30,000 Pangasinenses attend Gibo's rally (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=13&rid=266339)

By Lilybeth G. Ison

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, March 25 (PNA) -- An estimated 30,000 people filled the Narciso Ramos Sports Center here on Thursday to show their support for Lakas-Kampi-CMD presidential bet Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro, his running mate former Optical Media Board (OMB) chair Eduardo "Edu" Manzano, and the party's senatorial candidates.

"I believe that all of our mayors, under the Lakas-Kampi-CMD ticket, will support Gibo without a doubt," said 3rd district Rep. Rachel Arenas at the sidelines of a political rally organized by Gov. Amado Espino for the administration party.

Arenas said that in her district alone, local officials have been successfully gathering support of the masses for Gibo' candidacy this coming May elections.

"(For me), I believe in his 'galing at talino'. I believe that he has a passionate heart as well, and that’s important in a leader,” she said.

"I’ve seen him (Gibo) work (as then chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council) during calamities and tragedies, like that with typhoons 'Ondoy' and 'Pepeng', and I admire his political will, his determination, and his sense of putting other people first before himself," she added.

Arenas said other Lakas-Kampi-CMD stalwarts of the province were also impressed with Gibo's strong political will and determination as they too gave their full backing to his presidential bid.

The party’s senatorial candidates are lawyer Raul Lambino, Binalonan Mayor Ramon Guico Jr., veteran broadcaster Rey Langit, reelectionist Senators Lito Lapid and Ramon "Bong" Revilla, and former Justice Secretary Silvestre "Bebot" Bello.

Only Revilla was absent from the Pangasinan sortie and was represented instead by his actor-son Jolo. (PNA)

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Mararakep ira'y balitad Pangasinan ah. salamat lamet.
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Alaminos Airport project finally breaks ground
ALAMINOS CITY, March 26 (PNA) -- The Alaminos Airport Development Project, another mega project in Pangasinan, finally broke ground on Tuesday in Barangay Sabangan here.

Spearheaded by Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Assistant Secretary Guillermo Leonardo, the groundbreaking confirmed that the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is sincere in building the project.

Leonardo, who represented former DOTC secretary and now Executive Secretary Leandro Mendoza in the groundbreaking rite, was joined by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza and other municipal and city officials.

Set to be the first commercial airport in Pangasinan, the project was mentioned in the State of the Nation Address of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo before the joint session of Congress in 2007.

In his speech, Leonardo congratulated the people of Alaminos for the realization of the project which was initiated by Mayor Braganza.

Stressing that it was Mayor Braganza who brought up the idea to President Arroyo and patiently followed it it up with both Secretary Mendoza and the President.

Costing P2.1 billion once completed as an international airport in 2017, the project was hailed as a big boon to Alaminos City and the entire province of Pangasinan.

Saying the airport will increase tourist arrival in the province, particularly the world-famous Hundred Islands, Leonardo assured the continuity of the project even if Mrs. Arroyo already left office.

He said funding for the project is included in the General Appropriations Act and at least P50 million was released this year to be used for land acquisition.

The P50 million is only the first trance of a total of P135.7 million envisioned for runway site acquisition of at least 158.5 hectares of land in Barangays Sabangan, Pandan and Telbang, including access roads to Cabatgan and San Vicente.

First phase of the project that will enable the airport to cater to domestic flights is set to be completed by 2012-2013.

The plan is that the Alaminos airport will initially operate as domestic airport and will be upgraded into an international airport starting in 2017.

In a message read by ASec Leonardo, Secretary Mendoza said the construction of Alaminos Airport is in line with the President’s thrust for the provision of more appropriate and adequate infrastructure support to meet the growing needs of agriculture and tourism.

The executive secretary said that with the project, more business opportunities would open up in Alaminos and adjacent areas.

Moreover, economic bonanzas are expected in Pangasinan as well as the adjacent provinces of Tarlac, Zambales and the whole of the North Luzon Agri-Business Quadrangle (NLAQ).

Mendoza assured that the Arroyo administration, through the DOTC, will pursue its objectives of linking the Philippine Islands through the modernization and development of various airports and seaports.

Mayor Braganza called the Alaminos Airport as a "trigger project" because it is set to generate the development of many industries in the province.

He expects that in a short period of five years, new commercial buildings, including hotels and restaurants will be built in the city.

“I congratulate and salute the President of the Republic for continuing the project even if we’re no longer partymates," said Braganza who left Lakas-CMD, his old party, to join the Liberal Party.

“We thank the DOTC not because they have chosen our city but for giving Pangasinan and eight other sites in the province the opportunity to host an airport like what will now rise in Alaminos,” he said.

Alaminos was among the eight sites studied as possible location of the project.

At the same time, an official said the Alaminos Airport Development Project will complement the Sual International Seaport that already broke ground earlier in adjacent Sual town.

Engr. Roel Anoñuevo, head of the city planning and development office of Alaminos, said: “Our airport will certainly strengthen the viability of Sual Seaport".

With the airport in Alaminos and an international seaport in Sual soon, plus the now operational coal-fired power plant, also in Sual, the first district of Pangasinan will soon have three major infrastructure facilities.

Anonuevo said the airport could also lead to the final realization of the envisioned Tri-City Ferry System Project involving the cities of Alaminos, San Fernando and Dagupan, as well as other important projects for the NLAQ super region. (PNA) http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=266478

Alaminos Airport project finally breaks ground
ALAMINOS CITY, March 26 (PNA) -- The Alaminos Airport Development Project, another mega project in Pangasinan, finally broke ground on Tuesday in Barangay Sabangan here.

Spearheaded by Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Assistant Secretary Guillermo Leonardo, the groundbreaking confirmed that the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is sincere in building the project.

Leonardo, who represented former DOTC secretary and now Executive Secretary Leandro Mendoza in the groundbreaking rite, was joined by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza and other municipal and city officials.

Set to be the first commercial airport in Pangasinan, the project was mentioned in the State of the Nation Address of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo before the joint session of Congress in 2007.

In his speech, Leonardo congratulated the people of Alaminos for the realization of the project which was initiated by Mayor Braganza.

Stressing that it was Mayor Braganza who brought up the idea to President Arroyo and patiently followed it it up with both Secretary Mendoza and the President.

Costing P2.1 billion once completed as an international airport in 2017, the project was hailed as a big boon to Alaminos City and the entire province of Pangasinan.

Saying the airport will increase tourist arrival in the province, particularly the world-famous Hundred Islands, Leonardo assured the continuity of the project even if Mrs. Arroyo already left office.

He said funding for the project is included in the General Appropriations Act and at least P50 million was released this year to be used for land acquisition.

The P50 million is only the first trance of a total of P135.7 million envisioned for runway site acquisition of at least 158.5 hectares of land in Barangays Sabangan, Pandan and Telbang, including access roads to Cabatgan and San Vicente.

First phase of the project that will enable the airport to cater to domestic flights is set to be completed by 2012-2013.

The plan is that the Alaminos airport will initially operate as domestic airport and will be upgraded into an international airport starting in 2017.

In a message read by ASec Leonardo, Secretary Mendoza said the construction of Alaminos Airport is in line with the President’s thrust for the provision of more appropriate and adequate infrastructure support to meet the growing needs of agriculture and tourism.

The executive secretary said that with the project, more business opportunities would open up in Alaminos and adjacent areas.

Moreover, economic bonanzas are expected in Pangasinan as well as the adjacent provinces of Tarlac, Zambales and the whole of the North Luzon Agri-Business Quadrangle (NLAQ).

Mendoza assured that the Arroyo administration, through the DOTC, will pursue its objectives of linking the Philippine Islands through the modernization and development of various airports and seaports.

Mayor Braganza called the Alaminos Airport as a "trigger project" because it is set to generate the development of many industries in the province.

He expects that in a short period of five years, new commercial buildings, including hotels and restaurants will be built in the city.

“I congratulate and salute the President of the Republic for continuing the project even if we’re no longer partymates," said Braganza who left Lakas-CMD, his old party, to join the Liberal Party.

“We thank the DOTC not because they have chosen our city but for giving Pangasinan and eight other sites in the province the opportunity to host an airport like what will now rise in Alaminos,” he said.

Alaminos was among the eight sites studied as possible location of the project.

At the same time, an official said the Alaminos Airport Development Project will complement the Sual International Seaport that already broke ground earlier in adjacent Sual town.

Engr. Roel Anoñuevo, head of the city planning and development office of Alaminos, said: “Our airport will certainly strengthen the viability of Sual Seaport".

With the airport in Alaminos and an international seaport in Sual soon, plus the now operational coal-fired power plant, also in Sual, the first district of Pangasinan will soon have three major infrastructure facilities.

Anonuevo said the airport could also lead to the final realization of the envisioned Tri-City Ferry System Project involving the cities of Alaminos, San Fernando and Dagupan, as well as other important projects for the NLAQ super region. (PNA) http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=266478

Mayor Velasco bolsters delivery of basic services in Sta. Barbara (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/03/22/mayor-velasco-bolsters-delivery-of-basic-services-in-sta-barbara/#STS=g78fzanc.z8d)

IN just three years time, Mayor Reynaldo Velasco has provided the citizens of Sta. Barbara with top-notch basic services through the acquisition and repairs of a fire truck, an ambulance and patrol units, among other utility vehicles.

Heavy equipment and vehicles worth P14 million were also delivered to the local government, thus bolstering the town’s ability to deliver its health, peace and order, and infrastructure services as well as farm modernization.

Among the new vehicles acquired are three ambulances, with a fourth due to arrive soon, Velasco announced.

These will augment the lone ambulance the town had which was only recently repaired.

“We now have enough ambulances to serve any health emergency in any of the barangays,” said Velasco.

The new ambulances were purchased with financial help from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office and FANA USA.

For its many ongoing and programmed public works and flood control projects, the mayor said one backhoe, a pay loader, one big dump truck and two smaller dump trucks were added to the town’s fleet of heavy machinery.

Also recently repaired were a compactor and other town vehicles.

For effective police work and fire prevention, the town acquired three brand new police patrol cars and one fire truck.

A farm tractor with complete accessories worth P2.6 million also came in.

For other departments, one high ace and three Suzuki utility vehicles were bought

“We managed to buy all these vehicles and heavy construction equipment through creative sourcing of funds and savings from our budgets through prudent management of limited local government resources,” Velasco pointed out.

“The latest batch of heavy equipment and vehicles will further upgrade the local government’s ability to deliver its priority programs in the field of public safety, health and the completion of still unfinished roads, dikes, bridges, irrigation canals and other public works projects that we have programmed for completion,” the mayor added.

Velasco, a former three-star police director, was recently hailed by his constituents as the pound-for-pound best local executive in Pangasinan, likening him to boxing icon Manny Pacquiao.

Escape to the islands (http://www.bworldonline.com/weekender/content.php?id=7956)

A BEAUTY queen’s quip and the desire to finally see the Hundred Islands of Alaminos --or at least a few of them-- led this writer to accept a recent invitation to visit Pangasinan.

The drive from Manila was long and uneventful with the city’s choke-points giving way after an hour of driving to tree-lined avenues. From our meeting point in QC, it took us close to four hours to finally arrive at our destination, the El Puerto Marina beach resort (www.elpuertomarina.com) in Bgy. Pangapisan North, Lingayen Gulf.

After a filling lunch of pinakbet (stewed vegetables), broiled milkfish, clam soup and roast squid stuffed with an odd but tasty combination of chopped tomatoes, onions and cheese, some of us retired to our rooms for a much-needed siesta. A tour of the provincial capitol had been planned for the afternoon but we requested a break from the scorching heat.

El Puerto Marina, which opened to the public in July 2005, was initially built as a family rest house but was converted into a resort upon the urging of the Department of Tourism (DoT). The owners gradually built the resort starting with the hotel located nearer the beach. Now, there is a pool, a restaurant with a high thatched roof and several cottages overlooking a manmade pond.

Privacy please

What the resort may lack in ample closet space and usable toiletries, it more than makes up for with a stretch of isolated beach with fine, dark sand.

We got to experience this first-hand when we returned from a tour of the capitol that afternoon. My companion and I didn’t even return to our room to change or slap on some sunblock. We simply walked the short distance from the parking area to the beach, doffed our dusty clothes, and entered the water.

As I floated on my back and gazed at the late afternoon sky, I was startled to hear... absolutely nothing. My reverie was broken with the arrival of a swarm of coin-shaped fish that began jumping all over me, giving me what I imagined to be tiny, feral bites.

There may have been some yelping that afternoon but nobody can confirm this since we were the only ones on the beach.

If resort owner Flor Versoza would have her way, however, this solitude might soon be a thing of the past.

“I hope more resorts open alongside ours. At the moment, we’re the only ones here but once they start to open, maybe it will be like Boracay where the resorts are located side by side,” she said.

I suppressed the urge to blurt out, “Be careful what you wish for.”

Day trip to Alaminos

After breakfast the next day, we headed to the Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos (www. alaminos.gov.ph) where one can hire a boat for anywhere from P800 to P1,100 to visit some of the more popular islands.

Governor’s Island has a lookout point one can access after climbing over a hundred steps but it is now known as the venue of the Pinoy Big Brother house. Apparently, the guest house served as the temporary residence of the show’s teenaged house-mates.

There is a beach nearby although tourists should probably wait until they get to Quezon Island before jumping into the water. One of our companions made the mistake of clinging to a long-submerged rope and ended up cutting his hand on a talaba (oyster shell). Apparently, these jagged shells can cause nasty cuts.

At Quezon Island, there are picnic tables, kayaks and now, even a banana boat operator. Our picnic lunch prepared by the staff of El Puerto Marina consisted of chicken adobo (stew), salted egg, tomato and a mound of rice wrapped in a banana leaf.

In the span of three hours, we managed to check out two caves and swim in the white sand beach off Marcos Island.

Although we may have foregone using sunblock yesterday afternoon (it was after 5 p.m. after all), we dutifully slathered it on every 30 minutes or so.

If you do intend to go island-hopping in Pangasinan, do not forget to bring and use high SPF sunblock, a wide-brimmed hat, and lots of drinking water.

So you want to know how many islands there are in total and you don’t want to make a distinction between “high tide or low tide” like BB. Pilipinas Universe bet Charlene Gonzales did in 1994?
According to our boatman, the Hundred Islands actually number 123.

City Administrator Alvin Fernandez, itdan na award na Dagupan City Association of Northern California (http://www.dagupan.gov.ph/index.php?id=723)

by Lanie Tomas Mar 26

Kaiba si City Administrator Alvin Fernandez ed saray apili na Dagupan City Association of Northern California (DCANC) Awards and Recognition Committee parad Dayew na Dagupan Award 2010.

Say abitlan award so ipapangaro ed saray Dagupenos ya walay nidumaroman kontribusyon ta pian napansansian mabilay so kultura na Dagupan, nai-promote tan naitdan na imano so pankaabigan na siudad tan kapara ton Dagupeno.

Akakarga ed sulat ya impawit nen Ms. Pacita Fermill Aningalan, chairperson na Awards Committee, inkuan ton apankasakeyan na amin ya miembro na komitiba so pampili ed kinen Fernandez ya makaawat na abitlan award bunga na agawaan to ed impangitanduro na Dagupan.

Inimbitaan da met si City Administrator Alvin Fernandez pian personal ton awaten so abitlan kagalangan tan magmaliw ya manunaan ya bisita ed tinaon ya selebrasyon na abitlan ulopan.

Nagawa so awarding ceremony sa no Abril 10, 2010, ed selebrasyon na DCANC 26th Anniversary Dinner Ball ed Crown Plaza Hotel ed San Francisco International Airport, Burlingame, California.

Kaleganan tonya, say DCANC so tinibokel taon 1984 parad saray tubo ed Dagupan ya manaayam la natan ed Northern California tan saksakey so gagala da, saya et soportaan iray ikukorang na asosasyon tan naparakep so panamilay na Dagupan City Community ed nanduroman suyok na mundo.

Building from the ashes of Gabaldon (http://www.pozorrubio.net.ph/pozor_online/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192:building-from-the-ashes-of-gabaldon-&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=62)

Presently ongoing is the construction of the new schoolbuilding to replace the Gabaldon of Pozorrubio Central School razed by the fire during the January 13, 2010 Town Fiesta. It is to be remembered that the building started to burn then spread quickly and fiercely while most of the townspeople were watching the streetdancing competition sponsored by the balikbayan community. It was a stroke of a miracle that the school held an unofficial holiday (only on that day!) for the PCS pupils to participate in the event, thus no casualty was reported. The situation would have been drastically different if the children were in those rooms holding classes; it would have been disastrous.

Immediately during the Barangay Night held on that night of the fire, 5th District Congressman Mark O. Cojuangco personally pledged the immediate resurrection of the 15-room Gabaldon building the soonest possible time, including the library and administrative offices. This time, it will be a 3-storey edifice estimated to cost more than P20 million. To date, the Congressman’s pledge of P12-13M is now reinforced with P10M from DepEd, P5 million from Governor Amado T. Espino Jr., P2M from Engineer Rosendo So’s ABONO partylist, and another P2M from the municipal savings of Pozorrubio the release of which had since been approved by the Sangguniang Bayan.

San Diego Majestic Lions Club conducts medical mission in Pozorrubio (http://www.pozorrubio.net.ph/pozor_online/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=195:san-diego-majestic-lions-club-conducts-medical-mission-in-pozorrubio&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=62)

From San Diego, California, these majestic lions dropped down on Pozorrubio on March 24, landing on soft paws and even softer hearts. Immediately, they were in fighting mode. Fighting ails and pains and germs!

The medical-optical-dental mission now being conducted at Dilan and Alipangpang elementary schools, March 25-26, is part of the project dubbed “Project Kalusugan” of the San Diego Majestic Lions Club under its President Pete Lustria, Medical Mission Director Dr. Ceferina Ruiz, Community Outreach Director Nario Idos in collaboration with Mayor Emma Chan and the Pozorrubio Local Government Unit, Dr. Ella Domondon and the Pozorrubio Community Hospital, Dr. Lusiana Bautista and Dr. Christine Gutierrez-Pastoral and the Rural Health Unit, Dr. Gavino Bautista of DepEd District 1 and Dagupan Lions Club. The mission is supported by a generous grant from Lions Clubs International Foundation.

Mayor's priority projects right on schedule (http://www.pozorrubio.net.ph/pozor_online/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=193:mayors-priority-projects-right-on-schedule&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=62)

Construction on the five (5) priority infrastructure projects of Mayor Emma Zosima Chan of Pozorrubio are keeping right on schedule, in time for the turnover to the new administration on June 2010. Although not all of these projects are expected to be fully completed by then, there will be five less worries to contend with for whoever takes over after.

Demolition of the burnt Gabaldon building of the Pozorrubio Central School had been going on for the last few days to prepare the ground for the construction of a 3-storey schoolbuilding expected to be finished in time for the June opening of classes. To date, the P12-13M pledged by 5th District of Pangasinan Representative Mark O. Cojuangco has added on to it P10M from Dep Ed, P5M from Governor Amado T. Espino Jr., P2M from Engineer So’s ABONO partylist and P2M municipal counterpart.

The Malasin-Bantugan Bridge, which is funded fully by municipal savings has progressed on to its Phase 11 which involves the re-channeling of the Angalacan River bed and embankments and the construction of slope protection; the People’s Civic Center Building is on its last phase; additional layer tombs, bone crypts and concrete fence are being constructed at the Public Cemetery expansion, and; the concreting of farm-to-market roads and slope-protection projects are ongoing.

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Tilapia fingerlings dispersal continues
(http://balitapangasinan.blogspot.com/2010/03/tilapia-fingerlings-dispersal-continues.html)
The Espino administration, thru its Food Security Program, has been relentless in increasing fish production thru aquaculture in ponds and fish cages and fish stock enhancement through the dispersal of tilapia fingerlings in communal bodies of water across the province.

Last March 3 and 4, the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAG) dispersed 40,000 tilapia fingerlings in various communal bodies of water in Mangatarem and another 30,000 in Alcala.

“Maganda itong proyekto ng provincial government dahil wala na talaga kaming nahuhuling isda. Tama ang ginawa nila na magpakawala ng isda para pagdating ng araw ay meron kaming mahuhuli,” Celso Duran, a fisherfolk from Barangay Torre Primero of Mangatarem, said.

On instruction of Gov. Espino, the Provincial Government has developed a tilapia hatchery with a total area of about 7,600 sq. meter in Barangay San Gonzalo, San Quintin and upgraded the 1,840 sq. meter existing tilapia hatchery in Barangay Libsong, Lingayen.

The development of the San Quintin Provincial Freshwater Fish Hatchery was completed on the second quarter of 2008 but its operation started later that year.

All the tilapia fingerlings that were dispersed were sourced out from these facilities.

According to Zenaida Ugaban, Supervising Aqua-culturist of OPAG, these hatcheries provided access to fisherfarmers of Pangasinan in procuring good quality tilapia fingerlings, unlike before when they have to get fingerlings from Tarlac or Nueva Ecija.

At present, the broodstock being used are Improved GET-EXCEL (Genetically Enhanced Tilapia-Excellent) and BEST (Brackish Water Enhanced Saline Tilapia).

These are the latest strain of tilapia breeders that have been developed and improved by fishery research institutions and found to produce offspring with better growth performance.

From July to December 2009, the two hatcheries produced 1,405,000 fingerlings, of which 1,402,189 were dispersed.

In particular, about 533,000 fingerlings were dispersed in 110 sites of communal waters and around 516,769 were provided to 276 fisherfarmers for aquaculture projects in freshwater fishponds and fish cages.

The fingerling dispersal project enhances fish population in communal bodies of water increasing fish catch of sustenance fisherfolks, thus, increasing their income and addressing malnutrition problem in their locality. (PIO/Rafael Manuel)

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Tilapia fingerlings dispersal continues
(http://balitapangasinan.blogspot.com/2010/03/tilapia-fingerlings-dispersal-continues.html)
The Espino administration, thru its Food Security Program, has been relentless in increasing fish production thru aquaculture in ponds and fish cages and fish stock enhancement through the dispersal of tilapia fingerlings in communal bodies of water across the province.

Last March 3 and 4, the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAG) dispersed 40,000 tilapia fingerlings in various communal bodies of water in Mangatarem and another 30,000 in Alcala.

“Maganda itong proyekto ng provincial government dahil wala na talaga kaming nahuhuling isda. Tama ang ginawa nila na magpakawala ng isda para pagdating ng araw ay meron kaming mahuhuli,” Celso Duran, a fisherfolk from Barangay Torre Primero of Mangatarem, said.

On instruction of Gov. Espino, the Provincial Government has developed a tilapia hatchery with a total area of about 7,600 sq. meter in Barangay San Gonzalo, San Quintin and upgraded the 1,840 sq. meter existing tilapia hatchery in Barangay Libsong, Lingayen.

The development of the San Quintin Provincial Freshwater Fish Hatchery was completed on the second quarter of 2008 but its operation started later that year.

All the tilapia fingerlings that were dispersed were sourced out from these facilities.

According to Zenaida Ugaban, Supervising Aqua-culturist of OPAG, these hatcheries provided access to fisherfarmers of Pangasinan in procuring good quality tilapia fingerlings, unlike before when they have to get fingerlings from Tarlac or Nueva Ecija.

At present, the broodstock being used are Improved GET-EXCEL (Genetically Enhanced Tilapia-Excellent) and BEST (Brackish Water Enhanced Saline Tilapia).

These are the latest strain of tilapia breeders that have been developed and improved by fishery research institutions and found to produce offspring with better growth performance.

From July to December 2009, the two hatcheries produced 1,405,000 fingerlings, of which 1,402,189 were dispersed.

In particular, about 533,000 fingerlings were dispersed in 110 sites of communal waters and around 516,769 were provided to 276 fisherfarmers for aquaculture projects in freshwater fishponds and fish cages.

The fingerling dispersal project enhances fish population in communal bodies of water increasing fish catch of sustenance fisherfolks, thus, increasing their income and addressing malnutrition problem in their locality. (PIO/Rafael Manuel)

Dagupan water now going critical due to El Nino (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=8&rid=266770)

By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, Mar. 27 (PNA)--The City Agriculture Office confirms that the water in various rivers here is heading towards its critical level due to the prevailing hot weather condition.

City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina said although the water has reached its critical stage, the good thing was that no fish kill was noted whatsoever yet.

She said the hot weather caused by El Nino resulted in increased temperature and salinity of the water, which is bad for the fish.

Fish farmers, who are culturing milkfish, siganid, prawn, shrimp and other aquatic products in ponds and pens, fear that their fishes in captivity would not grow fast.

She confirmed that when the temperature of the water is above normal and the salinity is high, the fish do not eat much, thus stunting their growth.

A report said that because of the continuing dry spell, the water along the Dagupan-Binmaley-Lingayen River remains critical but it was not enough to trigger a fish kill.

Molina said that based on the study of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), the months from March to June is the period when the river water here is at its most critical stage.

This is likely to be repeated, she said, from September to November.

From March to June, the water at the boundary of Lucao, Dagupan City and Binmaley is at its most critical stage. Affected from September to November is the area along Salapingao and Pugaro, near Dupo, Binmaley.

She said pond and pen operators should be alert all the time so they could harvest their fish once the situation got worse.

She cautioned the operators from overstocking their ponds and pens because this may cause the depletion of oxygen in the water and trigger a fish kill.

Molina said tt while there was no fishkill yet, pond and pen operators need not relax their guard and be complacent.

She said her office was monitoring the quality of water in the city daily so that it could alert those into aqua-culture on the proper time to harvest their fish.

Molina was also confident that there were enough milkfish to be grilled during the Dagupan Bangus Festival from April 16 to May 1.

She said that based on the fish supply reaching the Dagupan Fish Market daily, the 24,000 pieces that will be needed during the festival could be met.

Molina said despite the massive losses incurred by pond and pen owners during the flood spawned by typhoon “Pepeng" last year, some were now harvesting milkfish if they were able to restock right after the flood. (PNA)

11 Pangasinenses to receives awards on Pangasinan's maiden foundation day (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=12&rid=266762)

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, March 27 (PNA) -- Eleven Pangasinenses will be conferred special awards and recognition during the first-ever celebration of the 430th founding day of the province on April 5.

This was announced by Atty. Gonzalo Duque, president of the Lyceum-Northwestern University, who was designated by Governor Amado Espino Jr. to chair the maiden celebration of Pangasinan's founding day.

Duque, who was also chair of a special committee that studied and researched on the actual date when Pangasinan was founded, said the award will pay tribute to Pangasinenses whose selfless dedication to their profession or vocation had resulted in outstanding contributions to the welfare of the public.

Dubbed as ASNA awards, these will hopefully serve to inspire other Pangasinenses, especially the youth, to further emulate the achievements and leadership skills of the awardees and strive hard to succeed in their chosen fields.

Governor Espino commended the endeavor, saying it is only fitting that the province will accord the highest expression of recognition to Pangasinenses who unselfishly rendered exemplary service not only to the province but to the country as well.

It was Espino who tapped the study committee chaired by Duque to conduct almost a year of painstaking research in a bid to determine the exact foundation date of the province.

Provincial Ordinance No. 143-2010 enacted by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on Feb. 15, 2010 and which was signed into law by Espino on the same date cited the founding day of Pangasinan as April 5, 1580 or 430 years ago.

Arabela V. Arcinue, chairman of ASNA Awards and president of the Pangasinan Heritage Society Inc., said that the first ASNA awardees will come from 11 different fields -- government service, community service, arts and culture, medicine, agriculture and aquaculture, mass communications, business and entrepreneurship, law, education, science and technology, and sports.

Arcinue said that any individual either from the public or private organization may nominate one or more candidates.

The nominations should be made on the prescribed entry form and notarized accordingly, accompanied by a passport-sized picture of the nominee, a resume' and compilation of supporting documents.

A nominee, she added, must sign the nomination form attesting to all stated facts and giving consent to the committee to verify the veracity of the documents. (PNA)

Makati Med Experts came to town for Three-day medical and surgical mission (http://balitapangasinan.blogspot.com/2010/03/makati-med-experts-came-to-town-for.html)

World War II veteran Eugenio Barboza, 68 years old from Malasiqui, was so happy to receive quality medical attention and free medicines from specialists last March 4 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center Gymnasium.

“Napakagandang proyekto ito ni Governor Amado Espino. Malaking tulong ito para sa aming mahihirap at may edad na,” he said as he left the gymnasium clutching the free medicines he got after his consultation.

Barboza is but one of the thousands who availed of the three-day free medical and surgical missions scattered into three venues in the province, spearheaded by the Rotary Club of Pasay Manila International Airport (MIA) and the Makati Medical Center Group in cooperation with the Provincial Government.

Danny Paragas, past president of RC MIA and over-all chairman of the mission, said they have chosen Pangasinan to be this year’s recipient of the undertaking because it is one of the most devastated places after the onslaught of typhoons Pepeng and Ondoy.

Paragas was glad to note the positive response they got from the local government leaders, especially Gov. Espino, and the community as also one of the reasons that enticed them to bring the project in the province.

The medical mission was held at the NRSCC while the cataract surgery and pterygium excision were conducted at the Lingayen District Hospital.

Meanwhile, operations of cases requiring major and minor surgeries were made at the Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City.

A similar medical mission by German Interplast was also held at the PPH from February 21 to March 5 which had a team of German doctors, anesthesiologist and nurses operate on patients with cleft palate and hair lip.

Dr. Philip Cruz of UP-PGH and the team leader of the medical mission at the NRSCC in Lingayen said they expect to render consultations to children and adults at 1,500 or more cases a day.

As usual, he said, majority or about 60% of total cases are pedia-related, while the rest are for adults.

For children, they usually treat allergies and infections while hypertension, high blood, arthritis and diabetes were the common sickness among adults.

They gave away vitamins, antibiotics, anti-allergy and anti-hypertensive medicines, among others, after the consultation.

“We give everything for free to indigent patients who cannot afford any amount for surgery,” Dr. Victor Gisbert of Makati Med Group and head of the surgical mission in San Carlos City said.

Major and minor surgeries for cases of goiter, parotid mass, thyroglossal duct cyst, hernia inguinal, hydrocoele, cholecystolitiasis, hemorrhoids, breast mass, cleft lip, myoma, ovarian mass/cyst and circumcision were done at the PPH.

The team expects to do 100 major surgeries and 300 minor for three days.

A large influx of patients with cataract and pterygium went to Lingayen District Hospital hoping to avail of the free medical services. Over 200 patients were already screened for possible operation.

Dr. Zagala Meriales, Eye Surgeon from MMC, said they aim for about 50 cataract surgeries but pterygium excision has no limit for as long as the team is here and they have medical supplies. She also said that they will provide post-operative care medicines for the patients.

Meanwhile, Raul Urgello of Phillipine War Veterans Foundation bared that their group will give away two wheelchairs. (PIO/Rafael Manuel)

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Napocor drops plans to revive BNPP; wants to build two other nuke plants (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=3&rid=266865)

By Marie S. Neri

MANILA, March 28 (PNA) -- State-run National Power Corp., (Napocor) plans to construct two nuclear plants with 1,000 megawatts (MW) capacity each in the country instead of reviving the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in Bagac, Morong, Bataan.

But Pio Benavidez, Napocor senior vice president said nuclear option must be declared first in order for them to proceed with the plan building of nuclear power facility in the country.

"First thing that we should do is declare that nuclear is an option so that officially we can study the policy of the government. Once its declared, we will finalize the feasibility if its viable or not viable to put up nuclear plant. Remember, Bataan doesn't want to revive BNPP, so if you have nuclear policy, we should start looking for an area that will accept the construction of nuclear plant," Benavidez said.

He said that so far, Napocor was eyeing Pangasinan as the site of two nuclear plants.

The Napocor official said the government would need US$ 4 billion to put up the nuclear plants.

He noted that BNPP has only 600 MW capacity if it would be revived, lower than the 2,000 MW that Napocor intended to build.

"That's around US$ 4 billion because the revival of the Bataan nuclear power plant alone will cost US$ 800 million to US$ 1 billion and that's only 600 MW while this one is two- 1, 000 MW[each]," Benavidez said.

According to Benavidez, Pangasinan Rep. Mark Cojuangco as well as representatives of the Science and Technology Department, Philippine Nuclear Research Institute and the Department of Energy (DOE) are set to meet today and discuss issues concerning BNPP and policy directions on nuclear power.

Earlier, Cojuangco said a company in South Korea is disposing parts of nuclear plant that could be easily assembled.

"The government can buy this. But if you will ask me what I will do, I will talk to the Korean government to sell to us their nuclear reactors at a cheap price and if we buy the reactors, we can tell to those interested that we have a reactor, they just assemble it and we just pay for it. The objective there is for the government to purchase the reactor cheaper," Benavidez said.

At least 10 areas were identified by Napocor as potential site for nuclear power development across the country and this are in Padre Burgos, Quezon, Mapalan Point in Morong, Bataan; San Juan, Batangas, Port Irene/Matara Point and Rakat Hill in Cagayan.

For Visayas the areas being considered are Tagbarungis, Inagauwan in Southwest of Puerto Prinsesa and Concecion, Tanabag in Northeast Puerto Princesa; Cansilan Point, Bayawan in Negros Oriental; Baluangan, Cawayan, Negros Oriental.

The nuclear option have been considered again after the country suffers rotating brownouts due to the prolong El Nino dry spell. (PNA)

2 provinces volunteer to host nuke plants (http://www.malaya.com.ph/03292010/busi10.html)

BY JOHN POQUIZ

Two local government units have volunteered to host the development of a nuclear power facility in exchange for cheaper power in their area, National Power Corp. (Napocor) senior vice president Pio Benavides said.

Benavides told reporters the local governments of Pangasinan and Cebu agreed to have a nuclear power facility developed in their province. The condition, he said, is to have the plant sell power to their cities and municipalities at a cost of P3 per kilowatt lower than its market price.

The second condition, Benavides said, is to ensure that the host province will be "brownout-free."

Benavides said that Napocor officials will meet up today to discuss the country’s policy direction regarding nuclear energy.

"What we’re going to do is declare first that nuclear (power) is an option," he said.

He said that the local government of Bataan is opposing the rehabilitation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, so the government is forced to seek other areas where it is acceptable to develop nuclear power.

Benavides said that the local government of Pangasinan is looking at developing a 1,200 megawatt nuclear plant in their province.

It was earlier reported that two foreign groups have separately expressed interest to put up new 600 MW nuclear power plant, an official said.

Napocor president Froilan Tampinco earlier said that a French group, which he declined to name, and the Korea Electric Power Corp. (Kepco), have submitted separate proposals to Napocor for the development of new nuclear plants.

Kepco recently conducted a feasibility study to determine whether the mothballed 620-MW Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) could still be commissioned and operated.

Tampinco said that the main concern of the French group was the regulatory policies governing the use of nuclear energy.

He said that the government had earlier identified several areas as possible sites for a nuclear power plant, including an area beside the BNPP.

Tampinco said earlier said that the feasibility study conducted by Kepco has found that it would cost around $1 billion to rehabilitate the mothballed BNPP.

Ravina rules first leg of cycling classic (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=562042&publicationSubCategoryId=69)

The Philippine Star

MANILA, Philippines - Pangasinan’s Baler Ravina used his experience yesterday to rule the 161-km Tagaytay-to-Marikina opening stage of the Koten PCSO Summer Cycling Classic.

The 28-year-old rider from Asingan, Pangasinan joined an early breakaway group as early as the first 25 kms and stayed in front most of the time.

Ravina had former Marlboro Tour champion Warren Davadilla, Irish Valenzuela, Renato Sembrano, John Mark Guevarra and Bernard Luzon as company in the early part of the race.

And except for some attempts by some of the favored riders – Tomas Martinez, Joel Calderon and Cris Joven – to catch them, the breakaway group was never in trouble.

When they reached Mabitac, Laguna, Ravina, Davadilla and Valenzuela gained more ground by cutting themselves loose from the 24-man breakaway group.


Approaching the dreaded climb in Teresa, Rizal, Ravina, the perennial Padyak Pinoy Eagle of the Mountain awardee, widened the gap between him and his nearest pursuer.

Ravina showed the way until the final two kilometers where Davadilla and young guns Daniel Asto and Dominador Muena tried to close in.

But Ravina proved to be too much for the three aspirants, and he seized the momentum with an amazing push towards the finish line.

The 2007 Padyak Pinoy runner-up finished the race with a time of 4:12.13 – the same time registered by Asto, Davadilla and Muena.

