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STA. CRUZ, Ilocos Sur— A preacher died when the motorcycle he was riding on was bumped by a car from the side along the national highway in Barangay Villa Garcia, last Wednesday.
Chief Inspector Jojit Prado, chief of police of Sta. Cruz, identified the victim as Fernando Puli, 66, of the Iglesia Independiente Aglipayana.
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PROPONENTS of the Tri-City Ferry System will meet again on May 12 in San Fernando City to further discuss mechanics of the project to make sure that it will really succeed.
Director Martin Valera of the Department of Tourism, who is involved in crafting the mechanics of the Tri-City Ferry System, said the three mayors will hear the presentation of one of the private companies interested to operate the project.
The meeting will be hosted by Mayor Pablo Ortega of San Fernando City, to be attended by the other proponents, Mayor Hernani Braganza of Alaminos City and Alipio Fernandez Jr. of Dagupan City. Read the rest of this entry »
IT was a question of who danced best that, by some providence, also became another question of who danced best — in the rain.
Mapandan and Agoo street dancers in the recently-concluded Bangus Festival showed they deserved the honors, respectively, bagging the grand prizes in the first and second categories of P150,000 each in the highly successful “Festivals of the North”staged last weekin Dagupan City.
Mapandan dancers thrilled the crowd no end with their well-choreographed dance in their own “Pandan Festival” while garbed in their colorful costumes to capture the top prize in the first category. Read the rest of this entry »
A YOUNG and dynamic official of Dagupan City who helped in the back-breaking preparations for the just concluded Bangus Festival 2008 succumbed to a massive heart attack Saturday.
Reginaldo “Reggie” Ubando, chief of the city’s Waste Management Division, was rushed to the hospital but doctors failed to revive him.
Ubando, whose unit as in past editions of the Bangus Festival found itself greatly challenged in keeping the city physically clean and orderly despite the big event, held the position since the past Lim administration. Read the rest of this entry »
VIGAN CITY—This year’s Viva Vigan Festival of the Arts and the Binatbatan Festival is on starting from May 1 to 6, City Mayor Eva Marie Singson Medina announced.
It is the 7th Binatbatan Festival and the 16th Viva Vigan Festival of the Arts. The Binatbatan Fest was launched on May 2002 in honor of the well-known Abel – Iluko fabrics of the city, while the Viva Vigan Fest of the Arts was launched in May 1993 to promote the city’s unique historical arts and cultures. Read the rest of this entry »
By Venus May H. Sarmiento
THREE natural wonders of the Philippines may just make it to the world’s ‘Seven Wonders of Nature’ if we campaign and vote for them online.
Waiting to be included in the much coveted list are the Tubbataha Reef in Sulu, Chocolate Hills of Bohol and the Underground River in Puerto Prinsesa, Palawan.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo exhorted all Filipinos here and abroad to help the government in its campaign for the three wonders to win in the search. Read the rest of this entry »
NO “rice access cards” have been issued yet by government thru the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) which is still in the process of finalizing the list of beneficiaries and developing a distribution strategy that will be as fool-proof and tamper-proof, as possible.
DSWD Secretary Esperanza Cabral issued this clarification in the wake of reports that some families are this early already being offered such “access cards” for P2 to P10 apiece.
She asked barangay officials to be alert for such scams, admitting that her office cannot keep a 24-hour watch over such scam artists who may go to communities. Read the rest of this entry »
UNDER the leadership of Chairman Cesar T. Duque and Dr. Catalino Rivera Jr., the University of Pangasinan has launched new and innovative programs designed to sustain its mission as the education leader in Region I and access its graduates high-salaried employment after completing their college degrees.
Dr. Rivera identified “Grow @ UPang,” a graduates’ services program handled by External Linkages and Alumni Relations Office that would link graduates across programs to competitive places of employment and opportunIties maximizing use of their knowledge, skills and abilities including values and dispositions gained from their university-based courses and programs.”
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By DANNY O. SAGUN
THERE is enough supply of rice in Pangasinan owing to the good harvest in the main and second croppings, according to farmers from this palay-rich province.
The province produces rice more than the needs of its population of some 2.7 million, it was gathered from the National Food Authority.
The farmers believe there is no rice or food crisis as claimed by some sectors. They said the crisis is just “artificial” created by unscrupulous traders thru hoarding of the nation’s main staple.
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By VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO
Pia Dagupan Infocenter
SOCIAL Welfare Secretary Esperanza Cabral said Saturday for as long as the objectives of the “Ahon Pamilyang Pilipino” program, a flagship program of government against poverty and hunger, are kept and fulfilled by beneficiary-families, how the amount is spent will be entirely up to them.
Cabral said the DSWD precisely monitors the output or result, not the amount given a particular family for the APP program.
At a media conference called during her visit to Dagupan City on
a field inspection and assessment activity of the Area Vocational Rehabiltation Center (AVRC) unit of DSWD in Bonuan, the DSWD head also vowed to see to the relocation of the center’s office that is now threatened to be washed out to sea by big waves battering the beach area. Read the rest of this entry »
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