A MAN was shot and killed at about 7:30a.m. on Thursday just after dropping his daughter to school at the Gregorio del Pilar Elementary School in Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City.

The fatality was identified through his identification card as a certain Danny Macaraeg, 58, a native of Sison, Pangasinan but residing in Bonuan Boquig in Dagupan.
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THE Department of Agriculture is not letting its guard down against the dreaded bird flu in the Ilocos region.

Dr. Annie Bares, regional Avian Influenza coordinator, said this is being undertaken in order to maintain the bird flu-free status of the four Ilocos region provinces.
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SAN CARLOS CITY – The Pangasinan Festival of Culture and the Arts, was held at the University of the Philippines Faculty Center in Diliman, Quezon City recently with San Carlos City Mayor Julier Resuello as guest of honor and speaker.

The festival, the first of its kind ever held at the state university, exhibited works of Pangasinense literary and visual artists.
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CAMP BGEN OSCAR M. FLORENDO, La Union – Regional Police Director Leopoldo Bataoil has ordered a manhunt for the suspects who shot and killed the legal officer of the Laoag City government inside his office on Tuesday at 11:15 a.m.

Shot dead was Atty. Jose Antonio “Pepoc” Pastor, 49, who suffered two gunshot wounds on the head and one in the back.
Pastor, married and a resident of Barangay Gomburza here, was also a former city councilor.
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LINGAYEN – A truck helper is now in critical condition after he was shot in the head by two men who held up a soft drink delivery truck in barangay Canarvacan, Binalonan on the night of December 15.

The victim was identified as Cesar Bactad, 18, a resident of No. 88 Mc Kinley Street in Binalonan town who was rushed to the Sacred Heart Hospital in Urdaneta City.
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LINGAYEN – Gov.Amado T. Espino, Jr. commended the Department of Education for promoting the Alternative Learning system (ALS), a program that encourages non-formal, informal and indigenous learning systems.

During the 2nd Annual Consultative Conference of ALS at Covelandia in Labrador, the governor outlined the importance of the program in the development of human infrastructure, one of the priority thrusts of his administration.
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SAN JACINTO – Recovery of the 30-hectare land bought by the Dagupan City government in barangay Awai, San Jacinto in 2002 but which was taken over by the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) is vital to the Dagupan government.

Reginaldo Ubando, chief of Dagupan City’s waste management office, said the city would need at least 10 hectares of that land for sanitary landfill and another 10 hectares to be converted into a tree park as Dagupan’s contribution in the fight against climate change and global warming.
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VIGAN CITY – A research study participated in by the United States government has declared the four provinces of the Ilocos region free from the dreaded mango pulp and seed weevils insect pests.

This was gleaned from the result of a 10-month random survey conducted by researchers from the United States’ Department of Agrarian and the Bureau of Plant and Industry.

The agency certified that Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte, La Union and Pangasinan were found negative of the two dreaded insect pests which are usually found on mango fruits.
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THE much-heralded re-development plan for the city’s Tondaligan park, one of northern Luzon’s biggest national park at 72 hectares, has finally started.

The plan was launched just two weeks after the massive devastation of sheds and cottages in the area as a result of wind surge created by the then exiting typhoon “Mina”.

The Tondaligan was proclaimed as a national park thru Proclamation No. 98 issued by then President Diosdado Macapagal on March 26,1963.
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OWNERS of unsightly cottages and sheds at Tondaligan Park that were blown away by a storm surge last month will have to wait a little longer before the city rebuilds their structures.

Mayor Alipio Fernandez, Jr. has issued a directive that any new shed to be put up would be of uniform size, shape and make for a more balanced visual effect to visitors.

All sheds must conform too with regulations unlike before, he added.
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