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MAGANDA AT MALAKI PUBLIC MARKET NG URDANETA... PERO PARANG ANG PUTI? KAKATAKOT. HIHI..:)
ANG MALIMGAS NG DAGUPAN, ANG GANDA..:)

MANILA, Philippines--The cities of Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, and Dagupan have been named as the most competitive cities outside Metro Manila in the Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2009 (PCCRP) of the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center. The study, which was launched Monday in Pasay City, used six criteria in ranking the 29 cities: dynamism of local economy, responsiveness of the LGUs to business, infrastructure, quality of life, and cost of doing business and human resource and training.

It is based on official government data, perception survey among businessmen, and interviews with local chief executives and local business group’s representative The PCCRP also classified the cities into three groups: metropolitan growth centers, growth centers and emergent cities.

Cebu City bested Davao in the metro growth center category, which refers to cities with an average of P3.05 billion total income and average population of 1.08 million. Cagayan de Oro, meanwhile, topped in the growth centers category, which included the cities of General Santos, Baguio, Lapu-Lapu, Zamboanga, Olongapo, Batangas, Iloilo, Bacolod, and Mandaue. These cities have an average income of P1.2 billion and population 421,165.

Dagupan City is the most competitive among the emergent cities. It bested the cities of Angeles, Butuan, Cotabato, Lucena, Naga, Legaspi, Pagadian, Puerto Princesa, Ormoc, Iligan, Tagum, and San Fernando in La Union, Surigao, Tuguegarao, Tacloban and Santiago.

Ma. Lourdes Sereno Diokno, executive director of the AIM Policy Center, said that they decided to group the cities into three brackets because it would be unfair to compare the metropolitan and highly-urbanized cities like Cebu and Davao to new and emerging young cities.

“Cebu City and Davao City outpaced the rest in many indicators,” added Ana Maria Tabunda, chief research fellow at Pulse Asia and consultant for the PCCRP 2009. Roger Carlson, acting mission director of the USAID, one of the sponsors of the PCCRP, said that the findings of the study can guide the local officials in introducing policy changes in their localities.

“Newly-elected mayors can base their reform efforts on information that comes from business operators themselves,” Carlson said. The PCCRP 2009 also recognized the cities that topped in each of the criteria used in the study.


Mayors of the winning cities said that the recognition they received should inspire their cities to do better and to sustain the reforms and policies they have started. “This will serve as an impetus to us,” said Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat, whose city received three awards. He added that he is hoping that the awards can help them attracting investors who are afraid to invest in Zamboanga City because if the perception that it is not safe.

San Fernando City Mayor Pablo Ortega, meanwhile, said that his city’s efforts to address pollution and to simplify the process in applying and reviewing business permits helped them win four awards. “We put up a one-stop shop for those who want to do business with us,” Ortega said. “The system is very transparent and because it is fast we are able to curb bribery. (Newsbreak)


Ano aanggal mga taga Urdaneta? ni hindi nga namention ang city nyo eh..:baeh3::nuts:


We are all happy for this recognition of Dagupan City!
Dagupan deserves this recognition as known to be the Commercial and Trading Center in the North.. and this recognition will also have a positive effect not only to other cities but also to the municipalities in pangasinan.

im just bothered pero hindi ko nalang mamasamain ang comment mo sa mga taga Urdaneta..Im not from Urdaneta... but i think this is not to be taken as competition among Pangasinan cities..

Cheers for Dagupenos!:cheers::cheers::cheers:

our thread is awfully quiet these past few days....

oo nga.. but keep posting updates of Pangasinan.. you know.. marami tayong tagasubaybay..:lol::lol::lol:

Got a 3-week vacation after working 6 mos, makataway ak la lamet na tariwan bangus, bingalo, pigar-pigar/bengbeng hayz, bulong na pising! :cheers:

Sarap umuwi sa probinsya at meron nakikita mga big projects na umuusbong. Go Pangasinan!

Got a 3-week vacation after working 6 mos, makataway ak la lamet na tariwan bangus, bingalo, pigar-pigar/bengbeng hayz, bulong na pising! :cheers:

Sarap umuwi sa probinsya at meron nakikita mga big projects na umuusbong. Go Pangasinan!

mangicalot cami pantat nu unsabi ca. tan mangala cami met na pindang a doueg.

CORRECT! KANYAN IRA TAY TAGA URDANETA YA ASISIBOK! YA MANBABAGA NA SAY CENTER OF ECONOMY NA PANGASINAN ED WALA LAD URDANETA NATAN. BETTER SHUT UP AND READ FACTS OK?!:mad2::mad::bleep::no:

KASAMA LAHAT NG CITIES,. KASI HINDI IIWAN ANG MGA CITIES NA LEADING. MAGANDA ANG URDANETA, BUT DAGUPAN IS BETTER..

ALIGUAS DAGUPAN! :banana:

Agka met kari ntan aro! URDANETA CITY IS THE HEART OF EASTERN PANGASINAN..aliwan interon luyag..Alam naman natin na ang Dagupan ang syang pinakamaunlad sa probinsya, hindi lang sa probinsya, kundi sa buong rehiyon at sa buong Norte.. Kahit sabihin kong pagsamasamahin lahat ng CBD ng mga pangunahing syudad sa norte ay kasinlaki lang ng Dagupan CBD..

URDANETA: dyan ang bagsakan ng mga GULAY,PRUTAS AT MGA HAYOP.maraming dumadayo dyan galing pa ng ibang probinsya at rehiyon para mamili. dyan rin ang daan paNorte kaya napabusy ang syudad na yan..

kumbaga, nu diad dagupan so bagsakan na sira, diad urdaneta so bagsakan na pisi pising tan aayep..

kung pumupunta nga ako sa Dagupan, ramdam ko tlaga na nasa syudad ako.pagpasok mo pa lang ng dagupan bubulaga na sayo ang establishments at buildings sa malapit sa boundary ng dag-cal, bandang Calasiao.

punta ka rin sa urdaneta, malaki ang pagbabago, dumami ang mga establishments, ganyan pinatakbo ng PEREZ ang Urdaneta, may bago na silang public market, mga bagong kalsada, lumaki ang kita ng syudad..AT hindi nagawa ng mga FERNANDEZ ng DAGUPAN! SM nga di nila tanggapin sa dagupan..malaking pera na ang lumalapit sa kanila, ayaw pa nilang tanggapin..EX MAYOR FERNANDEZ ANG MAY ARI NG CSI Malls at MAYOR LIM ang may ari ng MAGIC MALLS AT NEPO Mall..ang sabihin lang nila, ayaw nilang malugi ang negosyo nila...

kung pagandahan lang ng pagpapatakbo ng syudad, doon ako sa urdaneta!

MANKAKASAKEY TAYO! ALIWAN ILELEKSAB O GAGATINAN TAYOY KABALEYAN TAYO!! BE PROUD NGA, KASI MAY DAGUPAN NA TAYO, MAY URDANETA PA.

mangicalot cami pantat nu unsabi ca. tan mangala cami met na pindang a doueg.

Araitan sir:lol: Diad Mangaldan dakel lay pindang diman.

Makapaliket ya talagan sabien so inaaro tayon probinsya ya unaabante ya maples.

Proud to be Pangasinense!!!

Agka met kari ntan aro! URDANETA CITY IS THE HEART OF EASTERN PANGASINAN..aliwan interon luyag..Alam naman natin na ang Dagupan ang syang pinakamaunlad sa probinsya, hindi lang sa probinsya, kundi sa buong rehiyon at sa buong Norte.. Kahit sabihin kong pagsamasamahin lahat ng CBD ng mga pangunahing syudad sa norte ay kasinlaki lang ng Dagupan CBD..

URDANETA: dyan ang bagsakan ng mga GULAY,PRUTAS AT MGA HAYOP.maraming dumadayo dyan galing pa ng ibang probinsya at rehiyon para mamili. dyan rin ang daan paNorte kaya napabusy ang syudad na yan..

kumbaga, nu diad dagupan so bagsakan na sira, diad urdaneta so bagsakan na pisi pising tan aayep..

kung pumupunta nga ako sa Dagupan, ramdam ko tlaga na nasa syudad ako.pagpasok mo pa lang ng dagupan bubulaga na sayo ang establishments at buildings sa malapit sa boundary ng dag-cal, bandang Calasiao.

punta ka rin sa urdaneta, malaki ang pagbabago, dumami ang mga establishments, ganyan pinatakbo ng PEREZ ang Urdaneta, may bago na silang public market, mga bagong kalsada, lumaki ang kita ng syudad..AT hindi nagawa ng mga FERNANDEZ ng DAGUPAN! SM nga di nila tanggapin sa dagupan..malaking pera na ang lumalapit sa kanila, ayaw pa nilang tanggapin..EX MAYOR FERNANDEZ ANG MAY ARI NG CSI Malls at MAYOR LIM ang may ari ng MAGIC MALLS AT NEPO Mall..ang sabihin lang nila, ayaw nilang malugi ang negosyo nila...

kung pagandahan lang ng pagpapatakbo ng syudad, doon ako sa urdaneta!

MANKAKASAKEY TAYO! ALIWAN ILELEKSAB O GAGATINAN TAYOY KABALEYAN TAYO!! BE PROUD NGA, KASI MAY DAGUPAN NA TAYO, MAY URDANETA PA.

Bale bali so impakagam sir diad sampot. Duga labat na libeten tayo so amin na baley tan siyudad ta saksakey labat so kasumpalan tayo, Say panaliguas na Pangasinan diad saray kaabay tayon probinsya ira:) Mankakasakey tayo labat:cheers:

^^
SAY DAGUPAN TAN URDANETA SO SAKEY YA IMPORTANTEN SYUDAD ED LUYAG TAYO, AYAN DWARAN SYUDAD SO MANLILIBIT ED ARUM NA BALEY, PROBINSYA TAN REHIYON. Yung mga ibang lungsod sa norte ay para sa probinsya nila, pero ang Dagupan at Urdaneta ay para sa lahat ng probinsya at rehiyon sa Norte. Punta ka sa Baguio, LU, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac tanungin mo sa mga palengke doon, saan galing ang paninda nila, sasabihin nila, Urdaneta :)
Pumunta ka rin sa Maynila, sa may Navotas fishport, tanungin mo kung saan galing ang mga isdang binibenta nila, sasabihin nilang sa Dagupan.

Sa mga hs graduating students sa mga ibang probinsya, tanungin mo kung saan sila mag-aaral ng college, sasabihin nilang either sa Dagupan, Baguio, or Manila :)

DAGUPAN, URDANETA..Pag wala ang isa dyan, di mabubuo ang Pangasinan.

Agka met kari ntan aro! URDANETA CITY IS THE HEART OF EASTERN PANGASINAN..aliwan interon luyag..Alam naman natin na ang Dagupan ang syang pinakamaunlad sa probinsya, hindi lang sa probinsya, kundi sa buong rehiyon at sa buong Norte.. Kahit sabihin kong pagsamasamahin lahat ng CBD ng mga pangunahing syudad sa norte ay kasinlaki lang ng Dagupan CBD..

URDANETA: dyan ang bagsakan ng mga GULAY,PRUTAS AT MGA HAYOP.maraming dumadayo dyan galing pa ng ibang probinsya at rehiyon para mamili. dyan rin ang daan paNorte kaya napabusy ang syudad na yan..

kumbaga, nu diad dagupan so bagsakan na sira, diad urdaneta so bagsakan na pisi pising tan aayep..

kung pumupunta nga ako sa Dagupan, ramdam ko tlaga na nasa syudad ako.pagpasok mo pa lang ng dagupan bubulaga na sayo ang establishments at buildings sa malapit sa boundary ng dag-cal, bandang Calasiao.

punta ka rin sa urdaneta, malaki ang pagbabago, dumami ang mga establishments, ganyan pinatakbo ng PEREZ ang Urdaneta, may bago na silang public market, mga bagong kalsada, lumaki ang kita ng syudad..AT hindi nagawa ng mga FERNANDEZ ng DAGUPAN! SM nga di nila tanggapin sa dagupan..malaking pera na ang lumalapit sa kanila, ayaw pa nilang tanggapin..EX MAYOR FERNANDEZ ANG MAY ARI NG CSI Malls at MAYOR LIM ang may ari ng MAGIC MALLS AT NEPO Mall..ang sabihin lang nila, ayaw nilang malugi ang negosyo nila...

kung pagandahan lang ng pagpapatakbo ng syudad, doon ako sa urdaneta!

MANKAKASAKEY TAYO! ALIWAN ILELEKSAB O GAGATINAN TAYOY KABALEYAN TAYO!! BE PROUD NGA, KASI MAY DAGUPAN NA TAYO, MAY URDANETA PA.