“I was really trying to pace myself. In the final seven kilometers, I was thinking of finishing strong, but I decided to wait for Warren (Davadilla) to make things less of a struggle.

“Then I acted as if I was tired and caught them by surprise with a blitz to the finish,” said Ravina in Filipino.

Valenzuela, Martinez and 2003 Tour champion Arnel Quirimit, Alfred Asuncion and Lord Anthony del Rosario made it to the top 10.

Today’s final lap will be a 151-km race from Marikina to Cabanatuan City.

The two-day event is supported by PhilCycling under Tagaytay City Mayor Bambol Tolentino, Philippine Sports Commission, Triathlon Association of the Philippines, 7-11 Road Bike Philippines, Powerade, Coca-Cola, Viva Mineral Water, Grace of Shekinah School-Bulacan, Franzia Wine, Reli Tours and Travel, and Nueva Ecija Vice Gov. Edward Joson.

In Pangasinan, there’s now a town of milk and money

By Yolanda Sotelo
Inquirer Northern Luzon
First Posted 16:24:00 02/06/2010

LAOAC, Pangasinan – Three tall structures at a Maraboc village farm here always catch the attention of motorists.

These are newly constructed silos where cattle feed, mostly corn, are stored.

Around the towering structures are corrals where 360 cows imported from New Zealand have been temporarily herded.

The compound seems out-of-place on this flat palay plain, but a Pangasinan congressman said it proclaimed that this sleepy town would soon become the dairy capital of Northern Luzon.

Soon, selected farmers will be getting New Zealand cows, which they will feed and milk until they can produce enough supply to sell to neighboring towns, said Representative Mark Cojuangco.

The proposed dairy trade is a congressional project that will not disrupt the town’s thriving rice and corn production, he said.

Milk may become a secondary trade for farmers still struggling to earn a living.

The project should be able to produce enough milk in two to three months to develop a thriving retail market for farmers, Cojuangco said.

It took the district five years to raise capital.

Cojuangco said: “Every year, I saved some money [from my countryside development fund] and I asked [allocations] also from the senators, which I deposited [in] the National Dairy Authority. We bought land in Laoac where we established the silos.”

The National Dairy Authority is the agency tasked to execute the Laoac dairy program.

Last year, the government tried to jumpstart the program by distributing cattle to farmers as part of an alternative livelihood campaign. But the animals were immediately recalled when 10 cows died.

This time, the government will target rice or corn farmers who are unable to make their fields productive. They will form the first batch of dairy farmers in Laoac, the congressman said.

These farmers would have to suspend corn production and prioritize their cattle in order to make the project work, he said.

The municipal agriculture office of Laoac is currently surveying the town’s farming community to determine who will benefit from the program.

Cojuangco said that under the project, each farmer would be assigned five milking cows, from which he could earn up to P30,000 in monthly profit.

“We want those taking part in the program to focus on dairy production only, nothing else. We observed that when the recipient has other sources of income, the project may fail because he or she is not [devoted to] the project … which is why we are looking for beneficiaries who will commit to dairy production only,” he said.

Under the program, there will be a centralized source of feed which will be stored in the silos. The feed will be composed mainly of corn plant tops collected for free during “tadaw” – the season when farmers harvest corn.

Because the silos are sealed, the chopped corn plants are deprived of oxygen, enabling the stock to last for as long as two years

Cows will never be deprived of food even during the dry months.

“Cows eat a lot – from 40 to 60 kilos a day. So we really need to ensure availability of feeds or they will not produce milk,” Cojuangco said.

The chopped corn stalks are mixed with minerals, protein and vitamins to produce feeds called TMR, or totally mixed ration.

The TMR, which costs P1 a kilo, will be rationed to farmers twice a day.

“We will also collect milk twice a day,” Cojuangco said.

The farmers earn by selling milk to a central sterilization and processing plant at P20 a liter.

Since a cow can produce an average of eight liters of milk a day, farmers may expect up to P800 a day.

The sterilization equipment had already been shipped to Maraboc village, said Philip Villanueva, the dairy project manager.

“We are just waiting for the technical people to commission it,” he said.

For the moment, farmers who avail themselves of the cows may pasteurize the milk manually, purely for household consumption.

If 300 cows produce 10 liters of milk a day, 3,000 liters of fresh milk may be available for the market, Cojuangco said.

The plan is to put up more silos to serve a minimum of 1,000 heads of cow to be dispersed in Pangasinan’s fifth district.

“We hope to get some of the fund for the district. Milk is really nutritious and is much better than rice and noodles,” he said.

Rosales might well be the next city of Pangasinan because of Baranggay Carmen, which is more famous than the town proper of Rosales and the town itself. It has always been the gateway/crossroads to Pangasinan from people in Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and people wanting to go up North to Baguio and the ilocos regions. I have been waiting for the town of Rosales to finally take advantage of having a Baranggay like carmen which is situated in an excellent location. When Urdaneta (due to whatever reasons) failed in its negotiations with SM, Rosales grabbed the opportunity. Nocom, the owner of Heritage Hotel in Pasay sold his lot in Carmen to the the SM group of companies. This will be the next Boom town, especially with the arrival of the TPLEX which will make it faster to travel to Rosales from Manila. It will also be up to the big land owners of carmen on how they will develop their respective lands. These are the Estrellas, Sims and other chinese families, the owners of Little shoe playschool (I forgot the surname), Villars of Sto. Tomas town (has been said to have owned most of the surrounding lots in Carmen).

Rosales is the only town from the 6th district to have access to the mac arthur highway, which is covered mostly by the towns of the fifth district who are now in booming mode with Urdaneta, Villasis, and Pozzurubio. With the incoming TPEX---all the towns near it will have a housing boom as what is happening now to almost all of the towns near the STAR highway in Batangas.

Goodluck to Rosales and the other Pangasinan Towns that are spearheading the development of Panagsinan as the Premier Province of the NORTH

^^ and also the on-going construction of goldilocks comissary in brgy tomana west and another branch of sm owned national university... and the development of tourist spots in rosales...

^ I think Rosales is over-hyped

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hellooooo, anybody home?

just posting a couple of pic to keep the ball rolling..

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Ramos to ground break eco-tourism zone

By Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre

LINGAYEN -- Former president Fidel Ramos and Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino Jr. will lead the groundbreaking of the 300-hectare Pangasinan Eco-tourism Zone on Monday.

The ceremony will be held at Barangay Estanza, this town. The eco-tourism zone is situated at Barangays Extanza, Sabangan, Malimpuec, and Capandanan.

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Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan earlier said Ramos was invited to be the special guest not only because he is the only Pangasinense who have reached the top most political post in the country, but also because he was instrumental in the creation of the eco-tourism zone.

On June 22, 1998, Ramos signed Proclamation 1258, giving the Provincial Government the power to develop eco-tourism zone.

Espino also wanted to see in the logo of the province the date when it became a political unit.

The new logo of the province of Pangasinan will be unveiled Monday when the province celebrates for the first time its 430th foundation anniversary.

As explained in the provincial ordinance passed last February, “the Research and Study Committee found out that it was on April 5, 1572 when Pangasinan was made an encomienda by the Spanish royal crown to receive instructions on the Catholic faith, which means that Pangasinan was organized under one local leadership and has identity before the Spanish Royal coup."

"Eight years later, in 1580, Pangasinan was organized into a political unit under an alcalde mayor who at the time has authority as head of province or Provincial Government with judicial function indicating that Pangasinan has become a province. However, there are no records found by the Committee to establish the exact date in 1580,” it added.

The Research and Study Committee headed by former vice governor and Lyceum Northwestern University President Gonzalo Duque unanimously recommended the declaration of April 5, 1580 as the official founding day of the province to commemorate two historical events in its existence.

The date April 5 commemorates the day when Pangasinan became an encomienda and 1580 to commemorate the year it became a province.

Aside from the governor, some 3,000 casual and regular employees of the Provincial Government were happy about the declaration.

For the first time, they will receive an anniversary bonus that is mandated by law.

Meanwhile, the 11 recipients of the Asna Awards, the highest recognition the Provincial Government will give to a Pangasinense, will be known Monday.

The 11 recipients will come from different fields/sectors.

hay naku miss ko na ang pangasinan...
miss ko na din ang lingayen capitol
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governors office

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old renovated staircase

Does anyone here know what cities/towns comprises Metro Dagupan? Someone asked me that and I had no clue how to answer it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. :okay:

^^^metro dagupan a.k.a metro CAMADA (CAlasiao, MAngaldan,DAgupan)

METRO DAGUPAN:
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PLEASE WATCH IT...
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Dagupan
Calasiao
Mangaldan
San Fabian
San Jacinto
Binmaley
Lingayen
Sta. Barbara
Manaoag
Mapandan

hay naku miss ko na ang pangasinan...
miss ko na din ang lingayen capitol
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Love the color of the Capitol here.:okay:

Advocacy campaign "My City, My SM" launched in Pangasinan
ROSALES, Pangasinan, April 11 (PNA) -- An advocacy campaign, "My City, My SM", was launched on Saturday by SM City Rosales as part of its campaign to promote Rosales and SM as well.

Gerlou del Rosario-Melecio of SM City Rosales said the launching, held at SM's Event Center, featured three famous Rosales icons who made a name not only nationally but international.

These included National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil Jose, Samantha Glo Revita, a chess prodigy, and Sarah Jane Cua, Sudoku grandmaster, who is a student of the Pangasinan Universal Institute in Dagupan.

The launching was spiced up by the performances of native songs and dances showcasing the rich culture and tradition, including tourist spots of the province.

There was also a canape presentation of different mouth-watering Pangasinan delicacies.

The program was jointly sponsored by the Provincial Government of Pangasinan, Provincial Tourism Office and the Local Government of Rosales, Pangasinan.

SM City Rosales is so far the only shopping mall of Shoe Mart Inc. in Pangasinan and Region 1.(PNA) http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=269102

hellow..masantos ya labi!! balo ak labat dya kalugayan, kabaleyan, kaaro :)

makakailiw ak lan maong ed inararok ya baley ko :(
salamat ed saray pics tan saray inpopost yo dya :D
makapaliliket, dakdakel manayay projects parad probiinsya tayo..ALAMINOS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TAN AMAY SUAL INTERNATIONAL SEAPORT. aya la may ibabaga dan PANGASINAN'S GOLDEN AGE!! marakep!! BEST PROVINCE IN NORTHERN PHILIPPINES!! aya so luyag ko!!!

unaasenson maong so metro dagupan,unaawang/unbabaleg so urbanidad ed sayan lugar, panu nu nasabi 2020, abeten lay metro dagupan so san carlos, malasiqui, bayambang tan urdaneta :D...wala kunoy planon manpaalagey na ROBINSON'S PLACE ed Calasiao tan lukasan da la may SEAFOOD PROCESSING PLANT ed dagupan nu bangus fest.

walay itepet ko? amay NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, agawa la o gaween da labat? tan amay LINGAYEN ECO-TOURISM ZONE, kapigan man nasumpal? anto la kasi magmaliwan na PANGASINAN ED UNTUMBOK YA 20 TAON? siguro singa met la metro manila so central pangasinan :)

ipawil tayoy ESPINO ed Kapitolyo!!
syopay iboto yo para pangulo?akin?:)

ipawil tayoy ESPINO ed Kapitolyo!!
syopay iboto yo para pangulo?akin?:)

agiiii politics so topic, ondukey salo iyan thread...hehe


espino vs agbayani?...hmmm, parang mas effective si espino....

sa president, seems like dalawa lang maglalaban, villar and nonoy...

I'd pick Villar...si noynoy kasi sinmikat labat lapud parents to...it doesnt mean he'll be a great leader just becoz presidente nanay nya...anggapoy agawaan to bilang senator, agmet lawari onbatik no agda dinagdag...come to think of it, namatay lang si cory and people started to think noynoy can continue her legacy..hellooo? atapew ya rason...plus, makapasawa la lanti lupa nen kris ed tv, aga mas lalo ni no mibabalid politics nen kuya to...hayzz

on the other hand, villar really worked hard to create a name in order to reach the presidency, hindi instant like noynoy...plus, i usually root for the underdogs....they tend to be the better options than the popular ones, kasi sometimes people tend to jump into the bandwagon just becoz it is the "in" thing not seeing the downsides of their choices...

...with that being said...gibo for president!!! hehe :lol:

next election na lang si gibo, although i believe he is the most qualified, medyo napaaga nga lang pagtakbo niya...cguro tumakbo sya this election in preparation for the next presidential election...maybe..

in the end, Villar pa rin...too bad walang presidential candidate from Pangasinan... :speech:

agiii politics ya tuwa so tungtungan ed dia-ay


For me.....mas dakkel so project nen Espino nen say agbayani

Gooo for Espino :banana:

ipawil tayoy ESPINO ed Kapitolyo!!
syopay iboto yo para pangulo?akin?:)

agiiii politics so topic, ondukey salo iyan thread...hehe


espino vs agbayani?...hmmm, parang mas effective si espino....

sa president, seems like dalawa lang maglalaban, villar and nonoy...

I'd pick Villar...si noynoy kasi sinmikat labat lapud parents to...it doesnt mean he'll be a great leader just becoz presidente nanay nya...anggapoy agawaan to bilang senator, agmet lawari onbatik no agda dinagdag...come to think of it, namatay lang si cory and people started to think noynoy can continue her legacy..hellooo? atapew ya rason...plus, makapasawa la lanti lupa nen kris ed tv, aga mas lalo ni no mibabalid politics nen kuya to...hayzz

on the other hand, villar really worked hard to create a name in order to reach the presidency, hindi instant like noynoy...plus, i usually root for the underdogs....they tend to be the better options than the popular ones, kasi sometimes people tend to jump into the bandwagon just becoz it is the "in" thing not seeing the downsides of their choices...

...with that being said...gibo for president!!! hehe :lol:

next election na lang si gibo, although i believe he is the most qualified, medyo napaaga nga lang pagtakbo niya...cguro tumakbo sya this election in preparation for the next presidential election...maybe..

in the end, Villar pa rin...too bad walang presidential candidate from Pangasinan... :speech:

^^:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
duga tay kwanmo! nen imbebeneg ya bulan, makaNOYNOY ak ya talaga..pero nen nanresearch ak tan nanbabasa ak saray articles na saray presedentiables, aliwan deserving si noynoy, mas mamaong ni GIBO o si GORDON....PERO NATAN, LIMMIWAWAY PAKANENGNENG KO,(alarem :D) VILLAR AK LA!!!walad sikatoy aanapen kon katangian(anto la may pangasinan to ya? :D) ya PRESIDENTE!! :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

... nen imbebeneg ya bulan, makaNOYNOY ak ya talaga..pero nen nanresearch ak tan nanbabasa ak saray articles na saray presedentiables, aliwan deserving si noynoy, mas mamaong ni GIBO o si GORDON....PERO NATAN, LIMMIWAWAY PAKANENGNENG KO,(alarem :D) VILLAR AK LA!!!walad sikatoy aanapen kon katangian(anto la may pangasinan to ya? :D) ya PRESIDENTE!!

natepet ko pa labat... amay C5 controversy ed si villar ey tuwa man kasi?

diad local na pangasinan syempre... sangkanengneng lay Espino ta dakel so agawa to...

hellooooo, anybody home? Hi capricorn2000 im back! Busy ako sa pangangampanya. Naglilibot kami sa buong 3rd district.. the most populated district in Pangasinan. more than a third of a million voters.

I'm campaigning for my dad, uncles, and relatives.. :lol:

ipawil tayoy ESPINO ed Kapitolyo!!:) Espino for Governor!!!

espino vs agbayani?...hmmm, parang mas effective si espino....

diad local na pangasinan syempre... sangkanengneng lay Espino ta dakel so agawa to... :okay: :okay: :okay:

agiii politics ya tuwa so tungtungan ed dia-ay


For me.....mas dakkel so project nen Espino nen say agbayani

Gooo for Espino :banana: Good for us Pangasinenses

hellow..masantos ya labi!! balo ak labat dya kalugayan, kabaleyan, kaaro :)

Welcome aboard ALIGUAS PANGASINAN and shotokan!!! :)

All-set-2010-bangus-festival (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/all-set-2010-bangus-festival)

DAGUPAN CITY – Its all systems go for start of Bangus Festival 2010 here on April 16, an event official said Monday.

Festival chairman Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez said they wanted to trim down the number of events because of the campaign period, but they could not really do so because of the numerous event sponsors.

The organizers assured a grand festival of entertainment, food, and sports in this year’s festivities.

With teen star Erich Gonzales, the festival will formally open at 3 p.m. with the “Araw ng Bata” parade with arrays of mascots, acrobats, stilt walkers, jugglers, and unicyclists, among others.

The much-awaited Festivals of the North street dancing competition is scheduled on April 26 with Tribu Taghidaet of Iloilo's Dinagyang Festival as performing guest.

Photography enthusiasts are invited to join the Bangus festival photo contest with the subject "Festivals of the North."

The grand Bangusan street party will be held at the stretch of the De Venecia Expressway Extension on April 30 with country’s leading performers Bamboo, Callality, the Authority, Chicosci, Gloc 9, Parokya ni Edgar, Spongecola, Urbandub, Rico Blanco, and the GMA Kapuso Starstruck 5.

There will also be Battle of the Bands, food trip events, and sports competition.

Organizers said security plans were already in place with the Dagupan City Police Station and the city's Public Order and Safety Office. (LCMY/Sunnex)

Aggiiii politician met manaya'y pamilya nen Allan_dude

Gooo gooo gooooooooo lets Drink to that :cheers:

Pangasinenses eyeing jobs in Guam (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=269545)

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, April 13 (PNA) - The Provincial Employment Service Office (PESO) is now conducting manpower pooling for possible workers that may be deployed by the province to Guam.

Alex Ferrer, PESO chief, said the move is being undertaken on order of Governor Amado Espino Jr. in anticipation of the possible need of 10,000 workers in Guam who will work on a large military base that will be built there.

It was learned that the U.S. is now transferring its base from Okinawa, Japan to Guam, which is nearer the U.S. mainland.

"We are doing (manpower pooling) this early because we want to corner the bigger portion of the pie," said Ferrer, adding that the jobs in Guam mean a lot for the Pangasinenses.

Governor Espino is personally making arrangements with the governor of Guam and other officials in that U.S. territory to give priority to workers from Pangasinan, said Ferrer.

The PESO chief said the workers for deployment to Guam include carpenters, masons, pipe-fitters, welders, steel men and others.

The qualification for this type of jobs is from 25 to 40 years old and up to 50 yars old for those occupying managerial positions.

Ferrer said the jobs in Guam are a big opportunity to skilled workers in Pangasinan who are familiar with the work and also those who had trained with the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA).

He said those who had already gone abroad as overseas Filipino workers can also apply for jobs in Guam. (PNA)
LAP/lvm/lvmicua/1630/rma

Pangasinan still zero on incidence of political violence (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=269534)

By Leonardo V. Micua

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, April 13 (PNA) - Pangasinan is so far the only province in Region 1 with no incidence of political violence registered so far.

This was bared by Police Regional Director Percival Barba who said this is a good sign that there will be peaceful and orderly election on May 10, in comparing Pangasinan with other provinces in the Ilocos Region.

He said the reported ambush of the assistant election registrar of Sta. Maria town sometime in January this year was not connected with politics.

The assistant municipal election registrar of Sta. Maria survived in that incident which reportedly stemmed from an old grudge.

This means, said Barba, that in all the four provinces of the Ilocos Region, Pangasinan is the only province that has no incident of political violence yet, only less than one month before the election.

Although no incident of political violence was recorded, two persons--both tagged as members of Private Armed Group-- died April 6 in a shootout with policemen in Barangay Mabini, Balungao.

One of the fatalities was identified as Armando Flores, a member of PAG of a candidate for mayor in eastern Pangasinan. The other was not identified.

The two were on board a motorcycle that overran a police checkpoint in Rosales town. A chase ensued and when the suspects were cornered, and shot it out with policemen who went to arrest them.

Both suspects were armed with caliber .38 home-made pistols and a hand grenade.

Barba said those killed were members of one of the six identified PAGs in Pangasinan, all of which were under the employ of candidates in this election.

The police already applied search warrants with the courts for all these PAG members, resulting in the confiscation of several firearms and ammunition.

Barba said the politicians coddling PAGs already know that the police are after them and should now disband their armed groups or else the long arm of the law will finally catch up with them.

At the same time, Barba said that since the election period began January 10 this year, the local PNP conducted a total of 3,050 checkpoint operations all over the province.

Superintendent Harris Fama, deputy provincial director for operations, said at least 55 persons have already been arrested for violation of the gun ban. At least 48 of these are now facing cases in court, Fama said. (PNA)
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Pangasinan's Pista'y Dayat set from April 23 to May 9
(http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=6&sid=&nid=6&rid=269469)

By Leonardo V. Micua

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, April 13 (PNA) -- This year’s Pista’y Dayat (sea festival) in Pangasinan will be marked with the same intensity and the same fervor and grandeur as in previous years, notwithstanding the coming election.

This was assured by Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan who said that, despite the coming election, the Pista'y Dayat will continue to be another crowd drawer.

Baraan revealed that Governor Amado Espino Jr. has designated Provincial Assessor Nestor Quiambao as this year’s Pista'y Dayat executive chairman.

Quaimbao, in a news conference with Baraan, said Pista’y Dayat will kick off on April 23 with the opening of the Tourism and Trade Expo.

The activity, he said, will showcase Pangasinan’s prime tourist destinations, tourism services, best local products from towns with one town-one product (OTOP) packages and small and medium enterprises.

A youth camp dubbed “Doypuay Kalangweran” to promote the joy and adventure of camping while exposing the youth to environmental preservation and care will start on April 29.

The Grand Orchestra Showdown, a certified crowd-drawer, will be re-staged on April 23. This will include ballroom dancing.

Meanwhile, a river cruise of decorated bancas called “Banca Parada” along the Agno River will also be held on April 30.

This will be highlighted by the giving of Pakar Awards to the cleanest rivers and riverbanks and a boodle fight (eating with the use of bare hands on food spread atop banana leaves) will follow, to be participated in by local officials.

The afternoon of April 30 is reserved for “Takayan na Dayew,” a presentation of talents of Pangasinenses via vocal solo presentation, and the holding of zarzuela to revive the pastime of the theatrical past of old folks.

On May 1, the Provincial Government will offer a thanksgiving mass for a year of bountiful harvest from the sea.

Another crowd drawer, the “Sayawan ed Aplaya” or street dancing by the beach, will be participated in by street dancers from various towns and cities.

The selection of “Limgas na Pangasinan,” a beauty and talent search will be held in the evening, followed by a spectacular fireworks display called “Manlangalang ya Aplaya.”

Provincial Information Officer Butch Velasco said ever since Governor Espino assumed office, the Pista’y Dayat celebration has become an advocacy for environmental preservation and protection.

He announced that the Provincial Government will tap this year’s Limgas na Dayat's top five finalists to become the province’s ambassadors of peace, health care, agriculture, education, and tourism and investments, which the Espino Administration’s top five development thrusts.

Sponsored events by media networks will also be held during the Pista’y Dayat Celebration. (PNA)
DCT/LVM/rma

:banana: :banana: :banana:

Hi capricorn2000 im back! Busy ako sa pangangampanya. Naglilibot kami sa buong 3rd district.. the most populated district in Pangasinan. more than a third of a million voters.

I'm campaigning for my dad, uncles, and relatives.. :lol:

Espino for Governor!!!



:okay: :okay: :okay:

Good for us Pangasinenses

wowow!!! talagan ampetang lang campanyaan ed sayan election.
well, I hope Allan ya manalo ran amin...say dad mo, uncles and relatives.

diad Canada, small deal so election.
say election day et aliwan official holiday which mean walay loob ed trabaho so you can vote after work. sometimes, election days fall on weekend tan say karakelan ya man-aasisti ed voting places et volunteers.
there is no direct election of prime minister, senators, provincial premier and mayor. Instead, ordinary Canadian citizen vote for their local member of parliament (MP) who sits in the house of common and these MP's are members of federal political parties and the leader of the party who has the most elected members will become the Prime Minister.
The house of common and senate are two chambers that comprise the Parliament of Canada. The senate is composed of 105 members who are appointed by the Governor General (representative to Canada by the Queen of England) on the advice of the Prime Minister.
I don't have much idea on how provincial premier is elected/appointed. This is equivalent to provincial governor in the Philippines. there's is no provincial vice premier though.
On city/municipal level, Canadian voters can elect a number of councilors from the list and also representative for School Board and Park Board. I'm assuming here that whoever the leader of the party who has the most elected councilors will become a mayor and there is NO vice mayor.

campaigning is very inconspicuous. Campaign materials like streamers, bill boards or handbills are very very minimal. walang mga miting di abansi. I once saw a mayor(paraplegic) who was the incumbent that time in chinatown with just two office aides and no goons.

Intermission: Diad Hundred Islands

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pupunta kami dyan sa dagupan on may 1 para manood ng bodybuilding contest sa tondaligan beach, paano ba makapunta sa tondaligan from downtown dagupan, malayo pa ba sa downtown ang beach na yan , magkano pasahe

pupunta kami dyan sa dagupan on may 1 para manood ng bodybuilding contest sa tondaligan beach, paano ba makapunta sa tondaligan from downtown dagupan, malayo pa ba sa downtown ang beach na yan , magkano pasahe

If you are coming from Manila, just ride a Victory Liner (one station in Pasay, Cubao and Caloocan)... going to Dagupan City.

From Victory Liner station sa Dagupan City, just ride a Bonuan, Tondaligan jeep. The fare is the regular Php7.50.

Well, from Bonuan Tondaligan going back to Dagupan is still jeep. Marami na po hotel sa Dagupan.

We got;
Star Plaza Hotel
Lenox Hotel
Orchids Hotel

Food?!? Naku!!! pinakamarami yata ang Dagupan City sa mga food restaurants. Mamili ka kung sea foods, Chinese foods... even up to shawarma.

Welcome to Pangasinan!!

SM CITY ROSALES ANNEX
APRIL 08, 2010

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Robinsons Land eyes two malls, two hotels
Corporate News
Posted on 09:44 PM,
April 15, 2010


GOKONGWEI-led property developer Robinsons Land Corp. will open two shopping malls and two budget hotels in its next fiscal year.

The malls will be in Palawan and Pangasinan provinces, said Frederick D. Go, president and chief operating officer of Robinsons Land at the sidelines of the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting in Ortigas Center.

For the fiscal year 2010, listed Robinsons Land has opened three malls -- in Dumaguete in Negros Oriental, Ilocos Norte, and Cebu City -- meeting the target. Robinsons Land’s fiscal year ends in September.

The new malls increased gross leasing space by 6% or 44,000 square meters (sq. m.) to 1.5 million sq. m., of which 800,000 sq. m. can be leased. To date, the company has 29 shopping malls.

Mr. Go said Robinsons Land would be opening two to three malls every year.

For the budget hotel business, Mr. Go said the first Gohotels.ph, located at Pioneer Center in Mandaluyong, would start commercial operation on May 19. Clients can avail themselves of P88 rooms through early reservations.

“We will start construction of two [hotels] for opening next year,” Mr. Go said, adding that these will be in Tacloban, Leyte and Puerto Princesa in Palawan.

Under Robinsons Land’s corporate strategy, Gohotels.ph will be built near commercial centers like shopping malls.

“We believe that general consumer consumption is on an uptrend. It is doing very well. We are in a special period this time,” Mr. Go said.

Robinsons Land has allotted P9 billion for spending this year, which could be used to buy government properties. Mr. Go said about 40% of the budget would be spent to build new malls.

The property firm of JG Summit Holdings, Inc. recorded a net income of P869.2 million in the first quarter ending December, up by 28% from P679.68 million year on year.

Shares in Robinsons Land, which is into malls, hotels and office spaces, dropped to P15.00 yesterday from P15.25 on Wednesday.

Aggiiii politician met manaya'y pamilya nen Allan_dude

Gooo gooo gooooooooo lets Drink to that :cheers: :cheers: ..ako taga kabit lang ng campaign poster! :lol:

wowow!!! talagan ampetang lang campanyaan ed sayan election.
well, I hope Allan ya manalo ran amin...say dad mo, uncles and relatives.


Stressed out ak la. We met Manny Villar today here in Bayambang. Makmaksil si Kuya Fred Calimlim (for vice gov) tan si uncle gov!

wala kunoy planon manpaalagey na ROBINSON'S PLACE ed Calasiao

Robinsons Land eyes two malls, two hotels
Corporate News
Posted on 09:44 PM,
April 15, 2010


GOKONGWEI-led property developer Robinsons Land Corp. will open two shopping malls and two budget hotels in its next fiscal year.

The malls will be in Palawan and Pangasinan provinces, said Frederick D. Go, president and chief operating officer of Robinsons Land at the sidelines of the company’s annual stockholders’ meeting in Ortigas Center.

For the fiscal year 2010, listed Robinsons Land has opened three malls -- in Dumaguete in Negros Oriental, Ilocos Norte, and Cebu City -- meeting the target. Robinsons Land’s fiscal year ends in September.

The new malls increased gross leasing space by 6% or 44,000 square meters (sq. m.) to 1.5 million sq. m., of which 800,000 sq. m. can be leased. To date, the company has 29 shopping malls.

Mr. Go said Robinsons Land would be opening two to three malls every year.

For the budget hotel business, Mr. Go said the first Gohotels.ph, located at Pioneer Center in Mandaluyong, would start commercial operation on May 19. Clients can avail themselves of P88 rooms through early reservations.

“We will start construction of two [hotels] for opening next year,” Mr. Go said, adding that these will be in Tacloban, Leyte and Puerto Princesa in Palawan.

Under Robinsons Land’s corporate strategy, Gohotels.ph will be built near commercial centers like shopping malls.

“We believe that general consumer consumption is on an uptrend. It is doing very well. We are in a special period this time,” Mr. Go said.

Robinsons Land has allotted P9 billion for spending this year, which could be used to buy government properties. Mr. Go said about 40% of the budget would be spent to build new malls.

The property firm of JG Summit Holdings, Inc. recorded a net income of P869.2 million in the first quarter ending December, up by 28% from P679.68 million year on year.

Shares in Robinsons Land, which is into malls, hotels and office spaces, dropped to P15.00 yesterday from P15.25 on Wednesday.

^^ Sabi ni Mayor Macanlalay of Calasiao start of construction May after elections.

walay itepet ko labat,:)
walay flyover ed luyag tayo?pakipost pay pics tan iner so kulaan to?
akanengneng ak na kasi kalendaryo ya walay flyover to et say akasulat "Pangasinan" tan say background to man, amay fishponds ed binmaley jad samay taytay da diman..amay mamaawang ya ilog na dakdakel so kawayan to :D

Ampano amay Pantal Bridge so anengneng mo kabaleyan...

let's wait for Allan_dude post since he's always around the province...

Gooooooooooo ESPINO!!!!!!! :banana:

walay itepet ko labat,:)
walay flyover ed luyag tayo?pakipost pay pics tan iner so kulaan to?
akanengneng ak na kasi kalendaryo ya walay flyover to et say akasulat "Pangasinan" tan say background to man, amay fishponds ed binmaley jad samay taytay da diman..amay mamaawang ya ilog na dakdakel so kawayan to :D

Ampano amay Pantal Bridge so anengneng mo kabaleyan...

let's wait for Allan_dude post since he's always around the province...

Gooooooooooo ESPINO!!!!!!! :banana:

andi, duma man.. balo ni may diad dawel-lucao... amay anengneng ko, anggapoy ilog ed silong to, kapara to met ya karsada...amay kalendaryon ibabagak, 2006 ni man amo...

:cheers: ..ako taga kabit lang ng campaign poster! :lol:



Stressed out ak la. We met Manny Villar today here in Bayambang. Makmaksil si Kuya Fred Calimlim (for vice gov) tan si uncle gov!





^^ Sabi ni Mayor Macanlalay of Calasiao start of construction May after elections.

ah..salamat ed info ;)

Intermission: Saray baka ed alog

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DAGUPAN'S "ARAW NG MGA BATA"
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W/ SANTINO
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INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY CELEBRATION
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PHIL-DAGUPAN KOREA SEAFOODS PROCESSING PLANT RIBBON CUTTING AND BLESSING
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BANGUS FESTIVAL GRAND OPENING
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SOURCE: FACEBOOK(WHAT'S UP DAGUPAN & ALIGUAS DAGUPAN)

BEACHES IN PANGASINAN

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Tondol beach, Anda



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Nice Photos @ Alinguas....

galing mo kabaleyan ya mankotkot...:cheers:

Dagupan's top street dancers picked to vie in 'Festivals of the North' (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=271727)

DAGUPAN CITY, April 24 (PNA)—Defending champion Barangay Lucao won anew the right to represent the city of Dagupan in the “Festivals of the North” street dancing competition slated here on April 26.

This was after Lucao bested 30 other entries to the “Gilon-Gilon ed Baley Street Dancing Competition held in the streets of Dagupan last Friday, April 23.

Lucao went home with the top prize of P100,000 plus a special prize of P10,000 for being best in choreography when it repeated the feat that it registered last year.

Barangay Tambac placed second for P75,000 while barangays Bolosan and Bonuan Binloc placed third and fourth, respectively, for P30,000 and P10,000, respectively.

The Gilon-Gilon ed Baley, a yearly feature of the Dagupan Bangus Festival, adopted unique dance steps that simulated the fishermen’s movement of hands and body while they were harvesting milkfish (bangus) in brackish water ponds and pens.

Dancing to the beats of drums, gongs and bamboo sticks and garbed in indigenous materials, the participants showed their wares before an excited overflow crowd of tourists and the local population that watched them in sidelines.

Traffic stood still in many parts of Dagupan as street dancers moved from Burgos Street to Perez Boulevard, M.H. del Pilar Street, A.B. Fernandez Avenue and then to the city plaza where each group made their focal presentations before an even bigger crowd.

The guests, including Gina de Venecia, wife of Pangasinan fourth district Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., joined Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chairman of the Banguis Festival for the third time in a row, on the stage in witnessing the street dancing spectacle.

It was Fernandez who introduced the unique Gilon-Gilon dance step in 1997 when she chaired the executive committee of the Golden Anniversary Celebration of the city on June 20, 1997 while still a city councilor.

In the “Festivals of the North” on April 26, Dagupan City champion Lucao will face an array of festival street dancing champions not only from Pangasinan but also Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, Benguet, Zambales and Pampanga.

The famous Tribu Taghidaet, champion street dancers of the Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo, had been invited to present an exhibition number before the start of competition in the Festivals of the North.

The Festivals of the North, now on its third appearance in the Dagupan Bangus Festival, offers the grand prize of P200,000 to the best street dancers entered in the competition. (PNA)
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^^ Sabi ni Mayor Macanlalay of Calasiao start of construction May after elections.


The construction of the Robinson building is besides Honda Cars Pangasinan, Inc. If the construction will start then it would be much better for them to buy the Honda Cars building.... and maybe Honda Cars will be relocated near the Nissan Cars Pangasinan area.

Mas maganda sanang area ito. Nonetheless, it is an investment boast to Calasiao town.

As it was written here.... let us drink to that!! :cheers:

Just last week, we visited the Lingayen Capitol ground and had a family picnic.

Ito yong mga picture ko sa camera lang. We just lay down a tree infront of the Capitol office.

Ito yong left side namin; a clean Rest Rooms. Newly painted for the Pistay Dayat. The beach is OK but we came here for a picnic and not a swim so I wasn't able to take the beach pics.
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Infront of us; the Urduja building. The supposed to be official residence of the Governor. Pero si Gov Espine yata hindi na tumira dito. The building is just a symbol only. Maganda pa rin siya. Libre ba pumasok dito?? :lol:
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On our right; the Lingayen Capitol building offices. Cool!!
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Next time kapag may pera, kuha talaga ako ng digital camera na. Medyo malabo sa phone camera lang eh.


Rene
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WELCOME to Pangasinan Thread @ info_rene

another new SSC forumer

Goooooooooooooo PANGASINAN


:banana: :banana: :banana:


Just last week, we visited the Lingayen Capitol ground and had a family picnic.

Ito yong mga picture ko sa camera lang. We just lay down a tree infront of the Capitol office.

