SISTER CITIES PACT. Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin S. Lim (seated, right) and Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat sign the sister-city agreement between Dagupan and Zamboanga as Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez (right), Zamboanga Vice Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco (left) and councilors of the two cities stand witness to the signing on February 24 in Zamboanga City. The sister cityhood pact encourages greater friendship, goodwill and understanding between the two cities through direct interaction and communication. (CIO Photo by Gryson De Venecia)

THE recall petition against a woman barangay kagawad of Herrero-Perez East in dagupan City moved closer to fruition with after the Commission on Elections ordered last February 16 the verification of signatures and thumbmarks of the petitioners.

The Comelec, meeting en banc, certified to the sufficiency of the Petition for Recall filed against barangay Kagawad Marilyn S. Valdez in its Resolution No. 06-0163. It set the dates for the signature and thumbmarks verification on March 24,25 and 26, 2006.

City Comelec Supervisor Remarque L. Ravanzo has subsequently issued last March 3 a public notice for the political exercise to all parties concerned to include a publication of the notice in the Pangasinan Star and in one national newspaper as provided for in the guidelines.

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