll themselves in private schools next school year.
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LINGAYEN – Governor Victor E. Agbayani led provincial officials and employees in congratulating Nenita S. Dimalanta after the Sangguniang Panlalawigan confirmed her appointment as provincial accountant following the retirement of Rodolfo Carolino.
Dimalanta thanked the governor and the sangguniang panlalawigan for her confirmation to the post during the regular session last week.
A native of barangay Cato in Infanta town where she graduated class valedictorian at the Cato Elementary School, she proceeded to also graduate with honors from the Saint John’s Institute (high school) in the same municipality.
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THE police campaign against illegal gambling is yielding positive result, according to Police Provincial Director Alan Purisima, bucking criticisms against police operations on the outlawed machines and their operators.
Eighty-nine gambling machines called “hataw” and fruit game video units were seized in simultaneous operations by the Pangasinan police, according to a police report.
A separate 41 units of gambling machines were also seized in Dagupan City on order of Mayor Benjamin Lim.
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Sayan Indio
Mario F. Karateka
PASENSIYALA, sikayoran managtalaran ed sayan kolum na lingkor yo ta abalang ak nen imbebeneg iran simba. Antometlanti ey ta nanpalugarak ed saray anunsiyo o adbertismint ya naknala daray kakaibad Pangasinan Star.
Aliwan say melag so pangikukuwenta na say editor ed say susulaten kodia, andi. No ag say natatalusan kon kaukulan met na dyaryo so makalmo pian nasustoni to so dili to, a satan lanti et panamegley na say naalmod saray adbertismint. Mairap a tua so bilay daray dyaryo natan. Nitan a pati buis ya babayaran ed siyudad pian makala ka na bisnis permit a pirmado nen Meyor Bendyi, kaibalay sakey a plaka (plate) ya idispleym ed opisina pian agda ibagan bogus o amoroso ka, et tinmage-tagey na aminpigamplo.
Kanian karaklan et agda nabigla a bayaran so buis. Tiktikitik so ginawa da – a singa say sikamid Star – kapetek na sakey a “quarter” labat kalamor so ayarian mi nin bayaran. Kasabiy Abril lamet, say gapo na onsoblay a kwarter, siguradon mantalikarkar kamilamet ya manbayar. Ay, bilay! Singa osilan ya naynay!
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JUST like Liberty, too many crimes have been committed in the name of Love. American orator Patrick Henry back in 1795 when he delivered his famous discourses on liberty (“Oh Liberty, how many crimes have been committed in thy name?”) at the Virginia convention could not have imagined how his favorite subject would parallel Love in terms of the offenses committed in amore’s name.
On Tuesday February 14, when the whole lovin’ world celebrates Valentine’s Day, everyone would have his own interpretation of that magical thing: Papa and Mama would equate it with the family getting together for a fine dinner at home or elsewhere. “Sweetheart” would prefer to be alone with him or her or, uh, neuter. Willie and the ABS_CBN crew probably will see Valentine in their continuous help to the families of the dead in the Ultra stampede. And Imbestigador Mike Enriquez, now extra cautious about accepting visitors following that gunman’s shocking entry into his own den though luckily he was out at the time, might just want to give meaning to the day by tackling in his program the bliss on motel row instead of the seedy side of the “short-time” business.
Really, love, or loving, is an art. It is in the old vendor’s refusing to sell you old, poor-tasting mangoes among her pile in the bigao, saying she wouldn’t want your face contorting as you chew the fruit. It is, too, in the tough-looking traffic enforcer’s kind gesture of letting your tricycle pass thru a one-way street seeing as how you really were in an earnest hurry, worry-lines on your face and all, while lugging some newspapers to deliver for mailing at the post office.
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AFTER ALL
Behn Fer. Hortaleza
IF City Hall is serious, and we have little doubt it isn’t, and it will be staging another grand Bangus Festival on A.B. Fernandez Avenue on a scale similar to the lasttime, may the ghost of the Ultra stampede not haunt the event organizers.
We’ve said it before and we say again here – crowd control for the occasion is so bad it’s a disaster waiting to happen. For all the many show-offs among the volunteers in vests and the uniformed cops (and full-gear soldiers too!) who are supposed to keep order, when the people start coming in droves, massing at a particular live band, pop group or sexy stars stage area, you bet the crowd controllers are nowhere to be found!. Or, if they’re ever around, are probably so engrossed watching the gyrating sex bombs onstage they plain forget their real assignments.
The crowd is virtually left to fend for itself, ready to create mayhem and start pushing and stomping on each other in an emergency like a stampede.
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THE PEN SPEAKSDanny O. Sagun
GONZ Duque was his usual ebullient self last Monday when he kidded Mayor Benjie Lim as the latter sat in the grandstand with President GMA during the opening of the PRISAA national games at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center.
They were not actually seated beside each other; the latter was at the back row and some seats away from the President. Duque, national president of the Private Schools Athletic Association, was obviously delighted by the presence of Lim at the games’ opening despite his political differences with the Chief Executive highlighted by his joining calls for her to resign last year.
“Nagpapasalamat ako at magkatabi na ngayon si Mayor Lim at ang mahal nating Pangulo,” he said as he acknowledged the guests, eliciting laughter from the audience. But the lady from Malacanang seemed unaffected as she was busy contemplating on the day’s activity and conferring with some government officials seated beside her. In short, dedma. Which would only show that things are still not going well between her and the mayor despite the latter’s having joined her for lunch late last year in Bonuan.
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