Ito yong left side namin; a clean Rest Rooms. Newly painted for the Pistay Dayat. The beach is OK but we came here for a picnic and not a swim so I wasn't able to take the beach pics.
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Infront of us; the Urduja building. The supposed to be official residence of the Governor. Pero si Gov Espine yata hindi na tumira dito. The building is just a symbol only. Maganda pa rin siya. Libre ba pumasok dito?? :lol:
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2047/image001td.jpg

On our right; the Lingayen Capitol building offices. Cool!!
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7549/image000b.jpg

Next time kapag may pera, kuha talaga ako ng digital camera na. Medyo malabo sa phone camera lang eh.


Rene
www.infodynamicsconsult.com

hmmmm kabaleyan Allan_Dude

update natin sa mga bayan ng Pangasinan na naputnahan ninyo

during campaign.......huh demanding yata ako........Cheersss :)

^^ Sabi ni Mayor Macanlalay of Calasiao start of construction May after elections.


really?! exciting naman yan...sana nga...

i was in ilocos yesterday, nadaanan namin robinson's place near laoag...agmet masyadon baleg....kumon mas baleg ipaalagey dad calasiao if ever...

maganda din pala pagudpud...laoag has changed a lot since my last visit in 1998...hehe tagal na nun..of course we passed by other cities as well such as vigan, batac, and candon..too bad nag-reroute kami when we got to sn fernando area...in comparison, dagupan pa rin ang mas progressive...mas feel mo talagang nasa city ka when ur in dagupan...

will post some pics tomorrow...

Guys... ANG GANDA NG feature ng Rated K last Sunday.

Ang galing nung gumawa ng Sword ni Frodo na PROUDLY MADE IN PANGASINAN.

nakakaproud di lang bilang isang taga Pangasinan kundi bilang isang Pilipino :)

Dagupan named best managed city, bags ISO 9001 certificate (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=272861)

DAGUPAN CITY, April 30 (PNA)--The city of Dagupan has been named as the best managed city when it won the nod of the world's best known international systems standard (ISO) 9001.

Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. revealed on Friday that Dagupan counts itself today as one of the first local government units in the country to bag the international seal of quality in customer service and management systems.

“We have been working hard on this since 2007. I am pleased our shared efforts have paid off,” he said.

This was after the city successfully hurdled the second stage audit conducted by Certification International Philippines, Inc. (CIPI) last April 27.

Fernandez said implementing and maintaining a management system needs educated managers of all levels to develop specifically-tailored systems that would complement existing processes for optimized business performance and results.

“If you’re a good manager and you want to take your business to greater heights, do what the leaders do: be organized, streamline your processes, follow the world’s best practices, and implement management systems that suit you,” he added.

Since assuming office in 2007, Fernandez has introduced vast changes on how business transactions are carried out at the Dagupan City Hall.

He said he has ably steered the city government by improving processes in the issuance of business permits and licenses at the city's One Stop Shop Business Center.

Despite the forlorn state of the city which was languishing in huge loans since his return as local chief executive in 2007, Dagupan is now set to reclaim its status as a well-managed, first class city, the Mayor said.

Dagupan used to be the only first class city in the Ilocos Region till it was downgraded to second class sometime in early 2000 under the past city administration.

The ISO 9001:2008 certification has been issued by the Governing Board of the Certification International Philippines, Inc. (CIPI) through its lead auditor Joselito Soler.

As an ISO-certified organization, Dagupan is required to maintain its quality management system (QSM) under ISO 9001:2008, the CI’s condition of certification, including the use of CI’s Certificate of Recognition and Quality Mark.

Dagupan was the first city north of Manila to get this certification and the only local government in the region to be awarded several other recognitions, including the 2009 Most Business Friendly LGU Special Citation for Quality Management and Innovation, 1st runner up in the 2009 Search for the Best LGU in Region 1, and a citation for being the first local government unit to effect the full implementation of Republic Act No. 9485, otherwise known as the Anti-Red Tape Actof 2007.

Fernandez said that the certification will become Dagupan City’s instrument in enhancing its competitiveness and to meet the needs and expectations of Dagupenos.

He said the city commits to continually upgrade its competencies to serve not only the people in Dagupan but also those from other neighboring cities and provinces who wish to access its services. (PNA)
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BEACHES IN PANGASINAN

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Tondol beach, Anda



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Agno, Pangasinan



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Bani, Pangasinan




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Bolinao, Pangasinan




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Alaminos, Pangasinan




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Burgos, Pangasinan




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Dasol, Pangasinan




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Infanta, Pangasinan




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Sual, Pangasinan

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Gud evening to all!

Wow! ka ganda naman ng beach nyo.. Your place really blessed with beautiful beaches..:eek2:

Bangusan Street Party Registers Record-breaking Attendance (http://http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=12&sid=&nid=12&rid=273066)


From 4 p.m. of Friday until dawn on Saturday, people who attended BSP jampacked the 3.2-kilometer stretch of four-lane Jose R. de Venecia Expressway Extension where they grilled up to 24,000 kilos of milkfish or ‘bangus’ and held a picnic.
Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., Vice-Mayor and three-time festival chairperson Belen Fernandez as well as Mrs. Gina de Venecia led the revelry with their special guest, television personality Kris Aquino-Yap.

They also led the ceremonial lighting of grilles at 7 p.m. Aside from hearing famous bands play that night, revelers were also treated to a fireworks display.

“Maybe the estimated attendance of one million people is pretty close," said Butch Uka, a photographer for Pangasinan’s leading weekly ‘The Sunday Punch.’

Photographer Willy Lomibao, his colleague at the paper, also confirmed the presence of the mammoth party crowd that night.

Philippine Star photojournalist Cesar Ramirez was the first to estimate attendance at the party, noting he and Uka had to elbow their way to the highway’s southern end as there were so many people then.

Fishponds and marshlands dotted the highway’s stretch but this did not prevent people from flocking to BSP.

Uka and Ramirez recalled that people continued arriving at the BSP venue as both journalists were about to leave at past 9 p.m.

Despite rainfall at past 11 p.m., Uka recalled people remained in the place to enjoy the music 10 bands from Manila played that night. Rainfall finally stopped at past 2 a.m.

Observers reported rainfall at 1 p.m. before BSP began but the sun shone afterwards, enabling organizers concerned to hold the party.

This gave rise to a joke that the vice-mayor may be born lucky indeed since God refused to let her down.

BSP, which the Department of Tourism identified as the biggest of its kind in the country, preceded the ‘Pista’y Dayat’ event in Bonuan Blue Beach on May 1.

Security was tight during BSP as anyone entering the venue was subjected to frisking so security people can search for deadly weapons.

Even ballpens were reportedly considered then as deadly weapons so authorities disallowed people from bringing these into the party venue.

There was no untoward incident during BSP although Superintendent Mariano Luis Verzosa regarded as a security nightmare the number of partygoers who attended that event.

Councilor and army captain reservist Jose Netu Tamayo was in charge of overall security preparations for BSP.

He said authorities concerned did their best to control the crowd.

Ambulances from Dagupan City government, the Region I Medical Center and Philippine National Red Cross were on standby during the event for any emergency. (PNA)
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courtesy from PHHOME.net

The newly renovated Sison Auditorium at Lingayen Pangasinan near the Capitol Building

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Whoaaa!!!!! may aranya pa....
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The renovated stage
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Good work of Gov. Espino :banana: :banana:

:cheers:

Next wave cities take limelight at 9th e-services global sourcing exhibition

The global financial crisis may have left many countries shaken, but the Philippines is not about to let it deter its plans to develop the business process outsourcing industry.

At the 9th e-Services Global Sourcing Conference, government authorities expressed their commitment in developing the Philippines’ cyber-corridor – cities that are best capable to host operations in the areas of business process outsourcing (BPO), information technology (IT) and e-services. Also called the Next Wave Cities, these provinces were identified by the Commission on Information and Communications Technology and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in cooperation with the Business Process Association of the Philippines (BPAP) for their potential.

The Next Wave Cities took center stage at the conference, with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo calling attention to their potential. She noted that the original Cyber Corridor has since been expanded to include not just Metro Manila, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cebu and Davao. The Next Wave Cities now include Baguio; Dagupan; Tarlac; Clark in Pampanga: Marilao, Mecyacuayan and Malolos in Bulacan; Cainta and Antipolo; Dasmariñas and Imus in Cavite; Santa Rosa and Calamba in Laguna; Lipa and Batangas city; Dumaguete and Cagayan de Oro.

One of the participants of the 9th e-Services, Aegis People Support has also been riding on the wave by expanding their network in some of the Philippines most urban areas. They have been the first to set up a center outside Metro Manila in 2003. Aegis People Support has now two centers in Cebu with around 3, 000 employees. “Aegis People Support has always been committed to expanding in various geographies in the Philippines. We also have operations in Baguio City and a recruitment and training center in Davao City. We will continue to explore other cities to match business requirements and demand.” Aegis People Support president, Bong Borja, said.

Senior Trade Undersecretary Thomas G. Aquino noted that these cities are BPO-ready investment destinations for entrepreneurs and ICT innovators.

“BPO and e-services are key drivers of our economy,” said President Arroyo. “They generate investment, they generate jobs, they alleviate poverty, they improve the lives of our people. We are proud to be among the world’s leaders in this field.”

AArroyo added that the “BPO industry continues to boom as global cost cutting is sent to outsourcing. The Philippines is ranked among the most attractive off-shoring destinations in the world because of cost competitiveness and more importantly, the country’s highly trainable, English-proficient, IT-enabled quality manpower.”

Bong Borja also said that off-shoring is considered by companies abroad as a solution to cut costs so that they could achieve their profit targets while ensuring that their most important asset, their customers, are well looked-after.

She added that the government understands that it “must act rationally and strategically to foster a digital culture that maximizes the benefits of ICT.” Its efforts to build a digital culture focus on three critical aspects: the building of physical infrastructure; creating an appropriate policy and legal environment; and the development of human capital. Its efforts are thus geared towards developing these in the Next Wave Cities.

“It is not the role of the government to determine technological outcomes – that is the role of the market. Our role is to provide the environment to grow ICT, ” said Arroyo.

Towards this end, government provided a training fund of P350 million in 2008 to harness the labor force and create more jobs, most especially in the Cyber Corridor. The training fund is expected to yield some 40,000 call center agents and knowledge process outsourcing workers.

Along with the creation of Cyber Corridors, these initiatives will enable the Philippines to take advantage of pockets of opportunity in the Asia-Pacific region, with spending in the region expected to reach $196 billion in 2009, according to estimates of the International Data Corp. (IDC

http://www.mb.com.ph/node/213356/next-wave-cities

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Dagupan eyes massive export market for bangus (http://www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&fi=p100505.htm&no=72)

By Venus H. Sarmiento

Dagupan City - The tasty Dagupan bangus may soon find massive export in the international market with the operation of the newly-built seafoods processing complex in Bonuan Binloc.

Director Westly Rosario of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center which operates under the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said the complex can process at least five tons of fish a day but can hold up to 40 tons of seafoods daily.

"With the facility, we can be sure na mas lalaki ang market ng Dagupan bangus," Rosario said during the Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency Tuesday.

Rosario clarified that the complex is not built to pose a threat to small-time processors but rather, it was built to help them. The complex, he said, was designed for bangus processing but it can also process other shelffishes and echinoderms like cucumber.

He said the complex is also open to the products of other towns and provinces.

"The facility will prioritize products from Dagupan City but to sustain its operation, we will also accept bangus from other municipalities and provinces," he said.

Rosario clarified, however, that everything that will enter the complex has to be properly inspected. Products from other towns should be from accredited producers only and must be thoroughly examined.

"Dapat alamin natin kung ano yung kinakain ng dala nilang bangus, kung saan galing, kung anong quality ng tubig kasi, maganda ang reputation ng Dagupan pagdating sa bangus and at the end of the day, sa packaging lahat ng lalabas sa facility ay may nakalagay na 'Processed in Dagupan City' kaya dapat salain mabuti lahat ng pumapasok," Rosario said. (PIA-Pangasinan)

Pangasinan remains as RP's biggest milkfish producer (http://www.positivenewsmedia.net/am2/publish/Business_19/Pangasinan_remains_as_RP_s_biggest_milkfish_producer.shtml)

By Leonardo Micua

DAGUPAN CITY - The province of Pangasinan maintains its lead as the country’s biggest producer of milkfish (bangus) throughout the country, besting the combined production of two other major producers of the commodity in the country.

Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology

and Development Center (NIFTDC) of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), revealed that Pangasinan continues to be the leading producer of bangus throughout the country.

“Actually, if you combine the production of Central Luzon and Western Visayas (particularly Iloilo), the province of Pangasinan has even more,” Rosario said in an interview shortly after the inauguration of the P120 million Philippine/Dagupan-Korea Seafood Processing Plant on Thursday.

Central Luzon and Western Visayas currently trail Region 1 in the production of bangus. In the Ilocos Region, bangus production in the province of Pangasinan dwarfs the combined production in La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte.

Rosario said Pangasinan is the biggest producer of bangus because of its fish cages that are located in Bolinao, Anda, Alaminos and Sual.

Records show that Dagupan, which produces the tastiest and most delicious milkfish through the country, supplies the market at least five metric tons of bangus daily.

Dagupan raises bangus in fishponds and fish pens teeming in its various rivers. However, Rosario observed that the fish pens in the rivers of Dagupan need zoning.

Western Pangasinan, which produces milkfish in ponds, pens and cages unloads to the markets of Dagupan and Metro Manila at least 13 metric tons of fish daily.

Rosario considers the National Bangus Research Center and hatchery located at the 24-hectare NIFTDC in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City as a big boon to the bangus industry.

The hatchery, the first of its kind in the country, now produces 13 million bangus fry, from a mere four million fry before.

He said previously, the Philippines was not producing any hatchery-bred bangus fry as the country was merely dependent from bangus fry taken from the wild

But in previous years, the country was importing fry taken by the wild to Taiwan and Indonesia till these two developed their own bangus hatcheries and were able to overtake the Philippines in fry production.

He said the national bangus Research Center as well as the Asian Fisheries Academy, both put up with the help of then Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.,, became a training center for fish farmers who wanted to embark in the production of bangus fry in commercial scale.

The BFAR also set up a laboratory facility fitted for environmental monitoring at NIFTDC , with equipment coming all the way from Norway and which are the most modern in the country today. (PNA)

courtesy from PHHOME.net

The newly renovated Sison Auditorium at Lingayen Pangasinan near the Capitol Building

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Whoaaa!!!!! may aranya pa....
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The renovated stage
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Good work of Gov. Espino :banana: :banana:

:cheers: Sana hindi monoblock chairs ang gamitin..

;56106479']Dagupan named best managed city, bags ISO 9001 certificate (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=272861)
Congratulations to all the government officials and employees of Dagupan!

Hopefully San Carlos City will do the same accreditation. This underrated city is booming. I'm sure it will be a first class city very soon

really?! exciting naman yan...sana nga...

i was in ilocos yesterday, nadaanan namin robinson's place near laoag...agmet masyadon baleg....kumon mas baleg ipaalagey dad calasiao if ever... Baleg ya mall so ipalagey da angan ko.

BTW, masaning may balon CSI Mangaldan. I'm impressed

Ayoy belittles Tulagan’s projects in San Carlos (http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/05/05/ayoy-belittles-tulagan%E2%80%99s-projects-in-san-carlos/#more-3186)

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SAN CARLOS CITY-Reelectionist city Mayor Julier Resuello said his opponent former Rep. Generoso Tulagan has spent half of what he spent for projects in the city.

“Iyong kalaban ko ngayon, paramihan kami ng pondo na ginulgol dito sa ciudad ng San Carlos, at masasabi ko po na nasa kalahati lang siya sa ginawa ko sa ciudad ng San Carlos,” Resuello said.

Resuello said Tulagan brought only more than P200 million worth of projects here in his nine years in congress as compared to what he gave the city in barely three years in office.

He dared Tulagan that they both show to the public the records of their accomplishments.

“Mas makikita niya kung gaano ang ginawa ko kaysa sa ginawa niya,” he says.

Resuelo disclosed that he spent more than P550 million for projects he implemented here which are for development of the city, procurement of heavy equipment, and financial assistance to the marginalized sector.

He said that Tulagan abandoned this city when he was a solon.

“Ngayon siya babalik kung meron siyang kelangan sa mga kababayan natin. Ito ang isang typical na ugali ng isang traditional politician na kung saan siya ang hihingi ng tulong kung siya ang mi kailangan sa ating mga kababayan,” he stressed

The mayor cited an instance when Tulagan admitted to the people in a certain village that during his three terms as congressman he was not able to take care of this city.

Resuello says that in the P550 million projects he gave this city, it did not include the P200 million Rep. Maria Rachel Arenas has poured in this city.

Arenas is pitted against former rival Atty. Galant Soriano who closely trailed the former with more than a thousand votes in the almost 365, 000 vote rich 4th Congressional District-where this city belongs-in the 2007 poll.

Hundred Islands is Pangasinan’s top tourist destination
(http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/04/29/hundred-islands-is-pangasinan%E2%80%99s-top-tourist-destination/)
By Venus H. Sarmiento

DAGUPAN CITY– The famous Hundred islands in Alaminos City remains the top tourist destination in the province.

Provincial tourism officer Maria Luisa Elduayan said the bulk of tourist and visitors who came to the province last year still chose to visit the Hundred islands, followed by the Capitol Complex and the Lighthouse in Bolinao town.

“Aside from the top three destinations, the Our Lady of Manaoag Shrine still attracts a big number of visitors based on the masses held daily.” Elduayan said during the Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency.

The municipality of Bani is also emerging as a favorite tourist destination for the watching of migratory birds, according to Elduayan. Alaminos City and Bani, she said, are included in the list of the Bird Watching Club of the Philippines.

She said Dagupan City and Rosales also have an advantage over other towns as malls are also favorite places among visitors.

For 2009, The province has recorded 240,449 visitors and 76,401 tourists totaling 316,850.

This is a tremendous increase from the 2008 record of 198,462 visitors and tourists, Elduayan said. The tourist statistics is based on hotel records while the visitors are those who visit the province during the day and do not stay in hotels but probably stay in houses of relatives or friends, she explained.

The provincial tourism office offers package tours to organized tour groups even on Saturdays and Sundays. (PIA–Pangasinan)

‘Bobom’ to continue economic boom of Urdaneta
(http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/05/01/%E2%80%98bobom%E2%80%99-to-continue-economic-boom-of-urdaneta/)
By Virgilio Sar. Maganes

URDANETA CITY- City Councilor and mayoralty candidate Amadeo Gregorio ‘Bobom’ Perez IV told newsmen that if he wins in the election, the city folk will be assured of continued progress and economic boom of the city.

Perez was the guest of the “Ugnayan at Talakayan sa Silangan,” a media forum sponsored by the Metro Urdaneta Press Club last April 22 at the Lisland Rainforest Resort.

“The development of agriculture shall be on top of my priorities. Although Urdaneta is a city, 70 percent of the people are dependent on farming as source of income. The ‘Tulungan sa Purok’ shall be sustained by providing the people with free vegetable seeds for their backyard gardening,” he said.

He cited existing problems of the city like the lack of parking spaces for buses and jeepneys, narrow sidewalks, traffic and drug use.

He said that the existing public auditorium would be transferred to a more conducive area and make it as an expansion area for the “bagsakan” or wholesale market.

The “mothballed” mall near the Urdaneta City Elementary School could be developed as transport terminal to ease traffic at the city’s downtown. This, however, will be done after the Court shall have settled the case and with direct consultation with the members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

He recalled that as Punong Barangay in San Vicente East village, he was at the frontline in combating the drugs problem in his barangay through the “Barangay at Polisya Laban sa Krimen at Droga.”

“Drug problem is not the only responsibility of the barangays. There should be a political will of our leaders from the national down to the provincial governments,” he said.

Asked if he will appoint his father as his consultant should he win, Bobom answered “no,” debunking claims of his political rivals that he will be in the “shadow” of his father.

He said that his father will act as his adviser with “no appointment” considering his vast experience in public service.

“I have my own brand and style of leadership. I will be a hands-on leader. I will go directly to where the action is. I will conduct barangay consultations and not to rely on the (reports) of my staff,” he said.

He further said that his skills as executive have been developed when he was a punong barangay (village chief), and his legislative skills when he was elected as city councilor. From these, he said, he will do the right service to his constituents.

On his being unapproachable for interviews by media men, he said he was just misunderstood, claiming he is shy but that he considers the media as partners in development. He assured the newsmen that he will conduct monthly meetings with media men to present his activities and accomplishments.

“I will see to it that I will have direct consultations with you. I want to meet the press like this forum we are having now where we could talk,” he said.

Perez is a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, major in Animal Science at the Araneta University Foundation. He is running under the Nationalist People’s Coalition- Biskeg na Pangasinan.

Sta. Barbara launches Summer Skills Training Program (http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/05/06/sta-barbara-launches-summer-skills-training-program/)

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan – “Give man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”

Following this famous adage, and in line with the Ten-Point Progress Agenda (particularly in the area of Livelihood and Job Creation) of Mayor Reynaldo V. Velasco, a 15-day Summer Skills Training Program was launched on April 26 at the Orbos Gym in this town.

This project, which covers courses on Food Processing, Commercial Cooking, Baking/Pastry Production and Food & Beverage Services is in partnership with the Luciano Millian Memorial School of Arts and Trade (LMMSAT) of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) based in Asingan, Pangasinan.

“We are providing this kind of opportunity because we want the people of Sta. Barbara to be progressive through perseverance, hard work and self-initiative. We want our constituents especially the less privileged to be free from people who tend to take advantage of their plight,” he said.

“This is a free training. Half of the cost will be shouldered by LMMSAT-TESDA and the other will be shouldered by LGU- Sta. Barbara. The savings from gasoline expense of 2009 will be used for this project so that we could maximize the utilization of our funds,” he added.

Dr. Rosa Untalan, Administrator of LMMSAT said, “This is the first time that we are conducting this program in the 3rd District of Pangasinan. We offered this project after the recently conducted Galing Mason Oympics in Gawad Kalinga (GK) – Leet because we saw the dedication of Mayor Velasco is giving service to the townspeople of Sta. Barbara.”

In his orientation, Mr. Jesus Saagubang, LMMSAT training/instruction supervisor said, “If the kapampangans have their Pampanga’s best, after this training, you will be having your Sta. Barbara’s best.”

Present during the launching program were Velasco, Norman Dalope, municipal councilor in charge of livelihood programs, Erlinda Parayno, consultant on livelihood,. Gertrudes Fernandez, co-coordinator of the program, Wilma Coquia, MSWDO, Jesus Salagubang, LMMSAT training/instruction supervisor, Romeo Pandio, admin staff of LMMSAT, Brgy. Capt. Ernesto de Guzman, Gilda Contawe, trainer for baking/pastry production,. Zemma Fulgencio, trainer for commercial cooking, Evelyn Pascoy, trainer for food and beverage services, Valeriana Silvania, trainer for food processing and 200 targeted beneficiaries of the program.

After the launching program, the trainers and participants proceeded to GK-Leet and GK Maticmatic where the classes are being held. (DBC)

Sta. Barbara launches Summer Skills Training Program (http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/05/06/sta-barbara-launches-summer-skills-training-program/)

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan – “Give man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.”

Following this famous adage, and in line with the Ten-Point Progress Agenda (particularly in the area of Livelihood and Job Creation) of Mayor Reynaldo V. Velasco, a 15-day Summer Skills Training Program was launched on April 26 at the Orbos Gym in this town.

This project, which covers courses on Food Processing, Commercial Cooking, Baking/Pastry Production and Food & Beverage Services is in partnership with the Luciano Millian Memorial School of Arts and Trade (LMMSAT) of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) based in Asingan, Pangasinan.

“We are providing this kind of opportunity because we want the people of Sta. Barbara to be progressive through perseverance, hard work and self-initiative. We want our constituents especially the less privileged to be free from people who tend to take advantage of their plight,” he said.

“This is a free training. Half of the cost will be shouldered by LMMSAT-TESDA and the other will be shouldered by LGU- Sta. Barbara. The savings from gasoline expense of 2009 will be used for this project so that we could maximize the utilization of our funds,” he added.

Dr. Rosa Untalan, Administrator of LMMSAT said, “This is the first time that we are conducting this program in the 3rd District of Pangasinan. We offered this project after the recently conducted Galing Mason Oympics in Gawad Kalinga (GK) – Leet because we saw the dedication of Mayor Velasco is giving service to the townspeople of Sta. Barbara.”

In his orientation, Mr. Jesus Saagubang, LMMSAT training/instruction supervisor said, “If the kapampangans have their Pampanga’s best, after this training, you will be having your Sta. Barbara’s best.”

Present during the launching program were Velasco, Norman Dalope, municipal councilor in charge of livelihood programs, Erlinda Parayno, consultant on livelihood,. Gertrudes Fernandez, co-coordinator of the program, Wilma Coquia, MSWDO, Jesus Salagubang, LMMSAT training/instruction supervisor, Romeo Pandio, admin staff of LMMSAT, Brgy. Capt. Ernesto de Guzman, Gilda Contawe, trainer for baking/pastry production,. Zemma Fulgencio, trainer for commercial cooking, Evelyn Pascoy, trainer for food and beverage services, Valeriana Silvania, trainer for food processing and 200 targeted beneficiaries of the program.

After the launching program, the trainers and participants proceeded to GK-Leet and GK Maticmatic where the classes are being held. (DBC)

PSU Bayambang, gagawing cybercampus (http://pangalatalk.com/newscontent.php?ShowNews=82)

Magkasya na lang tayo sa legal,medical transcription at data encoding dahil sa voice, di tayo gaanong mag-eexcel. Ito ang obserbasyon ng isang kababayan na may-ari ng isang IT company na nag-aautomate ng sistema ng mga ahensya ng gobyerno.

"Matigas ang punto natin," pahayag ni Cezar Quiambao (Mr. Q),CEO ng Stradcom- isang IT na kumpanyang nagpo-pokus sa pagbibigay ng mga solusyon sa pagpapabuti ng pangkalahatang efficiency ng public sector.

Sa maikling dayalogo kay Mr. Q, kanyang sinabi na ang PSU Bayambang ay nakatakdang maging cybercampus. Ang malawak na 14 na ektaryang paaralan ay tatayuan ng mga 'intelligent buildings' , lalagyan ng mga pasilidad at mag-eemploy ng halos limang libong empleyado.

Manggagaling rin sa nasabing campus ang mga empleyado na kinabibilangan ng mga kwalipikadong IT students ng PSU. Magkakaroon sila ng pagkakataong maging working students sa cybercampus dahil habang nag aaral ay maaari silang magtrabaho ng apat na oras sa business process outsourcing industry na dinidevelop sa Bayambang.

Ani Mr. Q, nais ng mga investors sa business process outsourcing (BPO) ngayon ang tinatawag na plug 'n play kung saan isasalpak na lamang nila ang kanilang computers at ?business as usual? na.

Napagkasunduan ng kumpanya ni Mr. Q at ng pamahalaang local ng Bayambang ang pagdevelop ng PSU para maging cybercampus sapagkat ayon sa CEO,ito ang isang requirement ng mga BPO investors.

Ang PSU ang nago-offer ng pinakamurang IT course. Ang College of ITC ayon naman kay Bayambang Councilor Levin Uy ay "naniningil lang ng P3,500.00 kada semester" o katumbas lang ng P28,000.00 sa loob ng apat na taon.

Sa dami na ng wi-fi spots sa bayan ng Bayambang tulad ng plaza, munisipyo, PSU campus, simbahan at iba pang residensya, hindi na magtatagal at magiging techno town na ang bayan ni Mayor Ric Camacho .

Massive infrastructure development starts (http://www.alaminoscity.gov.ph/news/newsdetails.aspx?newsid=605)

The blessing of the P 50M worth of new heavy equipment recently signals the start of the anticipated infrastructure binge in the city.

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"This is expected to speed up the construction of all important and major infrastructure projects in the barangays," said Mayor Hernani A. Braganza of the brand new heavy equipment during the celebration of the 9th city charter anniversary.

The new set of heavy equipment is comprised of three (3) dump trucks (10-wheeler), two (2) dump trucks (6-wheeler),one (1) excavator, one (1) motor grader, and one (1) pay loader.

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“In the face of negativity perpetrated by our critics and rivals in politics, we now have this new set of heavy equipment,” said the mayor. "Let them know that if we plan or dream big for our city, we ensure that it is doable and we will realize it.”

“I thank the city council headed Vice Mayor Teofilo G. Humilde Jr. for giving me the authority to borrow money from the Landbank,” he added.

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Braganza noted that the city government acquired said heavy equipment for the massive infrastructure development in the city.

The city-owned equipment will be used basically for 'public works' in the city’s 39 barangays.

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This include the construction, improvement, rehabilitation, repair or restoration of farm-to-market roads, bridges and other important facilities like government buildings, irrigation, flood control and drainage, opening of new road networks and other related construction projects of the city government.

It will also expedite repair of schools, gyms and rehabilitation of houses and barangay centers damaged by typhoons and in distribution of relief goods to affected barangay in times of calamities.

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The engineering equipment will likewise help facilitate the construction of the four landmark projects namely the Alaminos Airport Development Project, Hundred Islands Medical Services Complex, PSU-Alaminos City Campus and the Hundred Islands Hotel.

“The Braganza administration is not only after putting up all these gigantic projects but wants them done early for the benefit of the city residents and in order to sustain the city’s economic development,” said city administrator Wilmer Panabang.

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“([With this equipment) the city government stands to save millions since we will no longer need to rent costly equipment from private entities,” he added.

“The money that we saved will be used to fund other projects of the city for the Alaminian families.”

Members of the Liga ng mga Barangay, headed by its president- city councilor Helen Bumagat, hailed the Braganza administration for this timely and laudable initiative.

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“Now that the city has its own heavy equipment, our barangay officials can now easily request for it to hasten the implementation of vital infra-projects in our communities,” said Bumagat.

Braganza once said that his citymates should be ready to face the challenges of a new Alaminos and embrace fully the development that is already happening in the city.

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The visionary mayor had been very optimistic that Alaminos will continue to soar high in all spheres of city’s development knowing that his citymates are behind him and his programs that continue to improve Alaminians’ standard of living. (CIO)

Dagupan eyes massive export market for bangus (http://www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&fi=p100505.htm&no=72)

By Venus H. Sarmiento

Dagupan City - The tasty Dagupan bangus may soon find massive export in the international market with the operation of the newly-built seafoods processing complex in Bonuan Binloc.

Director Westly Rosario of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center which operates under the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said the complex can process at least five tons of fish a day but can hold up to 40 tons of seafoods daily.

"With the facility, we can be sure na mas lalaki ang market ng Dagupan bangus," Rosario said during the Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency Tuesday.

Rosario clarified that the complex is not built to pose a threat to small-time processors but rather, it was built to help them. The complex, he said, was designed for bangus processing but it can also process other shelffishes and echinoderms like cucumber.

He said the complex is also open to the products of other towns and provinces.

"The facility will prioritize products from Dagupan City but to sustain its operation, we will also accept bangus from other municipalities and provinces," he said.

Rosario clarified, however, that everything that will enter the complex has to be properly inspected. Products from other towns should be from accredited producers only and must be thoroughly examined.

"Dapat alamin natin kung ano yung kinakain ng dala nilang bangus, kung saan galing, kung anong quality ng tubig kasi, maganda ang reputation ng Dagupan pagdating sa bangus and at the end of the day, sa packaging lahat ng lalabas sa facility ay may nakalagay na 'Processed in Dagupan City' kaya dapat salain mabuti lahat ng pumapasok," Rosario said. (PIA-Pangasinan)

Mangaldan eyes cityhood (http://www.positivenewsmedia.net/am2/publish/Cities_And_Towns_23/Mangaldan_eyes_cityhood.shtml)

By Leonardo V. Micua

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan - A new city is in the offing in Pangasinan following the grand inauguration and opening here of the CSI Mangaldan, a new supermart in the heart of the province.

Mayor Herminio Romero thanked Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, president and chairman of the board of the CSI Group of Companies, for putting up a branch of her company in Mangaldan.

Mrs. Gina de Venecia, wife of congressman Jose de Venecia Jr., cut the ceremonial ribbon along with Mayor Romero and Fernandez.

This will help create jobs and boost the income of the municipality and help it realize its dream to become the fifth city in Pangasinan, he said.

Projecting that the dream of Mangaldan to become a city may be attained in just three to five years, Romero appealed to his townmates to help him make this dream come true.

"But there is also a need to at least change the mindset of officials of existing cities who appear not keen on welcoming new cities as this will mean reduction of their existing Internal Revenue Allotment from the national government", he added.

To date, Mangaldan already meets the income requirement of cityhood which is P100 million but it is still lagging behind in population.

Its current population to date is 95,000 which is 55,000 short of the 150,000 requirement of a city.

Romero said that with the help of big companies, like CSI, more people will come to live in Mangaldan.

Already a first class town, Mangaldan has the biggest potential among other 43 cities of Pangasinan to change its status into a city.

To date, it has five high-end subdivisions located in separate barangays near the Dagupan border.

He noted that while CSI Mangaldan was being built, several other commercial buildings sprouted in front, which means that business continues to flourish in the town.

As next door neighbor of Dagupan, Mangaldan is ready to absorb the spill over of business which can no longer be accommodated by its city neighbor, he added. (PNA)

25 RP cities emerging
as mini-Singapores

TWENTY-five Philippine cities cited by the Asian Institute of Manage-ment's Policy Center for their competitiveness are emerging as mini-Singapores.

The AIM Policy Center's 2007 Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Program (PCCRP) evaluated 90 cities and rated them for the dynamism of their local economies, cost of doing business, infrastructure, human resources and training, responsiveness to business needs and quality of life.

The top cities in the metro category, in alphabetical order, are Davao, Lapu-Lapu, Makati, Manila, Marikina and Quezon City; the top mid-sized cities are (alphabetically) Cabanatuan, General Santos, Lucena, Olongapo, San Pablo, Tagum and Tarlac and; the small ones (alphabetically) are Bayawan, Calapan, Calbayog, Dagupan, Dipolog, Laoag, San Fernando in La Union; Malaybalay, Naga, Surigao, Tagbilaran and Tuguegarao.

Dr. Federico Macaranas, executive director of the AIM Policy Center, said the survey serves as a tool for investors for their ventures here and highlights the best practices of the local governments which, if emulated by others, could turn more Philippine cities into "mini-Singapores."

Singapore has consistently ranked among the top competitive countries.

However, Macaranas noted that despite the 7.3 percent economic growth achieved in 2007, the standard of living in some local governments have not improved much, reflecting the effects of inflation brought about by higher oil and rice prices, among others.

This is the fifth edition of the PCCRP, a biennial study which ranks cities on the basis of economic performance and responsiveness to business enterprises. PCCRP results, Macaranas said, have served as benchmarks for local chief executives, city planners and economic and development managers in improving their development strides in their cities. - Irma Isip

WOW dagupan as mini singapore...

Pangasinan generally peaceful up to end of campaign (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=13&rid=274441)

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, May 9 (PNA) -- The province of Pangasinan remained generally peaceful with no serious untoward incident happening up to the end of the 45-day campaign period by midnight of Saturday.

This was disclosed by Senior Superintendent Percival Barba, Pangasinan police director, who admitted that temper flew high among some candidates and their supporters but this smoldering situation did not generate into full-blown violence.

Only one suspected election-related violent incident (IRVI) happened that resulted into the death of a follower of Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili of Tayug at 11:20 a.m. last May 6 in Sitio San Mariano, Barangay Legaspi, Tayug.

The fatality was identified as Danilo Aguinaldo, 36, of Barangay Lagasit, San Quintin, who sustained two gunshot wounds in the back of his body and died while being treated at the Family Hospital in Tayug.

Aguinaldo, who was on board a motorcycle when shot, was one of the security men of Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili.

A case for murder was filed against Normie Asis and Rusty Sanchez, said to be followers of Vicente Abobo, incumbent barangay captain of Lawak, Tayug who is running for mayor under the Liberal Party.

Barba thanked Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Constante Azares Jr. for granting his request for the sending of augmentation force.

The augmentation force already arrived in Pangasinan last Friday. More than 500 men who beefed up the 2,300 police force in Pangasinan.

Barba said the augmentation force consisted of 170 men from the Regional Police Regional Training Center in Aringay, La Union, 246 regulars from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and about 200 Army draftees.

He said the additional force already reported to the chiefs of police in 44 towns and four cities of Pangasinan, who took charge of their deployment.

