Truth at its Most Brilliant
By LIWAY C. MANANTAN-YPARRAGUIRRE
THIS is an invitation to all women who would like to fire a gun, with or without prior experience at handling that deadly metal.
It is open to gun enthusiasts (lady shooters who are members of gun clubs), policewomen in Pangasinan and other parts of Region 1, lawyers, newshen, members of non-government organizations, etc.
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By DANNY O. SAGUN
THE Tinday Labi did not come as big as others thought it would be during its launch Friday night last week.
Despite the distance from our humble place in San Jacinto, we came to the city together with my wifey and my only daughter just to see for ourselves how the night market would fare as envisioned. We were quite dismayed to find though that only a small portion of the main thoroughfare, A.B. Fernandez avenue, was actually used, not the section from corner Rizal street to corner Burgos street, as earlier announced by the organizers.
SAN CARLOS CITY – An early morning mass at the St. Dominic Church, a floral offering and a short program marked the 110th birthday anniversary of the late Speaker Eugenio Perez Sr., a foremost son of Pangasinan whose natal day last Monday is now traditionally observed as ‘Pangasinan Day’.
A program in his honor at the city auditorium sponsored by San Carlos City officials had the youngest daughter of the late Speaker, Atty. Consuelo Salazar Perez, governor of the Board of Investments, as guest of honor and speaker.
Born in sitio Obong in the barrio of Basista, then a part of the town of San Carlos, thelate Speaker Perez steered the Philippines Assembly of the Commonwealth as its last Speaker and the House of Representatives as its first Speaker.
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URDANETA CITY – Widening of the Mac Arthur highway right in the central business district here, is now almost complete, according to City Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr.
Perez said except for the construction of a much wider bridge, the widening project of the Department of Public Works and Highways in that stretch is now almost finished.
Perez said first to set back by five meters was the city’s public market which was followed by owners of other business establishments along the Mac Arthur highway.
Even Perez’ family also sacrificed when they gave up the frontage of their backyard in barangay San Vicente.
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SUAL – The National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) that was phased out in 1994 will soon be replaced by the National College Assessment Examination (NCAE), according to Department of Education Secretary Jesli Lapus.
Lapus, speaking during the launching of the Adopt-A-School Program here last Friday, said NCAE is like a career counseling that will guide students after high school.
He said NCAE will include what was normally tested in the old NCEE—the general scholastic ability of fourth year high school students—and will be given in both verbal and non-verbal form.
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PANGASINAN’S most wanted man, who shot and killed a barangay chairman in Sual town sometime in March was finally arrested by the police last Monday after months of hiding.
Police Regional Director Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil presented to mediamen on Wednesday, Sonny Abata, 27, laborer, at the Sta. Barbara police station two days after the suspect was arrested by the police inside a videoke bar in barangay Pangascasan, Sual.
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FOUR stores in Dagupan were found last week selling alleged substandard Christmas lights and got a stern warning from the Department of Trade and Industry provincial office. .
Marjurie Loresco, a DTI official, said the owners of these establishments were told to withdraw the substandard materials from their shelves or these would be confiscated by her office.
Loresco said the DTI deployed several teams in the market to monitor Christmas lights for sale that are not safe to use as these might explode and cause fire in homes and offices.
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SEN. Ralph Recto has urged the national government to grant a P1,000 across-the-board increase in the monthly pay of 1.1 million employees in its payroll, “from the President down to the lowly janitor,” instead of increasing the basic pay of each by a certain percentage.
Recto made the proposal following the inclusion of a P13.1 billion pay hike package for state workers in the P1.053 trillion 2006 budget bill.
Details of the salary increase have yet to be announced by Budget officials, but a line in President Arroyo’s “Budget Message” to Congress hinted of an increase equivalent to eight percent of an employee’s basic pay.
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LAOAC romped off with the overall championship in this year’s Municipal and Evaluation of Local Level Plan Implementation for Nutrition Program (MELLPI) and received P5,000.00 and plaque of recognition for the achievement.
Burgos copped second place and received P4,000 plus plaque of recognition, followed by Basista which received P3,000 and a plaque of recognition.
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LINGAYEN – A noted historian in Pangasinan has proposed that the whole town of Lingayen be declared a heritage site not only because it is the seat of the provincial government of Pangasinan but also because of the big role the town played in the history of the province.Historian Restituto Basa, author of many history books about Pangasinan and its people, said Lingayen played a major role in the history of the province since during the Spanish time when it served as a small Chinese trading post, being nearer than any other place in the Philippines to China.
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