HMMM. NDI SI EX MAYOR AL FERNANDEZ MAY ARI NG MGA CSI. SI VICE MAYOR BELEN FERNANDEZ ANG MAY ARI... :lol:

SAKA, MAY LUPA NA ANG SM SA DAGUPAN. PATI URDANETA. NDI LANG MAUMPISAHAN KASI SA MGA NAKAUPO.
NYWAY.. MASAYA AKOT. 1ST CLASS CITY NA DIN DAW URDANETA... GOOD. SANA SUMUNOD NA ANG 2ND CLASS NA SAN CARLOS CITY.
:banana:

NYWAY, WAIT NYO ANG HIGHRISE BUILDING NG DAGUPAN SA TAPUAC. MALAPIT NA. =)

Perez says casino plan depends on Pagcor

By Yolanda Sotelo
URDANETA CITY — Mayor Amado Perez Jr. said there was a proposal to establish a casino in the city, “but there was nothing definite about it yet.”
It was the Thunderbolt Resources of Panama which proposed the casino at the Lisland Rainforest Resort here, and the Sanguniang Panglungsod has passed a resolution last February endorsing the project, Perez said.
“But it is still subject to approval of the Sanguniang Panlalawigan and the Pagcor. So this might not be realized after all,” Perez added.
Perez, who son Amado Perez III won as the next city mayor, said he was amenable to the establishment of casino in the city, saying it will provide additional income and job opportunities and thus help boost the city’s economy,
“People will come to the city and spend their money here, so the city will benefit,” he said.
“Why not? But we have to hold dialogue with the people. We wont force the issue,” the mayor said.
He added that it was just natural for the church to oppose the casino project because the church should oppose all kinds of gambling.
“But it is no use discussing this now. It is no longer an issue because the new management of Pagcor may not approve the project,” he said.
seven bishops from Pangasinan, La Union and Nueva Ecija issued an statement oppose the plan to open a casino in this city and San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija.
The statement said that as the country was at the dawn of a new beginning, with hopes high and patriotic fervor at its best, “we your Catholic pastors in Pangasinan, La Union and Nueva Ecija comprising the Ecclesiastical Metropolitan Province of Lingayen, Dagupan make a unified stand to oppose the plan to open a casino in Urdaneta City and San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija.”
“If it is not legally possible to close all casinos immediately, we plead with the government not to open new ones. Opening another casino will open more doors for corruption and pave the way for the impoverishment of the families of the gamblers,” the prelates said.
They added that in areas where the casinos operate now, “we see the ill-effects on the sociomoral fiber of the citizenry – the rise of criminality, the spread of prostitution and the shameless corruption of those engaged in the business.”
The following bishops signed yesterday a statement titled Restoring Integrity, Alleviating Poverty: Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese, Bishop Jacinto Jose of Urdaneta, Bishop Mylo Hubert Vergara of San Jose de Nueva Ecija, Bishop Artemio Rillera of San Fernando, La Union, Bishop Marlo Peralta of Alaminos, Auxiliary Bishop Renato Mayugba of Lingayen, Dagupan and Bishop Sofronio Bancud of Cabanatuan


KILL JOY! HAHAHA.:lol:

HMMM. NDI SI EX MAYOR AL FERNANDEZ MAY ARI NG MGA CSI. SI VICE MAYOR BELEN FERNANDEZ ANG MAY ARI... :lol:

SAKA, MAY LUPA NA ANG SM SA DAGUPAN. PATI URDANETA. NDI LANG MAUMPISAHAN KASI SA MGA NAKAUPO.
NYWAY.. MASAYA AKOT. 1ST CLASS CITY NA DIN DAW URDANETA... GOOD. SANA SUMUNOD NA ANG 2ND CLASS NA SAN CARLOS CITY.
:banana:

NYWAY, WAIT NYO ANG HIGHRISE BUILDING NG DAGUPAN SA TAPUAC. MALAPIT NA. =)

:) tanong ko lang..saan ang lupa ng SM sa dagupan?

yehey, biglang nabuhay ang thread!!!



eto, post din ako update ng Robinsons...napadaan ako kanina sa site and took a pic while inside a moving vehicle :colgate: seems like they are drilling...

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/1566/roboz.jpg


...getting ready for the groundbreaking ceremony? or baka tapos na...hmmm

I will be back in Pangasinan this coming Sunday, August 15. I will be touring Manaoag, Dagupan and Lingayen with my officemates... :)

hey, don't forget to drop by Calasiao and have some of our PUTO! :okay:

yehey, biglang nabuhay ang thread!!!



eto, post din ako update ng Robinsons...napadaan ako kanina sa site and took a pic while inside a moving vehicle :colgate: seems like they are drilling...

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/1566/roboz.jpg


...getting ready for the groundbreaking ceremony? or baka tapos na...hmmm

Salamat walay update tayo. Glad to see wala lay movements na construction equipments.

Lim to reporters: ‘Don’t make us quarrel!’

DAGUPAN CITY – MAYOR Benjamin S. Lim and his alderman – son Brian called on the local media to take the lead in fostering “sound and healthy relationship” between the executive and legislative branches of the city government.

“Huwag niyo sana kaming pagsabungin. (Don’t make us quarrel.), the mayor said during last Tuesday’s Pangasinan Press Club “Engkwentro” forum at the Jurassic Ark in barangay Lucao.

Asked about his relationship with the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) members led by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, Lim quipped it was cordial and civil, but “it could take a lot of improvement.”

“Dapat magkaroon ng legislative-executive agenda meeting just like what they’re doing at the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) involving Malacañang, congressmen and senators,” he suggested.

In the same forum Councilor Brian Lim sought the support of the media and other sectors, including the elected leaders, to join hands “as we go about our task of creating a better Dagupan for the next generation.”

Beyond urging local newsmen not to fan the fire, but act as mediators, the duo emphasized that media can play a big role in the pursuit of a greater city by creating an atmosphere of harmony among rulers.

Admitting that neophyte SP member like him are still learning the ropes, he said he was looking forward to the day where there will no longer be a distinction between the majority and minority in the SP.

“There will only be a coalition of young and old legislators who will adopt a common legislative-executive agenda for the welfare of our city,” he said wishfully.

For his part, Mayor Lim said the bottom line is to enlighten and ignite the city leaders and Dagupeños to positive action in line with his administration’s battle cry “our city is our shared responsibility.”

The duo’s statements were apparently made in reaction to certain media reports picturing the City Hall and SP are at loggerheads over certain City Hall issues.

“Walang kwenta ang legislative at executive departments kung hindi gagalaw ayon sa pangangailangan ng lungsod,“ the mayor pointed out. (CIO – Dagupan)

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/11/lim-to-reporters-%E2%80%98don%E2%80%99t-make-us-quarrel%E2%80%99/

Pangasinan language must survive — governor

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan (PNA) – Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino Jr. sadly admitted that the Pangasinan dialect is dying and went to urge every Pangasinense to do something to prevent it from going extinct.

Espino expressed this when he was the guest of honor and speaker during the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Ulupan na Pansiansay Salitan Pangasinan (UPSP) founded by retired Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Provincial Director Jaime Lucas at the Pangasinan State University (PSU) audio visual room here last Thursday.

“Indeed, Pangasinan is a dying language, and to avoid it going extinct, every Pangasinense, young and old, should do something about it,” he said.

“For instance, we should use the Pangasinan dialect in all local occasions, instead of Tagalog or English,” Espino said, adding that every Pangasinense should also practice conversational Pangasinan, or if it cannot be avoided, use Tagalog-Pangasinan or English-Pangasinan.

As this developed, the UPSP hailed Espino as the champion of Pangasinan culture and language for being the first governor of the province who, since 2007, made the Pangasinan dialect as the official language at the Provincial Capitol.

In his speech, Espino said that though the Provincial Capitol is the face and heart of the province, the Pangasinan language is its soul.

He said this is the reason why he directed the entire Pangasinan workforce to use Pangasinan as its official language in every flag-raising ceremony on Mondays.

On the other hand, Lucas, who received special citation during the 430th Founding Anniversary of Pangasinan last April 5, for spearheading a movement seeking to preserve the Pangasinan dialect, lauded Espino as the only modern provincial leader who openly endorsed Pangasinan as the official language of the Capitol and the province.

“It is only this time that I heard a governor endorsing Pangasinan as the official language of the Capitol and the whole province,” he said.

Furthermore, Lucas confirmed the statement of Espino that the Pangasinan dialect is really dying.

He said that Pangasinan, one of the eight officially recognized languages in the Philippines, is dying and urged that something must be done to save and preserve it.

He said that parents must never be ashamed to allow, train or ask their children to know the language that they inherited from their ancestors.

Lucas also shared a data from the Associated Press that every other two weeks, one of the 6,000 languages in the world dies and there is a probability that half of these is expected to be extinct by 2020.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/271332/pangasinan-language-must-survive-governor

Petron volley returns to Lingayen

THE third leg of the 2010 Petron Ladies’ Beach Volleyball Tournament returns to Lingayen, Pangasinan, and so is defending champion Jennifer Manzano, who is more than eager to retain the crown she won last year.

Manzano will rely on her familiarity of the conditions when she and her new partner Satchel Senupe plunge into action on Thursday at the beach front of the Purok Marcelo Resort.

The 5’11” Manzano and Senupe will seek a slot to the Battle of Champions at the end of the beach volleyball season, along with 11 other teams entered in the two-day spikefest supported by Speedo, Mikasa, Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil, in cooperation with the Sports Development Program of Pangasinan, Fern-Slim and Petron.

Organizer Tisha Abundo said this will be the eighth year that they are holding the tournament, a series of quarterly eliminations where the winners and runners-up play in the Battle of Champions.

“We also hope to promote the scenic places and the schools which usually hold the tournaments,” said Abundo during yesterday’s weekly Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum at the Shakey’s Pizza Restaurant in UN Ave., Manila.

Rep. Bataoil (second district, Pangasinan), who is one of the chief supporters of the event, is upbeat of the weather, saying he expects it to be conducive for competitions this weekend.

Manzano, a De La Salle University-Dasmarinas student who had April Almaden as her partner last year when they beat Ateneo foes Asia Urquico and Sharah So, said she is ready for another crack at the crown.

“Alam ko po iyung kundisyon ng laruan, handa po kaming lumaban, “said Manzano at the Forum aired over DZSR Sports Radio 918 and backed by Outlast Battery, Philippine Amusements and Gaming Corporation, Accel and Shakey’s.

So will play without Urquico, who will team up with Khrysette Onishi this time around,

Also seeing action are Dyrene Rose Benecio and Mariel Legaspi, along with University of the East campaigners Pia Sarmiento and Aurea Racraquin, Far Eastern University standouts Loryvel Faytaren and Janine Penaranda. Peter Atencio

PetroEnergy cleared to operate geothermal project in Laguna, Batangas

Listed PetroEnergy Resources Corp. said on Wednesday that the Environment Department gave the firm an environmental clearance for its 40-megawatt Maibarara geothermal project located in Calamba, Laguna and Sto. Tomas, Batangas.

"The thorough review conducted by the Environment Department show the government's commitment to clean and renewable energy projects," PetroEnergy president Milagros Reyes said.

PetroEnergy will now prepare the work-over of the wells scheduled late this year or early next year, Reyes said.

PetroEnergy signed a joint-venture agreement with Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. and Philippine National Oil Co.-Renewables Corp. on May 19 for the integrated development and operation of the Maibarara project.

The consortium agreed to organize Maibarara Geothermal Inc., with PetroEnergy holding 65 percent, Trans-Asia at 25 percent, and PNOC-Renewables Corp. at 10 percent.

Also, the joint venture aims to develop the Maibarara geothermal steam field located at the western flank of Mount Makiling. Total project cost may reach P2.8 billion.

PetroEnergy is also planning to put two wind projects in Aklan and Pangasinan with a total capacity of 60 megawatts (MW) at a cost of $53 million.

The wind projects will be be located in Nabas-Buruanga-Malay in Aklan (30 MW) and the other project will be located in Sual, Pangasinan (30 MW).

PetroEnergy, formerly Petrotech Consultants Inc., was organized on September 29, 1994 to provide specialized technical services to companies exploring for oil in the Philippines.

The Energy Department authorized the company's assumption of Philippine oil exploration contracts in June 25, 1999. —JE, GMANews.TV

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/198322/petroenergy-cleared-to-operate-geothermal-project-in-laguna-batangas

Separate appeals over North Luzon Quad

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

LINGAYEN -- Undersecretary Herminigildo Dumlao of the North Luzon Agri-business Quadrangle (NLAQ) has asked the support of the Provincial Board for the NLAQ's “extension of life.”

On the contrary, Board Member Ranjit Ramos-Shahani is calling for the abolition of NLAQ, which came into existence during the administration of his uncle, former President Fidel Ramos.

Shahani is also calling on Dumlao to resign.

“The Agno River Commission had been abolished, so was the Lingayen Gulf Coastal Resource Management Commission (LGCAMC). Why is it that there is still a commission remaining? What have they (NLAQ) done,” Shahani remarked in an interview Wednesday in Dagupan City.

“I would suggest to Kuya Hermie who is now more than 70 years old to resign,” he added.

Shahani was vice chairman of the North Luzon Quad committee at the House of Representatives when he was then a congressman.

All the three commissions were created at the time of former President Ramos.

The Agno River Commission and the LGCAMC has long been abolished.

During the privilege hour at the Provincial Board last Friday, Dumlao made a presentation on investment opportunities in relation to the development of major infrastructure projects in the province of Pangasinan.

Sun.Star learned that Dumlao was not invited by the Provincial Board to do so, but rather it was him who made the request to the provincial legislative body.

With him in tow were the regional directors of National Economic Development Authority, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and other regional offices. They did not have a role during the presentation though.

When Board Member Raul Sison asked Dumlao what he really wants from the Provincial Board, Dumlao answered: “A support for the extension of life of the NLAQ even for 36 years only.”

Dumlao said all that he wants to see is the completion of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX).