Priority areas for deployment were Alaminos, Bolinao, Urbiztondo, Dagupan City, San Carlos City, Malasiqui, Villasis, Balungao, Tayug, San Manuel, San Nicolas and San Quintin which were included in the PNP watch list.

At the same time, Barba said he has placed on duty two policemen in each of the 1,185 voting centers throughout Pangasinan. It is in these voting centers where the 2,334 Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines are now located.

Barba announced that each voting center will have Security Assistance Desk where the names of policemen on duty are posted. (PNA)

PPCRV Lingayen-Dagupan to conduct blow-by-blow poll coverage (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=13&rid=274412)

DAGUPAN CITY, May 9 (PNA) -- The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting in the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese (PPCRV LD) will hold a blow-by-blow coverage of the election on Monday (May 10) in 17 towns and cities covered by the archdiocese.

PPCRV LD will put up a Media Desk at its nerve center at the Archbishop's Palace on Jovellanos Street in Dagupan City to give the media short updates on breaking news, which will be posted in its Facebook and Twitter, said Franklin Q. de Guzman, PPCRV LD Media Desk head.

De Guzman said their group will field thousands of volunteers assigned as poll watchers in 17 municipalities and cities to monitor any unusual incident happening.

The PPCRV LD Nerve Center is Wi-Fi ready, De Guzman said, adding that he will also face the media to give out news.

At the same time, PPCRV LD announced that it will have a parallel manual count for president, vice-president, senators, congressman, governor, vice-governor and board members.

Most of the parishes in 17 municipalities and cities will also have their manual parallel count for their respective local candidates (mayor, vice-mayor and councilors).

PPCRV is the official citizen’s arm of the Commission on Elections and was given the privilege to acquire the fourth copy of the Election Returns.

De Guzman appealed to the media to work together in ensuring clean, honest, accurate, meaningful and peaceful elections, urging them to stand up for truth. (PNA)

1.6 million voters to troop to the polls in Pangasinan (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=274546)

DAGUPAN CITY, May 9 (PNA)—A total of 1,621,959 voters will troop to the polls in all 44 towns and four cities of Pangasinan on Monday, May 10, according to the Provincial Elections Office.

Provincial elections supervisor Reddy Balarbar said the number was just more than 200,000 higher than those who registered for the 2007 elections, which was 1.4 million.

The voters will cast their votes in 2,334 clustered precincts, located in 1,184 voting centers all over the province.

All the voting centers are now being secured by two policemen or Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel each.

All the 2,334 clustered precincts, said Balarbar, had one Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machine each.

Turn out in the 2007 election was from 82 to 83 percent. Balarbar expects that more will vote now because this is both national and local elections.

However, this is the first electronics election in the country. Since commonwealth period, elections in the Philippines were done manually.

In this election, the votes from Pangasinan is vital for any national candidates because it is the third biggest voting province in the entire country after Cebu and Rizal in that order.

In the provincial elections, only the Lakas-Kampi-CMD and the Liberal Party fielded their respective candidates.

Only the candidates of the LP and Nacionalista Party are contesting the elections in Dagupan City, the melting pot of the whole province of Pangasinan. (PNA)

“The development of agriculture shall be on top of my priorities. Although Urdaneta is a city, 70 percent of the people are dependent on farming as source of income. The ‘Tulungan sa Purok’ shall be sustained by providing the people with free vegetable seeds for their backyard gardening,” he said.

He cited existing problems of the city like the lack of parking spaces for buses and jeepneys, narrow sidewalks, traffic and drug use.

He said that the existing public auditorium would be transferred to a more conducive area and make it as an expansion area for the “bagsakan” or wholesale market.

The “mothballed” mall near the Urdaneta City Elementary School could be developed as transport terminal to ease traffic at the city’s downtown. This, however, will be done after the Court shall have settled the case and with direct consultation with the members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod.


Now that he is the Mayor... let him solve the persistent problems as mentioned above. For a middle-average working class of Urdaneta City, these are our hindrances for progress as we see it;

1. Traffic condition is worsening, local drivers lacks discipline
2. Bagsakan area must be traffic-regulated (traffic pa rin ito)
3. Urdaneta City Elementary School resolution as mentioned above would be a great help, BUT please assure the public of the safety of the school children because local drivers are undisciplined. They should abide with the rules and regulations. So much to say that they should follow values and morality to the kids. (Ito ay traffic concerns pa rin)

Traffic, traffic, traffic, drivers, drivers, drivers..... please lang po, ayusin natin ito. Both sides of the McArthur Hiway is posted now as a parking area. Ano ba yan?!?

We will always abide. HOPING Bobom will do his job now. More power to Urdaneta City!!

si Benjie Lim kunoy mayor na Dagupan??
supa met so analo ed pagka kongresista na 4th district??

http://www.gmanews.tv/eleksyon2010/provincialcount/PANGASINAN

Partial Unofficial Tally as of 2010-05-12 01:30:01 87.75% of ER

Governor
1 AGBAYANI, Victor Aguedo E. 223,991
2 ESPINO, Amado, Jr. T. 616,875
3 SISON, Wilfredo B. 4,421
4 VELASCO, Wilfredo T. 1,968
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Vice-Governor
1 CALIMLIM, Jose F Jr Z. 462,974
2 LAMBINO, Oscar B. 285,668
3 MAGNO, Julius A. 17,001
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MEMBER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of PANGASINAN - FIFTH LEGDIST
1 COJUANGCO, Carmen S. 108,532
2 DEMETRIA, Demetrio G. 44,427
3 FAO-ILAN, Martin T. 2,491
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MEMBER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of PANGASINAN - FIRST LEGDIST
1 CELESTE, Jesus D. 60,560
2 DIZON, Danilo B. 16,782
3 DOCTOR, Domingo, Jr. A. 4,425
4 JIMENEZ, Christine C. 697
5 MABALOT, Vladimir M III T. 318
6 PULIDO, Ma. Judea J. 38,305
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MEMBER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of PANGASINAN - FOURTH LEGDIST
1 DE VENECIA, Ma Georgina P. 101,134
2 DECANO, Alejandro S. 808
3 LIM, Celia C. 51,189
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MEMBER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of PANGASINAN - SECOND LEGDIST
1 BATAOIL, Leopoldo N. 52,930
2 CARONOÑGAN, Arthel B. 23,289
3 DE GUZMAN, Franco F. 1,352
4 LOKIN, Maria Blanca Kim B. 25,193
5 MERRERA, Arsenio A. 13,722
6 REYES, Nestor D. 17,402
7 VERGARA, Ron B. 688
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MEMBER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of PANGASINAN - SIXTH LEGDIST
1 ESPERON, Hermogenes, Jr. C. 60,050
2 LIBATIQUE, Eduardo C. 353
3 PRIMICIAS-AGABAS, Marlyn L. 85,249
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MEMBER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of PANGASINAN - THIRD LEGDIST
1 ARENAS, Ma Rachel J. 125,404
2 SORIANO, Gallant D. 68,309
DAGUPAN CITY
Mayor
1 FERNANDEZ, Alipio Jr. F. 27,625
2 LIM, Benjamin S. 29,963
Vice-Mayor
1 FERNANDEZ, Belen T. 43,542
2 TORIO, Danilo C. 12,027
MEMBER, SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD of PANGASINAN - DAGUPAN CITY - LONE DIST
1 AGUILA, Evesmichael D. 1,008
2 AQUINO, Jestoni P. 11,658
3 CANTO, Jesus D. 32,384
4 COQUIA, Alvin T. 22,582
5 CUISON, Nelson H. 19,952
6 DE VENECIA, Alex P. 17,843
7 DELA CRUZ, Ignacio Jr. L. 1,601
8 ERFE-MEJIA, Redford Christian P. 23,402
9 FERNANDEZ, Alipio Serafin D. 26,800
10 FERNANDEZ, Maybelyn Rose D. 37,716
11 FLORES, Arsenio Jake B. 949
12 LIM, Marc Brian C. 35,010
13 LLAMAS, JR., Alfonso P. 15,418
14 MANAOIS, Joseph Anthony U. 9,369
15 PARAGAS, Leodovico V. 7,821
16 PEREZ, Tito T. 3,100
17 QUINTO, Alfredo Sr. U. 21,300
18 REYNA, Karlos Liberato Iv E. 31,458
19 REYNA, Maria Librada Fe M. 30,740
20 SALAYOG, Roberto R. 5,100
21 SAMSON, Luis Jr M. 25,046
22 SEEN, Jeslito C. 30,893
23 SIM, Michael W. 10,157
24 SISON, Ronald Allan T. 9,241
25 TORIO, Butch Cardinal N. 11,722
26 VALLEJOS, Guillermo P. 16,250

The following website link will give you at least details of what happened during the election;

http://www.gmanews.tv/eleksyon2010/provincialcount/PANGASINAN

Let me congratulate the Filipino people for the SUCCESS of the election 2010. Marakep yay agawa natan. Anggapo so mangebagay asaol ira... bagkos atalo so ibabagay totoo.

Unlike past election, kung natalo ang kandidato... sinasabi nadaya sila. This time with a "new attitude and culture" of voting, I could say that Filipino masses matters most on their patient and participation on the election.

Mabuhay so Pilipinas... umbangon ka la Pangasinan!!!
:banana::banana::banana:

Problems so far are malfunctioned PCOS machines, overheating of machines, voting errors, ballot twisting errors (napunit, nahulugan ng pawis) which is mostly normal in this situation. Wala ni PCOS kable ya atalapus na wheelchair. :lol:

Now everyone knew how computerization works. I only have one comment for faster voting process;

Problem: 10 person could only vote "at a time" sa loob ng precinct because of clustering

Solution: put the voting area in one big auditorium and accommodate at least 100 person "at a time".

Benefit: PCOS machine is minimized and therefore they could provide more backup machines. The auditorium or a basketball court could be use to accommodate 100 persons voting "at a time". Ang siksikan ng tao ay nasa labas ng auditorium or basketball court.

With this solution, mas lalong maganda ang result kasi maganda at maaayos din at preparado ang communication transmittals kasi nakahanda na sa communication Telco sa pagsetup pa lang.

Anyway, maganda pa rin dahil tiyaga ng mga Filipino. Mabuhay!!!
:banana::banana::banana:

Intriguing results from this years election.

An UPSET in the making--Benjie "the magic man" LIM leading Alipio "the smoker" Fernandez? If this indeed comes into fruition--the leaders of Dagupan for Mayor and Vice-Mayor are both mall owners and does not come from the political elite of Dagupan.

San Carlos City - A sweep for the Resuello Brothers---brushing aside the challenge of former 3rd district congressman- DC Tulagan.

Rachel Arenas wins the congressional district and ends the dreams of Gallant Soriano for the second time in a row - The Sorianos who once controlled San Carlos City and the 3rd district have been totally shut out of the political arena for some time now.

Vice Governor Primicias proves too much for General Esperon for the sixth congressional district.

The Perezes of San Manuel and the Villars of Santo Tomas towns continue their political dominance (How long have these families been in power?) The Villars have stretched their powers outside of the province and are Chair to two powerful Government positions - The brothers Antonio "Bebot" Villar for the Dangerous Drug Board and Commission on Audit head, Reynaldo Villar. The perezes of Urdaneta City still holds on to their bailwick.

Macanlalay Father and Son of Calasiao have successfully won the vice mayor and mayorship of their town.

In Sta. BArbara---It seems, the Iglesia ni Cristo votes propels former mayor Zaplan to topple Velasco in one of the hottest and closest fights in the province.

The emerging political power of the Calimlims are also evident. They dominate the mayor and vice-mayorship of Mapandan and secures the vice-governorship of the province trouncing former vice-governor Oscar Lambino.

Governor Espino wins by a landslide against the fading star of the Agbayanis. The Agbayanis also lost to Arcinue for the Sual mayorship (second time?)

Mayor Revita wins the battle royale mayorship of Rosales against former mayor Yu. Revita's wife who ran for Mayor in neighboring Balungao unfortunately (or fortunately for some) lost to Peralta.

The Celestes continue their congressional hold in the first district as they hold off television newscaster Maki Pulido. Incidentally, the Pulidos are also losing their grip in Anda. Another Celeste wins the mayorship of Bolinao.
Hernani Braganza wins the mayorship for Alaminos City against Arthur Celeste.

Congratulations to the winners!

Intriguing results from this years election.

Congratulations to the winners!


Hoping that the winners will be able to "reconcile" political practices in Pangasinan. Ang problem kasi sa kanila minsan, they do not compromise with what is required and eventually good for the people.

Ang problem naman sa atin (especially Pangasinan), when I saw that vote buying really does make matter. I do not think that voters are matured enough to select a candidate with moral and values. Kung sino pa yong nagbigay sa kanila ng bribe para iboto ang kandidato.... yon pa rin talaga ang iboboto nila. Sabi ng kabilang kampo, may vote buying ang kalaban.... so vote buying na rin sila kasi nga, yon ang gusto ng mga tao din. Sus ginoo!!

I'm a neutral voter that is why I can say this for myself. I am not condemning anyone but I guess kaya tayo naghihirap kasi dahil sa attitude na rin natin.

We need to change really, we need to mature a little more for the benefit of Pangasinan. All I need to do now is pray for our community.

Yes. Vote buying did occur in the province. It is sad that people only think of their short-term future and how they can spend their 2k pesos (the 2k peso per vote figure is the going rate now in the province). Poverty and lack of education still prevails in our province and this will continue until a selfless leader (meron pa ba nito?) emerges. Para sa atin ang 2k ay maliit lang, pero para sa mahirap ng magsasaka---napakalaki na nito...hindi rin natin sila masisi.

^ Vote-selling and vote-buying really happened. :ohno:

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(http://www.facebook.com/SanCarlosCityPangasinan)

PHILIPPINE STAR (May 16, 2010)
BY EVA VISPERAS


LINGAYEN, Pangasinan , Philippines – Twenty-four incumbent mayors in Pangasinan, three of them unopposed plus five provincial board members, were re-elected and proclaimed winners in the May 10 elections.

Based on the election results, incumbent mayors who won fresh mandate as un opposed were: Sto. Tomas Mayor Vivien Villar, Bautista Mayor Amado Espino III, Bugallon Mayor Rodrigo Orduña.

Although they needed only one vote for their proclamation, all of them got more than 90 percent of the votes from their constituent voters.

Among the three un opposed mayors, it was only Villar, wife of Secretary Antonio Villar Jr., chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board, who consistently ran unopposed in all her mayoralty fights.

Re-elected mayors were: Jose Pajeta Jr. (Agno), Hernani Braganza (Alaminos City), Manuel Collado (Alcala), Marcelo Navarro Jr. (Bani), Ricardo Camacho (Bayambang), Alfonso Celeste (Bolinao), Noel Nacar (Dasol), Ernesto Castañeda Jr. (Lingayen), Ruperto Martinez (Infanta), Carlito Reyes (Mabini), Armand Domantay Sr. (Malasiqui), Napoleon Sales (Manaoag) Herminio Romero (Mangaldan), Teodoro Cruz (Mangatarem), Ricardo Revita (Rosales), Julier Resuello (San Carlos City), Leoncio Saldivar (San Nicolas), John Rodney Arcinue (Sual), Carlos Trece Mapili (Tayug), Eldred Tumbocon (Umi ngan) and Ernesto Balolong Jr. (Urbiztondo).


Only Mapandan Mayor Maximo Calimlim Jr., a neophyte candidate for mayor was unchallenged in his first attempt in politics. He is the uncle of vice governor-elect Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr. who is now the outgoing mayor of Mapandan.

Mark Roy Macanlalay of Calasiao, son of incumbent Mayor Roy Macanlalay won as mayor, succeeding his father who ran and won as his vice mayor.

The same situation happened in San Nicolas town wherein Alain Jericho Perez would succeed his father, Mayor Salvador Perez, who was also elected as vice mayor.

Irene Libunao of San Fabian town will succeed her husband, Mayor Mojamito Libunao Jr. who won as board member in the fourth district.

Libradita “Dita” Abrenica of Villasis will also take the place of her husband, three-term Mayor Nonato Abrenica.

Ramon Guico III of Binalonan will also inherit the throne to be vacated by his father, Mayor Ramon Guico Jr., who ran and lost in the senatorial race.

In Urdaneta City, Amado Gregorio Perez IV will succeed his father, three-term Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr.

Philipp Peralta of Balungao will also take over the post to be vacated by his brother, outgoing Mayor Jose Peralta Jr., who lost in his bid as board member of the fifth district.

Other elected mayors are: Eduardo Ballesteros (Aguilar), Aldrin Cerdan (Anda), Heidee Chua (Asingan), Manolito de Leon (Basista), Lorenzo Cerezo (Binmaley), Albert Guiang Jr. (Burgos), Benjamin Lim (Dagupan City), Ricardo Camacho (Labrador), Silverio Alarcio (Laoac), Rodrigo Rafael (Natividad), Artemio Chan (Pozorrubio), Robert de Vera (San Jacinto), Romulo Antolin (San Quintin), Carlito Zaplan (Sta. Barbara) Teodoro Ramos (Sta. Maria) and Mina Joy Pangasinan (Sison).

Interestingly, the mayors of Bayambang and Labrador are both named Ricardo Camacho.

Meanwhile, re-elected board members are: Von Mark Mendoza, Angel Baniqued, Jeremy Agerico Rosario, Danilo Uy and Alfonso Bince Jr. for second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth districts respectively.  

They will be joined by the following board members-elect: Napoleon Fontelera Jr. and Teofilo Humilde Jr. (first district), Raul Sison (second district), Generoso Tulagan Jr. (third district), Mojamito Libanao Jr. (fourth district), Clemente Arboleda Jr. (fifth district) and Ranjit Ramos Shahani (sixth district).

pinalabas kanina sa GMA 5 Davao ang highlights ng Dagupan Bangus Festival (9am to 10:30am, 1 hr. and 30 minutes talaga...(street parade and kapuso Mall Show)

pinalabas kanina sa GMA 5 Davao ang highlights ng Dagupan Bangus Festival (9am to 10:30am, 1 hr. and 30 minutes talaga...(street parade and kapuso Mall Show)

Wow nationwide pala ang telecast!

Napanood ko rin kanina. I thought dito lang samin sa GMA 10 Dagupan pinapalabas. GMA sponsored events lang ang pinakita, sana pinakita nila lahat ng stage sa buong 2.8 km street party, almost 700,000 raw visitors andun.

I hope potential investors noticed na marami talagang tao sa Pangasinan :lol:

haaaaizzz...masaya manood ng Bangus Fest un nga lang haba ng lalakarin mo
hirap kasama ang mga oldy sa pagdiriwang na yan,.......kulang na lang buhatin mo silaaaa...weeeeeeeeeeee :lol:

ganda talaga ng San Carlos.....wheeeeewww....


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photo from amputi layag ak (People of San Carlos City Pangasinan) (http://www.facebook.com/SanCarlosCityPangasinan)facebook
(http://www.facebook.com/SanCarlosCityPangasinan)

Intriguing results from this years election.

An UPSET in the making--Benjie "the magic man" LIM leading Alipio "the smoker" Fernandez? If this indeed comes into fruition--the leaders of Dagupan for Mayor and Vice-Mayor are both mall owners and does not come from the political elite of Dagupan.

Congratulations to the winners!

and they are both of Chinese descents.

^^
Mall competitors to lead Dagupan (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100513-269730/Mall-competitors-to-lead-Dagupan)

By Yolanda Sotelo
Philippine Daily Inquirer

DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines – Two stiff competitors in the mall business in Northern Luzon were elected as the top two officials in this city.

On Wednesday, former Mayor Benjamin Lim was proclaimed winner in the mayoral race that saw him upsetting reelectionist Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr.

Lim, owner of the Magic Group of Companies, will lead the city with reelected Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, owner of the City Supermarket Inc. (CSI), Magic’s main competitor.

Lim, also a former representative of the fourth congressional district, and Fernandez own their respective chains of supermarkets and department stores in Pangasinan and in other provinces in the Ilocos.

Lim won by 2,618 votes over Mayor Fernandez while Vice Mayor Fernandez led her nearest rival by almost 40,000 votes.

Lim said his and Fernandez’s victory would benefit Dagupan because “two tested entrepreneurs and managers are now at the helm of running the city.”

“What we can probably do is share our experiences and remove our [political] differences and really work together to serve the people,” he said.

Lim said he believed that Dagupeños voted for them “not to enlarge our [respective] businesses but to share our talent, intelligence and influence in making sure that we give best service to the city.”

Fernandez, in a local television interview, said she would cooperate with Lim as long as the city government vows to protect small businessmen and avoid increasing taxes and obtaining unnecessary loans.

Dagupan vice mayor deplores misinformation, belies she's resigning (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=276407)

By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, May 18 (PNA) — Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez again belied what she called as misinformation continuously circulating in text messages that she will resign because she could not work with the newly elected city mayor.

Vice Mayor Fernandez, who captured 80 percent of all the votes in Dagupan City against her lone challenger, Councilor Danilo Torio, said the misinformation is not true as she can work with anybody which she had already proven many times in the past.

Fernandez, who ran under the Liberal Party, took the opportunity to belie the text messages when she delivered a message during the traditional flag-raising ceremony on Monday at the city plaza, attended by officials and employees of the city government.

“I do not know who may be circulating the misinformation and prompting me to resign my post, but I will hold on to this, knowing that I enjoy the full trust and confidence of a big majority of our people in Dagupan City,” she remarked.

The vice mayor who just earned her second term of office, however lamented about the loss of her partner, Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. who was beaten by more than 2,000 votes by former Mayor Benjamin Lim, a candidate of the Nacionalista Party.

Everybody in Dagupan and Pangasinan are aware that the vice mayor and the mayor-elect are long-time business rivals, both being owners of commercial malls competing with each other not only in Pangasinan but also in Northern Luzon.

With this as a backdrop, most people of Dagupan City believe the two to collide on many matters, thus possibly dragging the development of the city.

But Fernandez told newsmen that she is willing to cooperate with the new city administration on programs and projects that could redound to the greater interest of the Dagupan people.

Eight of the 10-man incoming city council belong to Team GAB now headed by Vice Mayor Fernandez. Incoming mayor Lim recaptured Dagupan city hall with only two councilors in tow.

The other GAB member Gina de Venecia won as congresswoman of the Fourth District of Pangasinan.

The eight elected city councilors belonging to Team GAB are Maybelyn Fernandez, who topped the council election, Jesus Canto, Karlos Reyna, Librada Reyna, Jeslito Seen, Alfie Fernandez, Luis Samson Jr, and Alvin Coquia.

The non-GAB members are Brian Lim, son of the incoming mayor, and Redford Erfe Mejia.

Fernandez repeated what she earlier told when interviewed in a local television that she will never turn her back on the almost 80 percent of the voters who picked her and recognized and upheld her three-year performance in office.

“How can I turn my back, knowing that the 80 percent of the voters of Dagupan are on my side. Thus, the more that I will work double time “because I know that 80 percent the voters in Dagupan City recognize and acknowledge my performance".

“I will double my efforts so that the interest of the 80 percent of the voters, including the other 20 per cent that did not vote for me, can best be served,” she added.

In extending her cooperation to the incoming mayor, Fernandez reiterated however that they have a party stand to follow, which they will maintain for the next three years.

She said they will strongly oppose if there is a proposal for additional loans to be acquired by the city government and a new proposal to increase taxes and levy new taxes.

She added that they will raise a howl too if businessmen, especially the small ones, are harassed, and will oppose red tape and graft and corruption in the city government. (PNA)

Dagupan Bangus Festival now recognized internationally (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=276434)

DAGUPAN CITY, May 18 (PNA)—Just after only three years of implementation, the Dagupan Bangus Festival was finally recognized internationally, according to Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.

Fernandez said the recognition was attested by numerous congratulatory messages she and Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. received since 2007 when they began their reign in the city.

Vice Mayor Fernandez, who just won her reelection for another term of office, said this also gave due recognition to Dagupan and its number one agricultural product, bangus.

She said the featured “Festivals of the North” that was incorporated into the Bangus Festival enabled Dagupan to recapture its old prestige as a melting of Pangasinan and in the whole Northern Luzon.

The “Festivals of the North” featured the best among the best street dancers from Northern Luzon and some towns in Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Zambales, Benguet, Baguio and Abra.

Thus, Fernandez said with pride that with the Bangus Festival, Dagupan reclaimed its old role as the melting of the north, hence the name “Dagupan” was derived from the Pangasinan word “Pandaragupan,” which means “melting pot”.

On the other hand, the festival’s “Bangusan Street Party”, that used to be attended by 700,000 to one million people, was earlier acclaimed by the Department of Tourism as the biggest street party in the whole country.

The Dagupan Bangus Festival started in 2002 under the term of then mayor Benjamin Lim ,who beat Mayor Fernandez during the last election. Lim bowed during the campaign to take back the Bangus Festival and spearhead it in 2011.

It was in the 2002 Bangus Festival, under Lim’s first term, when Dagupan established the world’s longest barbecue grill in the Guinness Book of World Record.

Vice Mayor Fernandez expressed her gratitude to all the participants, sponsors and volunteers who contributed a lot for the success of the 2010 Bangus Festival.

She said without their continued support for the last three years, the Bangus Festival would not have been known internationally.

It was under the chairmanship of Vice Mayor Fernandez that the featured “Festivals of the North” as well as “Yaman ng Norte” (Treasure of the North) was incorporated in the yearly Bangus Festival. (PNA)

:banana: Wowww Philippines........

gooo goo goooooooo :cheers:


Dagupan Bangus Festival now recognized internationally (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=276434)

DAGUPAN CITY, May 18 (PNA)—Just after only three years of implementation, the Dagupan Bangus Festival was finally recognized internationally, according to Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.

Hoping na walang aberya sa kanilang mga balakin pa na magtayo ng

Malls sa Dagupan..............


^^
Mall competitors to lead Dagupan (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100513-269730/Mall-competitors-to-lead-Dagupan)

By Yolanda Sotelo
Philippine Daily Inquirer

DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines – Two stiff competitors in the mall business in Northern Luzon were elected as the top two officials in this city.

On Wednesday, former Mayor Benjamin Lim was proclaimed winner in the mayoral race that saw him upsetting reelectionist Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr.

Lim, owner of the Magic Group of Companies, will lead the city with reelected Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, owner of the City Supermarket Inc. (CSI), Magic’s main competitor.

Posts inciting Cvc and personal attacks are deleted without prior notice. Those forumers for committing such actions are properly dealt with :okay:

santiagocity_isabela was brigged for such inappropriate behavior.

Posts inciting Cvc and personal attacks are deleted without prior notice. Those forumers for committing such actions are properly dealt with :okay:

santiagocity_isabela was brigged for such inappropriate behavior.


Yap, seems that ultimately we get rid of those not reading the "terms and conditions" of the forum.

That is why some messages were erased.

:storm:

:) Thanks Mod....... :cheers:


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salamat ed news update lalo la ed si Allan.

some photos of Hundred Islands for a break..
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Hello..bago lang ako dito sa forum na eto...but matagal na po ako nagbabasa ng mga messages dito sa forum na eto..im from dagupan city but based here in dubai...Kudos to all forumers here..who gave all the topics here...My warm applause to all.esp.to Allan dude whose giving such intersting topics particularly the places and events of Dagupan and the entire Pangasinan Province...salamat ed sikayon amin...heard that SM will build their mall in Binmaley..which is near the Bangsal Resto....

WELCOME sa thread ng Pangasinan @ swarlder


SM sa Binmaley?.........tatabunan na ang mga Fishpan sa area na yan?
sayang naman ung area



Hello..bago lang ako dito sa forum na eto...but matagal na po ako nagbabasa ng mga messages dito sa forum na eto..im from dagupan city but based here in dubai...Kudos to all forumers here..who gave all the topics here...My warm applause to all.esp.to Allan dude whose giving such intersting topics particularly the places and events of Dagupan and the entire Pangasinan Province...salamat ed sikayon amin...heard that SM will build their mall in Binmaley..which is near the Bangsal Resto....

waaaaaaaahhhh jan nag stay iyong mga kasama namin....sa tabi nito merong tindahan.....

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Wheeew...ka miss din ang Hundred island kaso di advisable pag buwan ng July-September ayun sa mga Bangkero dahil malalaki ang mga alon.

WELCOME sa thread ng Pangasinan @ swarlder


SM sa Binmaley?.........tatabunan na ang mga Fishpan sa area na yan?
sayang naman ung area



akala ko sa mangaldan,.. kung sabagay 1st class municipality naman siya at malapit din sa metro dagupan.

nice photos of Hundred islands!

Below is a photo from Hundred Island... got 5 photos of this way back 2007 but cannot find the others. Though the photo is taken years back, last January when I visited this island... there's no change so far.

Maganda pa rin siya. Hay, nakakamiss ang Pangasinan!!

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SM to put up Global Pinoy Center in Pangasinan (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=277514)

ROSALES, Pangasinan, May 23 (PNA) -- SM City Rosales will launch its Global Pinoy Center (GPC) in Pangasinan on May 28 to be located at its Building No. 2, near its Department Store here.

The GPC will be put up as Shoe Mart Inc. recognizes the challenges of the modern day heroes, the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), who leave the country and their loved ones to try their luck and work abroad in order to support their families.

SM City Rosales said the GPC is a treat to hardworking Pangasinense OFWs whose dollar remittances to their relatives and dependents in the Philippines help propel the economy.

Engr. Jersey Mendoza, Rosales Mall manager, and other invited guests will lead the cutting of the ceremonial ribbon for the newest OFW hub in the mall.

The GPC is a one-stop shop for services specifically tailored for the Global Pinoy and his family's needs. By being a member of the program, one will enjoy the following services by visiting any Global Pinoy Center: Info Services, Remittances and Communication.

SM City Rosales said that each member of the GPC is given a Global Pinoy Card which entitles him and his family a wealth of privileges up to a total of P80,000 worth of discounts in education, health, services, hotels, restaurants and various shops.

A member may avail of 20% off on tuition fee at the Asia Pacific College or 15% off at the National University in Manila.

The Global Pinoy Card lets OFWs and their families enjoy rewards, discounts and freebies from SM Supermalls and other partner establishments.

It also grants access to the GPC lounge and to several fun events and informative seminars held by SM Cares, making every family's stay at SM Supermalls worthwhile.

At the same time, SM Rosales announced that any overseas Filipino worker who has an active contract abroad is qualified for membership.

One has to completely fill out the Global Pinoy Membership Application Form and to submit it with any valid ID (for Global Pinoys and former Global Pinoys) or any ID and proof of remittance (for beneficiaries at any Global Pinoy Center.

Through the Global Pinoy Program, SM Supermalls will achieve another milestone by giving the present-day heroes a one-stop hub and a card that opens a wealth of privileges and convenience just for them and their families. (PNA)
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yun sana sa Mangaldan..Brgy.Anolid lapit sa Boundary Ng Dagupan(bolosan)-mangaldan...kaso as you all know hinde nag prosper coz of HINARANG daw uli yun pagpapatayuan nila....yun sa Binmaley..I think yun Lot dun is pag mamay ari ng isang Prominent Politician sa Pinas...Thanks for welcoming me here.

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yun sana sa Mangaldan..Brgy.Anolid lapit sa Boundary Ng Dagupan(bolosan)-mangaldan...kaso as you all know hinde nag prosper coz of HINARANG daw uli yun pagpapatayuan nila....yun sa Binmaley..I think yun Lot dun is pag mamay ari ng isang Prominent Politician sa Pinas...Thanks for welcoming me here.


ilang hectares po yun sa binmaley if ever na matuloy?? pano ung 12 hectares na lot nila sa daupan?? forclosed n b un??

Hello..bago lang ako dito sa forum na eto...but matagal na po ako nagbabasa ng mga messages dito sa forum na eto..im from dagupan city but based here in dubai...Kudos to all forumers here..who gave all the topics here...My warm applause to all.esp.to Allan dude whose giving such intersting topics particularly the places and events of Dagupan and the entire Pangasinan Province...salamat ed sikayon amin...heard that SM will build their mall in Binmaley..which is near the Bangsal Resto....



SM diad binmaley? is this confirmed?...sabagay medyo malapit na rin samin...hehe...

but i won't be surprised if one of these days SM will build a mall in central pangasinan where most of the population is concentrated...its long overdue...rosales is just too far...building an SM mall in Dagupan is next to impossible...the next best option would be at nearby municipalities i.e., mangaldan, calasiao, binmaley, sta. barbara or even lingayen...

btw, meron bang update sa robinsons mall in calasiao? tuloy pa ba un allan_dude? sabi mo after elections sisimulan?

Nice Shots @ Capricorn :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

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hmmmm kung matuloy nga ang SM na ito sa Binmaley mas maganda dahil pag sa Lingayen.......ang place lang na pwede nilang pagtayuan nito ay sa bandang capitolyo......

anyways.......Goooooo for another SM Mall in pangasinan.....:banana:



yun sana sa Mangaldan..Brgy.Anolid lapit sa Boundary Ng Dagupan(bolosan)-mangaldan...kaso as you all know hinde nag prosper coz of HINARANG daw uli yun pagpapatayuan nila....yun sa Binmaley..I think yun Lot dun is pag mamay ari ng isang Prominent Politician sa Pinas...Thanks for welcoming me here.

ilang hectares po yun sa binmaley if ever na matuloy?? pano ung 12 hectares na lot nila sa daupan?? forclosed n b un??

Hinde ko lang alam kung ilan hectares yun....I think hinde
yata natuloy yun bintahan ng lupa sa SM coz naharang nga daw.:):)

Hi guys! I'm from Albay. We're planning to go to Manaoag on June. Ano po spong bus ang sasakyan namin from Manila. How much po ang fare? Can you recommend some affordable accomodations in Manaoag? Thanks!

@ kaniguan78 take the Dagupan Bus transpo from Cubao mayroon silang deretsong biyahe sa Manaoag sa simbahan na mismo iyon hihinto, their station is beside the RCPI Building along EDSA near New York Street and oposite nito ay ang Dominion Bus Terminal.

Regarding sa hotel not sure kung meron na doon...ang Fare ng Bus pala dito mga 270+

have a nice Trip ......


Hi guys! I'm from Albay. We're planning to go to Manaoag on June. Ano po spong bus ang sasakyan namin from Manila. How much po ang fare? Can you recommend some affordable accomodations in Manaoag? Thanks!

NIA to improve Urdaneta's old communal irrigation project (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=278007)

URDANETA CITY, May 26 (PNA)--A multi-million peso project is set to be launched here even if Mayor Amadeo Perez, Jr. is ending his nine-year term of office by June 30 this year.

Perez said this is the improvement of the city's communal irrigation system, the Tanggal Perez (named after the Mayor's late father, former Congressman Amadeo Perez, Sr.) which the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is set to fund.

The mayor, who will be replaced as city mayor by his son, Councilor Amadeo Perez "Bubom" IV, said NIA is coming into the picture to improve the existing communal irrigation system of Urdaneta.

NIA is setting aside P180 million for the project which will be a boon not only to farmers in the eastern part of the city but also in the western part.

He said though NIA is spending for the improvement of the communal irrigation system, the city government through the local irrigators association will continue to own it.

"We refused to surrender the project to NIA. That is why, farmers are amortizing the amount that will be spent by the agency at the rate of one and a half cavan per year," he said.

The Tanggal Perez, which draws its water from a free-flowing spring in the eastern part of the city, is one of the legacies left by the old generations of Urdanetans to the new.

He said when his father was congressman of the old Fourth District of Pangasinan, he used his pork barrel to build the communal irrigation system that was the reason why Urdaneta was made as the rice bowl of Pangasinan.

Mayor Perez also served as congressman in the reconfigured Fifth District of Pangasinan for three terms before returning as mayor of Urdaneta, also for three terms.

Perez said with NIA's funding, lateral canals will be built leading to the farm lands, including the city's western part which is a little bit hilly.

The project, Perez said, will be a big boon to all farmers of the city once the project is finished. (PNA) LBV/lvm/lvmicua/1645/rma

@ kaniguan78 take the Dagupan Bus transpo from Cubao mayroon silang deretsong biyahe sa Manaoag sa simbahan na mismo iyon hihinto, their station is beside the RCPI Building along EDSA near New York Street and oposite nito ay ang Dominion Bus Terminal.

Regarding sa hotel not sure kung meron na doon...ang Fare ng Bus pala dito mga 270+

have a nice Trip ......

Hey suri! Thanks! Itong 270 po aircon na 'to?

