By DANNY O. SAGUN
PIA Dagupan Infocenter

PANGASINAN has enough rice supply for the next four months or up to July, according to the National Food Authority.

Edilberto Libatique, branch manager of NFA western Pangasinan based in Lingayen, said that the total rice stocks in the province amounts to some 3.6 million bags with NFA having 193,000 bags in its bodegas. Estimated household stocks today stand at 2.2 million bags while traders have some 860,000. The province expects to harvest some 635,000 bags of palay, equivalent to 413,000 bags of rice.

He said that based on this data, there is enough rice supply for the province for the next four months.
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LINGAYEN- An official of the National Food Authority (NFA) said the current scene of buyers queuing up at NFA retail outlets in markets in Pangasinan is not an indication of rice crisis but only “price crisis.”

Edilberto Libatique, branch manager of NFA in western Pangasinan, observed that the wide gap between NFA rice and commercial rice is the reason people are queuing up before NFA’s “bigasang bayan”.

“So, it’s not really (a) supply crisis but one which we might call possibly as price crisis,” declared Libatique whose office covers 22 towns and three cities of the first, second, third and fourth district of Pangasinan.
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VISITORS and locals are in for the grandest and merriest Dagupan Bangus Festival 2008 on April 16 to May 4 since the event’s founding, festival organizers are gushingly proclaiming this early.

Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, president of the CSI Group of Companies and executive chairperson of this year’s Dagupan Bangus Festival is making sure the celebration will include programs and activities that will involve not only the adults but also kids, according to Councilor Michael Fernandez. Who chaired last year’s celebration
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THE word will come from Public Works and Highways Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. as to what date the new Dawel-Pantal-Lucao Road, including its bridge component, in Dagupan City, will be inaugurated and opened.

This was disclosed by Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. congressman of the fourth district of Pangasinan, who believes the project could be inaugurated and opened very soon being now 99.9 percent complete.
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POLICE operatives of Dagupan accompanied by anti-prostitution civic and religious representatives swooped down on the city’s ‘ red light district’ in Arellano-Bani here, arresting several pimps and customers of suspected prostitution dens and lewd show clubs over the past few days.

The police operation supervised by City Police Chief Dionicio Borromeo was part of the intensified campaign to clamp down on prostitution patrons and operators in the city in line with City Ordinance 1896-2007 or the Anti Flesh Trade Ordinance.
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THE Dagupan-based University of Luzon Golden Tigers have finally done what no other team in Region I has achieved when it won the second Men’s National Collegiate Athletic Association (MNCAA) national championship last March 29 in San Fernando City, Pampanga.

The Golden Tigers of Engr. Mac Arthur and sportsman Luis Samson Jr. the national tournament, nipped Region III champion Lyceum of Olongapo, 85-83, in its initial outing before plastering Bicol champion PSU, 94-62.
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A NEW highway that will provide a second access road between Pangasinan and Zambales is now the subject of a piloting teamwork between the engineering districts of Pangasinan and Zambales.

The proposed highway with a total distance of 85 kilometers will connect the town of Mangatarem in Pangasinan, passing through barangay Mapita in Aguilar town to Sta. Cruz Zambales.

“In piloting operation, we are looking at the possible alignment of the new highway which will cut through several mountain slopes overlooking the Dasol Bay between Pangasinan and Zambales,” Pangasinan 2nd Highway District Engineer Rodolfo Dion said. Read the rest of this entry »

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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