The construction of which was inaugurated by former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and then Presidential Management Staff Chief Hermogenes Esperon Jr. Works at the Pangasinan side had started.

A board member remarked that the TPLEX project will move even without the NLAQ as these had been programmed and funded. (Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre)

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Pangasinan PDCC braces for 3 typhoons coming this month

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 11 (PNA) -- The Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC), together with all its attached agencies, has re-assessed its disaster-preparedness in view of a report that three tropical cyclones will hit the country sometime this month.

The re-assessment was held during an emergency meeting on Tuesday called by PDCC Executive Officer Paterno Orduna to discuss the PDCC's operational readiness and response capabilities to any calamity that may occur in the province.

Orduña said the meeting was called on order of Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., PDCC chairman, who is currently heading a Pangasinan delegation in South Korea invited by government of that country to observe the operations of their existing Rice Processing Complexes.

Espino immediately reacted after the Philippine Atmospheric Geo-physical and Astronomical Sciences Administration (PAGASA) announced the possible entry of three tropical cyclones into the Philippine area of responsibility within the month.

The meeting was also attended by representatives from 16 municipalities of Pangasinan considered as critical areas during any typhoon and flood.

The mayors of these flood-prone towns are being encouraged to activate their respective Municipal Disaster Coordinating Councils whenever calamity strikes.

Prior to his trip to Korea, Governor Espino ordered the PDCC and its attached agencies to submit an inventory of their assets, manpower resources and their equipment, and to prepare 10,000 relief packs ready for disposal.

“This is what our governor wants to know from us to ascertain our capabilities in responding to any kind of emergencies," Orduna said, assuring that the provincial government will not be caught flat-footed by any impending calamity.

The meeting also highlighted the disaster preparedness and mitigation activities of the provincial government to promote environmental advocacy through various environmental projects which will serve as long-term mitigation measures against disasters.

Among the measures identified by the PDCC to mitigate disasters are mangrove planting along coastal/riverbank areas, coastal clean-up of the Lingayen Gulf, tree planting activities in denuded mountainous areas, massive clean-up and dredging of river systems and environmental awareness campaigns to raise environmental consciousness among the people particularly the youths/students.

Orduña also revealed that there are 340 identified evacuation units strategically located throughout the province. (PNA)

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Calimlim is acting governor of Pangasinan as Espino leaves for Korea

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 11 (PNA) -- Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim has assumed as acting governor of Pangasinan when Gov. Amado Espino Jr. left for South Korea to head a Pangasinan delegation on a five-day training on the operation of rice processing plant in that country.

Calimlim, a former three-term mayor of the central Pangasinan town of Mapandan, will be acting governor of Pangasinan till Espino returns to the country on Aug. 15.

As acting governor, Calimlim will perform the functions of the provincial chief executive and take care of the affairs of the province while Espino is out of the country.

Espino and Calimlim were teammates in the last election under the Lakas-Kampi-CMD coalition.

With Espino in the Korean trip are official and soon-to-be personnel of the Rice Processing Complex (RPC) being built from a P200-million grant from the South Korean government through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

They are joined by other officials and RPC personnel from three other provinces in the Philippines where KOICA also extended financial grants that were used in building RPCs.

Their training includes orientation, discussions, study visits and field trips to industrial plants relative to the operation of the RPC project.

Espino considers the project as a big boost to the agricultural province of Pangasinan since it processes palay with from 95 to 98 percent recovery. (PNA)

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Dialog threshes out issues between mayor, city council

By Danny O Sagun

Dagupan City (12 August) -- "We will always be there to help the mayor, huwag lang kaming diktahan."

City Vice-Mayor Belen T. Fernandez made this assurance Thursday in reaction to concerns that the seeming differences between her and Mayor Benjamin S. Lim would bar development and progress of the city.

Fernandez said the city council, as it had been during the past administration, will play its role as independent body but ready to cooperate with the programs and projects of the executive.

She revealed that Lim met lately with her and members of the council to thresh out possible problems involving the two branches of government. Discussed in that dialogue were issues concerning the mayor's controversial memorandum to department and division heads directing them to refrain from attending regular and special sessions and committee hearings of the council without his clearance, updating of ordinances, garbage collection, fishpen operations and funding for the food processing plant in Bonuan Binloc.

Lim earlier asked the local media not to make the two officials quarrel over hot issues affecting the city. Lim won under the Nacionalista Party while the vice-mayor was with the Liberal Party. Their families are rivals in the mall business. Lim admitted before a media forum last week that his relationship with the vice-mayor was cordial and civil but needs at lot improvement.

The dialogue was arranged by a councilor who was alarmed by the privilege speech on Monday of Councilor Brian Lim, son of the mayor, which added fire to the controversy. The younger Lim practically took a swipe at Fernandez when he questioned the backfilling activities at the right side of the De Venecia Expressway Extension and the plan to put up a resort hotel in the lot owned by the family of the vice-mayor.

Fernandez reacted sharply at Lim's speech. "Nabigla ako? inatake na ako agad," she admitted during the KBP Forum Thursday at the Philippine Information Agency when asked of her reactions to the councilor's speech.

She said she was inhibiting herself from discussions of the council on the resort hotel project of her family. "I'm leaving it to the wisdom of the city council," she stressed. She added that she would see to it that the proponent comply with the requirements or follow the processes involved. A resolution "interposing no objection" to the hotel project is pending at the council.

Lim in his speech revealed that backfilling along the highway ranges one to two hectares but the biggest backfilling there was a "staggering 15 hectares," apparently alluding to the property of Fernandez's family.

"The point here is quite simple: before we talk about how these lands will be used, first we must determine if these landowners have complied with the law. While development is something we yearn for in our city, it must not be at the cost of breaking the law? It must not be at the cost of severe flooding where many of our kabaleyans will suffer." he said referring to the requisites like the holding of public hearings and subsequent passage of an ordinance, and reclassification of lands.

But the vice-mayor denied that the backfilled lots went to 15 hectares. She also noted that the construction of the highway in the area already changed the character of the place, from agricultural to commercial in nature and thus open for development.

She also said that the city should be friendly to investors who are risking their money to invest here. "Tatakutin ba natin ang mga investors? Papaano na ang syudad nyan, lilipat na sila sa ibang lugar," she said.

The resort hotel project is expected to provide hundreds of jobs, promote local tourism and business opportunities and complement the city's hotel industry, she said, noting the lack of convention and hotel facilities in the city. (PIA Pangasinan)

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Neighbor gives shelter to Pangasinan’s elders

By Yolanda Sotelo
Inquirer Northern Luzon

BOLINAO, Pangasinan—How Antonio Laygo, 67, was brought to the Little Sisters of the Poor that operates Saint Joseph Home for the Elderly here is a story that should touch every Filipino’s heart.

Joy Rosario, a Dagupan City resident, was watching a TV news program when it featured an emaciated man hobbled by pain, and who lived in squalor at a Bayambang village chapel which has no walls.

Rosario contacted the reporter and was informed that it was Laygo’s neighbor, Carina Ferrer, 25, who asked the television network to broadcast the plight of Laygo, or Lolo Tonyo.

“For more than a year, it was [Ferrer’s father], who fed Lolo Tonyo. The Ferrers would have taken him in their house, but they were raising their nephews and nieces and their house could no longer accommodate another person,” Rosario said.

Abandoned

Laygo’s right leg was broken from an accident. His relatives had abandoned him.

But bitter memories of those destitute days are fast fading under the loving care of nuns and caregivers who have adopted him in the facility.

Everyone refers to the place as “the Home” perched atop a hill overlooking a village called Tara.

Today, Laygo is one of the Home’s 35 residents.

At the hill, Laygo is fed nutritious food and his physical needs are well-attended. “It is sad that he cannot walk. But he won yesterday a race among wheelchair-bound residents,” said Sr. Frances Marie.

Story to tell

The Home also has a story to tell.

The facility hopes to address the growing question of the practice of families taking care of their elderly.

The Home for the Elderly can rival classy hotels in design, size and facilities, evoking the grandeur of Tara, which is also the name of the fictional plantation and home of a character in the classic novel “Gone with the Wind.”

The three-story, 35-bedroom facility offers rooms with picture-perfect views. The building can be reached through a driveway along a manicured lawn.

Oldest resident

Its oldest resident is 96-year-old Trinidad Ibañez from Bolinao, who still remembers she was born on Jan. 11, 1914, that her husband died in 1961, and that she has five children who “collect garbage for a living.”

“Once they visited me here. I am very old now. I am just waiting for the Lord to take me,” she said in her native tongue.

Eduardo Fernandez, another member of the Home, used to live in a neighbor’s house near a beach. His room was essentially a bed made of bamboo, which was sheltered only by a thatched roof, until the nuns found him.

The Home’s administrators often coordinate with the Department of Social Welfare and Development, asking them to bring to them the elderly.

“But we [need to first] assess if the person is qualified to reside in the Home,” Sr. Frances Marie said.

The Home requires the elderly to be at least 65 years old and to present proof that their family cannot afford to keep them, evidence that they have no communicable diseases and that they have no psychological disorder.

Although the Home is essentially a Catholic-run facility, it welcomes people regardless of their faith.

Treasured visits

Everyone at the Home cherishes visits, even from strangers.

“We understand that [they have] almost no visitors because their relatives are also poor and may not be able to afford the transportation fare,” said Mother Lourdes Henrietta, the facility’s mother superior.

Death is also a lingering presence at the Home. Two members have died since April 2008 when the Home started operations.

The facility can accommodate 70 residents, but it requires the services of more nuns to maintain the level of care needed by each resident.

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La Salle Institute of Governance, Univ. of British Columbia keen on Braganza’s OPAL experience

Alliances of local government units nowadays not only serve as one of the beacons of local economic development.

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For Alaminos City Mayor Hernani A. Braganza, it spells a big difference to lives of their constituents by reducing poverty and ensuring sustainable local economic development in the countryside.

“Like our One Pangasinan Alliance of LGUs (OPAL), I think it gave us hope," stressed the mayor during the Planning Seminar on Integrated Capacity Building for Collaborative Governance held at Andrew Bldg. De La Salle University-Manila last August 6.

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“With OPAL, we realize the fact that we really need to work together within the district for us to be competitive, to be able to pull our resources together and develop more opportunities in our respective areas,” added the concurrent Secretary General of the League of Cities of the Philippines.

Braganza, an alumnus of De La Salle University, was recently invited to share the OPAL experience to key stakeholders from the government, academe and civil society.

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La Salle Institute of Governance and the University of British Columbia for Human Settlements through the UBC-United Nations Habitat Exchange organized the said planning seminar to develop integrated (action-research-education) capacity-building courses to be conducted under Habitat Exchange.

Habitat Exchange is an online platform for government, universities and non-government organizations across the globe that was created to share and discuss best practices, appropriate technologies, action plan and other tools relevant to the pursuit of ecologically sound and socially equitable urban development.

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Also present during the said planning seminar were DILG Sec. Jesse Robredo, Prof. Peter Boothroyd of the University of British Columbia, Rolando Tungpalan-NEDA dep. Director general, Marivel Sacendoncillo-executive director of Local Government Academy, Marion Villanueva-Local Governance Support Program for Local Economic Development (LGSP-LED) field director; Metro Naga Dev’t. Council executive director Frank Mendoza and Dr. Franscico Magno-visiting scholar from Florida University.

Sec. Robredo discussed the prevailing Inter-LGU Cooperation in the country while Prof. Boothroyd explained the UBC-UN Habitat Exchange Program.

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Braganza, who was joined by city planning and development coordinator Roel Añonuevo, said that an alliance of mayors has some benefits.

He cited OPAL, an economic alliance of 7 co-equal local government executives in the 1st district of Pangasinan which won a foreign grant particularly from Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), as a perfect example.

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“Under our alliance, we have the same powers. We are co-equal,” added the OPAL Lead LGU Coordinator.
OPAL is one of the four LGU alliances selected by DILG and CIDA’s LGSP-LED Project Steering Committee for Phase 1 of the project.

The project which is expected to reduce poverty by creating, business, livelihood, and employment opportunities in the OPAL area was officially launched in Alaminos City last June 10, 2009.

Braganza said that his district which is the biggest in the province has the highest poverty incidence despite having the smallest population among the six congressional districts in Pangasinan.

He added that his district is very rich in natural resources and is home to the world famous Hundred Islands National Park.

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In the field of agriculture alone, the district comprised 32% of the entire province while 72% of the tourist havens are found here.

“In effect, what we are trying to develop in OPAL is to capacitate our respective government’s on two major programs-to create opportunities for them and to ensure that the local governments can respond to this economic development," said Braganza. "So one is sustainable agriculture and other one is sustainable tourism.”

“OPAL is only more than a year old and we’re meeting so many challenges," he continued. "We are on the stage of formalizing the alliance by crafting policies that will now provide financial support to the alliance not just coming from CIDA but also from our respective local government.”

The mayor disclosed that a common ordinance is set to be passed very soon by the seven LGUs that would formalize the alliance.

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Braganza, who also served representative of the district for two terms, said that there wa29already an existing alliance during his term but they are doing it in the context of a congressman doing his job of developing his district.

“I think this alliance that we have now in OPAL is much better because the concentration is on economic development regardless of the political affiliation," he stressed. "And I thank DILG and CIDA for that.”