Aircon Bus na yan...pero give u ng allowance ha.....kasi 2008 December Fare pa nila yan....ewan ko lang ngayon kung magkano na......

Nice Shots @ Capricorn :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

I'm glad you appreciated them suri_maw...
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heard that SM will build their mall in Binmaley..which is near the Bangsal Resto.... Hi swarlder! Welcome to SSC!!!

Kung tuloy man to, sana ang design tipong open-air wharf type na shopping complex. Asa stilts like SM Marikina, bagay na bagay lugar.

SM diad binmaley? is this confirmed?...sabagay medyo malapit na rin samin...hehe...

but i won't be surprised if one of these days SM will build a mall in central pangasinan where most of the population is concentrated...its long overdue...rosales is just too far...building an SM mall in Dagupan is next to impossible...the next best option would be at nearby municipalities i.e., mangaldan, calasiao, binmaley, sta. barbara or even lingayen...

btw, meron bang update sa robinsons mall in calasiao? tuloy pa ba un allan_dude? sabi mo after elections sisimulan? Wala pa ako update, pero this project is confirmed na.

@ kaniguan78 take the Dagupan Bus transpo from Cubao Meron rin FiveStar :)

Rice processing complex nears completion (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/rice-processing-complex-nears-completion)

By Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre

STA. BARBARA -- The structural and civic works of the modern rice processing complex being constructed at the provincial nursery compound at Barangay Tebag, this town, is now 50 percent complete.

The P160-million fund for the construction of the Integrated Rice Processing Complex (RPC) is a grant to the Provincial Government from the Korean Government through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (Koica).

Last quarter of 2009, Governor Amado Espino Jr. entered into an agreement with Koica and Department of Agriculture (DA).

On May 25, DA Regional Technical Director Cris Bautista updated the Koica representatives led by Mr. Kim Jen Oh as they conducted ocular inspection of the facilities.

Bautista said the complex is expected to be completed in July. Test run of the facilities will be on August. They would inaugurate the plant by September or October.

The integrated RPC will be equipped with state-of-the-art post harvest facilities and serve as one-stop service center for milling, drying, and storing, aside from providing contemporary production technologies to produce high quality rice.

The establishment of the RPC was formulated to improve efficiency in the rice post-production system in this area through reduction of post-harvest losses, enhancement in the quality of milled rice, improvement of the distribution system and maximization of rice by-products.

More than 200,000 farmers in the province are expected to benefit from the said facility.

Based on the Memorandum of Agreement, the Provincial Government's counterpart was the provision of the lot, leveling and raising of the area by 0.6 meter, provision of a three-phase power lines ready for tapping and construction of water system; drainage system and concrete access road.

The DA secured the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) and the Regional Development Council Endorsement. It also shouldered the transportation cost of the facility materials from the port to the site and will provide the P20 Million initial start-up capital for the operation of the complex.

During the Koica representatives' visit, the Provincial Government and the DA made known their request for the provision of a generator set capable of running the whole complex, instead of just one that can power the lighting as specified in the MOA.

This is to make sure of the continued operation of the plant even during the typhoon season when power outage is rampant for continuous operation.

Accordingly, the RPC will be jointly owned by the province and the DA. A farmers' organization will be trained to manage the facilities.

Hi-tech rice processing complex completed in July - DA (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p100528.htm&no=12)

Dagupan City (28 May) -- The state-of-the-art rice processing complex rising at the provincial nursery compound in Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan is now 50 percent complete with construction on schedule.

Department of Agriculture Regional Technical Director Crispulo Bautista told the team of representatives from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), led by Mr. Kim Jen Oh, about this development during their ocular inspection of the facilities last Tuesday.

It will be recalled that Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with KOICA and DA for the establishment of modern integrated rice processing in Pangasinan under a P160 Million grant from the Korean government.

For its part, the Provincial Government provided the lot and the three-phase power lines. The construction of drainage system and the concreting of access road are also about to start.

DA secured the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) and the Regional Development Council endorsement for the construction to proceed. It also shouldered the transportation cost of materials from the port to the site and will provide the P20 Million initial start-up capital for the operation of the complex.

Bautista said they expected the complex to be completed in July, with test run of the facilities by August and inauguration by September or October.

The Provincial Government and the DA also made known their request to KOICA representatives to provide a generator set capable of running the whole complex during the typhoon season.

Once completed, the complex will be equipped with state-of-the-art post harvest facilities and will serve as a one-stop service center for milling, drying and storing, aside from providing contemporary production technologies to produce high quality rice.

The project aimed to improve efficiency in rice post-production in Pangasinan thru reduction of postharvest losses, enhancement in the quality of milled rice, improvement of the distribution system and maximization of rice by-products.

The complex, costing some P200 million, will be jointly owned by the province and the DA. A farmers' organization will be trained to manage the facilities. (PIO/PIA Pangasinan /dos)

CHED boosts Dagupan-based Lyceum Northwestern University (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=278255)

DAGUPAN CITY, May 28 (PNA)--The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has conferred on the Lyceum-Northwestern University (LNU) the distinction as Center for Development in Pharmacy Education for the next three years.

This was in recognition of LNU's at least 80 percent percentage passing in the Pharmacy licensure examinations for the last five years,

As center for development, LNU’s Pharmacy program will be entitled to institutional and individual financial support and non-monetary subsidies, such as capacity building and extension and linkages activities and upgrading of faculties, equipment and library collection.

LNU President Gonzalo T. Duque said the recognition received by his university is a proof of its commitment to provide quality but low-cost higher education to students in Pangasinan and nearby provinces.

At the same time, Duque announced that CHED has renewed LNU's "deregulated status" in recognition of its continuing exemplary performance in instruction, research and public service.

This made LNU as the first university Region 1 so far whose "deregulated status" was renewed by CHED till May 12, 2013.

In renewing LNU's deregulated status, CHED chairman Emmanuel Y. Angeles also cited the outstanding performance of LNU graduates, which, he said, “manifests its genuine commitment to quality, excellence and global competitiveness.”

As a deregulated educational institution, LNU will be given priority in the grant of subsidies and other financial incentives assistance from CHED.

LNU will also have the privilege to determine and prescribe its curricular programs, among other benefits specified in CHED Memorandum No. 44, series of 2008.

At the same time, Duque announced the re-accreditation of its academic programs, such as A.B. Political Science, A.B. Mass Communication, B.S. Biology and B.S. Psychology. (PNA)

Bani town in western Pangasinan adopting green energy (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=8&rid=278316)

By Leonardo V. Micua

BANI, Pangasinan, May 28 (PNA) - Once a sleepy town overlooking a vast expanse of the South China Sea, the town of Bani may yet become the first town in the country that would maximize green energy in place of the conventional energy produced from fossil fuel or oil.

A Japanese company is now measuring wind velocity here preparatory to its plan to build windmills while at the same time, a Spanish company is now about ready to conduct a feasibility study for the putting up of a plant that will produce bio-mass energy out of farm wastes.

Both these environment-friendly projects could help this second class municipality in the First District of Pangasinan, with just about 48,000 population, attain its ambitious dream to be a green city by year 2020.

With Mayor Marcelo Navarro Jr., a retired police general at the helm since year 2007, Bani is a beehive of several development activities for the last three years and is now eyeing to develop not only green energy but also green agriculture and green architecture.

"This is our vision," confessed Navarro, a graduate of Philippine Military Academy Class of 1972, who has just been reelected as mayor of Bani for a second term.

Navarro said the Japanese firm, More Energy, already set up a tower on a hillside in Sitio Ulanen, Barangay Dacap Sur, Bani facing the South China Sea, from where it installed anemometer that measures wind velocity.

A computer box is inside the anemometer that transmits wind data to Japan every two seconds.

Tied up with Nippon Steel, one of Japan's industrial giants, More Energy has been sending technical men here for at least a year now in connection with their project to build windmills that are 20 years more modern than the existing windmills in Bangui, Ilocos Norte.

The proposed windmills of Bani could generate 30 megawatts of electricity that is just enough to supply the existing needs of Bani which is only 29 megawatts.

Representatives of More Energy, in close liaison with Bani officials, confirmed the information that Bani, particularly Sitio Ulanen, is the entry point of wind stream from the south China Sea before it crosses western Pangasinan.

The Japanese keep track of the wind stream using a guide map, just like sea current maps, aside from the wind data provided them by Pagasa (Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration), Navarro said.

Navarro revealed that the project is now almost a done deal as the Japanese will be back to Bani sometime in June to discuss the livelihood component of the windmills project, which is an ice plant to be powered by wind energy.

The ice plant will be located right at Sitio Ulanen, a scenic fishing village in Bani town, from where offshore fishermen are landing their fish catch daily, which is envisioned by the municipality to ultimately become a fish port.

The water for the ice plant will come from a free-flowing spring in Sitio Ulanen that does not dry up even during summer.

Navarro explained that the ice plant is a grant to the municipality by More Energy but the windmills will be constructed under the Build-Operate-Transfer concept, which means that the project will accrue to the town after 15 to 20 years.

He said the Bangui windmills was a 1980 technology, whereas the proposed windmills in Bani, is a state-of-the art, adopting the 21st century technology.

On the other hand, the windmills in Bangui are 60 meters high and each with a blade of 40 meters while those that will be built in Sitio Ulanen are only 12 meters high and each with a blade of only five to six meters long.

Navarro said each windmill tower is capable of generating at least l.5 megawatts of power. To produce 30 megawatts, More Energy would build 20 or more windmills.

He boasted that this kind of windmills would only be the first of its kind in Southeast Asia and only the second in Asia, after similar projects in Japan.

On the other hand, the Global Engineering of Spain, through its local partner, Phil-Bio, a company that caters to green energy, will soon conduct a feasibility study for the construction of two silos, each as high as a three-storey building, that could produce bio-mass energy.

Navarro said the Spanish company already released 190,000 Euros, approximately P11 million, that will finance the project's feasibility study just for the first phase.

Global Engineering, a quasi-private company in Spain, said the silos can also be used for drying 500 tons of rice per day, aside from heating the boiler to produce steam that will power the turbine connected to a generator.

At least 15 megawatts can be initially produced by this technology, which will be the only first of its kind in the Philippines. Gobal Engineering confirmed it already built proto-type projects in Mexico, one in South America, another in Africa and in India.

He said the company will buy all the hay stock, rice husks, woods chips and corn cobs within a 90-kilometer radius from the plant site, thus giving farmers additional incomes, instead of discarding all these through open burning.

Though the technology requires burning, it will not emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere that will contribute to global warming.

This one, said Navarro, is slow-burning, so it will not produce carbon dioxide unlike in open fire, thus it is still green technology because it is a renewable source of energy.

A third green technology to be explored by the town is the massive planting of sorghum after rice from whose seeds ethanol fuel can be extracted.

The bagasse of sorghum, he said, can be used as fuel for the silos and the fresh ones can be used as animal food. (PNA)

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Wow. How innovative!.....God Bless Pangasinan!;)

Wow! This thread is the best! I cant sleep at night reading all the posts here! haha! God bless Pangasinan!

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Cheers to Governor Espino! Another great project!:cheers::cheers::cheers:

^^ Welcome to SSC christian joe! Enjoy your stay.

What town or city do you represent? :)

Typhoon Emong victims get new homes finally (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/30/typhoon-emong-victims-get-new-homes-finally/)

BANI–A new village, called Burobor ti Ayat (Fountain of Love), will soon be completed in the foothills of Barangay Dacap Sur here for 35 families affected by typhoon “Emong” which hit on May 7 last year and those residing in the town’s identified danger zones.

Construction for the 100 units of detached houses, each with a floor area of 64 square meters, is expected to be completed by the end of June.

Mayor Marcelo Navarro Jr. said those affected by the typhoon are currently still staying in tents provided by the Rotary Club of United Kingdom, assisted by the Rotary Clubs of New Zealand, Australia and Makati.

In three weeks time, some of the families can start moving into their new homes being constructed on a self-help basis under the supervision of their own Neighborhood Association for Shelter Assistance (NASA).

NASA president Diomedes Napura said there are 400 people working in the project site, 70 of whom are women.

Those working at the site do not get cash compensation but are instead given 7.5 kilos of rice daily for ordinary workers while skilled workers get 10 kilos.

The rice came from the United Nations World Food Program, coursed through the municipal government.

The whole village, with a total land area of five hectares, is about 12 kilometers away from the town proper of Bani and overlooking the scenic Ulanen Beach.

The shelter project started in February this year, using the P7 million financial assistance from the Core Shelter Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

Navarro said he is inviting President-apparent Benigno Aquino III to inaugurate the new village, which he describes as a pro-poor project that serves as a model of cooperation between the people and the government.—LM

(Sunday Punch)

Retiring JDV plans modernization of fishponds (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/22/retiring-jdv-plans-modernization-of-fishponds/)

FOURTH District Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. is retiring from politics soon, but he is not taking it easy as he prepares for his new role – as an advocate for improved livelihood for fish farmers and as an entrepreneur himself.

Last week, De Venecia hosted two foreign experts to help modernize the bangus fishponds in Dagupan and enable fish farmers to produce and earn more.

"We are just keeping our promise during the campaign that we will help our constituents in Dagupan improve their lives and snatch them away from the stranglehold of poverty," said De Venecia whose wife Gina will succeed him as the congressional representative for the district.

Recent visitors were were Bill Cobo, a Japanese-American scientist, engineer and entrepreneur involved in salmon culture and production in Alaska and his assistant, Dr. Andy Liang, also a scientist and entrepreneur from Taiwan.

Cobo and Liang, together with Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fishery Technology Development Center (NIFTDC), visited De Venecia's fishpond in sitio Watac, Barangay Mamalingling to plan for the development of fish ponds for individual fish farmers that would lead to increased production and improve the quality of their bangus produce.

Liang said they are bringing in new technology proven most effective in Taiwan as they had done 15 years ago when they introduced tiger prawns from Taiwan to the Philippines.

Liang noted that bangus fry were being smuggled to Taiwan but the situation more than a decade ago was reversed as the Philippines is now getting its fry from his country because of the improved hatchery operations technology.

He said technicians from Taiwan will come to Dagupan to teach fish farmers the new technology in hatchery production so that the country can begin to import as well.

De Venecia said the visit of Cobo and Liang is part of the program to mobilize the private and the public sectors in the overall effort to modernize the fishponds of Dagupan.

He said the full operation of the modern PhP110 million RP/ Dagupan-Korea Seafood Processing Plant in Bonuan Binloc necessitates the modernization of the fishponds in the city and neighboring towns.

He added that the possibility of putting up of an oyster sauce factory was discussed with Cobo and Liang to benefit the island barangays of Dagupan that are now currently producing large quantities of oysters.

ENTREPRENEUR

Meanwhile, De Venecia said after his term in Congress ends, he is a shifting as a fulltime entrepreneur, looking after and maximizing his family's 20-hectare fishpond.

While at his fish farm last week, De Venecia supervised the seeding of the fishpond with three million bangus fry, which he imported from Bali, Indonesia.

“Apart from this, I will not have much to do except being an assistant to my wife “Manay Gina”, said De Venecia laughing.

As Speaker of the House of Representatives, De Venecia initiated the revival of an idle oyster depuration plant in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan built by the Japanese government during the Marcos era to become a first class research facility of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.

Then he funded the establishment of the NIFTDC’s National Bangus Center and hatchery, the country's first live fish market, a seafood restaurant, and the Asian Fisheries Academy.

"Probably, I gave out more than P150 million from my Priority Development Assistance Fund for NIFTDC and in the continuing research for milkfish," De Venecia said.

He gave assurance that his successor, Gina, will continue to give support from her congressional funds.—LM

(Sunday Punch)

Sta. Barbara demolition turns violent (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/30/sta-barbara-demolition-turns-violent/)

STA. BARBARA–Several policemen and members of the demolition team were injured in a clash with tenants of a property owned by Humberto Solis in Barangay Tebag East here.

The tense situation lasted for three days from Tuesday to Thursday last week. About 10 of the tenants were arrested and booked by the police.

Last Thursday, the demolition team and the 40 policemen wielding batons and shields were rained with stones by the tenants each time they attempted to demolish a house.

Sheriff Saturnino Tadeja, however, said the demolition will continue until all 54 houses marked for demolition have been removed.

The clashes last week took place in full view of motorists passing along the Urdaneta-Dagupan road in Barangay Tebag.

On Tuesday, an angry mob formed human barricades and retaliated with anything they could lay their hands on to stop the demolition.

At the end of the first day, only two houses were demolished.

No house was demolished on Wednesday as the occupants of every house resisted violently.

DENIED APPEALS

The tenants have already lost their case in court and there have been several legal notices for eviction but have refused refusing to move out, claiming that they were not given due process. Their claim is anchored on their families’ and their ancestors’ presence in the area for over a hundred years as tenants.

The tenants also assert that the demolition is being implemented despite a pending appeal before the Court of Appeals.

Sheriff Saturnino Tadeja of the Department of Agrarian Reform Arbitration Board denied the claim of the tenants that they were not given due process, saying they attended all the hearings for the case filed by Solis as complainant, with Emeliano Neri et al as defendants.

Tadeja explained that they are enforcing the Special Order of Writ of Demolition issued by Judge Annabel Oandasan, adding that the demolition will continue until after the tenants can show a temporary restraining order.

Tadeja said those resisting the demolition were registered tenants of Solis against whom he filed a case of ejection for refusing to pay rentals for eight years.

Solis won the case that was decided in September 2006. The tenants subsequently filed motions for recommendation and appeal but all these were denied.

He later filed a writ of possession and subsequently obtained Special Order of Writ Demolition from DARAB Judge Oandasan on February 17 this year.

Tadeja's assistant Alex Bajesta said that there were already two other attempts in the past to enforce the demolition order but both failed because of resistance by the tenants.

VIOLENT SCENE

An injured member of the demolition crew had to be brought to the nearest hospital for treatment.

The policemen were led by Chief Inspector Elpidio Ramirez, chief of Police of Sta. Barbara and his deputy, Chief Inspector Isaias Dominguez.

The tenants presented certificates of land transfer issued by the Department of Agrarian Reform but Tadeja said these were no longer valid since they reneged in their commitment to pay their rentals.

The area is the Solis' retention area after their property was subjected under Agrarian Reform.–LM

(Sunday Punch)

Guam jobs for Pangasinan skilled workers (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/04/19/guam-jobs-for-pangasinan-skilled-workers/)

LINGAYEN–The provincial government is set to start manpower pooling for possible employment in Guam.

Alex Ferrer, chief of the Provincial Employment Service Office, said the province wants to take advantage of the available work opportunities there. The project requires 10,000 workers to help construct a big U.S. military base.

"We are doing this early because we want a bigger share of the labor pie that is available in Guam,” he said.

Ferrer said Governor Amado Espino Jr. already established contact with the governor and other officials of Guam to personally ask that Pangasinan workers be given priority for placement.

The skilled workers that will be needed include carpenters, masons, pipe fitters, steelers and welders aged 25 to 45 years old.

Managerial or supervisory posts are also open to workers 25 to 50 years old.

Ferrer said skilled workers must have the necessary experience if they are not graduates of the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA).

Ex-Overseas Filipino Workers are also welcome to enter their names in the pool, he added.–LM

(Sunday Punch)

Urdaneta landfill set to open mid-July (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/30/urdaneta-landfill-set-to-open-mid-july/)

URDANETA CITY–The first ever sanitary landfill in Pangasinan, currently in the final stage of construction in Barangay Catablan here, is set to be operational by the middle of July this year.

Outgoing Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. said the sanitary landfill is among the few remaining unfinished projects programmed by his administration.

Perez, who will go back to being a private citizen after he steps down, said he will be happy to see the project in operation and is confident that it will be managed well by his son, Mayor-elect Amadeo 'Bubom" Perez IV, currently serving as a city councilor.

The mayor said the sanitary landfill has a land area of 16 hectares but only six hectares will be utilized initially just to meet the present needs of the city while four hectares are being held in reserve.

The 16-hectare are includes the six-hectare existing dumpsite that will be eventually be permanently closed and converted into a tree park.

The project was financed by a P220 million loan obtained by the city from the Land Bank of the Philippines out of which P20 million was utilized for land acquisition and P10 million for the improvement of a road leading to the project site.

Once operational, Urdaneta City will be the first local government unit in Pangasinan to comply with the landfill provision of the Solid Waste Management Act or Republic Act 9003.

Perez said the main landfill site is set to be completed by the end of June, barring any weather disturbances and it will take another month to finish the other infrastructures at the site.

"But definitely, in two months time, the project will be operational already," Perez said.—LM

(Sunday Punch)

City wants BFAR to operate seafood processing plant (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/30/city-wants-bfar-to-operate-seafood-processing-plant/)

THE Sangguniang Panlungsod has passed a resolution authorizing Mayor Alipio Fernandez to grant the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) administrative control and supervision over the Dagupan City Seafood Processing Complex.

Councilor Alfredo Quinto Sr., who proposed the resolution, said while the city government would like to manage the plant, it does not have the manpower and resources to do so.

He pointed out that BFAR would be in the best position to do so as it is the principal agency of the national government mandated by law to take the lead in fisheries development and all matters pertaining to the production and marketing of fish and fishery products.

Fish processing plants are required to comply with the hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCAP)-based assurance, the Standard Sanitary Operating Procedure Program and the Good Manufacturing Practices.

In order to effectively implement this system, BFAR conducted several trainings on HACCAP plan development for industry players.

At the same time, the SP noted that the BFAR made several undertakings to keep the fish processing industry compliant with the requirements of exporting countries, including the United States and the European community on the export of fishery and aquaculture products.

The resolution is also in line with the recommendation of a team from Korean experts supervising the construction of the seafood processing plant that National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) chief Westly Rosario be named interim manager of the facility.

NFITDC, located just beside the seafood processing plant, is under BFAR.

The complex, financed by the Korean government at P110 million, is set for a grand inauguration on July 21 with President-apparent Benigno Aquino III as guest along with his appointed agriculture secretary.–LM

(Sunday Punch)

Airline introduces Baguio to North Luzon air traffic (http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20100527-272419/Airline-introduces-Baguio-to-North-Luzon-air-traffic)

By Desiree Caluza
Philippine Daily Inquirer

BAGUIO CITY – Operators of the fog-wrapped Loakan Airport here have not seen a commercial plane land for three years now, due to a weather that has become a serious navigational concern for the airline industry.

But on May 21, they cheered alongside city officials when a 19-seater Sky Pasada plane touched down for its first official test flight from Cauayan City in Isabela to the summer capital.

Sky Pasada, owned by the WCC Aviation Co., has officially reinstated Baguio in the flight plans for Northern Luzon.

In 2007, Baguio almost lost its only airport when domestic airlines stopped landing here after they expressed concern that the city’s daily afternoon fog was potentially hazardous to routine air navigation.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo also had proposed to use the idle runway instead as factory space. But upon the prodding of local businessmen, Arroyo agreed to invest in the upgrade of the airport.

She included Loakan Airport in the government’s P100-million Aeronautical Highway of the North project.

Ramon Guico III, president and CEO of WCC Aviation, described Sky Pasada as “a rural airline that will connect the rural destinations all over the country.”

The WCC Aviation ventured into the airline business in 2009, spinning off Sky Pasada from the firm’s successful Aviation Company Pilot Academy, according to a company statement.

Sky Pasada’s initial commercial routes included Palanan and Maconacon towns in Isabela, capitalizing on the cargo requirements of Isabela fishermen who needed to ship seafood products to Cauayan and Tuguegarao City in Cagayan.

Guico says the WCC Aviation intends to make the Baguio route as its Northern Luzon hub because it is strategic to servicing a market in Manila, Cauayan, Tuguegarao, Batanes and Boracay in Aklan.

The elected mayor of Binalonan, Pangasinan, Guico says the aeronautical highway project aims to rehabilitate existing airports and terminals in Cagayan Valley, Pangasinan and Isabela.

Sky Pasada operates two Russian-made LET 410 UVP-E passenger planes, which can land in short-field, semi-prepared or unprepared runways. The planes can take off and land even in the harshest flying conditions, Guico says.

“Therefore, the LET 410 UVP-E is very appropriate to make safe takeoffs and landings in poorly paved airstrips like Itbayat [in Batanes] for tough missionary flights,” he says.

Captain Alito Getalaga, who piloted the Sky Pasada 45-minute test flight here, says Baguio fog remains a quandary for navigation.

He says Sky Pasada would reroute flights to a WCC Aviation airfield in Binalonan on days when the Loakan Airport is not available.

Sky Pasada has opened three daily flights out of the city.

whaha! Thanks allan_dude sa pagwelcome... Im from asingan...

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Plastic rules but buri and rattan still make profits (http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20100529-272753/Plastic-rules-but-buri-and-rattan-still-make-profits)

By Yolanda Sotelo
Inquirer Northern Luzon

MANGALDAN, Pangasinan – Families, who are between jobs but have untapped “specializations,” may find a lucrative career working for Rowena “Wheng” Fernandez.

Fernandez is the manager of the family-owned Fernandez Handicrafts, a rattan crafts export supplier operating in Barangay Gueguesangen here.

Since their business has been brisk, Fernandez decided to contract out rattan orders to 50 families in far-flung villages who have scarce job opportunities.

She says they found true value in the principles of a true cottage industry.

“If [a particular family] is creative and can produce hampers, I give them purchase order for hampers… We give them our purchase orders detailing the designs and sizes, which the workers will follow. We also give them the materials and a share of the profits,” she says.

The business was started by her father-in-law, Elias Fernandez Sr., more than 30 years ago.

Rowena and her husband, Elias Jr., took over the business after they got married in 1992. That was when the couple realized they could train families to act as their work force.

Fernandez met her husband in Manaoag town where she managed a stall selling raw materials for handicrafts. Elias Jr. used to retail handicraft materials in the town.

Rowena continued to sell buri when she married Elias but she also started experimenting with rattan weaving to produce chairs, tables, boxes, hampers, trays and baskets.

Although the sub-contracting families now handle the weaving chores, Fernandez still handles by herself all the finishing touches.

She sprays the rattan furniture with varnish, sews in the linings, or inserts the embroideries for rattan boxes and trays.

The couple sources buri and abaca hemp from Cagayan and from Baler, Aurora.

Even basket weavers from San Carlos City and other Pangasinan towns buy materials from them, Fernandez says.

She says handicraft products still have a profitable foreign and domestic market in an age where plastic furnishings rule.

“There are still plenty of people who want to own and use things made of natural materials, both here and abroad,” she says.

The couple has supplied three exporters with rattan crafts which are marketed in Europe, until the global financial meltdown in 2009 trimmed the orders to one export buyer.

“Aside from the [rattan] prices sliding, [exporters] don’t pay cash or [issue] advance [payments] anymore. They usually issue post-dated checks nowadays, but we prefer cash because we don’t have capital to buy the materials or pay our workers,” Fernandez says.

Fernandez Handicrafts usually joins trade fairs like the Yaman ng Norte, which was part of the recent Bangus Festival at the Dagupan Stadia in Dagupan City.

Fernandez says their products are also displayed at the provincial tourism office in Lingayen town, at the La Union Trade Center in the Philippine Products Depot, and at the HK San Plaza in Pasay City.

whaha! Thanks allan_dude sa pagwelcome... Im from asingan... :banana:new contributor from eastern Pangasinan!

Ano updates diyan? lalo na sa Magic and CSI Tayug?

Airline introduces Baguio to North Luzon air traffic (http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20100527-272419/Airline-introduces-Baguio-to-North-Luzon-air-traffic)

By Desiree Caluza
Philippine Daily Inquirer

BAGUIO CITY – Operators of the fog-wrapped Loakan Airport here have not seen a commercial plane land for three years now, due to a weather that has become a serious navigational concern for the airline industry.

But on May 21, they cheered alongside city officials when a 19-seater Sky Pasada plane touched down for its first official test flight from Cauayan City in Isabela to the summer capital.

Sky Pasada, owned by the WCC Aviation Co., has officially reinstated Baguio in the flight plans for Northern Luzon.

In 2007, Baguio almost lost its only airport when domestic airlines stopped landing here after they expressed concern that the city’s daily afternoon fog was potentially hazardous to routine air navigation.

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo also had proposed to use the idle runway instead as factory space. But upon the prodding of local businessmen, Arroyo agreed to invest in the upgrade of the airport.

She included Loakan Airport in the government’s P100-million Aeronautical Highway of the North project.

Ramon Guico III, president and CEO of WCC Aviation, described Sky Pasada as “a rural airline that will connect the rural destinations all over the country.”

The WCC Aviation ventured into the airline business in 2009, spinning off Sky Pasada from the firm’s successful Aviation Company Pilot Academy, according to a company statement.

Sky Pasada’s initial commercial routes included Palanan and Maconacon towns in Isabela, capitalizing on the cargo requirements of Isabela fishermen who needed to ship seafood products to Cauayan and Tuguegarao City in Cagayan.

Guico says the WCC Aviation intends to make the Baguio route as its Northern Luzon hub because it is strategic to servicing a market in Manila, Cauayan, Tuguegarao, Batanes and Boracay in Aklan.

The elected mayor of Binalonan, Pangasinan, Guico says the aeronautical highway project aims to rehabilitate existing airports and terminals in Cagayan Valley, Pangasinan and Isabela.

Sky Pasada operates two Russian-made LET 410 UVP-E passenger planes, which can land in short-field, semi-prepared or unprepared runways. The planes can take off and land even in the harshest flying conditions, Guico says.

“Therefore, the LET 410 UVP-E is very appropriate to make safe takeoffs and landings in poorly paved airstrips like Itbayat [in Batanes] for tough missionary flights,” he says.

Captain Alito Getalaga, who piloted the Sky Pasada 45-minute test flight here, says Baguio fog remains a quandary for navigation.

He says Sky Pasada would reroute flights to a WCC Aviation airfield in Binalonan on days when the Loakan Airport is not available.

Sky Pasada has opened three daily flights out of the city.

Sky Pasada is really affordable.... You can check their website...

http://www.skypasada.com/bookFlight.html

:banana:new contributor from eastern Pangasinan!

Ano updates diyan? lalo na sa Magic and CSI Tayug?

umuulan na dito!!!:banana:
sa Magic and CSI, hindi ko pa nakikita ang contruction but i heard from my uncle as he was hired as a worker there that it would be as large as Magic Mall Urdaneta..

strongly agree kay allan dude na dapat maging resemblance ng Sm marikina yung proposed sm mall sa binmaley...

SM city BINMALEY,, the 1st elevated SM mall...

btw, may pix pla aq ng magic mall tayug.. pero mas malaki p din yung sa urdaneta..

sa june 4 na daw opening...

^ Can't wait to see Magic Tayug. full-service mall ba ito?

Re CSI Mangaldan, Big-time sila merong malaking electronic billboard sa facade tapat ng entrance.

I'm hoping sana meron ring electronic Billboard yung CSI Tayug.

Pangasinan villagers want riverbanks fortified (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20100530-272951/Pangasinan-villagers-want-riverbanks-fortified)

By Yolanda Sotelo
Inquirer Northern Luzon

SAN FABIAN, PANGASINAN, Philippines – Rains this month came as a relief from the sweltering summer heat, but for residents of Barangay Binday along the Bued River here, the rains brought back nightmarish memories of that day in October last year when their houses were swept away by the raging river.

“Everything was gone—the house, the furniture, the chickens,” Alejandro Parayno, 53, said, as he stood on a patch of ornamental plants on what used to be the front yard of his house.

The river raged for hours, he recalled. When the water subsided, it had taken away five hectares of residential land and 21 houses along the bank. The irrigation canal was gone and even the paved barangay road was washed away.

Residents feared that if nothing is done before the rainy season arrives, the situation could get worse. For them, it’s a race against time, before nature eventually erases the village from the map.

Bued River emanates from Benguet and flows toward Sison and this town. During the onslaught of Typhoon “Pepeng” in October, a dike in Sison town gave way due to the volume of raging water. River water passed through the breached portion of the dike and spread to other towns like Pozorrubio.

Juan Juguilon Jr., San Fabian agriculturist and a resident of Binday, said if the Sison dike did not break, the situation in San Fabian could have been worse.

Rocks and boulders

“All that large amount of water would have rushed into San Fabian and a much bigger portion of the village would have been wiped out,” he said.

The water carried with it rocks and boulders that rammed into the banks, eroding a big portion of the land. Quarry activities along the river may have contributed to the bank’s erosion, Juguilon said.

Residents, led by barangay captain Fernando Juguilon, are angry at the seeming indifference of the government about their plight.

Juguilon said it was not only Binday village that is affected by the river bank’s erosion, but neighboring villages like Anonang, Cabaruan and Angio as well.

Flood control projects

“There had been flood control intervention projects dating back to the 1980s but these did not serve their purpose. The dike simply collapsed during the typhoons in 2009,” Juguilon said.

“I never thought that the water will erode that wide area of land along the river bank. I saved only the 100 sacks of rice which I just harvested and brought my family to a safer place. But midnight of Oct. 8, our house was gone,” he said.

On April 22, residents held a dialogue with representatives of the second Pangasinan engineering district, Agno flood control project, National Irrigation Administration and the San Fabian government to bring their concerns about the eroded banks.

The Department of Public Works and Highways has been re-channeling the river so water could be diverted from the present bank. It is also fortifying the eroded sections.

Not satisfied

But residents are not satisfied with these projects.

“For a big project like the re-channeling of a river, a mini backhoe won’t be enough,” said Juguilon, pointing at the construction equipment in the middle of the river in his village.

He said they did not see workers when they inspected the river recently.

A portion of the bank had been lined with wire cages filled with rocks. But residents said these would not withstand the river current similar to what occurred during the onslaught of Pepeng.

In a letter to Mariano Alquiza, DPWH regional director and village officials raised their concern about the pace of the project and the manpower and equipment required to complete it.

Retiring JdV continues to boost Dagupan's bangus industry (http://www.positivenewsmedia.net/am2/publish/Cities_And_Towns_23/Retiring_JdV_continues_to_boost_Dagupan_s_bangus_industry.shtml)

By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY (PNA) — Only just over a month before ending his term as congressman of the Fourth District of Pangasinan, Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. has not stopped serving his constituents every step of the way in order to improve their lives and snatch them away from the stranglehold of poverty.

De Venecia, whose term ends on June 30 this year, was spotted on Wednesday in his fishponds in sitio Watac in Barangay Mamalingling, close to Bonuan, where he was engaged in an animated conversation with two foreign aquaculture experts, among others, on how to further improve the milkfish industry in Dagupan.

His guests included Bill Cobo, a Japanese-American scientist, engineer and entrepreneur who, he said, is involved in extensive salmon culture and production in Alaska and his assistant, Dr. Andy Liang, also a scientist and entrepreneur from Taiwan and China.

Caught in serious talk with Cobo, Liang and Director Westly Rosario of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center based in Dagupan, De Venecia said he, his wife Gina, and the rest of his political allies in the Gina Al Belen (GAB) team have not stopped serving the Dagupenos, saying “they (Dagupenos) are worth serving for”.

“What we promised the Dagupenos in the last election, we will deliver,” said De Venecia, stressing that his talk with Cobo, Dr. Liang and Director Rosario could lead into the further development of the milkfish industry in Dagupan.

This is more urgently needed now because of the presence of the new P110 million RP/Dagupan-Korea Seafood Processing Plant that is expected to be operational soon.

Explaining their meeting, De Venecia said he is mobilizing the joint international private sector, Dagupan private sector and government sector in the overall effort to further modernize the fishponds of Dagupan, which he personally estimated to be now more than 200 years old.

Aside from this, he discussed with Cobo and Liang about the possibility of putting up of an oyster sauce factory that will involve the island barangays of Dagupan that are now currently producing large volumes of oysters.

But he explained that after June 30, his effort to modernize Dagupan aquaculture will be continued by his wife Gina who just won as congresswoman in the Fourth District of Pangasinan.

Although his wife Gina won as congresswoman, their long- time political ally, Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. lost in his reelection bid against former Mayor Benjamin Lim. But their other ally, Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez won convincingly against her opponent.

While at his fish farm, De Venecia supervised the seeding in part of his 20-hectare fish pond of three million bangus fry which he just imported from Bali, Indonesia.

De Venecia did not hide the fact that in tending his fish farm, he is actually preparing what he will do for the next three years after his retirement from Congress beginning noon of June 30, 2010.

“Yes, we will do this because after June 30, we are returning to private life and do not have much things to do, except being an assistant to Manay Gina,” said Congressman De Venecia, laughing.

