NEW PATRIMA BOARD led by broadcaster Bernie Errasquin of DZMQ-Radyo ng Bayan take their oath of office before Vice Governor Oscar B. Lambino. The new officers and directors are Lelia Chua-Sy (Northern Times) vice president; Venus May H. Sarmiento, PIA/Pangasinan Star) secretary; Liway M. Yparraguirre (Manila Times/Pangasinan Star), treasurer; Joey Ballesteros (DWPR) auditor and Violeta V. Ferrer (DWPR) business manager. Directors are Minerva Caburnay (DZRH-Dagupan), Mauro Abalos (Weekly Guardian); Jun Velasco (Manila Bulletin), Cesar Ramirez (Philippine Star); Mel Zulueta (Skycable), Giovanni Madrid (Wekly Guardian) , Audrey Hidalgo (DWPR), Rey Abaya (DWPR) and Roland Hidalgo (DWPR) ex-oficio. (PIA Photo by Roland Hidalgo)

FORMER GOVERNOR Oscar M. Orbos (left) exhorts members of the Evangelical Business People and Entrepreneurs for Social Transformation (eBest) on the finer points of Christian life in a business setting for a better country and a better world. He was later joined by Pastor Mario Tomboc and other Christian brotherhood officers in a pray-over by Bro. Diony B. Espiritu, national treasurer, Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship International, Phils.

WITH CONSTITUENTS over the weekend, House Speaker Jose C. de Venecia, Jr., hands over a P250,000 check to Imam Kabsaran Capia, president of Christian-Muslim Progressive Multi-purpose Cooperative of Dagupan for the group’s business venture. De Venecia has lately been visiting his district every week. (PStar Photos by Butch F. Uka)

CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME, for Speaker Jose C. de Venecia, as he funded a felt need for Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City where he lives – a water pumping station to assure sanitary and sufficient drinking water in the community. Here the No. 1 Binloc resident inspects the pumping station which he inaugurated recently with Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez.

HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL RISK MITIGATION. Project PROMISE of the United States Agency for International Development thru Laura Coughlyn, USAID Mission Disaster Relief Officer (seated third from left) hasjust made Dagupan City a pilot area for its program for Hydro-Meteorological Risk Mitigation , one of only five cities in Asia to receive the privilege on a $100,000 funding. Mayor Benjamin S. Lim (fourth from left) and Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez (at extreme right) signed the agreement for the city with lawyer Gil Fernando Cruz, executive director of LCP, Eufemia Castro Andaya , and Regional Director Nigel Lontoc of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) signing for their respective offices as partner agencies in the project that starts this year. (PStar Photo by Butch F. Uka

LAUGHTER AS THE BEST MEDICINE: Dr. Jamie Eloise Agbayani, wife of the governor and residents of Mapandan town are entertained by the Jollibee mascot during the Kalusugan sa Barangay medical-dental-surgical mission recently held in the municipality. Since 1998, over 160,000 patients have benefited from free medicines and various health services through the Kalusugan program spearheaded by the province’s first lady herself. (PIO Photo/Teofilo Mari)

CRANE TURNS TURTLE. Whatever it was this crane tried to lift from the river, it must have been too heavy for it to turn and crash heavily on its side at the Manat bridge in Binmaley last week. Salvage parts of the old bridge, paralleling the new one, were supposedly being taken out by the crew when the accident happened. (PStar Photo by Butch F. Uka)

COUNTERFORCE. Motorcycle policemen hone their driving skills during the recently launched training for Task Force Hagibis, a counterforce of motorcycle-riding police to be pitted against similarly motorcycle-riding holdup men and hired assassins if these are ever encountered in their areas. Police Senior Insp. Jose Manubay, (standing)provincial head of the Traffic Management Group (TMG) gives instruction to SPO1 Greg Claveria (officer down on the ground) on safety falls from a police motorbike. (PStar Photo by Butch F. Uka)

SISTER CITIES PACT. Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin S. Lim (seated, right) and Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat sign the sister-city agreement between Dagupan and Zamboanga as Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez (right), Zamboanga Vice Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco (left) and councilors of the two cities stand witness to the signing on February 24 in Zamboanga City. The sister cityhood pact encourages greater friendship, goodwill and understanding between the two cities through direct interaction and communication. (CIO Photo by Gryson De Venecia)

ANOTHER BARANGAY CAPTAIN DOWN. As one of his son sits in grief watching him, assassinated Barangay Captain Ruben Palaganas, 48, (inset photo)of Bakitiw, Malasiqui gets a final farewell visit from Mayor Alfonso Soriano (right). Palaganas was a vital witness, along with barangay tanod Louie Tantay who was killed along with him last Wednesday, in the earlier murder of Barangay Captain Leonides Bulatao in front of the municipal hall on Dec. 15, 2003. (PStar Photo by Butch F. Uka)