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According to Dr. Magno, the courses and outputs out of this project will be presented at the 2012 World Urban Forum in Bahrain.

The courses would function at three levels: (1) to be used for real world problem solving on environmental, economic and collective action dilemmas that spill across geographical boundaries and local political jurisdictions: (2) to build the capacity of actors, especially local government and civil society leaders who have responsibility for problem solving on local governance issues over time; and (3) to enhance the capacity of capacity building institutions such as universities.

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During the meeting, pilot areas and themes for course development will be chosen from among the potential cases being considered other than OPAL that also include the Angat River Basin, Metro Naga Development Council, and Pagsanjan Tumban River Basin. (CIO)

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Guv attends training in Korea

LINGAYEN -- Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino Jr. and his delegation are still in South Korea for a five-day training in Modern Integrated Rice Processing Complexes.

This happened after Pangasinan was chosen among four other provinces to be the recipients of the short study program, according to Provincial Information Officer Butch Velasco.

The training includes orientation, discussions, study visits, and field trips to industrial plants relative to the project.

Espino earlier designated Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr. as acting governor.

Calimlim, on the other hand, designated Senior Board Member and Presiding Officer Pro Tempore John Agerico Rosario as acting vice governor.

The seminar will end on August 15.

The South Korean government, through the Korea International Cooperating Agency (KOICA), is funding the P196-million Rice Processing Complex in Pangasinan.

This project, which is being constructed at the Provincial Nursery Compound in Sta. Barbara town, is now 70 percent complete.

It will have a drying capacity of 5,600 metric tons per year or 1,000 bags per day; a milling capacity of 2.5 metric tons or an equivalent of 50 cavans per hour; and a storage capacity of 1,100 tons of dried paddy.

Once operational, the rice complex is projected to help reduce post-harvest losses, and enhance higher production thus increase the income of farmers in the province. (LCMY/Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/guv-attends-training-korea

Children’s book tries to keep alive Pangasinan dialect

By Yolanda Sotelo
Philippine Daily Inquirer

LINGAYEN, PANGASINAN—A children’s book couched solely in pure Pangasinan dialect will be available soon in popular bookstores, courtesy of the Ulupan na Pansiyansiya’s Salitan Pangasinan (UPSP), a literary group that advocates the preservation of this dying language.

The “Pasirayew ya Malapati (A Haughty Dove)” is written and illustrated by Erwin Fernandez, 28, a holder of Master of Arts in History from the University of the Philippines.

The book is melancholic tale about obedience and humility.

Fernandez, a resident of Urdaneta City, says he decided to come up with a book “because it is important for Pangasinan writers to write stories for children, and for children to read stories in their native tongue.”

He says in his youth, he used to read children’s stories published as the Ladybird series, which were sent by his aunt in London.

“I read the Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and many others. It is sad that today’s children, [like] my generation, have no opportunity to read stories in their own language,” says Fernandez, who graduated cum laude as a history major at UP.

“Pasirayew ya Malapati” is a 30-page book with illustrations and English translations. The book is about a dove, which, the author says, “is not a good example of good conduct.”

“In this story, a family of doves is [reputed for being] humble and modest. But one of its children goes up against the advice of Father Dove that they should not [rise up in pride] because arrogance can lead them to perdition,” read a book dedication to parents and teachers.

Fernandez says the story shows to the children that they should follow the counsel of their parents and avoid being conceited.

“It also teaches them that every choice of action, either good or bad, has its consequences,” he says.

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Senator Zubiri set to distribute P18.4M projects in Pangasinan

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 12 (PNA) — Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri will be in Lingayen on Friday to personally distribute P18.4 million worth of projects funded by his Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to 32 barangays of Pangasinan.

To be distributed by Senator Zubiri are Special Allotment Release Orders (SAROs) for various projects allocated to towns and cities through the district engineering offices I, II, III, IV, V and V1 of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Pangasinan.

District Engineering Office I under Gary Paragas was allocated P4.5 million from Zubiri’s PDAF for the towns of Agno, Anda, Bani and Bolinao at P600,000 each; Burgos, Dasol, Infanta and Sual at P500,000 each.

Engineering Districts II and IV under Rodolfo Dion got a share of P3.5 million for the towns of Basista. Binmaley, Urbiztondo, Manaoag, and San Fabian,at P600,000 each; and Labrador, P600,000 each.

Engr. Marietta Mendoza’s Third Engineering District was allocated P1.8 million for projects in San Carlos City, Malasiqui and Sta. Barbara, P600,000 each.

On the other hand, District Engineering Offices V and V1 under Leopoldo Mendoza had been allocated P8.6 million for different projects in Urdaneta City, Alcala, Pozorrubio, Villasis, Rosales, Sta. Maria, San Manuel, San Nicolas, San Quintin, Tayug and Umingan, P600,000 each; and Natividad, Balungao, Bautista and Laoac, P500,000 each.

The mayors of these towns and cities will personally receive the SAROs for projects from the senator.

The bidding for projects under the jurisdiction of Engineering Districts I, II and IV was done sometime in the first week of June and those in engineering Districts II, V and VI, in the first week of August.

While in Lingayen, Senator Zubiri will first call on Acting Governor Jose Ferdinan Calimli before distributing the SAROs to mayors. (PNA)

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Pangasinan PNCO bags national Metrobank award

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 12 (PNA)--A policeman assigned at the Police Provincial Office (PPO) in Pangasinan emerged as one of the winners in the 2010 Metrobank Foundation Search for Country’s Outstanding Policemen in Service (COPS).

Sr. Police Officer 2 (SPO2) Hermie Soriano Raymundo, was chosen as the province’s best in the Police Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) Category.

A native of Binmaley town, SPO2 Raymundo is currently assigned at the Provincial Investigation and Detective Management Branch of the PPO here.

Raymundo’s national award is attributed to his dedication to service and exemplary performance in crime prevention and crime solution.

He now joins the elite roster of outstanding policemen of the country honored by Metrobank Foundation, Inc., the Rotary Club of New Manila East and PSBank.

Raymundo and the other COPS awardees will receive a trophy and a cash prize of P250,000 to be conferred at the Malacanang Palace by President Benigno S. Aquino III.

As this developed, the Metrobank Foundation, Inc. congratulated Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. and PPO headed by Sr. Supt. Percival Barba, provincial director, for producing a national winner from Pangasinan.

Espino also commended Raymundo for his feat even as he stressed that the outstanding policeman’s accomplishments were a big contribution to the sustenance of peace and order in his areas of concern.

COPS is an annual search which pays tribute to outstanding men and women of the Philippine National Police, who exemplified excellence in solving and preventing crimes.

It is also a tribute to outstanding men and women in uniform for exemplifying integrity as members of the PNP. (PNA)

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FVR, eastern Pangasinan leaders seek restoration of 2 approved 'midnight' projects

By Leonardo V. Micua

Former President Fidel V. Ramos and other leaders of the sixth district of Pangasinan sought the restoration of two vital Agno River Flood Control projects worth more than P300 million which the present administration of President Benigno Aquino III has sought to scrap after classifying these as among the “midnight deals” of the past administration.

This was disclosed by Ramos' nephew, Ranjit Shahani, who is a provincial board member of the sixth district of Pangasinan where the supposed “midnight” projects are located, in a talk to newsmen in Dagupan City on Wednesday, August 11.

Shahani said these are a flood control project in Sitio Bato, San Vicente, San Manuel town worth P228.7 million which was reportedly handed to contractor Northern Builders and in Barangay Bantog in Ramos’ hometown of Asingan, said to have been won by Tokwin Construction.

The provincial board member, who is former vice governor of Pangasinan and former two-term congressman of the sixth district, said his uncle Fidel asked him to talk to other leaders of the sixth district of Pangasinan so that they can lobby for the restoration of these projects who, Shahani believes, have not yet been started.

Shahani said he already talked to Retired Admiral Virgilio Marcelo of San Manuel and Mayor Heidie Chua of Asingan who stressed the need for these projects to be continued so that they can help prevent flood in the eastern part of Pangasinan.

“But first, we should find out the status of these projects,” said Shahani who admitted having been at the Department of Public Works and Highways regional office in San Fernando City, La Union two days ago for this purpose.

He said he will also leave for Manila shortly to personally ask Department of Public Works and Communications Secretary Rogelio Singson to beg for the restoration of the two vital flood control projects that seeks to prevent flood both in San Manuel and Asingan towns.

Shahani said he will also ask Secretary Singson and Director Philip Menez of the DPWH Flood Control Division to restore Director Fidel Ginez as chief of the Agno Flood Control Office (AFCO) so that he can supervise the construction of the vital flood control projects in San Manuel and Asingan.

Ginez has expressed his desire to retire in October but Shahani and other political leaders of eastern Pangasinan are seeking the extension of his tenure so the two projects could be prosecuted according to approved plans sans any tinge of graft. (PNA)

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BM Shahani to DPWH: Reconsider scrapped flood control projects for Pangasinan

By Danny O Sagun

Sixth district Board Member Ranjit R. Shahani is seeking to discuss with public works and highways Secretary Rogelio Singson the status of two vital projects earlier assigned for eastern Pangasinan but reportedly scrapped later.

The flood control projects included the P228.75 million allotted for sitio Bato, barangay San Vicente in San Manuel town reportedly awarded to Northern Builders and the P91.5 million project in barangay Bantug in Asingan under Tokwing Contruction.

The two projects were programmed under the past administration.

Shahani said he will find out if the projects were already bidded as reported and if he would lobby for more projects for Pangasinan especially for flood control. "We?ll discuss this matter with Secretary Singson," he said during the Engkwentro forum of the Pangasinan Press Club Wednesday at the Jurassic Ark restaurant.

The former vice-governor and sixth district congressman also disclosed he would ask the DPWH to assign the "best possible manager" for the Agno River Flood Control System. The agency used to be under engineer Fidel Ginez who once served as concurrent DPWH Region 1 director. Engineer Roy Manao replaced him after the massive floods in October last year.

Meanwhile, Shahani asked Chief Supt. Orlando Mabutas to look into his "personal complaint" against Supt. Ronald Gayo, head of the Pangasinan provincial public safety management company based in Tayug town, for grave abuse of authority, conduct unbecoming of an officer and violation of human rights.

The nephew of former President Fidel V. Ramos said that on June 4 at around 1 a.m. at the boundary of Tayug and San Nicolas, Gayo with the aid of armed personnel, "physically harassed, assaulted and slapped four times" Mario Heherson Soriano, one of his campaign coordinators.

He said the assault was done "in my presence" and witnessed by his staff and other coordinators. Gayo, who, he said, was apparently drunk apologized to him immediately after the incident.

The board member signed his letter-complaint dated August 11 during the media forum.

He noted that the admonition by Sr. Supt. Percival Barba, provincial police director, on Gayo was just a slap in the wrist.

Supt. Michael Nicolas, deputy for administration, wrote Shahani last July 29 to inform him about an investigation conducted by the provincial command on the matter. Nicolas said that Soriano could not be located when sought by the investigators to get his side.

Copies of the complaint were furnished to the secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government and chief of the Philippine National Police. (PIA Pangasinan)

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FEU tossers favored in Petron Lingayen tilt

LINGAYEN. — Shaira Gonzales, one of Far Eastern University’s top indoor players, is expected to stamp her class when the third leg of the 2010 Petron Ladies’ Beach Volleyball Tournament begins Friday at the beach front of the Purok Marcelo Resort here.

Gonzales, 21, back after a two-year absence, will team up with Shedd de Pena to challenge Pangasinan native Jennifer Manzano who will defend her crown with new partner Satchel Senupe.

"I want to think positive. I’m coming back after two years and we are not familiar with the conditions. But I’m very upbeat of my chances," said Gonzales, who concentrated on indoor volleyball during her absence.

She helped FEU win a collegiate crown two years ago in tandem with Wendy Semana.

Newcomers Loryvel Faytaren and Janine Penarand of FEU will join Gonzales and De Pena in their quest for glory in the event supported by Speedo, Mikasa, the Sports Development Program of Pangasinan, Fern-Slim and Petron.

Ateneo spiker Sharah So is also back to challenge Manzano and her new partner. So and Asia Urquico lost to Manzano and former partner April Almaden for the title last year. Helping So this time is new partner Khrysette Onishi.

The top two finishers in the event, also backed by Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil (second district, Pangasinan), will advance to the Battle of Champions at year’s end. Bataoil will grace the opening ceremonies.

Also seeing action are Dyrene Rose Benecio and Mariel Legaspi, along with University of the East campaigners Pia Sarmiento and Aurea Racraquin, lanky Yari Yongco and Giselle Bembo, Aileen Abuel and Hidemi Miyata of DLSU-Dasmarinas.

The first leg of the tournament was also held here, with Puerto Princesa hosting the second stop.

http://www.malaya.com.ph/08132010/sports4.html

Milo Little Olympics 2010

Despite being third in the elementary division and seventh in the secondary overall ranking, Pangasinan athletes became a potent force in the field of athletics in the just concluded 13th Milo Olympic last August 1 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center here.

After three days of action, Pangasinan team came up with a strong finish grabbing the number 1 post in various games in athletics like 100-meter run, 110- meter hurdles, 4x100- meter relay, 4x400- meter relay long jump, high jump shot-put, and discuss throw.The team also bagged the top post in volleyball, sipa, lawn tennis, table tennis and chess.

