AFTER ALL
BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.
GLORIA Macapagal-Arroyo, at 59, does not look it. Behn Fer. Hortaleza, Jr., at 55, looks it.
Compared to our knockout personal and business worries, PGMA’s daily national concerns, not to mention the ubiquitous critics knocking incessantly at her palatial doors, are the stuff of Mt. Everest, so forbidding and so gargantuan we sometimes think it would have made us look ten years older than we actually are if we were in her shoes and bearing them. It is a tribute to the lady’s fortitude that she hasn’t physically wilted from the siege, at least from all outward appearances, especially in her facial aura.
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The Pen Speaks
Danny O. Sagun
“DITO puro ngawngaw lang.”
Thus blurted Dagupan City Mayor Benjie Lim in his message before bangus stakeholders last Tuesday over what he believed was the poor support from the national government for his pet fish processing plant project.
He lamented the lack of seriousness in pursuing the project to its full implementation. After the usual media publicity, nothing happened, he said, narrating how he was given a runaround by concerned agencies while trying to follow up the P50 million-pledge coming no less from President Arroyo four years ago when she keynoted the first Bangus Congress.
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Smorgasboard
Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre
A DIFFERENT kind of tribute was given to six women, special and peculiar in their own ways, by Lady’s Choice last Thursday evening. The event was held at the poolside of Leisure Coast Resort in Bonuan Binloc.
“We are all pencils in God’s hand, but the difference is in the print we leave behind, whether it will be light or heavy and makes a difference in other’s lives,.” Mrs. Celia Lambino, wife of the vice governor and one of the honorees said.
Elevated to the Ladies of Choice league, joining megastar Sharon Cuneta were Madam Celia, Sonia Garvida-Yao, Imelda “Meng” Austria, Dagupan City Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued, Michelle Lioanag of Ragtime Restaurant and Bar and Kamela Crisologo-Seen, owner of Plato Wraps
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WINDOWS
Gabriel L. Cardinoza
I had a chance to talk to Tondaligan Park Administrator Dino Zabala when he dropped by my office one day last week. Actually, he was there to see a city councilor to ask for financial assistance for his program this summer to ensure zero drowning in the treacherous waters off the historic Bonuan Beach.
He told me he has posted five trained lifeguards, each capable of administering life-saving first aid for drowning victims, as beachgoers begin to crowd the beaches of Tondaligan. These lifeguards will be perched on makeshift watch towers, armed with megaphones and whistles to warn swimmers who may be accidentally wandering to restricted zones.
And yes, Dino has also marked the waters’ swimming area with colorful buoys, for every beachgoer to see where they should be swimming.
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LINGAYEN – It looked straight out of an action movie scene.
The police are investigating a shooting incident in Villasis town Saturday night where a policeman was shot and wounded by two other policeman aboard a motorcycle before the two were themselves run over and killed by an Isuzu 10-wheeler truck coming from the opposite direction.
Police Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Alan Purisima has ordered a deeper investigation into the shooting among the police officers during an apparent chase that culminated in barangay Bacag, Villasis at about 5 p.m. Saturday.
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UNLESS somehow it goes the way of other previous posturings against the dam management and the National Power Corporation over the same issue, the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan might yet finally exact redress from concerned dam officials for the seasonal floods that leave heavy damages on the plains of Pangasinan, to include the city.
The possibility of a class suit to be filed by the city government loomed larger than ever before after a ranking official of the San Roque Multi-purpose Project (SRMP), Ramon Verza, operations officer, admitted that some “20 per cent” of water released thru the spillways of the San Roque dam finds its way to Dagupan and causes floods.
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HOUSE Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said here that he welcomes the statement of some of the Bishops in the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) who criticized the ongoing people’s initiative that seeks to amend the 1987 Constitution.
Interviewed by newsmen shortly after addressing a gathering of over 4,000 people at the Dagupan City People’s Astrodome today, De Venecia said “it is important that we give due course to the statement (of the CBCP) that there should be full transparency and that these programs should be communicated adequately to the Filipinos people”.
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DAGUPAN City, holder of the longest barbecue Guinness record thru its “Kalutan ed Dagupan” will become a showbiz paradise and concert center in north Luzon during the staging of this year’s Bangus Festival.
Some Pinoy Big Brother (PBB) “housemates will join Mayor Benjamin S. Lim, who recently earned the monicker, Big Brother Benjie, during the April 30 Kalutan.
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URDANETA CITY – A young mother and her two-year old son were charred beyond recognition in a fire of suspicious origin that gutted their home in barangay Ultama here at dawn recently.
Chief Inspector Ernesto Gandia, fire marshal of Urdaneta City identified the fatalities as Analyn Talbo, 25, and her two-year old son Charlie.
The house was already completely razed when firemen arrived at the scene.
Gandia told newsmen that Talbo’s husband, Richard, was out of the house when the fire broke out.
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