He said that in his six year-term as congressman of the fourth district of Pangasinan where he became five-time Speaker of the House of Representatives, he gave aquaculture and fisheries the much-needed shot-in-the arm.

Through the backing of De Venecia, the 20-hectare oyster depuration facility built by the Japanese government during the Marcos administration in Bonuan Binloc, near the Lingayen Gulf, was converted to become a national research center of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

Using his Countrywide Development Assistance Fund, he bankrolled the putting up of a National Bangus Center and Hatchery at the National Integrated Fisheries Technology and Development Center.

Now, that is producing partly the need for bangus fry of fish farmers throughout the country.

He, too, was instrumental in putting up the Asian Fishery Academy in the NFITDC and funded a research on penaeus vannamei white shrimps that was to replace the indigenous tiger prawns in the country.

In an interview, Dr. Liang thanked former Speaker de Venecia for inviting him and his group to introduce the modern Taiwan technology in aquaculture in Dagupan whose Bonuan bangus is famous not only in the Philippines but all over the world.

Acknowledging that the Bonuan bangus is the most famous in the Philippines and all over the world, Dr. Liang said they were invited by Congressman De Venecia to see what they can do more to improve the milkfish industry in Dagupan.

He said they are bringing in new technology proven most effective in their country to help improve the quality and quantity of milkfish production in Dagupan’s brackish water, similar to what they did when they introduced into the country the tiger prawns 15 years ago.

Liang noted that some years ago, bangus fry were being smuggled to Taiwan but the situation has already been reversed as the Philippines is now getting its fry from his country because of their improved hatchery operations technology.

He said technicians from Taiwan will come to Dagupan to teach fish farmers the needed technology in hatchery production so that they will no longer import fry from Taiwan and Indonesia. (PNA)

New President asked to grace grand opening of Dagupan's Seafood Processing Plant on July 21 (http://www.positivenewsmedia.net/am2/publish/Business_19/New_President_asked_to_grace_grand_opening_of_Dagupan_s_Seafood_Processing_Plant_on_July_21.shtml)

By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY (PNA) — The new President of the Philippines will be asked to preside during the grand opening and inauguration of the P110-million RP/Dagupan-Korea Seafood Processing Plant in Barangay Bonuan Binloc here on July 21 this year.

National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) chief Dr. Westly Rosario said this was the request of a team from Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) that supervised the construction of the project.

The grand opening will be a sequel to the soft opening of the project on April 18 this year as one of the highlights of the 2010 Dagupan Bangus Festival.

Dr. Rosario said the Korean team also promised to invite the New Korean ambassador to the Philippines who will jointly inaugurate the project with the new Philippine President, who is most likely Senator Benigno Aquino III.

Also expected to attend are incoming Rep. Georgina de Venecia of the Fourth District of Pangasinan, Mayor Benjamin Lim and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.

Incumbent Congressman Jose de Venecia Jr., who was responsible for negotiating the project as a grant of the Korean government to Dagupan sometime in 2007, promised to attend but will only stay in the sideline since by that time he is already a private citizen.

Rosario said the Korean team, together with their Philippine counterpart, has decided to put up an interim management group composed of different stakeholders that will meet shortly to establish the policies related to the operation of the facilities.

The stakeholders include the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, the Dagupan City government, Department of Trade and Industry, fish processors in Dagupan as well as bangus growers and others.

The policies are expected to be out in the next few days, said Rosario, who was proposed by KOIKA to be the interim manager of the project as the facility is just beside the NIFTDC, a research center of the BFAR, equivalent to the South East Asia Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in Iloilo.

Rosario said that after the grand opening, there will be at least two trial runs to be conducted to pinpoint any additional problems that might arise before the start of the facility’s commercial operation.

He said the modern physical facilities needed by the plant are now in place, all of which originated from Korea.

Rosario earlier said the RP/Dagupan-Korea Seafood Processing Plant will soon be the most modern of its kind in the country, even more modern than existing fish processing plants in Korea.

He said the only problem now is the provision of a waste water treatment facility which was already started but not yet completed, including the landscaping of the two-hectare plant site.

There is also a road network inside the two-hectare plant site to be used by cargo trucks that will deliver the raw materials to be processed by the plant and trucks that will ship the finished products to Manila and other point of Luzon.

He said the interim management group will also discuss the provision of security to the plant to ensure that all its facilities are safe from thieves and vandals.

He assured though that KOICA is now negotiating with the Department of Agriculture for the conduct of the post-construction phase of the project.

He admitted that under the memorandum of agreement signed by the Korean ambassador, then Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., the cost of putting up the sewerage treatment plant will be bankrolled by local funds

Thus the need to pinpoint which agency must be responsible for it, Rosario said. (PNA)

PNP Pangasinan, akatarya lad panlukas na klase (http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/3880-pnp-pangasinan-akatarya-lad-panlukas-na-klase)

DAGUPAN CITY- Mantatarya la so PNP Pangasinan Provincial Office ed panlukas na klase no iner et ikarga ed aray eskuwelaan ed interon Pangasinan.

Impalapag nen PNP Provincial Dir. S/Supt. Percival Barba, aliwa labat ya protektsyon na aray estudyante tan mamaestra so nengnengen da.

Kinirew da met so tulong na aray traffic enforcers ya asigtaen so panbantay na trapiko tan alalayan iray estudyante ompian ag ira nadisgrasya .

Kalegenan tonya, katungtungen da si S/Supt. Barba tan amin na hepe na luyag ya man-alerto ed isabi na kararago.



Kita na fishery industry diad baley na Bolinao, linmetsab lapud advisory na BFAR (http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/3911-kita-na-fishery-industry-diad-baley-na-bolinao-linmetsab-lapud-advisory-na-bfar)

Monday, 31 May 2010

DAGUPAN CITY - Impalapag na municipal agriculture office diad baley na Bolinao ya baleg so niletsaban na kita dad fishery industry lapud nantutumbukan ya advisory manlapud Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources o BFAR regional office ya paniwas ya mangaliw tan mangan na shellfish manlapud asalitan baley.

Immunad saya, bagsak so nalmo na Fishery industry nen awalaan na casualty pigaran bulan lay apalabas kasumpalan ya angan na kulot ya nanlapud Bolinao, unkukumadua so nantumbukan ya advisory ya positibo ed red tide toxin so dayat na abitlan baley kanyan agla akasaliw iray turista na saray sira tan shellfish manlapud asalitan baley.

Immunad saya, iilaloan la so ibaleg na nalmo na fishery industry nen summer season ed bulan na Abril tan Mayo no iner dagsa ray turista lapud sikara met so manunaan ya mansasaliw na sira ed asalitan lugar.

Anggad sayan kaplesan so agni babawiin so advisory na BFAR kanyan anggapo ni ilalakon shellfish ed asalitan baley.

Dogs, cats attack census enumerators (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/dogs-cats-attack-census-enumerators)

By Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre

CALASIAO, Pangasinan -- Dogs and cats are among the perils-of-the-job of census enumerators assigned here apart from unwelcoming house owners.

Provincial Statistics Officer Dante Pescador said six enumerators were bitten by stray dogs while one was attacked by a cat.

He identified the victims as Marilou Turner, Leny Ponce, Aprilyn Corpuz, Fatima Taminaya, Fay Sadiasa, Janet Baranga, and Rommel Oxymer, pointing that they have already taken the necessary medical attention shouldered by the National Statistics Office (NSO).

The enumerators also complained on the uncooperative populace from the Chinese community, especially those residing in multi-storey buildings, and those at gated villages and subdivisions.

They also noted on some Moro respondents for forgetting to remember the birthdates of their children. There are also reports that in some households, occupants do not open their door to the knocking enumerator.

With these problems, Pescador reiterated his appeal for cooperation.

"Third week na tayo sa Census of Population and Housing, sana kapag may pupunta inyo na mga enumerators ay papasukin at sagutin nyo ng maayos ang mga tanong dahil ito ay napaka-importante para sa ika-uunlad ng ating mga bayan," he said.

He said the enumerators can easily be identified as they wear identification cards, the clipboard they carry bears NSO logo, and in some cities and municipalities, they wear census t-shirts donated by the local government.

In Pangasinan, there are 1,974 enumerators, 427 team supervisors, and 203 census areas supervisors.

The CPH is being conducted by NSO every 10 years. A mid-decade census of population is being conducted every five years depending on the availability of funds. The last was conducted in 2007.

Accordingly, during the conduct of mid-decade census, only teachers are hired as enumerators as compared to the CPH where private individuals are also being tapped.

In 2007, the population of Pangasinan was pegged at 2.65 million, the third most populous province in the Philippines, next to Cavite (2.86 million) and Bulacan (2.83 million persons).

The country's population then was 88,574,614.

(Sun Star Pangasinan)

Espino gives permanent position to employees with exemplary service (http://www.pangalatalk.com/newscontent.php?ShowNews=318)

by Vangie Padilla on May 31st, 2010

Lingayen- - -The second term of the Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr.'s administration will serve as fruitful years for most employees who have rendered long years in service performing plantilla position without security of tenure.

This developed as Provincial Administrator Rafael F. Baraan said during the regular flag raising ceremony last May 24, that Governor Espino is willing to provide security of tenure for employees who have rendered exemplary service to the provincial government for years now.

Baraan said that the provincial government is coordinating with the Civil Service Commission for a possible special schedule of civil service examination exclusively for the provincial government employees.

The provincial administrator said that employees are tasked to secure illegibility before the CSC thru examination commensurate to their degree to be able to apply for permanent position in the provincial government.

This will enable casual employees to raise their level especially those who have been working in the province for so many years performing the tasks required of that of a plantilla position. "It's about time that your labors bear fruits," Baraan said.

Baraan cited that this undertaking is part of the governor's thrust to level up the quality of performance of each employee to attain excellent and better public service.

In relation to this, the provincial government has released the mid-year bonus of some 3,000 permanent and casual employees. This consists half of the regular 13th month pay (depends on the salary rate of employee) and cash gift of P5,000.

This is the second year that the provincial government under the leadership of Governor Espino has released the said compensation. (PIO/Ruby R. Bernardino)

(pangalaTALK.com)

Braganza to complete a rare three consecutive term as city chief executive (http://www.pangalatalk.com/newscontent.php?ShowNews=319)

by Vangie Padilla on May 31st, 2010

And the true-bloodied Alaminians have spoken.

Second-termer city mayor Hernani A. Braganza got a fresh mandate to serve his city and continue his programs that will further improve the quality of life of his beloved citymates.

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Alaminos proclaimed Braganza as winner in the mayoralty race last night at the Sangguniang Panlungsod session hall here.

Joseph Bacay topped the race for the city council seat followed by Earl James Aquino, Joselito Fontelera, Carolyn Dizon-Sison, former SK Federation president Margielou Orange Humilde, former councilor Rufina Gabriel, Oscar Boling and, Ranny de Leon, Constante Carasi and Felimon Bacala Jr.

Bacala and Perlito Rabago both occupied the last spot as they got an identical 11, 516 votes. In the end, Bacala won via draw lots.

Team Alaminos captured majority seats in the city council with the victory of Aquino, Fontelera, Sison, Humilde, Boling, Carasi and Bacala.

Braganza, one of best leaders that Alaminos had ever produced, enjoyed substantial support from his citymates en route to a convincing victory.

Fitted against Celeste, the out–going three term congressman from the nearby town of Bolinao and who has the support of the incumbent governor and the ruling party, the Lakas-Kampi CMD, Braganza was at its best.

Despite the odds and claims from his rival that they will emerge victorious in May 10 elections as early as last year, Braganza still won this hard fought, decisive and most expensive political battle ever for the mayorship in this young city.

On his final term, Braganza, will devote most of his time and effort realizing all his noble visions and programs for his beloved city as articulated in his 10-Point Dev

Pundits say that the results of the polls here mirrored the real sentiments of the true-bloodied Alaminians: that Alaminos is not wanting of politicians from other towns to rule the city.

That a power hungry leader who pretend to be an Alaminian don't have a place in the city's political circle more so to reside in this peaceful and fast developing city.

And that that not all Alaminians can be swayed by money and intimidation.

With Braganza at helm for the next three years, the city’s economic take-off will be sustained and that the future of the young Alaminians looks even brighter. (CIO)

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salamat ed saray bali-balita lalo lad si kaaron Allan tan diad amin.
Intermission; motor boats ed Hundred Islands
Nayari! Nice shots a!

Active lalamet ayan thread! Pangasinan based ak lan talaga. Lima kami ed SM nen ngarem labat, akalukas la may "pinoy global center". ambaing ak ya manala na litrato! :lol:

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wow, makapaliket ya nanengneng ya say thread tayo et aktibo.
salamat ed saray bali-balita lalo lad si kaaron Allan tan diad amin.
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:master:very picturesque ang pangasinan! ansarap ipost kung saan saan... sana po magsend kayo sa email ko...

cj.soliven@yahoo.com... thanks po..

Tsinoy, Muslim families give census takers headache (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20100530-272950/Tsinoy-Muslim-families-give-census-takers-headache)

By Yolanda Sotelo
Inquirer Northern Luzon

CALASIAO, PANGASINAN, Philippines – Getting basic information for the National Statistics Office’s census from Chinese-Filipino and Muslim families in Pangasinan is proving to be difficult for teachers tapped to do the job.

Dante Pescador, Pangasinan statistics officer, said homeowners belonging to such groups, especially those living in cities and other urban areas, do not readily open their houses to strangers.

“It is a perennial problem every census year. Enumerators keep on knocking on their doors but homeowners would not let them in. Sometimes the guard would say nobody was inside [even if they were there],” he said.

Census enumerators, most of them school teachers, had to return to these houses up to three times to get the information they needed for the national census.

“They will have to set appointments by leaving letters with the neighbors to inform homeowners that they would come back on a specific date to conduct the survey. Or they can just leave the self-administered questionnaire and retrieve it later,” Pescador said.

The NSO’s 2010 census of housing and population started on May 17 to collect data using interviews and questionnaires. The census aims to update the country’s data bank on population and household profile. The last national census was conducted in 2007.

Pescador said Chinese-Filipino families, perhaps, were afraid to give information because most of them are involved in businesses and are usually the targets of criminals.

“Or, maybe, they are thinking that there are unscrupulous persons pretending to be enumerators. But there have been no reports about such incidents,” he said.

“We have coordinated with [officials of] the Chinese-Filipino Chamber of Commerce and asked them to inform their members about the survey,” he said.

It is easy to spot an enumerator who has an identification card, a clipboard, a bag and umbrella, all with NSO logo, he said.

Pescador said he also received reports from enumerators about their difficulty in doing surveys in Muslim communities.

He said many Muslim families did not cooperate and enumerators could not get an explanation why they did not want to give out information.

Urban and rural areas present different challenges and risks for enumerators, Pescador said.

In rural areas, houses are located far from each other that teachers have to walk several kilometers to reach them.

Rural residents are generally cooperative and give out information easily. However, in most rural villages, stray dogs expose the census takers to attacks, Pescador said.

He said umbrellas given to the enumerators could be used to ward off dogs.

At least seven enumerators, six of them school teachers, were bitten by dogs and a cat in different towns while on duty.

“Fortunately, not one of them had serious bites. We are paying for their antirabies injections,” Pescador said.

To avoid problems, he said the enumerators have been asked to seek the assistance of barangay officials and personnel, like barangay health workers and tanod (village guards), when they visit villages.

Lady trader wins bonsai competition (http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/06/01/lady-trader-wins-bonsai-competition/)

June 1, 2010

By Virgilio Sar. Maganes

ROSALES- “This is my first time to join bonsai exhibit and competition. I just started propagating bonsai trees two years ago and able to collect 55 bantigue bonsai trees. My winning entry is a work of art. I am happy to have won and it’s inspiring,” Gemma Francisco said.
Francisco, a rice trader from Poblacion, Pozzorrubio received two trophies – Gold Award and Presidential Award for her entry in bantigue category during the opening of the 10th Pangasinan Bonsai and Suiseki Exhibit on May 27 at the Atrium Center of SM City Rosales. The exhibit is open to the public until May 30, 2010.

Elrey Nocido, a bonsai enthusiast and member of the Philippine Bosai Society, Felicidad Gupit, a suiseki artist and pioneering founder of Philippine Bonsai Society and Francis Gonzales, member of the Board of Directors of Pangasinan Bonsai Society served as the board of judges.
All of them said that judging the many bonsai entries – both in bantigue and non-bantigue categories was a very difficult task.
“We have to look at the bonsais from the point of viewof an artist. There are certain parameters to be considered in judging but bonsai making is a creation and a work of art,” Nocido said.

He said that Francisco’s entry was unanimously chosen to be the “Best in Show” because it has the quality of most bonsai enthusiasts are looking for.
The entry of Roy Del Prado of Urdaneta City on bantigue category also got the Gold Award. It fell short on branching and crowning compared to that of Francisco’s entry.
In the non-Bantigue Category, the entry of Teddy Vallejos got the Gold Award who also received first place in the suiseki (natural stone art) category for his entry “Madonna” and third place for “The Landscape”.

Bonsai art , a Japanese word which literally means “trees on pots,” started in China but was perfected by the Japanese.

Apollo Ferrer, President of the Pangasinan Bonsai Society expressed his thanks to the members and guests for making the exhibit a success.

“We hope to make our annual exhibitions a fruitful one like this year’s. Thank you to all of you for your support and cooperation,” he told the members of the Society.
Bobby Gopiao, President of Philippine Bonsai Society who graced the affair said that Pangasinan Chapter as one of the affiliates to the national association of Bonsai Society is one of the best in coming out of bonsai exhibits.

He further said that bantigue bonsais have been perfected by the Pangasinan Bonsai Society and that is truly a Pangasinan bonsai art.

“We should not look bonsai as only a work of art for competition. We look beyond it as part of livelihood. There’s money in bonsai but it should be mass produced like what they are doing in Taiwan and other Asian countries,” Gopiao said.

He also told the group that the country will be hosting the Asian Bonsai Friendly Convention in 2012 at Clark, Pampanga to be participated in by around 400 bonsai enthusiasts and collectors from 11 Asian countries.

(Northern Watch)

Dagupan jeepney, tricycle driver associations receive P500,000 each (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=278798)

DAGUPAN CITY — Though already ending his term as congressman of the Fourth District of Pangasinan, Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr. still made good his promise to extend financial help to jeepney and tricycle drivers in Dagupan.

The financial assistance will enable jeepney and tricycle drivers and their families to brace through with the present economic crisis and improve their incomes, said Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.

It was through the city government here that De Venecia coursed P1 million from his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) as financial assistance to the two transport groups.

At least P500,000 of these went to the jeepney drivers association and another P500,000 to the tricycle drivers association.

The city council, on motion of Councilor Karlos Reyna, passed a resolution in its regular session last May 24 that earmarked the amount to the two transport associations.

This will enable the two transport groups to put up their own gasoline stations or for them to buy spare parts in bulk to be sold to them through their own cooperatives.

Vice Mayor Fernandez said the amount was just received by the city, thus it immediately earmarked it to the two associations to whom the funds were really intended.

She said this was part of the pro-poor program of Congressman de Venecia who will soon be replaced by his own wife Gina.

Vice Mayor Fernandez said the jeepney and tricycle drivers are among the poor sectors in Dagupan that really need help.

In the last election, Mrs. de Venecia campaigned in Dagupan City and tied up with Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr.and Vice Mayor Fernandez.

She won as congresswoman in the Fourth District of Pangasinan.

Vice Mayor Fernandez also won in that election but her partner, Mayor Fernandez was defeated by come-backing Mayor Benjamin Lim. (PNA)

PSU grads excel in board exams (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p100601.htm&no=59)

By Danny O Sagun

Dagupan City (1 June) -- Although new in the field, the nursing school of the Pangasinan State University is already making waves for having the best percentage of board passers in Region 1.

Dr. Victoriano C. Estira, PSU president, disclosed that 28 of the 33 nursing graduates who took the licensure exams in November last year passed, which was 79.5 passing percentage. Earlier, 22 passed from among the 28 first batch graduates.

That feat made the PSU nursing school the best performer in Region 1 for both examinations among small and medium size nursing schools. The state university landed seventh and 12th, respectively, in the two exams nationwide.

Estira said during the Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency over Radyo ng Bayan DZMQ Tuesday that he was hoping for another fine performance of the new graduates who will take the next exam. "Inaalagaan namin sila," he said referring to the graduates who undergo free review classes courtesy of the Gapuz Review School. Even those who failed in the exam are given another chance for free review classes, he disclosed.

The nursing school is doing well despite the fact that it is not supported by the government, he bared. "It is a self-sustaining and self-regulating undertaking ? no money from the government," he said. Operations of the school are purely funded by tuition fees. "Bumabalik sa mga estudyante yong bayad nila," he added.

He also said that the other schools are doing well like the engineering and architecture based at the PSU campus in Urdaneta City which also produced lately board topnotchers and the widely known teacher education facility in Bayambang which also houses the nursing school.

New courses will be offered, he bared. In the second semester of this new school year, he said that the college of law would be set up at the Lingayen campus where courses on arts and sciences are also being offered.

The state university also plans to open the college of medicine at the soon-to-open Alaminos City campus where the city government built a P10 million building for the purpose. The campus is adjacent to the 300-bed hospital which the city government is also putting up.

PSU caters to the needs of poor but deserving students in Pangasinan whose population is more than the combined population of the three other provinces which also have their own state colleges and universities.

From 9,000 enrollees three years ago when Estira assumed the presidency, the number jumped to 15,000 in the last school year. This year, the number may swell to 18,000, he said, attributing the increase to the subsidized tuition fees and the open admission policy adopted lately by the institution.

"Pero di namin ibinababa ang antas ng quality education kahit na open ang admission," he clarified, pointing to the selective retention program being imposed where students who fail in at least three subjects are advised to discontinue. "Sayang lang yong pera at pagod ng mga magulang nila," he noted.

He also said that with the so-called block system, students who strictly observe it will finish their schooling without hitches and eventually pass any board exams if their courses require such exams. (PIA Pangasinan)

FEU, CEU top nursing schools
CHEd also bares 253 low-performing institutions (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/260130/feu-ceu-top-nursing-schools)

The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) announced on Tuesday the top-performing schools offering the Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs in the country for 2009.

These schools rated higher than 40.70% national passing average set by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and the school's number of exam takers in the recent results of the licensure examinations for nursing.

The top nursing schools for 2009 for Range 1 (with 1,000 and up takers) are: Far Eastern University-Manila (NCR) with 1,982 passers out of 2,656 takers or 74.62 percent passing rate; Centro Escolar University-Manila (NCR) with 720 out of 1,002 or 71.86 %; Manila Doctors College (NCR) with 704 out of 1,011 or 69.63 %; Manila Central University-Caloocan City (NCR) with 598 out of 1,048 or 57.06%; University of the Cordilleras (CAR) with 978 out of 1,743 or 56.11%; University of Cebu (Region 7) with 829 out of 1,529 or 54.22%; University of Pangasinan with 627 out of 1,217 or 51.52%; University of San Carlos (Region 7) with 508 out of 1005 or 50.55%; Western Mindanao State University (Region 9) with 587 out of 1,179 or 49.79%; University of the Visayas-Mandaue City (Region 7) with 679 out of 1,48 or 45.72%; Arellano University-Manila (NCR) with 967 out of 2,116 or 45.70%; Brokenshire College (Region 11) with 649 out of 1,456 or 44.57%; Riverside College (Region 6) with 785 out of 1,763 or 44.53%; Davao Doctors College, Inc. (Region 11) with 784 out of 1,805 or 43.43%; Iloilo Doctors' College (Region 6) with 687 out of 1,590 or 43.21%; and Wesleyan University of the Philippines-Cabanatuan City (Region 3) 639 out of 1,524 or 41.93%.

For the Range 2 (with 100 to 999 takers), the Top Nursing Schools include Saint Paul University-Iloilo (Region 6); with 100.00% passing rate; West Visayas State University-La Paz (Region 6) with 99.48%; Saint Louis University (CAR) with 99.04%; Trinity University of Asia (NCR) with 98.80%; University of Santo Tomas (NCR) with 98.36%; Chinese General Hospital College of Nursing & Liberal Arts (NCR) with 98.02%; University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center (NCR) with 97.69%; Pamantasan ng Lungsod Ng Maynila (NCR) with 97.51%; Saint Paul University-Dumaguete (Region 7with 97.28%); Cebu Normal University (Region 7) with 96.54%; Velez College (Region 7) with 95.65%; Xavier University (Region 10) with 95.56%; Silliman University (Region 7)with 95.22%; De La Salle University-Dasmarinas Health Science Campus (Region 4)with 95.14%; Saint Paul University-Tuguegarao (Region 2)with 94.97%; Central Philippine University (Region 6)with 94.30%; Remedios T. Romualdez Medical Foundation (Region 8)with 93.31%; Mindanao State University-Marawi City (ARMM) with 91.71%; Cebu Technological University-Main (Region 7) with 90.84%; and Benguet State University-La Trinidad (CAR) with 88.89%.

For Range 3 (with 10 to 99 takers), the Top Performing Nursing Schools include Negros Oriental State University-Dumaguete (Region 7) with 100.00%; Bukidnon State College-Malaybalay (Region 10) with 100.00%; University of the Philippines-Manila (NCR) with100.00%; University of Saint Louis-Tuguegarao (Region 2) with 97.37%; Central Mindanao University (Region 10) with 95.83%; Philippine Christian University-Manila (NCR) with 88.89%; Saint Paul University-Quezon City (NCR) with 84.85%; New Era University (NCR) with 84.13%; Colegio De Sta. Lourdes of Leyte Foundation, Inc. (Region 8) with 83.33%; Lyceum of the Philippines-Manila (NCR) with 82.35%; Aklan State University ((Region 6) with 81.48%; Saint Tonis College (CAR) with 78.57%; Foundation University (Region 7) with 78.31%; STI College Cebu, Inc. (Region 7) with 75.00%; Samar State University ((Region 8) with 74.07%; Jose Rizal Memorial State College-Dapitan (Region 9) with 74.07%; First City Providential College (Region 3) with 73.53%; Aklan Polytechnic Institute (Region 6) with 72.97%; University of the Phil. School of Health & Sciences-Leyte (Region 8) with 72.00%; Palawan State University (Mimaropa) with 69.49%; College of Maasin (Region 8) with 69.39%; and Pangasinan State University-Bayambang (Region 1) with 66.67%.

The CHEd also released the names of the 253 low-performing nursing schools as well as the top-performing schools in the country based on national passing average of 40.70 percent based on the licensure examinations the PRC administered last June and November 2009.

CHEd Chairman Emmanuel Angeles said that in National Capital Region (NCR) alone, there are 47 nursing schools that were identified as among the low-performing nursing schools. “This initiative is part of CHEd's commitment to monitor and evaluate the performance of nursing schools nationwide and to ensure the quality of nursing education in the country,” he explained.

Angeles added that this move of monitoring and releasing the names of low-performing nursing schools is made to answer the clamor of the public and education stakeholders of a more informative background on higher education institutions in the country. “It also aims to aide parents and students in deciding which schools could provide them quality education and their money's worth,” he said.

The CHEd and PRC – through its Educational Statistics Task Force – vowed to continuously inform the public of the results of board examinations and the ranking of schools all over the country in other professional licensure examinations in the succeeding days. “We at CHEd will publish in provincial news dailies sub-standards schools per region which schools did not fare well in licensure examinations,” Angeles said.

Last May 14, CHEd and PRC revealed that there were 147 schools that offer nursing program but have performed below the national passing rate of 46.14 percent for the for the past five years (2004-2008) in the nursing licensure examinations administered by the PRC.

The CHEd said that a more complete list of low-performing nursing schools per region could be viewed at the PRC website (www.prc.gov.ph)

Think About It
Posted on May 31, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Proposed agenda for Gina and Benjie (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/31/think-about-it-226/)

WHEN the political smoke will have completely cleared and given way to sanity, sobriety and brilliancy, it might be well for our leaders the likes of Congresswoman-elect Gina de Venecia and Mayor-elect Benjie Lim to strike some common grounds for cooperation.
They can, we suggest, meet on a simple but challenging idea that in the view of many could turn in a new leaf for the district — a proposal to create a Metro Dagupan.
A proposal has been aired about the possible "merger" of Dagupan and the municipality of San Fabian. Why the duo? Because they have similar terrain, robust coastline, rich tourism potentials, and dynamic people.
Over a casual meeting recently, a group of people from both places was animated by the idea, which was brought to the table by Mayor-elect Benjie Lim himself.
The idea –a Dagupan-San Fabian merger — would require sober and intelligent dialogue, leadership, and willingness to enlarge horizons. You see, what could strike one as outlandish and fantastic in the beginning could take a brilliant turn that's practical, logical and tremendously beneficial when tackled with open minds.
The city, it was pointed out, needs a greater real estate breather. Don't weep if many parcels of new land have jutted out from the old river system north side of the De Venecia Diversion Road. Those averse to the city's flooding problems — what with the frightening memory of Typhoon Pepeng – are howling and hurting inside for the nonstop landfilling activities of many fishponds in the area. They say the landfilling could bring about another Pepeng (God forbid!).
Most Dagupenos are, in fact, scandalized by the chronic failure of the city government to solve its garbage problem. It's already unthinkable that its compost pit is right beside its alluring Bonuan beach! Up to now, the past Lim administration was on the spot for its failed San Jacinto Awai waste management project.
It's well-known that Dagupan is a "sinking city," and, ask water czar Ramon Reyna, is fast losing its potable water source.
If the proposed Dagupan-San Fabian "district" is realized, will it not make San Fabian a mere problem solver of Daguan's congestion woes?
Not so, we think.
A possible plus for the proposed Dagupan-San Fabian district would be the town's dramatic economic surge and fast tracked access to modern amenities. "Then opportunities for San Fabian's rich marine and tourism wealth would be fantastic," Tony Uy observes.
Why single out the two? Do not forget that in the past, there were proposals to create a Metro Dagupan patterned after the successful Metro Manila Development Authority.
Mayor-elect Lim says "let's have a simple project muna." What do you think, "Dagufabian" folks? Or San Fabdagup? people, as our friend Ms. Lolita Balolong suggests?

FEU, CEU top nursing schools
CHEd also bares 253 low-performing institutions (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/260130/feu-ceu-top-nursing-schools)

The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) announced on Tuesday the top-performing schools offering the Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs in the country for 2009.

These schools rated higher than 40.70% national passing average set by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) and the school's number of exam takers in the recent results of the licensure examinations for nursing.

The top nursing schools for 2009 for Range 1 (with 1,000 and up takers) are: Far Eastern University-Manila (NCR) with 1,982 passers out of 2,656 takers or 74.62 percent passing rate; Centro Escolar University-Manila (NCR) with 720 out of 1,002 or 71.86 %; Manila Doctors College (NCR) with 704 out of 1,011 or 69.63 %; Manila Central University-Caloocan City (NCR) with 598 out of 1,048 or 57.06%; University of the Cordilleras (CAR) with 978 out of 1,743 or 56.11%; University of Cebu (Region 7) with 829 out of 1,529 or 54.22%; University of Pangasinan with 627 out of 1,217 or 51.52%; University of San Carlos (Region 7) with 508 out of 1005 or 50.55%; Western Mindanao State University (Region 9) with 587 out of 1,179 or 49.79%; University of the Visayas-Mandaue City (Region 7) with 679 out of 1,48 or 45.72%; Arellano University-Manila (NCR) with 967 out of 2,116 or 45.70%; Brokenshire College (Region 11) with 649 out of 1,456 or 44.57%; Riverside College (Region 6) with 785 out of 1,763 or 44.53%; Davao Doctors College, Inc. (Region 11) with 784 out of 1,805 or 43.43%; Iloilo Doctors' College (Region 6) with 687 out of 1,590 or 43.21%; and Wesleyan University of the Philippines-Cabanatuan City (Region 3) 639 out of 1,524 or 41.93%.

For the Range 2 (with 100 to 999 takers), the Top Nursing Schools include Saint Paul University-Iloilo (Region 6); with 100.00% passing rate; West Visayas State University-La Paz (Region 6) with 99.48%; Saint Louis University (CAR) with 99.04%; Trinity University of Asia (NCR) with 98.80%; University of Santo Tomas (NCR) with 98.36%; Chinese General Hospital College of Nursing & Liberal Arts (NCR) with 98.02%; University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center (NCR) with 97.69%; Pamantasan ng Lungsod Ng Maynila (NCR) with 97.51%; Saint Paul University-Dumaguete (Region 7with 97.28%); Cebu Normal University (Region 7) with 96.54%; Velez College (Region 7) with 95.65%; Xavier University (Region 10) with 95.56%; Silliman University (Region 7)with 95.22%; De La Salle University-Dasmarinas Health Science Campus (Region 4)with 95.14%; Saint Paul University-Tuguegarao (Region 2)with 94.97%; Central Philippine University (Region 6)with 94.30%; Remedios T. Romualdez Medical Foundation (Region 8)with 93.31%; Mindanao State University-Marawi City (ARMM) with 91.71%; Cebu Technological University-Main (Region 7) with 90.84%; and Benguet State University-La Trinidad (CAR) with 88.89%.

For Range 3 (with 10 to 99 takers), the Top Performing Nursing Schools include Negros Oriental State University-Dumaguete (Region 7) with 100.00%; Bukidnon State College-Malaybalay (Region 10) with 100.00%; University of the Philippines-Manila (NCR) with100.00%; University of Saint Louis-Tuguegarao (Region 2) with 97.37%; Central Mindanao University (Region 10) with 95.83%; Philippine Christian University-Manila (NCR) with 88.89%; Saint Paul University-Quezon City (NCR) with 84.85%; New Era University (NCR) with 84.13%; Colegio De Sta. Lourdes of Leyte Foundation, Inc. (Region 8) with 83.33%; Lyceum of the Philippines-Manila (NCR) with 82.35%; Aklan State University ((Region 6) with 81.48%; Saint Tonis College (CAR) with 78.57%; Foundation University (Region 7) with 78.31%; STI College Cebu, Inc. (Region 7) with 75.00%; Samar State University ((Region 8) with 74.07%; Jose Rizal Memorial State College-Dapitan (Region 9) with 74.07%; First City Providential College (Region 3) with 73.53%; Aklan Polytechnic Institute (Region 6) with 72.97%; University of the Phil. School of Health & Sciences-Leyte (Region 8) with 72.00%; Palawan State University (Mimaropa) with 69.49%; College of Maasin (Region 8) with 69.39%; and Pangasinan State University-Bayambang (Region 1) with 66.67%.

The CHEd also released the names of the 253 low-performing nursing schools as well as the top-performing schools in the country based on national passing average of 40.70 percent based on the licensure examinations the PRC administered last June and November 2009.

CHEd Chairman Emmanuel Angeles said that in National Capital Region (NCR) alone, there are 47 nursing schools that were identified as among the low-performing nursing schools. “This initiative is part of CHEd's commitment to monitor and evaluate the performance of nursing schools nationwide and to ensure the quality of nursing education in the country,” he explained.

Angeles added that this move of monitoring and releasing the names of low-performing nursing schools is made to answer the clamor of the public and education stakeholders of a more informative background on higher education institutions in the country. “It also aims to aide parents and students in deciding which schools could provide them quality education and their money's worth,” he said.

The CHEd and PRC – through its Educational Statistics Task Force – vowed to continuously inform the public of the results of board examinations and the ranking of schools all over the country in other professional licensure examinations in the succeeding days. “We at CHEd will publish in provincial news dailies sub-standards schools per region which schools did not fare well in licensure examinations,” Angeles said.

Last May 14, CHEd and PRC revealed that there were 147 schools that offer nursing program but have performed below the national passing rate of 46.14 percent for the for the past five years (2004-2008) in the nursing licensure examinations administered by the PRC.