Telbang Elementary School of Alaminos City emerged the best in athletics after garnering first place in both elementary boys and girls division while Alaminos National High School and Telbang National High School wrapped the second slots in the secondary boys and secondary girls division, respectively.

Homegrown table tennis athletes also earned honors for the province after Clark Educational Center in San Carlos City and Bani West Central School captured the top slots for the elementary boys and girls divisions with Binmaley School of Fisheries topping the secondary boys division.Labrador National High School placed third in the secondary girls division.

Other participating institutions in Pangasinan that emerged victorious in the different sports events were Cabuyao Elementary School (Bolinao) and Pangapisan Elementary School (Lingayen) for volleyball boys and girls; Alos Elementary School (Alaminos) for elementary boys in sipa; San Carlos College (secondary boys division for chess); and Mother Goose Special School (Dagupan City) for lawn tennis elementary girls division.

Milo Olympics is the country's biggest inter-school junior sports competition which gathered athletes from Regions 1,2,3 and the Cordillera Autonomous Region including participants from international schools and other schools in Bulacan. A total of 83 schools throughout the province participated in the said competition.

Meanwhile, Modesto Operania, Consultant on Sports of the provincial government earlier said on behalf of Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. that sports and youth development is one of the priority thrusts of the present administration that is aimed to transform the young generation into well-rounded and sports oriented individuals.

Tess Bernardino, Milo Sports Organizer, on the other hand, thanked Governor Espino for his untiring support on the said event which she dubbed, "an avenue for strengthening ties among the competing teams." (PIO/Chona C. Bugayong)

Busy day for acting guv

Thursday, August 12, 2010

LINGAYEN – It will be a busy day for acting Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr. today, Friday.

At 8:30 a.m., participants of the 3rd leg of Petron Ladies’ Beach Volleyball Tournament, together with Congressman Leopoldo Bataoil, will pay a courtesy call the governor.

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Bataoil has been hosting the event since he was still the head of the PNP Directorate for Integrated Police Operations-Northern Luzon.

As in the past, the two-day (August 13 and 14) sports activity will be held at the beach front of Purok Marcela Resort owned by the Bataoils in Barangay Libsong here.

Bataoil has said this is in line with youth sports development program intertwined with the anti-crime and environmental campaigns of the Philippine National Police and the provincial government, to include tourism promotion in the area.

At about 9:30 a.m., he will assist Senator Miguel Zubiri in the distribution of Special Allotment Release Orders for projects in several towns in the province of Pangasinan .

This will be held at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan session hall at the Provincial Capitol building.

Governor Amado Espino Jr. is currently in South Korea together with some personnel attending a five-day training concerning the operation of a Rice Processing Complex (RPC).

The South Korean government funded the construction of the modern integrated Rice Processing Complex being built at the provincial nursery in Sta. Barbara town. (LCMY/Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/busy-day-acting-guv

Gov. Espino releases P2.7 million capital assistance anew to various groups


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Gov. Espino releases P2.7 million capital assistance anew to various groups.

Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. (right) awards the livelihood cheque to one of the 23 entrepreneurs (center) engaged in small and medium enterprises in Pangasinan last July 27 at the Governor’s Office, Capitol Building in Lingayen. A total of P2.7 million livelihood check was awarded to loan beneficiaries under the province’s Livelihood Assistance Program implemented through the Provincial Population Office. The Governor lauded the groups for being responsible enough to meet the 100% repayment scheme. (PIO Photo by Jonas Sison)

Gov. Espino awards cheque to young int’l chess champs from Pangasinan


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Gov. Espino awards cheque to young int’l chess champs from Pangasinan.

Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. awards P10,000 to each of the four young wood pushers from Pangasinan who won in the 11th Age Group Chess Championships held at the Subic Freeport in Olongapo City from June 4-13, 2010. Receiving the cheques are (top to bottom) Regyne V. Paloming of Urdaneta City, gold medalist; Fernando C.Mendoza of Dagupan City, bronze; Prince Mark Aquino of San Nicolas, gold medalist; and Cherry Ann P. Mejia of San Jacinto, silver medalist for rapid and blitz event. (PIO Photo by Jonas Sison)

http://balitapangasinan.blogspot.com

Gov. Espino distributes P2.7M loan assistance to various groups

LINGAYEN--Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. distributed anew some P2.7-million worth of checks to the various livelihood associations in Pangasinan under the province’s livelihood loan assistance program.

The recent distribution benefitted twenty-three associations from the various parts of the province who received the assistance as loan renewals.

Gov. Espino said that as of July, some P12.7-million worth of livelihood assistance has already been granted to different women’s associations.

He also noted that the recipients have been responsible borrowers as they have fully met the 100% repayment scheme.

Gov. Espino said the program, implemented through the Provincial Population Office, is one of his administration’s thrusts which aim to help Pangasinenses especially the women augment their family income to help uplift their living conditions.

It is likewise aimed at generating more livelihood and employment opportunities for the underprivileged to increase income and improve access to basic needs.

Ellsworth Gonzales, program officer said this is the 3rd batch of distribution for 2010 bringing the number of groups who have benefitted from the program since 2008 to 106 organized groups and 9 micro entrepreneurs bringing the total number of beneficiaries to 2292.

The organized groups received a loan amount ranging from P100, 000 to P150, 000.

Catherine Rose Cabuyadao, a borrower from Cauringan Women’s Association in Sison town said she is very thankful with the loan grant because aside from having her own business, a sari-sari store, she was also able to finish college. With another loan grant from the province, she intends to expand her business to earn additional income for her growing family.

The livelihood program of the province caters to micro, small and medium enterprises including marginalized farmers/fisherfolks, community-based women’s group and individual entrepreneurs.
Under the program, the association can avail of a P100,000 credit assistance with 4% interest in six months. In case of payments made before due date, a rebate of 2.5% will be given to the association as their capital share.

Governor Espino said this payment scheme strategy encourages the borrowers to become responsible and help the association sustain its livelihood program to benefit its members. (PIO/Angeline D. Villanueva)

^duga tay cuan mo

Nonsense, a metropolis should not be compared to a lonely coastal city VV

Pulyanan mo la ra. Parad Central Pangasinan so Dagupan, Eastern so Urdaneta, untan met so Alaminos diad Western ira

:banana:



Enjoy the trip! :)

^^Untan kumon mankakasakey tayo

Say kakapuyan na sakey na lugar ed probinsya tayo, so mangileksag ed intiron probinsya tayo.

Keep updating and posting on this thread Pangasinenses!!!

PIA ag amta pondo ya pampabalingit kuno ed ngaran nen PGMA

Pangasinan News

DAGUPAN CITY - Anggapoy amta na Philippine Information Agency (PIA)- Pangasinan Chapter ed ibabagan initer ed Ahensya parad pampabalingit na ngaran nen Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, nen sikatoni so Presidente na bansa.

Impalapag nen Danny Sagun, say mandadaulod PIA Pangasinan Chapter, ya say National Office da labat sdo maka-amta nipaakar ed abetlan pondo, lapud anggapo met so ads placements nen Congresswoman Arroyo ed Region I.

Nanengneng labat iyad saray broadsheets tan tabloids.

Babagaan da labat iran mangawa na istorya nipaakar ed si GMA, base ed sarayan ads.

San naaala da labat kunon pundo et parad say bulanan dan operasyon singa say pan-gasolina na luluganan na ahensya, office supplies tan sweldo na aray empleyado empleyado.

Ginawa to so reaksyon kasumpalan ya pinmaway ed pigaran palapagan ya pinonduan kuno na datin Adminsitrasyon so PIA, ompian pabalingitenso ngran na datin Presidente, balet agni malinew no pigara iyan.

http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/13677-pia-ag-amta-pondo-ya-pampabalingit-kuno-ed-ngaran-nen-pgma

Modern hotel and resort complex rising soon in Dagupan City

By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, Aug. 13 (PNA)-—A Dagupan-based company is eyeing to put up a sprawling hotel and resort, the most modern of its kind in Northern Luzon, at its own property in Barangay Lucao here.

Alberto Virgo, an architect of the Manila-based DQA Design & Planning Inc., said rising soon right side of the Jose R. de Venecia Expressway Extension in Dagupan is the five-storey CSI Resort Hotel.

The multi-million peso project, soon to be the biggest in Pangasinan, will consist of three phases, said Virgo whose company was commissioned to build the project.

The first phase of the project will be a floating restaurant pavilion with a lagoon and a fishing area that will be the first of its kind in the province and Northern Luzon.

Phase two of the project is the Day Resort which can be utilized by everybody for recreational purposes, Virgo said.

The last phase of the project is the main resort hotel which is a five-storey, also with a component pool.

He said the edifice will use the sanitary and fire protection system for its premises and buildings that is widely used among big hotels in Metro Manila.

Virgo said the CSI Hotel and Resort will introduce some solar panel electric system, again the first of its kind in the country, to ensure minimal use of electricity.

The Day Resort to be built will have three main pools, the first of which can be used by every one who wants to swim, the second for hotel guests and the third is a private pool for those renting the cabanas.

The designs of these pools, said Virgo, bear some resemblance with similar pools of big hotels in Thailand and Malaysia.

The CSI Resort Hotel will be built by the CSI Group owned by the family of Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez.

The CSI Group operates several shopping malls and department stores in Dagupan City, Pangasinan, San Fernando, La Union; and Candon City Ilocos Norte.

Vice Mayor Fernandez said the hotel and resort complex will have 60 rooms and several for rent cabanas, good for tourists coming in groups or those holding conventions and seminars.

When completed, she said, it could place Dagupan in the tourism map and make the the convention capital of the north.

She said her family is investing on the project to boost the economic opportunities in Pangasinan, aside from creating hundreds of jobs for the unemployed professionals.

The project will complement the CSI Stadia just beside the CSI the City Mall in Lucdao, Dagupan City.(PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=294459

kumusta la kabaleyan!! sound trip muna tayo..:D
anengneng ko yan ed sakey ya thread, nakakamiss tuloy..:lol::nuts:

VYbMBYCjjpU

Alberto Virgo, an architect of the Manila-based DQA Design & Planning Inc., said rising soon right side of the Jose R. de Venecia Expressway Extension in Dagupan is the five-storey CSI Resort Hotel.




errr...i don't like the name, palitan na lang ng iba...yung mas classy pakinggan...

...and guess who hates it as well, not just the name but the entire plan - Brian Lim walked out when this plan was about to be discussed at the city council hearing :lol:

kumusta la kabaleyan!! sound trip muna tayo..:D
anengneng ko yan ed sakey ya thread, nakakamiss tuloy..:lol::nuts:

VYbMBYCjjpU


:okay::okay::okay:

makapalek ya talagay Insyong....asan na sya ngayon? man-compose ni komon na dakel ya Pangasinan songs!! i truly believe he is a Pangasinan treasure :bow:

errr...i don't like the name, palitan na lang ng iba...yung mas classy pakinggan...

...and guess who hates it as well, not just the name but the entire plan - Brian Lim walked out when this plan was about to be discussed at the city council hearing :lol:

Lanti ambanget may ngaran na resort. Kumon singa Stadia, sosyal pakingan. Maybe Magic Group should also come up with their own Resort? :okay::okay::okay:

makapalek ya talagay Insyong....asan na sya ngayon? man-compose ni komon na dakel ya Pangasinan songs!! i truly believe he is a Pangasinan treasure :bow:

Sikato labat lay sikat ya Pangasinan folk singer

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Wow! Triple AAA o 5 star ba yong CSI resorts?

LGU , makaamper ed iloob na aray investors

Pangasinan News

DAGUPAN CITY -- Tetetelen na na aray Board of Investment (BOI) so Local Government Unit lapud wala ray pankanawnawan makakaamper so ira ed iloob na aray negosyo.

Inyalimbawa nen Oliver Botulid, Gobernador na BOI, ya sasaraan da so iloob tan panpaalagey na na aray negosyo singa say Mining Sector tan electricity Sector, lapud paniistrikto da o panamper dad saraya, say arum et onkekerew ni baleg ya kwarta kasalat na iloob na aray negosyo ed nasasakupan da.

Lapud saya, diad arum ya lugar ira laengen mankakargay negosyo nensay pinabangan kumon na bansa .

Imbaga to met ya kulang so iiter ya atensyon na media ed tungtungan nipapaakar ed negosyo tan mas interesado nirad politika, kanyan kulang so impormasyon ya naipapasabi rad kauuan nipaakar ed panagkomersyo.

http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/14661-lgu--makaamper-ed-iloob-na-aray-investors

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:banana::banana::banana:

ang ganda naman nito...

:okay::okay::okay:

makapalek ya talagay Insyong....asan na sya ngayon? man-compose ni komon na dakel ya Pangasinan songs!! i truly believe he is a Pangasinan treasure :bow:

Lanti ambanget may ngaran na resort. Kumon singa Stadia, sosyal pakingan. Maybe Magic Group should also come up with their own Resort?

Sikato labat lay sikat ya Pangasinan folk singer

imbaga yo!:okay::lol:
wala kasi CD to tan ya nasaliw??:D

CSI Resort source: http://www.cgpinoy.org/architectural-f3/csi-hotel-resort-development-final-concepts-t13196.htm

looks nice!:okay: hope they stick with the rendering...

