By FREDDIE LAZARO

VIGAN CITY—A cow in Ilocos Sur became an overnight local sensation when it gave birth to a triplet calves on Monday.

The cow, owned by farmer Wilson Navarro, 37, of Barangay Biddeng Daya, Vigan City, is now the talk of the town after its astonishing birth delivery of the triplet calves. All the three male calves were normally delivered.

Unfortunately, the first calf died a few seconds after it was born as it may have been suffocated in his mother’s womb.
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LINGAYEN – The pomp and glitter of sea festival will peel off a new sensation of entertainment in the coming celebration of this year’s Pistay Dayat.

“It’s music galore with social and cultural relevance,” said provincial administrator Raffy Baraan, the executive chairman of this year’s Pangasinan Pistay Dayat.

“Pangasinenses — young and old — are basically music lovers and dance enthusiasts, Baraan added, as he noted that the 2008 events committee had lined up an array of activities that will surely “quench the thirst” of entertainment-seekers.
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THE National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) is currently conducting a second round of public forums on Extremely Low Frequency Electro-Magnetic Field (ELF-EMF) in key cities nationwide in response to requests from various sectors.

The undertaking is part of TransCo’s Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Stewardship Program (CSRESP).
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REP. Jose de Venecia Jr. distributed 112 water pumps to farmers in his district on Wednesday to help them boost their rice harvest in the face of the looming rice crisis in the country.

The water pumps, at five-horse power each, were released by the National Irrigation Administration to farmers in San Fabian, Mangaldan, San Jacinto and Manaoag.

Costing P70,000 each, one water pump can irrigate five hectares of land at one time, said NIA Regional Director John Celeste who assisted the former House Speaker in distributing the water pumps to beneficiaries.
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EDILBERTO Libatique, branch manager of the National Food Authority in western Pangasinan, said 45 bigasang bayan outlets spread in 22 municipalities and three cities in his area are now selling government rice at a cheap P18.25 per kilo.

These outlets are selling NFA rice based on their weekly allocations of 30 bags each, he said.

Dagupan City has four bigasang bayan located in its two markets.
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UPGRADING of a portion of the Dagupan-Lingayen road in barangay Tapuac, Dagupan City is now 60 percent complete, according to 2nd Highway District Engineer Rodolfo Dion.

The upgrading project, costing P20 million from the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) of former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., has caused the present heavy vehicular traffic in the city from sunrise to sundown along Tapuac and Lucao roads.
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VISITORS from outside the city coming to join the 2008 Dagupan Bangus Festival from April 16 to May 4 will have a chance to win fabulous prizes if they are chosen as lucky visitors.

Councilor Alfredo Quinto, events chair for the lucky visitors contest, said the search is a regular feature of the yearly Bangus Festival, a summer spectacle being mobbed by thousands of residents and visitors.
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THE counsel of former Commission on Election chairman Benjamin Abalos told newsmen here that he goes wherever Rodolfo ‘Jun’ Lozada goes in order dispute lies spread by the latter on the spot.

Lawyer Salvador Panelo cited a litany of lies being supposedly peddled by Lozada, among which was his claim that Abalos threatened to kill him.
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ITS one really sweltering summer and fires are coming dime a dozen.

In Dagupan City, 24 houses went up in smoke in a fire that broke out on interior Rivera Street here at about 10:40 p.m. on Monday, April 7.

One person, identified as Dave Anonay, was injured in the fire that was tapped out at 12:10 a.m. by firefighters from Dagupan City and adjacent towns of Pangasinan, including the city’s Panda volunteer firefighting brigade.
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DAGUPAN CITY added another feather to its cap when a city councilor was elected chairman of the more than 16,000 strong Philippine Councilors League in an election at the World Trade Center in Pasay City last March 28.

Michael Fernandez, 34, now on his last term as councilor of Dagupan, was elected to the position, besting Councilor Arecio Rendor of Albay who served as the league’s interim national president.
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