The CHEd said that a more complete list of low-performing nursing schools per region could be viewed at the PRC website (www.prc.gov.ph)

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Think About It
Posted on May 31, 2010 - Filed Under Opinion, Think about It | Leave a Comment
Proposed agenda for Gina and Benjie (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/31/think-about-it-226/)

WHEN the political smoke will have completely cleared and given way to sanity, sobriety and brilliancy, it might be well for our leaders the likes of Congresswoman-elect Gina de Venecia and Mayor-elect Benjie Lim to strike some common grounds for cooperation.
They can, we suggest, meet on a simple but challenging idea that in the view of many could turn in a new leaf for the district — a proposal to create a Metro Dagupan.
A proposal has been aired about the possible "merger" of Dagupan and the municipality of San Fabian. Why the duo? Because they have similar terrain, robust coastline, rich tourism potentials, and dynamic people.
Over a casual meeting recently, a group of people from both places was animated by the idea, which was brought to the table by Mayor-elect Benjie Lim himself.
The idea –a Dagupan-San Fabian merger — would require sober and intelligent dialogue, leadership, and willingness to enlarge horizons. You see, what could strike one as outlandish and fantastic in the beginning could take a brilliant turn that's practical, logical and tremendously beneficial when tackled with open minds.
The city, it was pointed out, needs a greater real estate breather. Don't weep if many parcels of new land have jutted out from the old river system north side of the De Venecia Diversion Road. Those averse to the city's flooding problems — what with the frightening memory of Typhoon Pepeng – are howling and hurting inside for the nonstop landfilling activities of many fishponds in the area. They say the landfilling could bring about another Pepeng (God forbid!).
Most Dagupenos are, in fact, scandalized by the chronic failure of the city government to solve its garbage problem. It's already unthinkable that its compost pit is right beside its alluring Bonuan beach! Up to now, the past Lim administration was on the spot for its failed San Jacinto Awai waste management project.
It's well-known that Dagupan is a "sinking city," and, ask water czar Ramon Reyna, is fast losing its potable water source.
If the proposed Dagupan-San Fabian "district" is realized, will it not make San Fabian a mere problem solver of Daguan's congestion woes?
Not so, we think.
A possible plus for the proposed Dagupan-San Fabian district would be the town's dramatic economic surge and fast tracked access to modern amenities. "Then opportunities for San Fabian's rich marine and tourism wealth would be fantastic," Tony Uy observes.
Why single out the two? Do not forget that in the past, there were proposals to create a Metro Dagupan patterned after the successful Metro Manila Development Authority.
Mayor-elect Lim says "let's have a simple project muna." What do you think, "Dagufabian" folks? Or San Fabdagup? people, as our friend Ms. Lolita Balolong suggests?

Great idea! It will surely ease congestion and open up more opportunities.

They can just add the word "and" combining then name of the two local units. "Dagupan and San Fabian City" just like Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trinidad and Tobago, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Dagupan and San Fabian City
Area: 37.23 + 81.28 = 118.51/km2
Population: 149 554 + 74 005 = 223 559 (2007 census)

Reviving the defunct city of Dagucala (Dagupan, Sab Fabian and Calasiao)
Area: 37.23 + 81.28 + 48.36 = 166.87/km2
Population: 149 554 + 74 005 + 85 419 = 308 978 (2007 census)

NFA assures enough rice in Pangasinan during lean months (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=279144)

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, June 2 (PNA) — The National Food Authority (NFA) has assured that it has enough rice to supply the needs of the people of Western Pangasinan during the current lean months from June to September.

NFA Provincial Manager Ramon Cuaresma said there are 600,000 bags of rice in the hands of the agency stored at its different warehouses in the province.

Cuaresma said this is just in keeping with the mandate of the NFA branch in western Pangasinan to maintain a 20-day buffer stock of rice, equivalent to 300,000 bags at any given time.

But with its current 600,000 bags of rice in place, the agency already built a 40-day buffer stock, exceeding its target of 20-day buffer stock.

In addition to this, the commercial stock in the area was placed at around 200,000 bags while the household stock was estimated at around 450,000 bags.

All these amount to 1.3 million bags which will last up to November, the peak of the harvesting season in Pangasinan this year.

However, the agency anticipates some sporadic harvesting of rice in the area starting in August, especially from farmers who planted for the third rice cropping.

That is why, Cuaresma said, the local NFA branch is already gearing up to buy rice from farmers starting in August or September when some of them are already harvesting their crops.

“We are not worried about the supply because with this big volume of rice that we have, we can sustain the needs of our people, especially during the lean months,” said Cuaresma.

He added that lean months or “gawat” in Ilocano and Pangasinan dialects is usually the time of the year when there is little or no harvest of rice at all.

In addition to its current stocks, the NFA in Western Pangasinan still anticipates the arrival of another 400,000 bags of rice imported from Vietnam, Pakistan and Thailand.

All these are now being unloaded at Poro Point in San Fernando, La Union prior to their shipment to Pangasinan.

NFA sells rice at a release price of P23.50 per kilogram or P1,175 per bag from any authorized NFA outlets.

However, there is another NFA rice that sells P16.75 per kilo in some Bigasang Bayan outlets.

On the other hand, commercial rice in Pangasinan is pegged at from P24 to P27 per kilo depending on the kind of rice being sold. (PNA)

New OIC of Dagupan Police assumes office (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=279303)

DAGUPAN CITY, June 2 (PNA) — Superintendent Romeo Caramat assumed office as officer-in-charge of the Dagupan City Police on Tuesday, replacing Superintendent Mariano Luis Verzosa.

Verzosa, who has been chief of police of Dagupan for more than two years, will assume as chief of intelligence of the Police Regional Office based at Camp Oscar Florendo in San Fernando City, La Union prior to his promotion to the next higher rank.

A graduate of the Philippine Military Academy, Verzosa thanked Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. of Dagupan City for giving him a chance to serve as chief of police of Dagupan City.

Verzosa said although on different assignment, his heart still belongs to Dagupan City where he spent his most challenging job as a police officer and where he accomplished a lot of jobs.

On the other hand, Caramat was until recently chief of intelligence branch of the police provincial office.

He said under his watch, the city police office was able to prevent crimes and succeeded in controlling prostitution with the help of Dagupan citizenry, especially the women’s group.

It was under Verzosa’s term as chief of police of Dagupan City that a three-storey police station on A.B. Fernandez Avenue West—the most modern in the province of Pangasinan if not in the entire country--was built.

Caramat was installed to his new post by Chief Superintendent Constante Azares Jr., police regional director, in the presence of Senior Superintendent Percival Barba, police provincial director.

He was chosen for the position over two other aspirants and acknowledged it was Verzosa who endorsed him without hesitation to be his successor here in Dagupan.

“I can only promise in return to do my best to this position in order to bring this police station to greater heights,” said Caramat who said his designation as police chief of Dagupan is another milestone in his career.

He admitted he is a little bit nervous because of the great responsibility awaiting him as new chief of police of Dagupan, including the pressure to equal if not succeed his predecessor.

Caramat also enjoined all the officers and men of the Dagupan City police to also extend to him their utmost support as the new OIC of the Dagupan Police.

He urged his men to continue serving the people of Dagupan City whom they have sworn to protect as he warned scalawags among the ranks that they have no place in the Dagupan police. (PNA)

PNP prioritizes Dagupan's security (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=279325)

DAGUPAN CITY, June 2 (PNA) — The city of Dagupan, though with only a land area of 43 square kilometers, is an urbanized area that is the home of 153,000 people and twice the number during weekends.

Senior Superintendent Percival Barba, police provincial director, said this is the reason the Philippine National Police (PNP) is giving priority to Dagupan’s peace and security over the years.

On top of its burgeoning population, Dagupan is also the center of education in Pangasinan and Region 1. Its various educational institutions, including three universities, are where some 65,000 students are enrolled.

Dagupan is also the commercial and trading center of the north as evidenced by the presence of 53 banks and 11 financial institutions within its fold.

Barba hailed his "mistah", Superintendent Mariano Luis Verzosa, for having done a splendid job as chief of police of Dagupan despite his lack of men and logistics.

He said the Dagupan PNP has only 120 personnel at any given time or a ratio of one policeman to every 1,200 residents, whereas the ideal police-population ratio is 1: 500.

But Barba said the Dagupan Police is lucky because the local government unit headed by Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. had contributed a lot of logistics to the force.

The Dagupan police has 12 patrol vehicles, 24 motorcycles and several other equipment, most of which came from the LGU.

The new three-storey Dagupan Police Station, constructed at a cost of P18 million, is yet to be finished. It was dubbed as a world-class police station, the first of its kind in the country.

Two of those who served as chiefs of police of Dagupan City in the past went on to the top of the PNP echelon.

They were then Capt. Hermogenes Ebdane who later became chief of the PNP, secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways and now Governor of Zambales.

The other is National Capital Regional Police Command General Roberto Rosales who was still captain when he served as chief of police of Dagupan. (PNA)

Libanan pushes for implementation of BI’s visa scheme nationwide (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=1&rid=278998)

MANILA, June 2 (PNA) -- Bureau of Immigration (BI) Commissioner Marcelino Libanan ordered Tuesday his information technology staff to fast track the implementation of the agency’s visa-issuance-made-simple (VIMS) project in all subports and field offices nationwide.

Libanan directed BI computer section chief Jollybert Galeon to pursue the “full and complete” implementation of the VIMS system in some 24 remaining subports and BI offices that have yet to adopt the scheme.

Libanan told Galeon that foreigners in the said areas must likewise benefit from the VIMS like their counterparts based in Metro Manila and other areas in the provinces that are now benefiting from the scheme.

“Foreigners living in the provinces should not come to our main office in Intramuros, Manila just to have their immigration status updated. They should do it in our satellite, district officers or subports nearest to them,” Libanan said.

Considered as Libanan’s flagship project and launched in 2008, the VIMS simplified the procedures and reduced by an average of 58 percent the documentary requirements for filing visa applications.

The increase in the agency’s revenue was attributed to the success of the VIMS as the project gained confidence of foreigners in the country.

Records from the bureau’s finance and management division which showed that the immigration fees breached the P2-billion mark last year despite the global economic crisis.

“In 2008, when the VIMS was implemented, the bureau’s income reached a record-high of P2.11 billion,” BI spokesman Floro Balato said.

Balato added the project helped cut the red tape as it ushered in the expeditious processing and approval of visa applications, including the updating and extension of tourist visas.

“Incidence of petty graft was also reduced because foreigners realized it is no longer necessary to engage their “services” of “fixers” who facilitate their visa applications for a fee,” he explained.

Meanwhile, the BI reported that of the 53 immigration subports nationwide that are have been targeted to adopt VIMS, 29 of them are already implementing the project.

Among the BI offices outside of Metro Manila that have adopted the VIMS system are those based in Cebu, Davao, Laoag, Zamboanga, Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Angeles, Baguio, Dumaguete, Olongapo, Dagupan, Batangas, Legaspi, Naga, Cabanatuan, Aparri, Santiago, Calapan, and Glan Sarangani.

All BI immigration area and satellite offices in Metro Manila, including the extension offices in Makati and Pasay, are also implementing the VIMS.

Libanan said his staff will try its best to complete the installation of the VIMS system in the remaining subports within the year. (PNA)

Schools bracing for rains, flooding (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20100602-273495/Schools-bracing-for-rains-flooding)

By Yolanda Sotelo
Philippine Daily Inquirer

DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines—How do schools in flood-prone areas prepare for the opening of classes? There are several ways: Elevate buildings, build wall cabinets for books, dig and unclog drainage and repair gutters.

Aurora Domingo, Pangasinan Schools Division II superintendent, said new school buildings are built higher than the level of roads, in the hope that floodwaters will not reach the classrooms.

She said cabinets are fixed to the walls, near the classroom’s ceilings, to protect books and other learning materials from floods.

“We have hanging cabinets in the classrooms and offices now,” Domingo said.

Domingo said volunteers of the Brigada Eskwela (School Brigade), a project where community members join hands to prepare schools for the opening of classes, helped in digging and unclogging drainage systems and repairing and cleaning gutters.

Flood lessons

She said teachers learned their lessons from previous floods when office tables, where they placed books and other materials, would sway with the current and the rising water, causing books to fall.

Worse, water could reach the table tops and drench the books, she said.

Donato Balderas, acting Dagupan City schools superintendent, said his division received P7 million from the Department of Education to construct and repair school buildings.

“I specifically asked contractors to elevate the floors of the schools,” he said.

Balderas said the East Central Elementary School would go under water during the rainy season and high tide.

“We had to elevate the classrooms and the yard using about 100 truckloads of filling materials. We just hope that we have elevated the classrooms high enough,” he said.

Dagupan’s nightmare

Flooding in Dagupan was worse in October last year when Typhoon “Pepeng” submerged most parts of the city under 10 feet of water.

Balderas also asked students to wear slippers or sandals to school during the rainy months as these can easily dry.

“Wearing shoes during rainy days is not advisable because the children’s feet will be soaked and they could contract various diseases,” he said.

In Urdaneta City, local officials are planning to include disaster management in the curriculum to educate children on disaster response, said city administrator Ronald San Juan.

Urdaneta was among the 36 Pangasinan towns and cities that went under water in October last year when the San Roque Dam in San Manuel town released excess water at the height of Pepeng’s onslaught.

Ready for classes

Despite perennial school opening headaches like lack of books and desks, and how to make schools safe from floods, Pangasinan schools are ready to open their doors this June, officials said.

“Principals and teachers are trained by their supervisors and nature to cope with crisis. They work with whatever is available and try their best to teach the children how to act under the worst of circumstances,” said Maria Celia Junio-Fernandez, Urdaneta City schools division superintendent.

During the October flood, the teachers brought home students’ records so these would not be destroyed. But the textbooks that they left on top of cabinets were not spared by the flood.

The calamity struck during the middle of the school year so without books, teachers had to use alternative reference materials and teaching modules, Fernandez said.

She said her office received books and desks, but “as usual, these were not enough.” “One hundred percent is never in our vocabulary. There is always a shortage of books and other materials every school year. But teachers are positive thinkers and are always able to deal with such situations,” she said.

School rises from ruins, parents join clean up (http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/06/02/school-rises-from-ruins-parents-join-clean-up/)

By Yolanda Sotelo

CALASIAO– Benjamin Domagas, 60, leads parents and teen-agers in cutting weeds that have overgrown the back of a building of the Bued East Elementary School.

His red shirt already soaked in sweat, he smiled as he took a break from weeding when the Inquirer approached, and pointed to two teenagers working as hard as he was.

“That is my son Richard and that one is my nephew Kenneth. They are both 18 and they are both
graduates of this school. They are here to help clean the school yard,” he said.

Domagas, the president of the Parents Teachers Association, said five farmers with children studying in the school are coming in the afternoon to help cut the weeds.

“They are harvesting mongo beans this morning, after which they will come to help us,” he said.
From the wooden jalousie window of the kindergarten room, a solitary figure is seen sawing pieces of wood. Vicente Parayno, also 60, a carpenter, fixes

tables and chairs, painting them with bright blue hue.

Parayno said he no longer was capable of working as carpenter after he underwent a surgery on his spinal column in July last year.

“But fixing and painting these tables is easy. Besides, I do this to help the school where I studied,” he said.

Domagas and Parayno were classmates and belonged to the school’s second batch of graduates in 1968. They are now volunteering to clean the yard, buildings and repair fixtures to ready the school in time for opening in June.

What they are doing is part of the Brigada Eskwela, a program of the Department of Education that seeks to involve the community stakeholders in the minor repair and maintenance of public school buildings to get these ready for the opening of classes.
School principal Edna Cornista said the entire week from May 24-29, the teachers and the volunteer parents will be working in the school.

But Bued East Elementary School is a “special” school of sorts because almost all its buildings are new and community support is strong.

It was a “victim” of tropical storm Cosme that devastated the town in May 2008 – toppling main building toppled to he ground and no longer repairable.

The school teachers and the parents, who were also victimized by the typhoon, at first were stunned and felt helpless. But they eventually gathered their wits and resolved to put the school back in order.

The alumni association, headed by village head Carlito Dion, held a meeting and decided to ask graduates for contributions to construct at least one schoolroom, and to ask government agencies for buildings to replace the wrecked one.

It was a tall order, they knew, but help just simply poured.

The owners of Toyota Dagupan (a dealer of Toyota vehicles) – Juanito Ong Jr. and Rene So came to the school, inspected the buildings and right then and there, decided to donate two schoolrooms. Later, Toyota Dagupan “adopted” the school, donating desks and other equipment. They have also committed to helpin completing the construction of the back fence.
The good vibes released by the strong community work seemed to serve as magnet for school projects.
While other equally devastated schools were having a hard time requesting the authorities for buildings, the DepEd, provincial government, and the office of third District Rep. Rachel Arenas immediately funded the construction of more schoolrooms. Abono Party List and the Office of Senator Chiz
Escudero donated three and two computer sets, respectively. Many other graduates of the school have likewise donated school equipment.

It is not only during the Brigada Eskwela time that the community is active in helping the school, Cornista said. Members of the religious group Church of Latter Day Saints (known as Mormons) and businessmen from the village regularly come to help clean the yard, she said.
“We have enough classrooms now and we are lucky that the community is helpful to make our school a convenient place for our children to study,” she said

(Northern Watch)

2 NEW SCHOOLROOMS RISING IN PILAWAN (http://www.sisonlgu.gov.ph/read_news.php?news_id=264)

It is not our family’s practice to beg but for your sake, I will go as far as the doors of Malacanang, but please do your part! … Mayor Kimi

Pilawan School is situated in a far flung area bounded on the east by the municipality of Tuba, Benguet. It is atop one of the highest mountains of the municipality of Sison within the bounds of barangay Sagunto.

Mayor Kimi immediately realized with extreme consternation how the residents have been left out by the rapid progress of modernization through their reticent behavior and atypical expressions in her first climb to the area. This impelled her to put Pilawan one among her priority concerns particularly the educational advancement of the people and the development of their foremost livelihood that is agriculture.

Immediate restoration and total rehabilitation of the road from Sitio Nga-ab to Sitio Kapakoan after the onslaught of typhoon Pepeng have been completed with urgency including the immediate release of the material assistance requested by the Irrigators Association in the restoration of the irrigation dam – all through the facilitation of Mayor Kimi. In addition to these is the construction of a new two-room school building with an area of seven meters by nine meters each worth a total of one million three hundred thousand pesos (Php 1,300,000.00). In one of her many school speeches, Mayor Kimi said, “It is not our family’s practice to beg but for your sake, I will go as far as the doors of Malacanang, but please do your part!”

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ONGOING TWO-CLASSROOM PROJECT IN PILAWAN

Plans of electrifying the area have also been discussed with the La Union Electric Cooperative (LUELCO) officials headed by Rosario Branch Office Head, Mrs. Emilia Estoque. The project cost is three million pesos (Php 3,000,000.00). Another project in queue is the Bailey bridge to replace the hanging foot bridge in Sitio Nga-ab. This aims to make the area passable by motored vehicles and easy transport of agricultural products even during rainy seasons.

CHEd renews LNU's deregulated status (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/30/ched-renews-lnus-deregulated-status/)

LYCEUM Northwestern University’s (LNU) “deregulated status” has been renewed by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) for the institution’s continuing exemplary performance in instruction, research and public service.

In presenting the Award of Distinction to LNU president Gonzalo Duque last May 14, CHEd chairman Emmanuel Angeles also cited the outstanding performance of LNU graduates, which, he said, “manifests its genuine commitment to quality, excellence and global competitiveness.”

LNU’s deregulated status, the first university in Region 1 to hold such status, will be in effect until May 12, 2013.

As a deregulated educational institution, LNU will be given priority in the grant of subsidies and other financial incentives assistance from CHEd as well as hold the privilege to determine and prescribe its curricular programs.

Aside from granting deregulated status, CHEd also identified LNU as Center for Development in Pharmacy Education in the next three years following its performance of an 80 percent percentage passing rate in the Pharmacy licensure examinations in the last five years.

Duque said the recognition that LNU received is a proof of its commitment to provide quality but low-cost higher education to students in Pangasinan and nearby provinces.

(Sunday Punch)

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AWARD OF DISTINCTION–Commission on Higher Education chairman Emmanuel Angeles (second from right) presents to Lyceum Northwestern University president Gonzalo Duque (center) an “Award of Distinction” that renewed LNU’s deregulated status because of its continuing exemplary performance and the outstanding performance of its graduates.

(Sunday Punch)

Alcala’s vice mayor faces ‘work and challenges’ (http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/06/02/alcala%E2%80%99s-vice-mayor-faces-%E2%80%98work-and-challenges%E2%80%99/)

By Brando Cortez

ALCALA-The vice mayor elect of this town is ready to work and face the challenges as the second highest elected official.

“If you are asking me what will I be facing in the next three years, it will work and challenges,” incoming Alcala Vice Mayor Ryan Paolo Mencias said.
The soon-to-be vice mayor said it was about time the Filipinos and the people of alcla moved on and be vigilant so that their elected officials accomplish their promises to better the lives of the people.

“The bottom line of our program of government is the upliftment of the lives of the people of Alcala,” Mencias said.

The youthful Mencias will bring with him his dynamism and keen interest in local governance, business acumen and passion for socio-economic programs.

Mencias said that this will be three years of fruitful and substantial legislative work in the Sangguniang Bayan.

“Makakaasa ang ating mga kababayan ng isang matino at seryosong Sangguniang Bayan upang hindi naman masayang ang tiwalang ipinagkaloob nila sa atin sa katatapos na halalan,” Mencias said. “Kailangang maging aktibo ang Sungguniang Bayan sa paggawa ng mga napapanahong ordinansa para sa kapakanan ng mga taga-Alcala.”

Mencias said he believes in the dictum “Ang kabataan ay pag-asa ng bayan” and that the youth if given the opportunity to govern can lead the town of Alcala to progress.

“Malaki ang paniwala ko na ang mga kabataan ay dapat mabigyan ng pagkakataon para magsilbi sa bayan, “ Mencias said. “Hindi po tayo traditional na pulitiko at ang kagustuhan ko lamang ay tumulong sa aking mga kababayan dito para sa susunod na henerasyon.”

(Northern Watch)

Tilapia fingerlings dispersed in Pozorrubio
(http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/30/tilapia-fingerlings-dispersed-in-pozorrubio/)
POZORRUBIO–About 60,000 tilapia fingerlings from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist arrived here last week for dispersal in open fresh waters in the municipality.

The target areas are along the communal irrigation systems of Amagbagan, Bobonan and Banding; the Bued River passing through Manaol, Malokiat, Tulnac, and Malasin; Talogtog Creek, and; the small water impounding projects of Limansangan.

The tilapia dispersal project is a joint undertaking of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, the Office of the Municipal Agriculturist and the municipal government under Mayor Emma Zosima Chan in support of the fishery stock enhancement project of inland bodies of waters.–jvillamil.

(Sunday Punch)

http://northwatch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/navarro1.jpg

WORKING EXECUTIVE Bani mayor Marcelo Navarro, Jr. shows a picture of a sample of windmill the town is planning to put-up in the town for the windmill power project. CESAR RAMIREZ (Northern Watch)

If this Wind Mill project in Bani Town will push through....another site para
mapuntahan ng mga tao.....para sa photo session...

Same like the one in Ilocos...daming pinoy ang nagpapakuha ng larawan sa
mga Wind Mill na ito......ang tataas ba naman kasi....whoooosss.....

di na yata bz ang Allan_dude daming post na naman sa thread.....weeeeeee

Position
Lease Officer - Calasiao, Pangasinan

Work Location
Robinsons Place Pangasinan

Date Posted
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Link (http://impact-ph.jobstreet.com/jobs/jobdesc.asp?type=0&eid=29087747&jid=2378445&did=906&its=0&src=8&itn=)

Position
Lease Officer - Calasiao, Pangasinan

Work Location
Robinsons Place Pangasinan

Date Posted
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Link (http://impact-ph.jobstreet.com/jobs/jobdesc.asp?type=0&eid=29087747&jid=2378445&did=906&its=0&src=8&itn=)


aba, tuluy na tuloy na nga....kelan kaya uumpisahan construction?...excited nako!

meron din rumor magtatayo din daw ng magic mall sa may tabi ng simbahan ng calasiao...anyone knows about this?


:banana:

aba, tuluy na tuloy na nga....kelan kaya uumpisahan construction?...excited nako!

meron din rumor magtatayo din daw ng magic mall sa may tabi ng simbahan ng calasiao...anyone knows about this?


:banana:

Lima kamid Toyota Calasiao tan Dagupeña Restaurant natan ya ngarum.

The old lady managing Dagupeña said construction will start this July. The property is right next to Dagupeña.

FYEO: Site of Robinsons Place Pangasinan in Brgy. San Miguel, Calasiao

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4666255462_32ab9f1bb7_b.jpg


Position
Lease Officer - Calasiao, Pangasinan

Work Location
Robinsons Place Pangasinan

Date Posted
Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Link (http://impact-ph.jobstreet.com/jobs/jobdesc.asp?type=0&eid=29087747&jid=2378445&did=906&its=0&src=8&itn=)
Thanks ritche!

Aya kuno ay..

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4665622897_782c4fa59b_b.jpg

^

wow! salamat ed maples ya reply allan_dude!

sana malaki ung mall...ilang floors kaya? i hope it will be much bigger than robinson's place laoag...

so, hindi na ba ililipat ung honda cars?

Lima kamid Toyota Calasiao tan Dagupeña Restaurant natan ya ngarum.

The old lady managing Dagupeña said construction will start this July. The property is right next to Dagupeña.

FYEO: Site of Robinsons Place Pangasinan in Brgy. San Miguel, Calasiao

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4666255462_32ab9f1bb7_b.jpg



Thanks ritche!

Aya kuno ay..

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4665622897_782c4fa59b_b.jpg


Shopping Capital na talaga ang Pangasinan with malls in every corner of the province! WHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If this Wind Mill project in Bani Town will push through....another site para
mapuntahan ng mga tao.....para sa photo session...

Same like the one in Ilocos...daming pinoy ang nagpapakuha ng larawan sa
mga Wind Mill na ito......ang tataas ba naman kasi....whoooosss.....

Comparing it with the windmills in Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Navarro said the latter uses technology from the 1980s where the structures are 60 meters high and each with a blade of 40 meters. The Bani windmills will be more modern and smaller at 12 meters high and each with a blade of only five to six meters long.
It will be the first of its kind in Southeast Asia and only the second in Asia, after similar projects in Japan.

here's the link (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/05/30/bani-aims-for-%E2%80%9Cgreen-city%E2%80%9D-status/)

^

wow! salamat ed maples ya reply allan_dude!

sana malaki ung mall...ilang floors kaya? i hope it will be much bigger than robinson's place laoag...

so, hindi na ba ililipat ung honda cars?

Siguro naman mas malaki ang Rob Pangasinan... i've been at the Rob Laoag and its not that big compared to malls here in Pangasinan...

Siguro they will consider the population of Pangasinan...
Sa Ilocos Norte kasi, hindi pa masiyado malaki population so parang ok lang ang size ng Rob doon...

^^

wow! salamat ed maples ya reply allan_dude!

sana malaki ung mall...ilang floors kaya? i hope it will be much bigger than robinson's place laoag...

so, hindi na ba ililipat ung honda cars? Chamba labat ya wadtan kami ed Calasiao nen ngarem!

I guess with a sprawling property, baka ala Robinsons Place Gensan ang itatayo nila. Two floors lang siguro, elevated ang ground floor para hindi abutin ng baha. :lol:

Sabi I-rerelocate rin raw nila Honda Cars..

Kamusta naman ang CSI City Mall Lucao kapag bukas na ang Rob? baka langawin na

I'm hoping RLC will still maintain Robinsons Supermarket and Departmentstore @ Nepo Mall Dagupan

Shopping Capital na talaga ang Pangasinan with malls in every corner of the province! WHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That makes our province unique in northern Luzon, you can see progress spread-out, even 1st class towns have their own malls.

Kung sa Eastern Pangasinan may SM, Sa Central Pangasinan Robinsons, Ano kaya ilalagay sa Western Pangasinan? Ayala Malls na kaya?

meron din rumor magtatayo din daw ng magic mall sa may tabi ng simbahan ng calasiao...anyone knows about this? Balon assignment tayo ya! Diad gilig na simbaan? Ito ba yung vacant lot sa gilid ng kumbento?

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4665629697_b71f4b299f_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4665633633_febfbe30d1_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4666251828_ff8e49fedf_b.jpg

Balon assignment tayo ya! Diad gilig na simbaan? Ito ba yung vacant lot sa gilid ng kumbento?

yup! medyo melag labat may lote...cguro parang mini-shopping mall lang, if in case totoo ung balita, but still...its about time! calasiao lang ata ang wala pang shopping mall among the central towns...well, aside frm sta. barbara :colgate:

pero baka after robinsons eh sunud-sunod na rin...sabi nga nila, kung nasaan ang robinsons andun din ang SM, or vice versa... :lol:

take a look at SM san fernando, kaharap lang ang robinsons,, hehe...wishful thinking

yup! medyo melag labat may lote...cguro parang mini-shopping mall lang, if in case totoo ung balita, but still...its about time! calasiao lang ata ang wala pang shopping mall among the central towns...well, aside frm sta. barbara :colgate:

pero baka after robinsons eh sunud-sunod na rin...sabi nga nila, kung nasaan ang robinsons andun din ang SM, or vice versa... :lol:

take a look at SM san fernando, kaharap lang ang robinsons,, hehe...wishful thinking

Eto na ung Robinsons Starmills and SM Pampanga along NLEX?

Sana may mall din sa Western Pangasinan...

Pangasinan will have the largest mall concentration in the north
:dance:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4665629697_b71f4b299f_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4665633633_febfbe30d1_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4666251828_ff8e49fedf_b.jpg

I would love to visit this resto but it looks so expensive to eat there... Maganda kasi eh..

I would love to visit this resto but it looks so expensive to eat there... Maganda kasi eh.. Favorite ko dian yung sizzling bangus!


Sana may mall din sa Western Pangasinan...

Pangasinan will have the largest mall concentration in the north
May Nepo sa Alaminos

yup! medyo melag labat may lote...cguro parang mini-shopping mall lang, if in case totoo ung balita, but still...its about time! calasiao lang ata ang wala pang shopping mall among the central towns...well, aside frm sta. barbara :colgate:

pero baka after robinsons eh sunud-sunod na rin...sabi nga nila, kung nasaan ang robinsons andun din ang SM, or vice versa... :lol:

take a look at SM san fernando, kaharap lang ang robinsons,, hehe...wishful thinking Baka singa Magic Malasiqui labat angan ko.

For me, dapat yung next SM asa Binmaley para hindi langawin ang Rob Calasiao, parang nangyari sa Robinsons vs SM in Dasmariñas, Sta Rosa, Fairview, Pampanga.. talo ang Rob. kungbaga kanya kanyang teritoryo sana

Hayaan mo na Magic or CSI, tipong community malls/superstores lang sila :lol:

Convention center, planon ipaletneg diad ciudad na Alaminos (http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/4267-convention-center-planon-ipaletneg-diad-ciudad-na-alaminos)

Wednesday, 02 June 2010

DAGUPAN CITY - Plano na city government na Alaminos ya mangipaletneg na convention center.

Onong ed kinen Alaminos city mayor Hernani Braganza, asumpal lay bidding na convention facility tan iilalon ya nasumpal diad kasamputan na taon o diad kasakbayan na unsublay ya taon.

Impalapag ton antokaman ya oras so nayarin lan igapo so pangipaletneg na asalitan convention center.

No saya so nasumpal, wala lay kapasidad na ciudad piyan manhost na saray convention.

Kaleganan tonya, apili so Hundred Island national park diad asalitan ciudad ya pasyaran na delegasyon daray doktor ya nanlapud nanduruman lugar diad bansa ya mibiang ed pil plimiron DOH summit diad luyag na Pangasinan.

Pilplimiron DOH summit diad ciudad na Dagupan, nagawa natan ya agew
(http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/4428-pilplimiron-doh-summit-diad-ciudad-na-dagupan-nagawa-natan-ya-agew)
Thursday, 03 June 2010

DAGUPAN CITY - Sinmabi la ray delegasyon na saray doktor ya mibiang ed pil plimiron DOH summit natan ya agew diad ciudad na Dagupan.

Onong ed kinen Dr. Mike Canto, spokesperson na Region I Medical Center, agga unleksab ed 400 ya doktor manlapud nanduruman lugar so iilaon ya mibiang ed summit.

Manuuran ed arum ya parte na bansa kanyan angiter lay abiso so pigara ed sikaran nairapan iran makabiyahe. Anggaman untan, maniilalo so ciudad ya mantalonggaring so asalitan summit.

Unggapo so registration natan ya agew pasado ala-8 na kabuasan, balet antes tonya, akimisa ni arum natan ya kabuasan diad Our Lady of Manaoag.

Kasumpalan na summit, umbisita so delegasyon na saray doktor diad Hundred island ed ciudad na Alaminos tan arum nin mararakep ya lugar diad luyag.

Accidents traced to undisciplined driving - LTO (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p100603.htm&no=40)

By Danny O Sagun

Dagupan City (3 June) -- Road accidents usually occur due to undisciplined driving and failure to use safety gears, an official of the Land Transportation Office pointed out Thursday.

Dagupan LTO assistant head Francisco Fabia said that most accidents now involve the use of motorcycles. Either the driver was over speeding or not wearing headgear, he noted. "Nasa disiplina na ng tao yan, eh kung gabi hindi na sila maghelmet," he said.

Fama, meanwhile, bared that road violations continue to rise despite the stiff increase in fines. "Marami pa rin ang violations kahit tumaas yong penalties," he said during the KBP Forum at the Philippine Information Agency Thursday.

The fines jumped several fold. A motorist who fails to wear helmet, for example, now faces a fine of P1,500, which used to be only P150 before, or an increase of 1,000 percent.

Fabia noted though that many were first-time violators. "Marami sa kanila yong hindi pa nahuhuli, pero yong mga nahuli na sumusunod na rin, mabigat talaga yong multa nila," he observed.

A motorist may even be slapped huge fines if he has many violations, he clarified. "Depende yan, kung marami syang violations talagang mabibigatan sya sa laki ng multa," he said.

Told that Filipino drivers usually abide by traffic laws when they are in another country, he said that Filipinos really need to discipline themselves. "Dapat talaga meron tayong disiplina sa sarili at saka kulang sa ngipin yong batas natin," he said.

He said that accidents usually occur because of failure by some drivers to observe road courtesies and speed limits or use safety gears like helmets or seatbelts.

Adults or parents should not allow their young kids drive any vehicle, not even motorcycle, he said, adding that those who drank wine should not drive at all. "Kung nakainom naman, mas mabuti pang magpahatid na lang," he said. (PIA Pangasinan)

Dagupan health office warns of diseases this rainy season
(http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p100603.htm&no=24&r=r01&y=&mo=)
By Venus May H. Sarmiento

agupan City (3 June) -- The Provincial Health office has warned the public of common diseases that may arise with the onset of the rainy season.

raining Officer Dr. Roderick Asuncion of the PHO Pediatrics Division said dengue remains the number one disease to be wary of, followed by chicken pox, measles and respiratory infections. Gastroenteritis, caused by contaminated drinks and food is also one prevalent ailment.

But Asuncion said all these diseases could be prevented.

"As early as six months old, a baby must be immunized with anti- measles vaccine if there are many cases of measles but the usual injection period is nine months among infants," Asuncion said during the KBP Forum held at the Philippine Information Agency office.

Environmental sanitation and personal hygiene are always the most advisable ways to prevent the spread of diseases.

"Iwasan din ang pagpunta sa mga hospitals kung wala kayong transactions dahil maraming sakit na pwedeng makahawa," Asuncion said.

He also encouraged mothers to breastfeed their children upon birth pointing out that mother?s milk has antibodies to help prevent diseases.

itute for breast milk. It is irreplaceable and economical," he stressed.

He also called on pregnant women who smoke to stop it as they only expose their children to second hand smoke."Smoking is really not safe for children and old alike. For pregnant women who smoke and who are exposed to smoke, malaki ang tendency na liliit ang bata at maapektuhan ang brain development," Asuncion explained. (PIA-Pangasinan)

cheers, pangasinan! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

Pangasinan rider rules Tour of CamSur 2010

PILI, CamSur – Yellow jersey-clad Mark Julius Bonzo of Pangasinan exhibited a tremendous burst of sprinting grit to overhaul, approaching the homestretch of the second and final lap, the front-running pack some three kilometers ahead of him and clinched the championship of the elite Sports category of the Tour of CamSur on its 13th edition this year staged May 26 and 27 as part of the Kaogma Festival to mark the 431st Foundation Anniversary of Camarines Sur.

Nursing a slim bonus time of 5 seconds over Cris Joven of Iriga City and 10 seconds over Bryan Sepnio of Nabua, CamSur who finished with him in the lead pack of the first lap, Bonzo conserved power in the final lap coasting along with the second pack of a half a dozen riders as archrivals riding buddies Cris Joven and John Ricafort of Iriga City, running in second and fifth standings just seconds behind Bonzo after the initial lap, broke away very early in the 110-kilometer route from Lagonoy to the Provincial Capitol Complex here.

