By BEHN FER HORTALEZA JR.
PIA Dagupan Infocenter

CAMP BGEN OSCAR M FLORENDO –The Police Regional Office 1 based here recently received a big boost for its armory from no less than the trial courts which, under an arrangement, turned over 142 assorted, court case-related firearms to the latter under the “custodia legis” program.

The firearms collected were used as pieces of evidence in various cases which were confiscated through the implementation of search warrants and the intensified campaign against loose firearms in line with the police’s ‘Oplan Bakal,’ Police Regional Director Romeo C. Hilomen said.

The guns were collected upon termination of court litigation involving these. Read more

THE coming of television giant GMA-7 finally with its studios and crew to Dagupan can only be for the greater good of public service and information in Pangasinan and its four cities.

One way of viewing this development in the local information sector is that GMA’s setting shop here to pit programs with rival network ABS-CBN’s means there’s money to make in this part of northern Luzon, something you can hardly begrudge these giant telecom industries for wanting to have a piece of.

Another way of looking at GMA’s chosing to be in Pangasinan, specifically Dagupan, is that there’s a whole wide and fertile ground out there for public service and news-entertainment that eager servers can fill and often eagerly do. Read more

BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.

MANY DAGUPENOS, pedestrians especially, are wondering whether there’s still the law regulating the operation of tricycles in Dagupan City. They feel that if the law has not been repealed or amended, perhaps it’s more honored now in the breach than in the observance.

One need only look at the buzzing, roaring tricycle units in the city roads today to realize what these observers mean – there are infinitely much more units running on the road now than at any other time and, hear this, six out of 10 of them do not have the mandated route and windshield numbers painted on them.

That could only mean they’re, in more sense than one, colorum (or unregistered) units. Woe to the passenger who meets an Read more

By DANNY O. SAGUN

RAINS spoiled what could have been a grand street party last Wednesday night, the Kalutan or Bangusan as this year’s organizers called it, at Dagupan’s main thoroughfare. There was no record to break unlike in the time of former hizzoner Benjie Lim so that there was less worry whether rains would spoil the event or not but it could have been merrier and drew more people considering that big names in the local rock/pop industry were invited.

Whether Lim grinned or not when heavy downpour played KJ (kill joy) to the fun and disappointed the city administration, the people, and the visitors no end, we nevetheless congratulate Read more

LINGAYEN- - -If Lindsay Pauline S. Poulakos, the first Limgas Na Pangasinan 2008 title holder, would thumb up to movie-making, she would probably end up with a role from his father’s own film (her father being an international independent film producer in New York) because of her grace and charm.

The 18-year-old incoming B.S. Pharmacy student of the Saint Louis University in Baguio City, admits that her greatest passion is modeling.

“I want to become a ramp model, in fact, it is my long-time dream since I was young,” she says. Read more

Nen MARIO F. KARATEKA

NENGNENG mo pay kalokoan daray totoo met, awa?

Imbes a mikasakey iratan ingen iyagel day siyudad da ed makapoy a pakabitla ed sayay kalabalabas ya Bangus Pistibal, sikarani so manderal na pakadayewan na siyudad.

Say tutukuyen ko aliwa labatlan satay apabalitan pigaran tuson pinalsan manga-alay kontribusyon ed saray lokal iran negosyantes para konod say Bangus Pistibal balet ibubulsa da labat so nakolekta, no ag ingen pati samay impinge-ekas na saramay “tarpaulins” ya anunsiyo na saray nanduruman aktibidades ed Pistibal. Read more

DAGUPAN City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. said on Thursday that the huge crowd that turned out to witness the Dagupan Bangus Festival from day one was very inspiring.

The Dagupan Bangus Festival started with a bang on April 16 and ended last Sunday.

Rains marred the highlight events, the Bangusan ed Dagupan and
the Festivals of the North Grand Street Dancing on April 26 and 30 but overall, the festival was stunning success and “achieved its purpose”, according to Fernandez. Read more

By FREDDIE G. LAZARO

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – The National Food Authority regional office has warned all its accredited outlets of revocation of their licenses if they are found violating the guidelines in selling government rice.

NFA Regional Director Joseph Dela Cruz said that 60 “Palengke Watch Teams” have been deployed on daily basis to various markets in the region to monitor and apprehend violators of the guidelines.
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THE Department of Social Welfare and Development has an awesome task in its hands in the next few months if it wants to save the Area I Vocation Rehabilitation center in Bonuan now in grave danger of being washed out to the Lingayen Gulf.

Social Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral, who was recently in Dagupan vowed to do something to save the AVRC and the adjacent community in Bonuan seriously threatened by erosion coming from waves of the Lingayen Gulf. Read more

AN official of the city government admitted that rice supply is not yet a problem in Dagupan at the moment.

City Legal Officer George Mejia, speaking for Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., said everything is normal yet as far as rice situation in the city is concerned.

He noted this when he was asked by the mayor to visit the market last week and talk to retailers in the face of the reported increase in the price of commercial rice. Read more