BAYAMBANG, PANGASINAN

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ROYAL MALL U/C

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MARAKEP ARO!!! :cheers:

MALASIQUI, PANGASINAN

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SAN CARLOS CITY, PANGASINAN

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DAGUPAN CITY

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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STI BLDG. PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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GALVAN ST.

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UNIVERSITY OF LUZON, PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.
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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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GALVAN ST.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs251.snc4/39886_110972045624692_100001356908324_75067_2038532_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs131.ash2/39886_110972048958025_100001356908324_75068_5812005_n.jpg
GALVAN ST.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs271.snc4/39886_110972052291358_100001356908324_75069_6203807_n.jpg
MALIMGAS PUBLIC MARKET, GALVAN ST

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs271.snc4/39886_110972055624691_100001356908324_75070_4027654_n.jpg
CSI MARKET SQUARE, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs271.snc4/39886_110972058958024_100001356908324_75071_6179662_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs131.ash2/39886_110972062291357_100001356908324_75072_3698760_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs251.snc4/39886_110972065624690_100001356908324_75073_1342524_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs131.ash2/39886_110972068958023_100001356908324_75074_237211_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs131.ash2/39886_110972072291356_100001356908324_75075_6790969_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs271.snc4/39886_110972075624689_100001356908324_75076_929732_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE CORNER RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs092.snc4/35958_110972225624674_100001356908324_75077_5545073_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40493_110972522291311_100001356908324_75078_2517048_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs303.snc4/40493_110972525624644_100001356908324_75079_4928854_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40493_110972528957977_100001356908324_75080_7957291_n.jpg
QUINTOS BRIDGE

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs303.snc4/40493_110972532291310_100001356908324_75081_4792266_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40493_110972548957975_100001356908324_75086_8283370_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972955624601_100001356908324_75087_4519955_n.jpg
STAR PLAZA HOTEL, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs303.snc4/40493_110972535624643_100001356908324_75082_2922754_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs303.snc4/40493_110972538957976_100001356908324_75083_6438297_n.jpg
VICTORIA BLDG, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40493_110972542291309_100001356908324_75084_6710034_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs143.ash2/40493_110972545624642_100001356908324_75085_7168647_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs237.snc4/39194_110972962291267_100001356908324_75088_2446954_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972965624600_100001356908324_75089_4840577_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs237.snc4/39194_110972968957933_100001356908324_75090_3225296_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972972291266_100001356908324_75091_40022_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972975624599_100001356908324_75092_7343354_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs237.snc4/39194_110972978957932_100001356908324_75093_1768228_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972982291265_100001356908324_75094_7758313_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972985624598_100001356908324_75095_3669945_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs149.snc4/36834_110973325624564_100001356908324_75101_4414321_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs069.ash2/36834_110973312291232_100001356908324_75097_7646351_n.jpg
LENOX HOTEL, RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs149.snc4/36834_110973315624565_100001356908324_75098_395636_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs069.ash2/36834_110973318957898_100001356908324_75099_5621352_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs129.snc4/36834_110973322291231_100001356908324_75100_6844601_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs149.snc4/36834_110973328957897_100001356908324_75102_808490_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs129.snc4/36834_110973332291230_100001356908324_75103_444950_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs149.snc4/36834_110973335624563_100001356908324_75104_4704736_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs129.snc4/36834_110973338957896_100001356908324_75105_5985873_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs069.ash2/36834_110973342291229_100001356908324_75106_4706013_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs243.snc4/39489_110973385624558_100001356908324_75107_7936732_n.jpg
MH DEL PILAR ST.

^^^^^^
KUHA KO YAN KANINANG 1 PM :)
GRABE NILAKAD KO KANINA, MULA PEREZ BLVD, UMIKOT AKO NG GALVAN ST, TAZ LUMUSOT AKO SA AB FERNANDEZ SAKA LUMIKO AKO SA RIZAL AVE AT NAPUNTA ULIT AKO SA PEREZ BLVD AT SA WAKAS NARATING KO ANG MH DEL PILAR ST :lol: GRABEH NAKAKAPAGOD 5-6 KMS ANG NILAKAD KO PARA IKOTIN ANG DAGUPAN CBD AT MORE THAN 1 HOUR AKO NATAPOS LAKARIN :lol::lol::lol: SAYANG DI KO NA NARATING ANG ZAMORA ST ARELLANO ST, CARANGLAAN DIST. MALUED, LUCAO AT TAPUAC PATI NA YUNG FISH PORT NATIN :lol:

^^^^^^
KUHA KO YAN KANINANG 1 PM :)
GRABE NILAKAD KO KANINA, MULA PEREZ BLVD, UMIKOT AKO NG GALVAN ST, TAZ LUMUSOT AKO SA AB FERNANDEZ SAKA LUMIKO AKO SA RIZAL AVE AT NAPUNTA ULIT AKO SA PEREZ BLVD AT SA WAKAS NARATING KO ANG MH DEL PILAR ST :lol: GRABEH NAKAKAPAGOD 5-6 KMS ANG NILAKAD KO PARA IKOTIN ANG DAGUPAN CBD AT MORE THAN 1 HOUR AKO NATAPOS LAKARIN :lol::lol::lol: SAYANG DI KO NA NARATING ANG ZAMORA ST ARELLANO ST, CARANGLAAN DIST. MALUED, LUCAO AT TAPUAC PATI NA YUNG FISH PORT NATIN :lol:

^^Salamat walay balon pictures tayo! Arawi nakar mon nanliberliber. Naksawan ka siguro ampetapetang ni a.

Manaya, Welcome Home! Kelan ka pa dumating? :lol:

^^Salamat walay balon pictures tayo! Arawi nakar mon nanliberliber. Naksawan ka siguro ampetapetang ni a.

Manaya, Welcome Home! Kelan ka pa dumating? :lol:

NO PROBLEM KABALEYAN :D:lol:
nakar koy bayambang, san carlos, malasiqui tan dagupan :lol:
ampeta petang lanti nen niman, bimyahe ak ya alas dose ed kaugtuan :lol:
imbaga bagam kabaleyan, naknaksawan ak, baleg yay dagupan manaya nu liberen mon akaren :nuts: apaet paet ak ed dalan :nuts:

salamat :lol: nen karuman ak simmabi :lol:

wow! feels like i just had a trip in Dagupan City! APRUB!

wow! feels like i just had a trip in Dagupan City! APRUB!
^^
nyahaha
hehe..punta ka din kasi para maranasan mo ang hirap na dinanas ko :nuts::nuts::lol::lol:

DAGUPAN CITY

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs105.ash2/38577_110970762291487_100001356908324_75046_2280231_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs240.snc4/39358_110971135624783_100001356908324_75048_7404148_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs220.snc4/39358_110971138958116_100001356908324_75049_6958716_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs220.snc4/39358_110971142291449_100001356908324_75050_3666883_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs220.snc4/39358_110971145624782_100001356908324_75051_1655572_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs240.snc4/39358_110971148958115_100001356908324_75052_805765_n.jpg
STI BLDG. PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs220.snc4/39358_110971152291448_100001356908324_75053_333960_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs240.snc4/39358_110971155624781_100001356908324_75054_4325506_n.jpg
GALVAN ST.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs240.snc4/39358_110971158958114_100001356908324_75055_6052866_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs120.ash2/39358_110971162291447_100001356908324_75056_784798_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs126.ash2/39653_110971715624725_100001356908324_75057_4477476_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs126.ash2/39653_110971718958058_100001356908324_75058_4748182_n.jpg
UNIVERSITY OF LUZON, PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs126.ash2/39653_110971725624724_100001356908324_75059_3320173_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs266.snc4/39653_110971728958057_100001356908324_75060_1334083_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs126.ash2/39653_110971732291390_100001356908324_75061_2438194_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs246.snc4/39653_110971735624723_100001356908324_75062_337566_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs266.snc4/39653_110971738958056_100001356908324_75063_6646883_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs126.ash2/39653_110971742291389_100001356908324_75064_5809757_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs246.snc4/39653_110971745624722_100001356908324_75065_7259721_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs266.snc4/39653_110971748958055_100001356908324_75066_3648684_n.jpg
GALVAN ST.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs251.snc4/39886_110972045624692_100001356908324_75067_2038532_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs131.ash2/39886_110972048958025_100001356908324_75068_5812005_n.jpg
GALVAN ST.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs271.snc4/39886_110972052291358_100001356908324_75069_6203807_n.jpg
MALIMGAS PUBLIC MARKET, GALVAN ST

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs271.snc4/39886_110972055624691_100001356908324_75070_4027654_n.jpg
CSI MARKET SQUARE, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs271.snc4/39886_110972058958024_100001356908324_75071_6179662_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs131.ash2/39886_110972062291357_100001356908324_75072_3698760_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs251.snc4/39886_110972065624690_100001356908324_75073_1342524_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs131.ash2/39886_110972068958023_100001356908324_75074_237211_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs131.ash2/39886_110972072291356_100001356908324_75075_6790969_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs271.snc4/39886_110972075624689_100001356908324_75076_929732_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE CORNER RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs092.snc4/35958_110972225624674_100001356908324_75077_5545073_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40493_110972522291311_100001356908324_75078_2517048_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs303.snc4/40493_110972525624644_100001356908324_75079_4928854_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40493_110972528957977_100001356908324_75080_7957291_n.jpg
QUINTOS BRIDGE

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs303.snc4/40493_110972532291310_100001356908324_75081_4792266_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40493_110972548957975_100001356908324_75086_8283370_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972955624601_100001356908324_75087_4519955_n.jpg
STAR PLAZA HOTEL, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs303.snc4/40493_110972535624643_100001356908324_75082_2922754_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs303.snc4/40493_110972538957976_100001356908324_75083_6438297_n.jpg
VICTORIA BLDG, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs283.snc4/40493_110972542291309_100001356908324_75084_6710034_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs143.ash2/40493_110972545624642_100001356908324_75085_7168647_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs237.snc4/39194_110972962291267_100001356908324_75088_2446954_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972965624600_100001356908324_75089_4840577_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs237.snc4/39194_110972968957933_100001356908324_75090_3225296_n.jpg
AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972972291266_100001356908324_75091_40022_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972975624599_100001356908324_75092_7343354_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs237.snc4/39194_110972978957932_100001356908324_75093_1768228_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972982291265_100001356908324_75094_7758313_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs117.ash2/39194_110972985624598_100001356908324_75095_3669945_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs149.snc4/36834_110973325624564_100001356908324_75101_4414321_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs069.ash2/36834_110973312291232_100001356908324_75097_7646351_n.jpg
LENOX HOTEL, RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs149.snc4/36834_110973315624565_100001356908324_75098_395636_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs069.ash2/36834_110973318957898_100001356908324_75099_5621352_n.jpg
RIZAL AVE.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs129.snc4/36834_110973322291231_100001356908324_75100_6844601_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs149.snc4/36834_110973328957897_100001356908324_75102_808490_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs129.snc4/36834_110973332291230_100001356908324_75103_444950_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs149.snc4/36834_110973335624563_100001356908324_75104_4704736_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs129.snc4/36834_110973338957896_100001356908324_75105_5985873_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs069.ash2/36834_110973342291229_100001356908324_75106_4706013_n.jpg
PEREZ BLVD.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs243.snc4/39489_110973385624558_100001356908324_75107_7936732_n.jpg
MH DEL PILAR ST.

^^^^^^
KUHA KO YAN KANINANG 1 PM :)
GRABE NILAKAD KO KANINA, MULA PEREZ BLVD, UMIKOT AKO NG GALVAN ST, TAZ LUMUSOT AKO SA AB FERNANDEZ SAKA LUMIKO AKO SA RIZAL AVE AT NAPUNTA ULIT AKO SA PEREZ BLVD AT SA WAKAS NARATING KO ANG MH DEL PILAR ST :lol: GRABEH NAKAKAPAGOD 5-6 KMS ANG NILAKAD KO PARA IKOTIN ANG DAGUPAN CBD AT MORE THAN 1 HOUR AKO NATAPOS LAKARIN :lol::lol::lol: SAYANG DI KO NA NARATING ANG ZAMORA ST ARELLANO ST, CARANGLAAN DIST. MALUED, LUCAO AT TAPUAC PATI NA YUNG FISH PORT NATIN :lol:


Hi post mo din ito sa iba pang para naman buong pilipinas makita ito.

is there any updates of possible entry of SM mall in central pangasinan???

sm supercenter apalit, pampanga and sm olongapo was already approved..

NO PROBLEM KABALEYAN :D:lol:
nakar koy bayambang, san carlos, malasiqui tan dagupan :lol:
ampeta petang lanti nen niman, bimyahe ak ya alas dose ed kaugtuan :lol:
imbaga bagam kabaleyan, naknaksawan ak, baleg yay dagupan manaya nu liberen mon akaren :nuts: apaet paet ak ed dalan :nuts:

salamat :lol: nen karuman ak simmabi :lol:

:)..marakep so ginawan amigo...talagan angiter kay oras mo ed sayan thread..para maka bigay ka lang ng mga tanawin sa lungsod ng dagupan...kudos to you...:banana:...salamat ya baleg ed inter mong oras...

