By DANNY O.SAGUN
PIA-Pangasinan Infocenter

SAN FABIAN – Some 12,000 seedlings were planted last Friday along major national highways in Pangasinan as a major activity under the Green Philippine Highways (GPH) project of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in coordination with local government units, national government agencies and non-government organizations.

In this town alone, some 700 seedlings were planted along the San Fabian-La Union highway covering a stretch of six barangays: Tempra Guilig, Tococ, Mabilao, Alacan, Tiblong and Rabon .
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SAN MANUEL – The San Roque dam, the highest dam in southeast Asia and the second highest in the whole of Asia, has overshot its normal high water level of 280 meters by 0.12 meter at 8 a.m. last Wednesday but it is not yet spilling some of its excess water down the lowlands of Pangasinan.

This was assured early Wednesday by Antonio Calaycay of the National Power Corporation’s flood forecasting and warning system based at San Roque dam, who said he does not see the possibility of the water being released soon considering that rains have stopped in the Upper Agno river basin.
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OFFICIALS of La Union, particularly San Fernando City are seeking greater involvement in the management of the territory vacated by the former U.S. Wallace Air Base at Poro Point, La Union, now under the administration of the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA).

Gov. Joaquin Ortega and San Fernando City Mayor Maryjane Ortega lamented that not even one of them or their representative sits as member of the board of the BCDA even in ex-officio capacity to ensure that the plans of the latter conform to local laws.
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By Liway C. Manantan-
Yparraguirre
ROSALES – Thousands of Pangasinenses from all walks of life joined the nationwide synchronized tree planting along the national highways in Pangasinan.
In Rosales, local government officials and employees led by Vice Mayor Romeo Sim, policemen headed by Supt. Ernesto Abuan, barangay officials led by Liga ng mga Barangay president Rogelio Cabanada, together with personnel from DENR-Region 1 and Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO)-Urdaneta planted narra, banaba and ornamental plants along the national highway in barangay Carmen Friday morning.
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ABOUT 75 percent of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are women, most of whom are domestic helps, it was learned Thursday.
OIC-Regional Director Delfina Camarillo of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) told the Patrima Kapihan at the Philippine Information Agency Pangasinan office that DH jobs abroad are reserved for women while men are deployed as skilled workers in factories or offices.
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THE search is on for outstanding cooperatives that have joined hands with local government units (LGUs) in pursuing social and economic development in communities.

Senator Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr. recently announced the holding of the second Coop-LGU Partnership Awards (CLPA) to encourage cooperatives and LGUs to be innovative and creative in promoting community building and local development.
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NARVACAN, Ilocos Sur – A mother and son drowned when their bamboo raft capsized as they were about to harvest fish caught by their net in a swollen river in sitio Babarit, Barangay San Pedro here recently, according to the police.

PO2 Jigger Callejo, duty officer of the Narvacan police, identified the fatalities as Arsenia Callejo, 43, and her son Jomar, who were carried by rampaging waters.
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LINGAYEN – The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has confirmed the appointment of Ms. Norma Landingin Untalan as provincial planning and development officer replacing Tom Teja who retired last December.

Untalan has been serving as assistant provincial planning officer since 1998.
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CITY Mayor Benjamin Lim and officials from Iwata City, Japan will award 32 additional housing units to the family beneficiaries of the Gawad Kalinga-Bangusville housing project on August 30.

Lim along with the Japanese officials will lead the awarding ceremony as well as the turn over of the symbolic key to the indigent beneficiaries at the Gawad Kalinga site in Bonuan Gueset.
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