DAGUPAN City will implement the “Sustainable Sanitation in East Asia” project of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and the World Bank-water and sanitation program.

The project will be funded by the SIDA and co-funded by the World Bank, which is also the project implementor. The city will receive about $300,000 fund support for the four-year project. There are six recipients of the program in the Philippines, including Dagupan, according to the City Health Office (CHO).
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By Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre

STO. TOMAS — “Please spare my wife (from) the vice gubernatorial intramurals.”
Thus did Undersecretary for Local Governance Antonio Villar Jr. douse cold water on persistent rumors his wife, the Santo Tomas mayor, Vivien O. Villar was running for vice governor in the May 2007 elections.

In a press statement, Villar said his wife, despite her sterling record as municipal executive of their town, never hinted of wanting to run for the provincial post.

“She’s happy with her position as mayor,” he stressed.
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THE much awaited Pangasinan Jobs Fair ’06, considered the “Mother of Job Fairs In Region I” is finally set on November 10, at the historic Sison Auditorium in the capital town of Lingayen.

Some 30 companies and licensed recruitment agencies have been invited to participate.
Among these are Dagupan Electric Corporation, EEI Corporation, Faith in God Recruitment & Manpower Services, Human Resources Specialist, Inc., Jollimagic, Magic Group of Companies, Masipag Services, Nanox Philippines, Panaderia Antonio/Plato Wraps, S & F Finance Corporation;
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A LONG and heavy downpour in the afternoon dampened observance of All Saints Day in the province of Pangasinan last Wednesday.

As a result, many people who were visiting the tombs of their relatives had to scamper to all directions when the rain came at about 3:30 p.m.

The rain fell as men, women and children were still queuing at the cemetery. Read the rest of this entry »

STA. BARBARA – A wealthy Korean national is in the country to look for a family in Bataan that helped hide his father in 1942 when he deserted the Japanese Imperial Army that was then laying a siege on Filipino and American defenders.

Dukshin (D.S.) Park, in his early 60s, said his father Park Shung Shuk, who died in the 1960s when the former was only about 30 years old, was a second lieutenant of the Japanese Imperial Army sent to invade the Philippines.

Refusing to fight Filipinos defending Bataan, Lt. Park Shung Shuk escaped from his unit.
A Filipino farmer and his family hid him in their home for months till he made a safe return to Korea before the end of the war.
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FLOWERS were laid and candles were lighted on Tuesday, on the eve of All Saints Day on Tuesday, at the fish cemetery inside the government-owned National Fisheries Technology Development Center here.

Fourteen dead whales, dolphins and a rare turtle buried there earned human remembrance from fisheries officials and a visiting French agronomy research expert, Bernardo Chevassus-Au Louis, of the National Institute for Agronomy Research of France, and Pierre Morrissens, a Belgian, who is an aquaculture scientist.
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CASH prizes and medals were awarded recently to the winners of statistical quiz, oratorical and slogan and poster making contests, highlighting the end of the 17th National Statistics Month celebration at the social hall of Pangasinan National High School in Lingayen.

Last year’s champion Colegio de Dagupan successfully defended its crown in the statistical quiz competition (tertiary level) and also placed third in the regional level competition. The first and second runner-up winners were the Pangasinan College of Science and Technology and Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation, respectively.
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IT NOW takes only three hours or less for floodwaters in Dagupan to subside because of the effectiveness of the dredging operations and the city’s Vac-Tron sucking machine, compared before when it takes a day or more.

City Engineer Virginia Rosario said that the dredging operations being conducted at Pantal Guibang has reduced the volume of garbage and improved the depth of the Pantal river after at least 47,849 cubic meters of silted materials, impediments and sand were removed.
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LINGAYEN – A total of 257 low-cost housing units will be constructed starting this month.

Engr. Alvin Bigay, head of the Pangasinan Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Office (PHUDCO), said his office is working double time with the National Housing Authority (NHA) and Pag-IBIG to speed up completion of all required documents “so that house construction can start immediately.”

He said 20 units will be built at a time. It will take 18 days to construct one unit costing P300,000 each, he said, adding that more than three contractors will undertake the job. Read the rest of this entry »

URDANETA CITY – A new university was born in Pangasinan soon after the provincial board approved last week a resolution of the city council here converting the City College of Urdaneta (CCU) into a university.
The CCU, founded 40 years ago by the then municipality of Urdaneta, finally became the sixth university in the province of Pangasinan.
City Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr., chairman of the board of trustees of the CCU, said all what was needed to convert the school into a university was a city council resolution duly approved by the provincial board.
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