Thanks to Aliaguas Pangasinan!:)
I miss Dagupan City, especially Perez Boulevard and AB Fernandez Ave. Grabe, ang daming buildings, ang ganda ng University of Luzon. How about Lyceum Northwestern and University of Pangasinan photos?:)

I've been to Pangasinan for church activity (Manaoag), lunch at Dagupan (Matutina's) and strolling at Lingayen (Pangasinan Capitol). All happened just yesterday (whole day).... :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3299/3530734584_8176a58bfd.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2029/3530118795_5f773652b6.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1110/926219612_9977116277.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1293/926219350_668f1ac6dd.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1346/926219462_b12654f725.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1159/926385072_a253ba5380.jpg

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FIRST MASS MEMORIAL

What's the clear and direct evidence for this?
The notion a Christian mass was held at Maasin in Pangasinan is a truly wide stretch based on the story of Odoric of Pordenone who visited Thalamasin somewhere in Asia in 1322.
In various manuscripts that deal with this story the name of the place is spelled in many ways, Thalamasyn, Thalamasim, Talamasin, Thamalsi, Talamosa, Malamasin, Malamasmi. Thala Masim is Malay or Javanese for Talaga Masin or Salt Lake.
Here's a geographical view of this issue by William H. Scott: "It is possible tyhat these observations were made in the Philippines--but not likely. The west coast of Borneo is on the direct route between Java and Champa, and it would seem strange, moreover, that such long voyages as the direct Java-Philippines or Philippines-Champa passages should bypass the intermediate trading ports mentioned in Chinese accounts of the periodl. Moreover, none of these details are mentioned in the longer Philippine description by Friar Odoric's younger contemporary, Wang Tayuan. But if there is a possibility that Friar Odoric actually set foot on Philippine soil, there is no reason to think that he baptized anybody or celebrate mass two centuries before Magellan's arrival--there is no reason even to think that he was a priest."
To prove an event happened, one has got to show clear, unambiguous, precise proof and unimpeachable document as well as unarguable reason in support of one's assertion. The notion the name "Thalamasin" is proof it is an specific geographical area of Pangasinan is like saying "Boston street" in Quezon City is proof the famous tea party in American history happened in the Philippines!

Vicente Calibo de Jesus
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Newly constructed building of UPang-Pen! Just found in their Facebook Page..

:)..marakep so ginawan amigo...talagan angiter kay oras mo ed sayan thread..para maka bigay ka lang ng mga tanawin sa lungsod ng dagupan...kudos to you...:banana:...salamat ya baleg ed inter mong oras...

salamat ^^ :) amasyar ak labat ed dagupan, et walay awit kon cam, kanyan angala ak met lay litrato :lol: :)

Thanks to Aliaguas Pangasinan!:)
I miss Dagupan City, especially Perez Boulevard and AB Fernandez Ave. Grabe, ang daming buildings, ang ganda ng University of Luzon. How about Lyceum Northwestern and University of Pangasinan photos?:)

Di ako napadaan sa may tapuac eh, kaya di ko nakuhanan ng pics ang lyceum :lol: at di rin ako napadaan sa arellano kaya wala kong nakuhang pics ng UPANG.:lol: sa susunod ulit pag napadaan uli ako ng dagupan :)

I've been to Pangasinan for church activity (Manaoag), lunch at Dagupan (Matutina's) and strolling at Lingayen (Pangasinan Capitol). All happened just yesterday (whole day).... :)

:cheers1:

Di ako napadaan sa may tapuac eh, kaya di ko nakuhanan ng pics ang lyceum :lol: at di rin ako napadaan sa arellano kaya wala kong nakuhang pics ng UPANG.:lol: sa susunod ulit pag napadaan uli ako ng dagupan :)

Thanks ulit Aliguas, he he. Dati sa Arellano street ako nagboard, at sa Upang naman ako nagcollege.:):cheers:

maples so andar na thread tayo natan ah...hehe :lol:

maples so andar na thread tayo natan ah...hehe :lol:

imbagam...:lol: nen saman ag tini makasumpal ya sakey ya pahina kada araw..:lol::nuts:

paraan po. may kasalanan ata me. matagal tagal ko nang na-post ireng dance duon sa kabila pero wala namang literature pala. So I was wondering sa'n ba galing ire? It took quite awhile for me to realize na this very elegant dance is from Pangasinan. :yes: Yup, it is very dignified and very classy. Naiiba... :cool:
Traditional Filipino danza. :colgate:

http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Valse_vieja

Valse Vieja is a version of the valse or waltz that originated in Pangasinan. It is performed by the members of the upper class in old Pangasinan during stately occasions and fiestas. A distinct feature of this version of the waltz is the movement of the hand in a gesture called kewet, unique to the people of Pangasinan.

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Full credits to bethoven071283
during the Pangalay 2003 at the Cultural center of the philippines

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:banana: din malan la may taga bantay manaya
abalang la ra may salatan ya aga bali-bali...


Goooooo Pangasinan thread.....

:)paraan po. may kasalanan ata me. matagal tagal ko nang na-post ireng dance duon sa kabila pero wala namang literature pala. So I was wondering sa'n ba galing ire? It took quite awhile for me to realize na this very elegant dance is from Pangasinan. :yes: Yup, it is very dignified and very classy. Naiiba... :cool:

:)//thanks mercato for sharing thos nice video...that reflects the culture of our province...Native dance f PANGASINAN....marami pala mga native dances ang pangasinan:)

dapat talgan unkurang so thread tayo tapiano.....marakep

san undakel so....SSC forumer ed luyag na Pangasinan...

salamat ^^ :) amasyar ak labat ed dagupan, et walay awit kon cam, kanyan angala ak met lay litrato :lol: :)

:) maong met ta walay awit mong cam mo...tapan akala karay litrato diad dagupan...simba siguro ka amasayar ta daiset so totoo diad baley...:)

Wish na magawa ko din ang ginawa mo....next na uwi ko ng
pangasinan......:angel:

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KUHA KO YAN KANINANG 1 PM :)
GRABE NILAKAD KO KANINA, MULA PEREZ BLVD, UMIKOT AKO NG GALVAN ST, TAZ LUMUSOT AKO SA AB FERNANDEZ SAKA LUMIKO AKO SA RIZAL AVE AT NAPUNTA ULIT AKO SA PEREZ BLVD AT SA WAKAS NARATING KO ANG MH DEL PILAR ST :lol: GRABEH NAKAKAPAGOD 5-6 KMS ANG NILAKAD KO PARA IKOTIN ANG DAGUPAN CBD AT MORE THAN 1 HOUR AKO NATAPOS LAKARIN :lol::lol::lol: SAYANG DI KO NA NARATING ANG ZAMORA ST ARELLANO ST, CARANGLAAN DIST. MALUED, LUCAO AT TAPUAC PATI NA YUNG FISH PORT NATIN :lol:

Dagupan City council gives nod to build plush resort hotel (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=6&sid=&nid=6&rid=294859)

By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, Aug. 16 (PNA) -- The Dagupan City council has approved the establishment of a multi-million peso hotel and resort project proposed by a local investor.

Project proponent CSI Group of Companies said the CSI Hotel and Resort will be built at its own sprawling lot situated beside the new Judge Jose R. de Venecia Expressway Extension in Barangay Lucao.

The approval was contained in a resolution adopted by the city council by a vote of 9-1, following the approval of a joint committee report prepared jointly by six committees of the city council, namely on land utilization (lead committee), laws and ordinances, agriculture, tourism, infrastructure, environment and health and sanitation.

Registering his lone dissenting vote was Councilor Marc Brian Lim, one of only two members of the minority in the city council. The other member of the minority, Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia, did not register any vote when the resolution and the committee report were considered by the body.

Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, presiding officer of the city council, and Councilor Jeslito Seen inhibited themselves from the discussion of the measure.

Fernandez’ family owns the CSI Group of Companies while Seen is related by affinity to the Fernandez’ family.

Councilor Alvin Coquia, chair of the committee on land utilization, said the CSI Hotel and Resort will be in harmony with the people’s economic vision for the city as the project was envisioned to be competitive, diversified and environment-friendly.

He planned by the proponent, the project will be one of only a few globally competitive resorts in Dagupan City that can offer first class amenities capable of competing against known world class tourist destinations.

According to CSI, the hotel will be constructed in three phases.

The first consist of the construction of floating cabanas with a lagoon and a fishing area; the second will be the construction of a day resort that will be open to the public; and the third phase will be the construction of a five-storey hotel with three swimming pools - one for the public, the second for hotel guests and the third will be exclusively for people renting cabanas.

Coquia said the CSI project is expected to generate as much as 200 jobs for Dagupan City residents and this translates to 200 families with food on their table, clothing on their bodies and increased capability to send their children to school.

“Having a world class hotel and resort in our midst will consequently carry with it positive 'externalities' to its surroundings and more visitors who will spend their money in Dagupan, resulting in more stimuli for the economy.

As to fears that the project will affect the environment, Coquia said the CSI Hotel and Resort is environment-friendly, its theme being centered on eco-tourism.

As per plan, he said, numerous trees will be planted all around the resort and wide open spaces will also be in abundance so that children can play in its ground without fear or danger.

The project was planned to have two sewage treatment plants to address expected pollution that will be generated. On top of that, it will put up a recycling facility to collect and process all solid wastes.

The management of the complex has also signified their plan to reduce fossil-fuel generated power through the application of solar panels on building rooftops, thus making it as the only establishment in Dagupan that will harness solar energy soon.

As to the fear that the project might increase the incidence of flood in the city, Professor Nicanor Melecio, a known environmentalist and an urban planning expert, opined that the CSI Hotel and Resort will not do this as it will have adequate drainage and cross drainage and a three-meter water way.

As to its legal ground, Coquia cited a statement made by retired Municipal Trial Court Judge George Mejia that there are no legal infirmities in the approval of the CSI Hotel and Resort project.

Mejia cited Section 458 paragraph (2) letter (x) of the Local Government Code which states that the processing and approval of subdivision plans for residential, commercial, or industrial purposes and other development purposes is the exclusive jurisdiction of the city council.

There is nothing in the law that says the processing shall first go to the Mayor and then later be approved by the Sanggunian, a contention made by Councilor Lim, son of the Dagupan City Mayor.

At the same time, the committees noted that as per Tax Declarations issued by the city government, the lands involved in the CSI project are classified as non-agricultural.

As to the claim of Councilor Lim that the project violates the Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997 being formerly fishponds, Mejia contends that the conversion mentioned in the law refers only to irrigated lands but not to fishponds with not much access to sea and freshwater.

Meanwhile, Melecio, a former environmental consultant of Dagupan City Mayor Lim, personally endorsed the project stressing that it will be built in Barangay Lucao which was identified as one of three new growth areas in the city under the city’s zoning ordinance of 2005.

The zoning ordinance was based on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) adopted by the city in 2003, which identified Barangays Lucao, Caranglaan and Bonuan as new growth nodes of Dagupan. (PNA)
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:) maong met ta walay awit mong cam mo...tapan akala karay litrato diad dagupan...simba siguro ka amasayar ta daiset so totoo diad baley...:)

ta lanti :lol: nen simba ak amasyar, daiset ya tway luganan tan totoo, anggapoy traffic :banana: daiset so anengneng kon chicks :ohno:

Wish na magawa ko din ang ginawa mo....next na uwi ko ng
pangasinan......:angel:

hehe..sana :) pag napunta ako ng urdaneta, kukuha din ako ng mga litrato :lol: bibili na rin ako ng buhay na baka para ipastol sa amin, marika kasi ed guilig na abong mi :lol: maong labat ya kanen na baka pyan untaba ya tampol tan nilitson, pyan walay ipulutan :banana:

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guys inaanyayahan ko kayo na dumalo sa PIU competition na inorganize ko this aug 21. kung makakapunta ang mga SSC pangasinan libre kau sa game play ng PIU dahil sagot ko laro nyo. magandang exersice sa katawan yung larong yun. itx nyo nlang po ako sa 09173311199, ang top 3 ay papasok sa national event na gaganapin this december sa manila.

makikita nyo ako sa sabado ng buong araw sa timezone sm rosales, ako ang may suot na jersey na may mababasa na SUPPORTERS.

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ako yung nasa dulong kaliwa at mga pipol pakanan ay mga nabuo kung grupo na mga taga rosales. sana makapunta po kayo.

agii...mas maong no manpartner ya kanding so ipilam no mangaliw kay baka...mas maples ya undakel era nen say baka.... :)


hehe..sana :) pag napunta ako ng urdaneta, kukuha din ako ng mga litrato :lol: bibili na rin ako ng buhay na baka para ipastol sa amin, marika kasi ed guilig na abong mi :lol: maong labat ya kanen na baka pyan untaba ya tampol tan nilitson, pyan walay ipulutan :banana:

ta lanti :lol: nen simba ak amasyar, daiset ya tway luganan tan totoo, anggapoy traffic :banana: daiset so anengneng kon chicks :ohno:

:lol:haha..saray chicks wala rad mall no simba..di man iray mangliliwaliw:lol:..Nice job..:)

atabunan la lamet so thread tayo... :lol:

i-up ko pa lamet :okay:

Korean investors outline big projects in Pangasinan (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=295911)

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 20 (PNA)-- A big group of Korean investors presented a master plan and latest Korean technologies in connection with its three of seven projects that it intend to build in Pangasinan. the province.

This was made during a business trip of Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. to South Korea last August 14 to 17 when he and other Philippine officials were invited to attend an agricultural seminar that involves the operation of Rice Processing Complex.

The JJGPK Co. Ltd. made three project presentations that include the development of an eco-tourism zone, cold storage and chicken dressing plant.

