Smorgasbord
Liway M. Yparraguirre

GEN. Leopoldo N. Bataoil was in Lingayen, his hometown, last Friday.
 
He was guest speaker at the Pangasinan National High School 98th Commencement Exercises (he belongs to class ‘70)and at PSU Lingayen’s Baccalaureate Mass and Recognition Program.
 
At the high school graduation program, he inspired the graduates by relating his struggles while in school, that these molded him to become where he is now, a successful son of barangay Libsong.
 
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Gabriel L. Cardinoza
 
Socialite daughter Rachel Arenas may be the most visibly busy congressional hopeful these days more than one year into the 2007 elections. I can only imagine that in a typical work day, she could have five or six speaking engagements that would only afford her to call it a day way past midnight.
 
Serious and determined as she is to get the congressional seat which will be vacated by Rep. Gener Tulagan, the first congressman to complete a three three-year term, her visibility in Pangasinan’s most vote-rich district is her way of introducing herself to the electorate and make known her intentions.
 
From what we have gathered, Rachel and her mother, socialite Baby Arenas, have been distributing financial assistance to every group and individual who come to them, as well as promising a better life for the poor once Rachel is elected. While she wants to project she’s not a trapo, the way she runs her campaign now and the way she deals with people are no different from the traditional politicians’ way of doing it. She’s so young and intelligent and yet so trapo.

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