Unleashing a surge of speed in store typical of a natural sprinter he is, Bonzo at the lead of the second pack gradually closed the distance of over three kilometers Joven and Ricafort have maintained most of the lap, overhauling and overtaking them for a solo head less than 20 kilometers from the finish line in the vicinity of Banasi, Bula.

Bonzo clocked a total running time of 5 hours, 54 minutes and 58 seconds, only 15 short but precious seconds ahead of Joven and Bryan Sepnio of Nabua, CamSur who posted identical time of 5:55:13 and shared second place.

Except for Bonzo, cyclists from the Rinconada district virtually dominated the Tour. Five other Irigueños, Michael Rombaon (5:59:05), John Ricafort (6:02:25), Margarito Platilla, Jr., (6:02:58), Michael Pili (6:11:57) and Henry Ramboyong (6:11:59) crossed the tape in the wake of the frontrunners for third to seventh places, respectively, followed by Donald Baleña of Nabua and Sergio Sotto of Baao who shared equal time at eighth place.

In the Fun Riders category, practically the same riders duplicated their finishes and maintained their rankings in the two laps. Best time winners who led the division in both laps were Melchor Abejuro, Legaspi City (6:19:02); Carlo Gasmen, Narvacan, Ilocos Sur (6:19:17); Billy Biag, Pili, CamSur (6:19:22); Noel Bomalay, Iriga City (6:22:49); Arne Buere, Legaspi City (6:22:49); Richard Odiver, Iriga City (6:22:49); Ronnie Abao, Gingoog City (6:23:18); Clarence Acacio, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan (6:23:18); Carlos Nadyahan, Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya (6:25:52) and Ilejandro Pituc, Iriga City (6:25:52).

Champion of the team contest was the LPGMA team of Jackie Berjame, Bryan Sepnio and Cris Joven with a cumulative time of 18:04:56.29, first runner-up the AFP team of Mark Julius Bonzo, John Ricafort and Paolo Manapul with 18:13:08.51 and third runner-up the Seabees of Michael Pili, Alan Ricafort and Sergio Sotto with 18:38:57.85.

Now on its thirteenth successive year, the Tour of CamSur, initiated by the Multimedia Education Center of the provincial government in 1998 as a sports cum tourism development project, has now evolved into a major national cycling event sanctioned and supervised by the Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines (Philcycling). GBClaveria/MMEC

www.bicolmail.com

cheers, pangasinan! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

Pangasinan rider rules Tour of CamSur 2010

PILI, CamSur – Yellow jersey-clad Mark Julius Bonzo of Pangasinan exhibited a tremendous burst of sprinting grit to overhaul, approaching the homestretch of the second and final lap, the front-running pack some three kilometers ahead of him and clinched the championship of the elite Sports category of the Tour of CamSur on its 13th edition this year staged May 26 and 27 as part of the Kaogma Festival to mark the 431st Foundation Anniversary of Camarines Sur.

Nursing a slim bonus time of 5 seconds over Cris Joven of Iriga City and 10 seconds over Bryan Sepnio of Nabua, CamSur who finished with him in the lead pack of the first lap, Bonzo conserved power in the final lap coasting along with the second pack of a half a dozen riders as archrivals riding buddies Cris Joven and John Ricafort of Iriga City, running in second and fifth standings just seconds behind Bonzo after the initial lap, broke away very early in the 110-kilometer route from Lagonoy to the Provincial Capitol Complex here.

Unleashing a surge of speed in store typical of a natural sprinter he is, Bonzo at the lead of the second pack gradually closed the distance of over three kilometers Joven and Ricafort have maintained most of the lap, overhauling and overtaking them for a solo head less than 20 kilometers from the finish line in the vicinity of Banasi, Bula.

Bonzo clocked a total running time of 5 hours, 54 minutes and 58 seconds, only 15 short but precious seconds ahead of Joven and Bryan Sepnio of Nabua, CamSur who posted identical time of 5:55:13 and shared second place.

Except for Bonzo, cyclists from the Rinconada district virtually dominated the Tour. Five other Irigueños, Michael Rombaon (5:59:05), John Ricafort (6:02:25), Margarito Platilla, Jr., (6:02:58), Michael Pili (6:11:57) and Henry Ramboyong (6:11:59) crossed the tape in the wake of the frontrunners for third to seventh places, respectively, followed by Donald Baleña of Nabua and Sergio Sotto of Baao who shared equal time at eighth place.

In the Fun Riders category, practically the same riders duplicated their finishes and maintained their rankings in the two laps. Best time winners who led the division in both laps were Melchor Abejuro, Legaspi City (6:19:02); Carlo Gasmen, Narvacan, Ilocos Sur (6:19:17); Billy Biag, Pili, CamSur (6:19:22); Noel Bomalay, Iriga City (6:22:49); Arne Buere, Legaspi City (6:22:49); Richard Odiver, Iriga City (6:22:49); Ronnie Abao, Gingoog City (6:23:18); Clarence Acacio, San Jose del Monte, Bulacan (6:23:18); Carlos Nadyahan, Bambang, Nueva Vizcaya (6:25:52) and Ilejandro Pituc, Iriga City (6:25:52).

Champion of the team contest was the LPGMA team of Jackie Berjame, Bryan Sepnio and Cris Joven with a cumulative time of 18:04:56.29, first runner-up the AFP team of Mark Julius Bonzo, John Ricafort and Paolo Manapul with 18:13:08.51 and third runner-up the Seabees of Michael Pili, Alan Ricafort and Sergio Sotto with 18:38:57.85.

Now on its thirteenth successive year, the Tour of CamSur, initiated by the Multimedia Education Center of the provincial government in 1998 as a sports cum tourism development project, has now evolved into a major national cycling event sanctioned and supervised by the Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines (Philcycling). GBClaveria/MMEC

www.bicolmail.com

Idol mga taga-Pangasinan! WEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:banana::banana::banana:

700 med. especialist, dinagop ed DoH Medical Specialist Summit
(http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/4499-700-med-especialist-dinagop-ed-doh-medical-specialist-summit)
DAGUPAN CITY - Nantutugyep iray doktor o espesyalista ed medisina manlalapud nanduruman pampublikong ospital ed interon bansa parad dwaran agew ya Medical Specialist Summit diad syudad na Dagupan.

Impalapag nen Region 1 Medical Center Administrator Dr. Arnel Gazmen ya iilaluan dan ondago so 700 medical specialist ed interon bansa ed abetlan tugyepan natan diad syudad.

Getma na abetlan tugyepan et ompian pantungtungan no antoy nagawaan da ompian natulungan iray totoon agdala sarag so manpatambal ed ospital lapud mablin Health Service.

Pantungtungan damet no panun dan parakepen so pansisirbi rad publiko.

Abayag layan plano da balet natan labat naipatonton.

Nanpasalamat met iyad kinen Dr. Roland Mejia, hepe na R1MC ya inambubon ya i host so abetlan summit.

Nabwas balet et liberen da so interon Provincial Capitol tan onlad syudad na Alaminos ompian ompasyal ed Hundred Island.

Imbaga nen Dr. Gazmen ya osaren damet iyan pankanawnawa ya ipakabat ed saray kakaiba ra so Dagupan City ya Bangus Capital of the world.

(Bombo Radyo Pangasinan)

wow! mararakep ira'y balita - courtesy ed kaaron Allan.
salamat tan welcome ed si christian_joe.

intermission: Hundred Islands
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^ You never fail to post quality images! Good job!

PetroEnergy’s rights offering cleared (http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideBusiness.htm?f=2010/june/4/business2.isx&d=2010/june/4)

The Philippine Stock Exchange has approved the application of PetroEnergy Resources Corp. of the Yuchengco group to list an additional 136.9 million common shares for its stock rights offering, which will raise P700 million to finance a geothermal project.

PetroEnergy said that the stock rights offering covers stockholders of record as of June 17, 2010 and will be available for P5 per share.

“The proceeds from the company’s stock rights offering will be invested in the company’s Maibarara geothermal project through the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, PetroGreen Energy Corp.,” it said.

PetroEnergy expects to generate net proceeds of P681.3 million from the stock rights offering. It set the offering period between June 28 and July 2, 2010 and listing date on July 12.

The board of PetroEnergy approved in February the creation of PetroGreen to carry out the company’s renewable energy projects.

PetroEnergy formed PetroGreen after obtaining two wind energy service contracts in Sual, Pangasinan and Nabas, Aklan from the Energy Department in September 2009, and another for the Maibarara geothermal field.

PetroGreen signed a joint venture agreement with Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. and PNOC Renewables Corp. in May 19 for the integrated development and operation of the Maibarara project in Batangas and Laguna provinces.

The companies agreed to organize Maibarara Geothermal Inc., which capitalized at P1.125 billion. PetroGreen owns 65 percent of the equity while Trans-Asia holds 25 percent. PNOC Renewables Corp. owns 10 percent.

The joint venture aims to develop the Maibarara geothermal steam field at the western flank of Mount Makiling and commission the first 20-megawatt power plant by the second half of 2013. Total project cost may reach P2.8 billion.

The consortium may spend $12 million to $18 million in the first two years of the project for information and education campaigns, environmental permit, road rehabilitation, work-over and discharge tests of old wells, drilling of up to two wells, detailed engineering studies and initial civil works for the steam field and power plant.

PetroEnergy plans to put two wind projects in Aklan and Pangasinan with a combined capacity of 60 MW at a cost of $53 million.

The wind projects are in Nabas-Buruanga-Malay in Aklan (30 MW) and in Sual, Pangasinan (30 MW). Alena Mae S. Flores

Pangasinenses celebrate 32nd anniversary: New officers to be sworn in on July 24 (http://www.asianjournal.com/community/community-news/5669-pangasinenses-celebrate-32nd-anniversary-new-officers-to-be-sworn-in-on-july-24.html)

THE Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA, one of the biggest Filipino-American umbrella organizations in the United States with 48 towns and city associations under its wing, will hold its 32nd anniversary foundation with a gala night and induction ball on July 24 at the Marriott Hotel in Norwalk starting promptly at 6:30pm.

This was announced by Dan E. Nino who assumed the presidency on Jan. 1 this year. According to him, some interesting highlights are in store for Pangasinenses and their guests. These include the recognition and awarding of "The Outstanding Pangasinan Entrepreneurs" (TOPEs) who are based in Southern California and honoring homecoming queens who are past Miss Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA. Nominations are still in progress.

The guest speaker is yet to be determined according to Mr. Nino because the State of the Nation (SONA) address of the newly-elected Philippine president will take place on July 27, two days after the Induction Ball of PB-USA. It would be unpredictable on who would be available to travel to the US that weekend before the opening of Congress. The guest of honor and guest speaker will most likely be an elected official from the Philippines.

Nino who was the founding president of Assn. of Mangatarem Overseas Residents (AMOR) of Southern California succeeded immediate past PB-USA president Mely Cerame, Cerame was former president of Mapandan Assn. of Southern California.

This year’s theme is "Reaching Out: Hindi Ka Nag-iisa" in recognition of the widows and widowers of past members of the Council of Presidents who had contributed to the vibrancy of the organization but feel they are being left out. This catchy slogan is in line with the advocacy of the new president of reconciliation, assimilation, integration and unification of all Pangasinenses irrespective of their political persuasion within the organization, in the US and in the Philippines..

The other officers of Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA which was founded in 1978 are Josie Braganza from Mabini, executive vice president, six vice presidents Mariano Aoanan Greater Dagupan City) Maritess O. Bautista (San Fabian), Nancy T. Buenviaje (Greater Dagupan City), Noemi V. Dumlao (Bani), Eliza T. Madrid (Agno) and Manny Rabara (Rosales);

Hilary T. Macabeo (Malasique), recording secretary; Vicky P. De Leon (Basista), corresponding secretary; Miriam M. Jovellanos (Greater Dagupan City), treasurer, Conching Dela Cruz (Calasiao), assistant treasurer; Ching M. Arzadon (Greater Dagupan City) and Roger Macabeo (Sual), auditors;

Ric Gutierrez (Mabini) and Nora M. Soriano (Mapandan), public relations officers; Lemuel Navarrete (Alaminos City) and Belen Sison (San Fabian), business managers; Roger Cabal (Alaminos City) and Leoncio D. Dumlao (Mangatarem), marshalls; Louie Arzadon (Greater Dagupan City), parliamentarian;Tony M Dator (Greater Dagupan City), board chairman; Eddie C. Ferrer (Dagupan City), vice chairman; Lina R. Cabal (Alaminos City), board secretary; Butch Bandong (San Carlos City), Becky S. Castillo (Lingayen), Hil Papilla (Malasique), Eugene Manzano, Jr. (Urdaneta City), Paul Quinto (Mapandan), Victor Ranches (Alaminos City), Perlita M. Rasing (Alaminos City) and Willie Sison (San Fabian), board members and Mel G. Oxciano, Esq. (Mangatarem), legal counsel.

Running the day-to-day affairs of the organization are the constitutional or special committee chairpersons. These are the Community Relations Committee chaired by Fidel Solomon of San Jacinto; Membership Committee chaired by Sonny De Leon of Basista; Budget & Finance Committee chaired by Miriam Jovellanos of Greater Dagupan City; and Ways & Means Committee chaired by Dan Joves of Malasique..

Pangasinan Brotherhood which started with only 18 town and city associations in 1978, was the brainchild of the late Armando C. Fernandez who was the consul general of Los Angeles. He is a native of Dagupan City. PB-USA now boasts of almost 50 affiliates.
Through its 32 years of existence, Pangasinan Brotherhood has been led by its past presidents Alfredo Reyes, Rene Casaclang, Ray Parayno, Adolfo Dotimas, the late Ernesto Reyes, Mel Castelo, Tony Barlongo, Tony Banaag, Gil Mislang, Bing dela Vega, Ads Diaz , Mely I. Cerame.

Among the projects and activities of the Brotherhood in the past were providing scholarship grants to poor but deserving college students from the province of Pangasinan, financing of cooperative program, donation of relief goods to the recent flood victims of typhoons in the Philippines, athletic events for its youths and senior citizens, Filipino-American community events like the Philippine Independence Centeccial Celebrations, etc.

In the first six months of Nino’s

administration, he has already registered the association as a tax-exempt under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code and now classified as a public charity

foundation, created its PangasinanBrotherhood website and Pangasinan_Brotherhood_USA@yahoogroups webpage, among others.

The Purple & Hearts Band will provide the music and entertainment.
The program proper will be emceed by Gil Mislang and Josie Braganza while the presentation of past queens will be hosted by veteran broadcaster Eddie C. Ferrer and former Miss Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA Shenny Felix.

Proceeds of this affair are earmarked for the Scholarship and Computerization projects of PB-USA.

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Dan E. Nino, President of The Pangasinan Brotherhood

Interested parties may contact Dan E. Nino at tel. no. 562-921-5116 or officers denino@verizon.netThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Josie Braganza at (909) 227-6282 or josefina.t.braganza@bankofamerica.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Tony Dator at (818) 590-6275 or gloriatonydat@gmail.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; Eddie C. Ferrer at (714) 761-1597 or edrenjac@aol.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ; or Miriam Jovellanos at (323) 559-5550 or jovemir@verizon.netThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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Posts inciting Cvc and personal attacks are deleted without prior notice. Those forumers for committing such actions are properly dealt with :okay:

santiagocity_isabela was brigged for such inappropriate behavior.

yeah, that forumer also invaded the Ilocos Region Thread 3, minura-mura pa kami. Super yabang

^Sayang hindi ko man lang naabutan mga messages nya :lol:


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It's been raining everyday for the past 2 weeks or so. Water level is now normal and the power generation unit of San Roque dam is producing electricity.

Bonsai production: A well just waiting to be tapped (http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20100605-274016/Bonsai-production-A-well-just-waiting-to-be-tapped)

By Gabriel Cardinoza
Inquirer Northern Luzon

ROSALES, Pangasinan – There’s a lot more money in mass producing bonsai than in creating competition quality trees.

But unfortunately, said Bobby Gopiao, president of the Philippine Bonsai Society Inc., no one has embarked on in it yet in the country.

“We already have the technology. And we’ve been trying to introduce this through lectures among our provincial members because it’s them who will really benefit from it,” Gopiao said.

The PBSI, the country’s oldest bonsai growers’ and enthusiasts’ organization, has 11 provincial affiliates with about 700 members.

Gopiao said bonsai could be raised in small farms in the provinces and each tree can be sold for at least P2,000.

“Imagine if you have 1,000 trees and you sold it all. That’s easily P2 million,” he said.

Competition quality trees fetch a price of at least P30,000 each.

Gopiao said market was not a problem because foreign bonsai enthusiasts have seen the high quality of bonsai that Filipinos have been producing.

“They have started to see and get interested in what we have because of our artistry in creating bonsai,” he said.

For instance, a buyer from Bangkok visited his nursery in Quezon City and wanted to buy everything, “lock, stock and barrel,” Gopiao said.

But he said the transaction did not push after the buyer did not agree to give visitation rights.

“I felt that he had the interest, he had the money, but he did not have the technical know how to sustain the trees. Of course, I would have made a lot of money. But maybe, in a year or two, the trees will be all dead,” he said.

Gopiao said bonsai growers and enthusiasts should look beyond bantigue (Pemphis acidula), the most sought after tree.

“Bantigue is no doubt the best tree we have so far. It’s because its old age, trunk, bark and leaves are all God-given and these are the qualities that we look for in a bonsai,” he said.

But Gopiao said bantigue would not sell abroad because it cannot tolerate a drop in temperature. “It dies when it’s cold. That’s why its only market is Asia,” he said.

Bonsai growers can raise podocarpus, a tree which has pine-like foliage and can tolerate light frost, or the kamuning (Muraya paniculata and Muraya exotica), a small tree known for its fragrant white flowers, which are also in demand abroad.

“We’ve been bringing resource persons from abroad to conduct seminars on how to go about bonsai mass production, from management of a nursery, what species to plant that has a big market abroad,” Gopiao said.

“With the Internet, we now have the whole world as our market. All you have to do is put it in your website and people will come in. So, I think, marketing is not a problem. Our problem is our product.”

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NIA, mikakasakey ed ginawan protesta na dumadalos nipaakar et matayatay ya proyekton gagaween na DPW (http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/4723-nia-mikakasakey-ed-ginawan-protesta-na-dumadalos-nipaakar-et-matayatay-ya-proyekton-gagaween-na-dpw)

DAGUPAN CITY - Akisakey so National Irrigation Administration o NIA nipaakar ed panpo-protesta na aray residente na Brgy. Binday tan Brgy. Anonang ed baley na San Fabian lapud labay dan nanengneng so plano na Department of Public Works and Highways ed kontruksyon na flood control dike ed Bued river.

Impalapag nen Engr. Renato Milan, Provincial Administrator na National Irrigation Administration ya manpapaga iray residente ed abetlan lugar ed gagaween ya flood control ed leksab na Binday Dam ya nayarin pakaderalan to.

Ag labay kuno na aray residente ya naulit lamet so impakaderal na dike tan saray kaabungan da ed agawan kalamidad.

Getma labat kono na flood control dike et naisalba so kagkagawaan na aray residente no bilang wala lamet so ag iilaluan ya kalamidad ed lugar.

Imbaga met nen Engr Milan ya saya so ipo-protesta na aray dumadalos.

(Bombo Radyo Pangasinan)

^Sayang hindi ko man lang naabutan mga messages nya :lol:

It's been raining everyday for the past 2 weeks or so. Water level is now normal and the power generation unit of San Roque dam is producing electricity.

Good for the recipients of the Electricity coming from the Dam, hindi narin magkakaroon ng rotating brownouts sa ibat't ibang lugar

wow! mararakep ira'y balita - courtesy ed kaaron Allan.
salamat tan welcome ed si christian_joe.

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Magaganda talaga shots mo capricorn! hehe! an maganda talaga ang Pangasinan! :okay::okay::okay:

^Sayang hindi ko man lang naabutan mga messages nya :lol:

It's been raining everyday for the past 2 weeks or so. Water level is now normal and the power generation unit of San Roque dam is producing electricity.

Back to normal na ang dam.. rainy days na!

pero sana magkaroon na ng mas magandang protocol ang administration ng dam twing may storm... it still creeps me when i hear San Roque Dam..:ohno::ohno::ohno:

Paukan na bukas!:ohno::ohno::ohno:

Back to normal na ang dam.. rainy days na!

pero sana magkaroon na ng mas magandang protocol ang administration ng dam twing may storm... it still creeps me when i hear San Roque Dam..:ohno::ohno::ohno:May protocol naman sila in place kaso mismanaged talaga ang flood control component ng San Roque.

Sana nag-release lang sila ng tubig na kaya lang ng dike system.

Like what happen during the onslaught of typhoon Pepeng, 5,000 cubic meters of water per second ang ni-released, ang kaya lang ng dike system 4,000 cubic meters of water per second, common sense mawawasak mga dikes at babaha talanga.

Paukan na bukas!:ohno::ohno::ohno: Ayos lang yan basta lagi ka dumalaw dito sa thread natin!

VM Belen defends fish plant’s transfer to BFAR (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/06/06/vm-belen-defends-fish-plant%E2%80%99s-transfer-to-bfar/)

June 6, 2010

THE BEST OPTION

VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez has defended a resolution of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) asking Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. to transfer the administrative control of the Seafood Processing Plant from the city government to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

The re-elected vice mayor, who sits as chair of the SP by law, stressed that the resolution was in no way political and is intended for the best interest of the city.

The move was met with protest by allies of incoming Mayor Benjamin Lim who believe that the resolution was aimed at preventing the latter from exercising control over the project.

Councilor Alfredo Quinto Sr., principal author of the resolution, said while the city government would like to manage the plant, it does not have the manpower and resources to do so at the moment.

The move was supported by the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), which funded the project, agreed that that NIFTDC Director Westly Rosario be appointed the interim manager of the plant.

Fernandez, in a talk to newsmen on May 31, reiterated that the city council believes that the BFAR, through its National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC), is in the best position and capacity to run and manage the seafood processing plant, which is due to open in August.

She added that this means the city will be spared from producing the seed money for the plant’s initial operations.

The plant will revert back to the city after five years with the necessary technology transfer from BFAR.

“What the BFAR will actually do is merely to show to the people of Dagupan how to run and manage a fish processing plant and after that, it will be the city that will operate it on its own,” she added.

“We have to hand over the project to the one who really knows how to run the plant,” said Fernandez.—LM (Sunday Punch)

Back to normal na ang dam.. rainy days na!

pero sana magkaroon na ng mas magandang protocol ang administration ng dam twing may storm... it still creeps me when i hear San Roque Dam..:ohno::ohno::ohno:

buti pa po dian sainyo umuulan na, dito samin sa Albay sobra parin po ang init di pa nga naulan eh.

^ OK lang maulan basta wag typhoon. For the past 2 years kasi every month of May may "super typhoon" na tumatama sa Pangasinan na galing sa South China Sea (Cosme and Emong). Masmalakas ito kapag tumama samin kesa yung mga storm galing sa Pacific Ocean. Buena mano lagi ang probinsya namin sa bagyo! LOL

NIA to farmers: Plant now (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/06/06/nia-to-farmers-plant-now/)

URDANETA CITY–El Niño is officially over, according to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), and with the rains pouring in daily now, farmers have been advised to start planting this month.

NIA Regional Director John Celeste said farmers don’t have to wait for July to start planting so that they can harvest earlier, plant for the next season, and possibly do a third cropping.

"Thank God El Niño which we first thought would last till July has finally ended with the daily rains since the last week of May," said Celeste.

Celeste said NIA took advantage of El Niño by repairing projects in preparation for the next cropping seasons.

Repairs were made on the irrigation systems maintained by NIA in San Fabian, Domuloc, Bugallon; Agno River Irrigation System, Agno-Dipalo River Irrigation System, Lower Agno River Irrigation System and some communal irrigation systems.

NIA, the provincial government under Governor Amado Espino Jr., and some congressmen also distributed water pumps to farmers' associations during the drought.

RE-REGULATING POND

Meanwhile, Celeste announced that the construction of the province’s first-re-regulating pond is now in full swing using the P4.2 billion loan extended to the Philippine government by China’s Export and Import Bank.

The project, set for completion in 2013, will irrigate 35,000 hectares of land in eastern and central Pangasinan.–LM (Sunday Punch)

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LAKBAY-ARAL VISITORS–(Upper photo) Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan briefs Baguio City Mayor Reinaldo Bautista, Jr. on the programs of the provincial government during a tour of officials and employees of the city government of Baguio of the provincial capitol complex who arrived for their Lakbay-Aral tour. (Lower photo) Exec. Assist. Ramon Morden gives the group a guided tour. (PIO Photos (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/06/06/lakbay-aral-visitors/))


Pangasinan, a favorite Lakbay-Aral destination (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/06/06/pangasinan-a-favorite-lakbay-aral-destination/)

LINGAYEN—The newly renovated Provincial Capitol Complex is now a favorite destination of Lakbay Aral (Study Tours) of local government units.

The most recent visitors were staff and employees of the Baguio City Mayor’s Office and various departments of the Baguio city government led by Mayor Reinaldo Bautista, Jr.

“We came here to see the place, to see the transformation of the Capitol. We were here a long time ago and only today do we see that because of these changes, we can see how professional the province government has become,” said Bautista.

“The improvement that I’ve seen is already a clear signal that under Gov. Espino’s leadership, the Province of Pangasinan will really be as great as it used to be,” Bautista added.

The group later proceeded to Bolinao where it conducted team-building and planning activities.

Ramon Morden, executive assistant to Governor Amado Espino Jr., personally guided the group in a tour of the offices inside the Capitol Building, the workstations in the Finance Building, the Sison Auditorium, the Provincial Library and the Capitol Resort.

Aside from Baguio City, other LGUs that visited the Pangasinan Capitol Complex included La Union, Camarines Sur, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Isabela, Pampanga, Ilocos Sur and Vigan. (Sunday Punch)

^ OK lang maulan basta wag typhoon. For the past 2 years kasi every month of May may "super typhoon" na tumatama sa Pangasinan na galing sa South China Sea (Cosme and Emong). Masmalakas ito kapag tumama samin kesa yung mga storm galing sa Pacific Ocean. Buena mano lagi ang probinsya namin sa bagyo! LOL

sainyo yung galing south china sea sa amin naman yung galing pacific ocean, samahan mo pa nang pag alburuto nang bulkang mayon :lol:

May protocol naman sila in place kaso mismanaged talaga ang flood control component ng San Roque.

Sana nag-release lang sila ng tubig na kaya lang ng dike system.

Like what happen during the onslaught of typhoon Pepeng, 5,000 cubic meters of water per second ang ni-released, ang kaya lang ng dike system 4,000 cubic meters of water per second, common sense mawawasak mga dikes at babaha talanga.

Prayers na lang na mabawas bawasan din bagyo dito sa probinsiya natin!
Tska extrang ingat....


Ayos lang yan basta lagi ka dumalaw dito sa thread natin!
Syempre! I'll will visit our thread regularly! Residente na ako dito! haha!:lol::lol::lol:

sainyo yung galing south china sea sa amin naman yung galing pacific ocean, samahan mo pa nang pag alburuto nang bulkang mayon :lol:

Oo nga noh! Maganda ang mayon, masama ring magalit... Ingat palagi diyan sa Albay! hehe.. Hi nalang kay Gov Salceda.. Sana madalaw ko ang Legaspi...:lol::lol::lol:

NIA to farmers: Plant now (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/06/06/nia-to-farmers-plant-now/)

URDANETA CITY–El Niño is officially over, according to the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), and with the rains pouring in daily now, farmers have been advised to start planting this month.

NIA Regional Director John Celeste said farmers don’t have to wait for July to start planting so that they can harvest earlier, plant for the next season, and possibly do a third cropping.

"Thank God El Niño which we first thought would last till July has finally ended with the daily rains since the last week of May," said Celeste.

Celeste said NIA took advantage of El Niño by repairing projects in preparation for the next cropping seasons.

Repairs were made on the irrigation systems maintained by NIA in San Fabian, Domuloc, Bugallon; Agno River Irrigation System, Agno-Dipalo River Irrigation System, Lower Agno River Irrigation System and some communal irrigation systems.

NIA, the provincial government under Governor Amado Espino Jr., and some congressmen also distributed water pumps to farmers' associations during the drought.

RE-REGULATING POND

Meanwhile, Celeste announced that the construction of the province’s first-re-regulating pond is now in full swing using the P4.2 billion loan extended to the Philippine government by China’s Export and Import Bank.

The project, set for completion in 2013, will irrigate 35,000 hectares of land in eastern and central Pangasinan.–LM (Sunday Punch)

Yahoo! Salamat sa Diyos! :banana:
Will the re-regulating pond be a flood control also?

^Sayang hindi ko man lang naabutan mga messages nya :lol:

HI allan. Binura na ng mga mods. Posted yata on almost every thread yung message nya na may halong mura.

It's been raining everyday for the past 2 weeks or so. Water level is now normal and the power generation unit of San Roque dam is producing electricity.

Salamat naman. Grabe yung El Nino...ito yata yung worst na tag-init na naranasan ko. AT least ngayon medyo cooler na. And I am happy para sa mga farmers kasi planting season na ulit :)

LGUs cite unique transformation of Pangasinan’s Capitol Complex (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/260827/lgus-cite-unique-transformation-pangasinan-s-capitol-complex)
By MAR T. SUPNAD
June 6, 2010, 4:02pm
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The unique transformation of the Provincial Capitol Complex here has attracted various local government units (LGUs) not only from Luzon but also from the Mindanao region.

Last week, some 60 staff members and employees of the Mayor’s Office, as well as of various departments of the city government of Baguio, led by Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. visited and toured the Capitol Complex before heading to Bolinao for their Team Building and Planning activities.

“We came here to see the place, to see the transformation of the Capitol. We’ve been here a long time ago and only today do we see that because of these changes, we can see how professional the province can be,” Bautista said.

Ramon Morden, the executive assistant to the governor, personally guided the group for a tour of the offices inside the Capitol Building, the work stations in the Finance Building, the Sison Auditorium, the Provincial Library, and the Capitol Resort.

Baguio City added to the long list of LGUs that have so far visited the Complex under the administration of Espino. This includes, La Union, Camarines Sur, Bicol, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Isabela, Pampanga, Ilocos Sur, and Vigan.

It can be recalled that the Espino Administration embarked on a grand transformation of the Capitol and its environs with the aim to make the Complex the centerpiece of the province’s tourist attractions.

“Allow me to congratulate Governor Espino for his leadership and the way that he has now transformed the whole province particularly, the Capitol. We’ve seen really that being an officer, he has transformed the province and brought his leadership skills in transforming the Capitol into something that’s more professional,” Bautista said.

A wood carving critic, Bautista admired the elaborate and intricately-designed woodworks that adorn the buildings even as he noted that the cleanliness of the area is noticeable.

VM Belen defends fish plant’s transfer to BFAR (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/06/06/vm-belen-defends-fish-plant%E2%80%99s-transfer-to-bfar/)

June 6, 2010

THE BEST OPTION

VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez has defended a resolution of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) asking Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. to transfer the administrative control of the Seafood Processing Plant from the city government to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).

The re-elected vice mayor, who sits as chair of the SP by law, stressed that the resolution was in no way political and is intended for the best interest of the city.

Intended for the best interest of the city kuno.

Agi, umpatey yan project. Definitely naumpisaan da may pambaalagey na planta na bangus, pero no agda nengnengen... sigurado ak umpatey yan prosesso. Kasi say BFAR maong irad research tan development labat.

No mampaalagey kay planta, kailangan toy Human Resources tan Administrative Management. Aga met kaya na BFAR ya ed long-term ya panahon.

Sana hawakan na lang ng Dagupan City government ang "assistance" sa adminstration para hindi malugi.

I remember the Prawn Foreign Investment before in Bonuan (1996). Binitawan din ng LGU after putting several of them. Nasaan na ngayon ang prawn industries na yan.... mayroon pa naman kaunti, pero nailipat na sa mga private local investors. Hindi na siya mabenta. Hindi na mga foreigner kasi nga, hindi rin nila maharap talaga ang administrative operations niyan.

My point is.... we assist them put up the investment and provide them with our human resources and be at least part (mga 30% siguro) of the administrative functions para hindi mamatay. It will be for the benefit of OUR LOCAL manpower as well.... which is looking for us (or the government) for support. Trabaho so iter tayo ed totoo na Dagupan City..... kaya dapat benbenan tayo yan proyekto.

^ You never fail to post quality images! Good job!

thanks Allan and thanks for your news items. likewise to christian_joe....

Dagupan jeepneys..

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Will the re-regulating pond be a flood control also? I guess not. Here's an archived article: Re-regulating pond to be built (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/re-regulating-pond-be-built)

HI allan. Binura na ng mga mods. Posted yata on almost every thread yung message nya na may halong mura. Sobrang insecure lang yung poster :lol:


Dagupan jeepneys..

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New Dagupan OIC cop chief installed (http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/06/06/new-dagupan-oic-cop-chief-installed/)

JUST one month before former Mayor Benjamin Lim retakes his seat at city hall, a new officer-in-charge has been assigned to take over the helm of the Dagupan City Police.

But Chief Superintendent Constante Azares Jr., police regional director, quickly doused insinuation that the early change of command in the Dagupan City Police had something to do with politics.

Azares, who installed Superintendent Romeo Caramat as new officer-in-charge (OIC) of the Dagupan Police last week, said this was effected because his predecessor, Superintendent Mariano Luis Verzosa, is due to assume a higher responsibility.

Verzosa, who completed a more than two-year tour of duty as chief of the Dagupan Police, is assuming his new assignment as the new chief of intelligence of the Philippine National Police Regional (PNP) Office at Camp General Oscar Florendo in La Union prior to his promotion to a higher rank.

CARAMAT

On the other hand, incoming police chief Caramat was until recently the intelligence officer of the Pangasinan PNP Provincial Office.

Caramat became controversial when he named certain politicians who allegedly maintain private armies.

Chosen for the position over two other aspirants, Caramat also previously served as chief of police of Bayambang and of Sto. Tomas towns.

Caramat warned that “scalawags have no place in the Dagupan police”.

He admitted being “a little bit nervous” about the big responsibility that goes with his new position, plus the pressure to equal if not to exceed the performances of his predecessor

"I can only promise in return to do my best to this position in order to bring this police station to greater heights,” said Caramat

REASSIGNMENT

There were speculations that Verzosa was 'shipped out' of Dagupan because he and incoming Mayor Lim are at odds over the incident in Bolosan two days before the election involving Lim's son Brian and outgoing city administrator Alvin Fernandez. .

Verzosa said although he is moving on to a different assignment, his “heart still belongs to Dagupan City” where he has so far spent his most challenging job as a police officer and accomplished a lot.

He cited that under his watch, the city police office was able to prevent a big kidnap-for-ransom gang from operating in Dagupan as well as foiling a plan of a robbery syndicate targeting big commercial establishments.

Verzosa also claimed he succeeded in containing prostitution with the help of the Dagupan citizenry, especially women’s groups.

He was instrumental in pursuing the construction of the three-storey police station on A.B. Fernandez Avenue West, considered as the most modern in the province.

Verzosa, a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy and classmate of Police Provincial Director Percival Barba, thanked outgoing Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. for giving him a chance to serve as chief of police of Dagupan City.—LM (Sunday Punch)

Region 1 adjudged most peaceful during polls
(http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/06/06/region-1-adjudged-most-peaceful-during-polls/)

CHIEF Superintendent Constante Davis Azares Jr., Region I Police Director, announced that the Ilocos Region has been named the most peaceful region throughout the country during the last election.

He made the announcement during the turnover of command in the Dagupan City Police Station.

But the better news was, Pangasinan, he said was the most peaceful in the region.

Azares, who is bowing out of service on June 22 this year after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56, said for the first time in the region’s political history, no life was lost in the region in the last election.

He thanked the force multipliers, the Barangay Peace-keeping Action Teams (PBATs), and the media for extending their help to the police in its mission for an honest, orderly and peaceful election.

In his talk with local media, Azares said he is considering three options when he returns to private life after 37 years in the service.

He can assume another government position, or join a private company or the join his family now living in Canada. The last, he said, appears to be the best for him.–LM (Sunday Punch)