The other projects that were also discussed include the establishment of a surplus center, knowledge process outsourcing, mining and water transport.

Governor Espino told the investors that they must start any of their projects as soon as possible to provide and generate jobs and livelihood opportunities to Pangasinenses.

It was agreed upon that a retirement village, which will not only cater to Korean retirees but also to Filipino Korean war veterans, and a golf course, will be the first projects that will set up by the group.

The retirement village will feature high-rise residences that will cater to upper and mid-income clients.

The eco-tourism zone, conceptualized under the working title “Lingayen Land,” is conceived as a self-contained community that will feature African and Asian safari tours.

It will have its own mono trail, entertainment center which will be a little kind of Disneyland dubbed as “dream land.”.

With children as its target market, this is synonymous to a theme park that will also include scenes from the significant periods of Philippine history.

The complex will also be a host to a yacht club, docking areas,water sports area, a string of restaurants with a floating restaurant as a highlight, hotels and a water park with a wave pool for children and adults.

While in Korea, Governor Espino's party also visited a cold storage facility, similar to what is being planned to be constructed here, that does not utilize ice or blower which can further prolong the life of stored fruits or vegetables.

The governor personally met the inventor of the facility and who expressed his willingness to visit Pangasinan.

Another Korean investment is a chicken dressing plant to help poultry growers in Pangasinan. This facility uses technology that is six times faster than an ordinary chicken dressing plant in the country.

On the other hand, the surplus center, is intended to sell slightly used home and office appliances.

Espino said the Koreans were also enticed by Pangasinan’s long coastline and river ways where they expressed their desire to engage in water transport.

They vowed to bring ferry boats and barges for tourism and as alternative means to transport people along the major rivers of Pangasinan.

The Korean investors said that cruising Pangasinan rivers will be a tourist attraction since these are surrounded by breathtaking mangroves.

The Governor considers this timely since the Provincial Government has embarked on a massive cleaning and dredging operations of Pangasinan rivers.

The governor also told the group to look for investors that will set up a steel manufacturing in Pangasinan, saying that the country though rich in minerals has no single steel plant.

The governor told the Koreans that their steel industry catapulted them as a very progressive nation.

In his trip to Korea, Governor Espino was joined by Executive Assistant Ramon Morden and Office of the Provincial Agriculturist staff Nestor Batalla.

He was later joined by Provincial Information Officer Butch Velasco for his meetings with the JJGPK investors.

The proposed business ventures from other Korean investors include: the establishment of a commercial and industrial complex, a Pangasinan Heart and Medical Center, electric vehicle manufacturing, housing program and waste-to-energy plant.

Other foreign investors who have expressed business ties with the provincial government include those from the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. (PNA)
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:lol:haha..saray chicks wala rad mall no simba..di man iray mangliliwaliw:lol:..Nice job..:)

Saray maganggagana oarman irad San Cadlos aca-amot.

Pangasinan set to reclaim rice granary status

By Danny O Sagun

"Babalik ang Pangasinan na rice granary pag tapos na yan."

Engineer Laurence Acebedo, assistant project manager of the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP), thus boldly projected as to what Pangasinan would become when the irrigation re-regulating pond in San Manuel town is completed by mid-2013.

Acebedo said some 35,000 hectares of farmlands from eastern and central Pangasinan are projected to benefit from the irrigation system. "Sa ngayon nga nakikita na yong pagtaas ng produksyon sa mga lugar na naayos na natin yong irrigation facilities, mas lalong maramdaman ng ating farmers ang benepisyo pag operational na yong re-regulating pond," he told newsmen in a huddle after the KBP Forum Thursday at the Philippine Information Agency.

Construction of theP4.5-billion pond project started early this year. Funds came from a loan with the China Eximbank. The pond will cover an area of 85 hectares and can hold five million cubic meters of water used by the San Roque dam power generation facility.

Acebedo said the contractor, CAMC Engineering of China, is ahead of schedule by at least nine percent. "Sa ngayon nasa 19 percent na sila, which is a positive slippage of nine percent. Ang target accomplishment for July ay 10 percent," he noted.

ARIIP, he also said, is at the same time rehabilitating the canals of the Agno River Irrigation System (ARIS) and the Ambayaoan-Dipalo Irrigation System (ADRIS). The two irrigation systems were integrated into the single project ARIIP. The total project cost runs to some P11.3 billion including the construction of the re-regulating pond, he said.

Rehabilitation of the irrigation facilities included concreting of portions of the canals to prevent erosion and siltation.

If funds warrant, coverage in the ADRIS area may be expanded to benefit more towns, he disclosed.

Farmlands from the towns of Mapandan, Malasiqui, Sta. Barbara and Calasiao of the third district, Mangaldan and Manaoag of the fourth district, Laoac, Binalonan, Urdaneta City and Villasis of the fifth district, and Asingan, San Manuel, Natividad, San Nicolas, San Quintin, Sta. Maria, Tayug and Balungao of the sixth district will benefit from the improved irrigation system.

On the collection of irrigation service fees, he noted that farmers are very cooperative in paying their obligations. "Boluntaryo naman silang nagbabayad. Nakikita naman nila na gumaganda na ang irigasyon dahil sa facilities nating pinapatayo," he said. (PIA Pangasinan)

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Pangasinan eyed for investment

By MAR T. SUPNAD
Manila Bulletin
August 21, 2010, 7:13pm

DAGUPAN CITY – A group of investors from Korea presented a master plan and latest Korean technologies to support three of their seven proposed business ventures in the province of Pangasinan during the business trip of Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr. to South Korea.

According to provincial information officer Butch Velasco, who joined Espino in Korea, the three presentations of the JJGPK Co. Ltd. include the development of the eco-tourism zone, cold storage, and chicken dressing plant.

“The other projects that were also discussed during the visit of Governor Espino to Korea are the Korean surplus center, knowledge process outsourcing, mining and water transport,” Velasco said.

The governor told them that they must start any of their projects as soon as possible to provide and generate jobs and livelihood opportunities to Pangasinenses.

It was agreed that a retirement village, which will not only cater to Korean retirees but also to Filipino Korean war veterans, and a golf course, will be the first to be set up.

The retirement village will feature high-rise residences that will cater to upper and mid-income clients.

The eco-tourism zone, conceptualized under the working title “Lingayen Land,” will be a self-contained community that will feature African and Asian safari tours with its own mono trail, and entertainment center which will be a smaller version of Disneyland, and will be dubbed “dream land.”

With children as its target market, the theme park will also include the significant periods of Philippine history.

The complex will also be a host to a yacht club, docking areas, water sports area, a string of restaurants with a floating restaurant as a highlight, hotels and a water park with a wave pool for children and adults.

Velasco said that that the governor’s party also visited a cold storage facility, similar to what is being planned to be constructed here, that does not utilize ice or blower which can further prolong the life of stored fruits or vegetables.

The governor also met the inventor of the facility and he is willing to visit Pangasinan.

Another investment to help poultry growers in Pangasinan is the chicken dressing plant.

This facility uses technology that is six times faster than an ordinary chicken dressing plant in the country.

For the surplus center, the Korean investors plan to sell slightly-used home and office appliances.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/273525/pangasinan-eyed-investment

summer islands tour at the HUNDRED ISLANDS PANGASINAN (http://saggi-space.blogspot.com/2010/08/hundred-islands-tour.html). Watch Video here (http://saggi-space.blogspot.com/2010/08/hundred-islands-tour.html)

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Bamboo craft provides small town option to earn

By Johanna Morden
Inquirer Northern Luzon
08/21/2010

MALASIQUI, Pangasinan – In the village of Pasima in this central Pangasinan town, some 200 families have turned to bamboo in spurring economic activities among residents who mostly depend on agriculture to survive.

Barangay (village) Pasima plays host to a thriving bamboo handicraft industry that produces woven baskets and mats.

“This is what our barangay is known for. People from nearby towns and from as far as Laoag City [in Ilocos Norte] come here to buy our products,” says Pasima barangay captain Narciso Valdez Jr.

The village’s bamboo weavers produce different types of fruit baskets (tiklis) and sawali or bamboo mats.

Modesto Baniqued, 62, a bamboo weaver for more than 20 years, says fruit baskets are sold at P4 each, while bamboo mats cost P45 to P50 per spread.

“We never run out of buyers because what we make are essential for other businesses to work,” says Baniqued.

The fruit baskets sold by the community are commonly used by fruit gatherers and farmers for the delivery and storage of their produce, while bamboo mats are often bought by traders who use them to dry bihon noodles and by people who need walls for their houses.

Business is brisk during the fruit harvesting months of November to May, Baniqued says.

Baniqued, who could weave at least 20 baskets a day, sells his products to villagers who are into the buy-and-sell trade, and who in turn bring them to the town market.

“I’ve put my children through college with the money I earned from making bamboo baskets,” says Baniqued.

Villagers organized the Pasima Multipurpose Cooperative in 1991 to support the local bamboo handicraft industry.

Members can borrow money from the cooperative so they can buy raw materials to sustain the trade.

“Bamboo is expensive, costing P100 to P120 apiece,” says Nestor Aquino, 48, a member of the cooperative for over 10 years.

Materials used in the products may come from the villagers’ backyards, but mostly these are bought from suppliers.

Aquino has borrowed as much as P10,000 from the cooperative, which he would pay within six months.

“The cooperative has been very helpful because we cannot afford to raise capital,” says Aquino, who tills the land during the planting season so he could earn extra.

The cooperative accumulates money through the P525 membership fee and the interest collected from loans, he says.

Valdez says the Australian government had donated funds for the cooperative’s capital and for the construction of its building and the purchase of a delivery truck.

As a homegrown industry, the skill of weaving bamboo baskets and mats has been passed down from one generation to the next. Aquino says many of the village’s children know how to weave baskets and mats.

“By the age of 7, my children already knew how to make tiklis and sawali,” he says. “Children here see their parents making handicraft and copying them.”

With this tradition and with the help of the cooperative, Valdez believes that Pasima’s bamboo handicraft trade would flourish and sustain the villagers for many years to come.

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Smoked fish gives couple comfort and wealth

By Johanna Morden
Inquirer Northern Luzon
08/21/2010

ROSALES, Pangasinan – Arsenio and Yolanda Guieb, a Pangasinan couple who struggled through vending, changed their life with hard work, persistence and a dose of business savvy.

Both only high school graduates, they have established the most successful tinapa (smoked fish) business amid a thriving industry in Barangay Carmen West here.

The Guiebs started as vendors of anything one could possibly imagine – balut (boiled duck eggs), pastillas (milk candies), sugarcane, rice cake, chicken and pork, even television sets and motorcycles.

“We could not find steady jobs so we persevered by selling anything,” says Yolanda, 50.

From selling, little by little the Guiebs were able to acquire capital to put up their tinapa business, now called YBG Smoked Fish.

Growing business

They went into the smoked fish business because Arsenio used to work in a tinapa factory. Five years into the business, their investment began to grow as they attracted more and more buyers, particularly from Abra.

“We started with P20,000 and quite often, we acquired fish from our suppliers through loans,” Yolanda says.

Since the 1980s, their smoked fish business has been selling thousands of bistay, the round bamboo sieves that are the signature containers of smoked fish.

Every bistay costs between P18 and P20 and contains four to five pieces of fish.

With only six employees back in 1980, YBG Smoked Fish now has 10 employees who are tasked with preparing tinapa. Arsenio, 51, and Yolanda still oversee the operations.

“My husband wakes up at 1 a.m. every day to oversee the making of the tinapa, while I wake up at 3 a.m. to help,” says Yolanda. “After that, we sleep at around 9 a.m. then wake up at 1 p.m. to buy fish.”

Their daily grind consists of buying fish, usually scads (galunggong), at the fish markets in this town and Urdaneta City. The fresh fish is then soaked in patis (fish sauce), boiled and smoked.

“We then sell the tinapa to locals who sell them in nearby markets,” Yolanda says.

The Guieb couple’s hard work had been rewarded as they managed to send all their three children to college, with their eldest son, at 30, graduating recently from medical school.

“There are some sacrifices you have to make in order to achieve your goals,” Yolanda says.

The family, who used to live in a shanty, now lives in their own concrete house at the heart of the town. The Guiebs have also started renting out apartment units and have acquired real estate and vehicles through selling tinapa.

“It’s a business that stemmed from wanting to provide a better life for our children,” says Yolanda.

http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20100821-288084/Smoked-fish-gives-couple-comfort-and-wealth

Daan lan public plaza, isaayos a?

Sunday, 22 August 2010
Pangasinan News

DAGUPAN CITY - Akagetar la na ayusen ya lokal ya gobyerno na say baley ya Pozurrubio so public plaza da lapod kapansin-pansin lan daan la iya.

Onong ed kinen Municipal Councilor Rey Magno, kailangan la na ayusen iya lapod daan la san linmetak met la so datal to.

Abayag la kunon agga iya naayos kanian iya so tutukan da.

Inmona ed saya, inpa- ayos da met la so kubeta na say plaza ya onpisa na say renovation.

Aasaan da ya diad maganon panaon et ompisaan la so proyekto.

http://www.bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/pangasinan/15844-daan-lan-public-plaza-isaayos-a

Guv returns from South Korea trip

Sunday, August 22, 2010

LINGAYEN -- Governor Amado Espino Jr. has asked a group of Korean investors if they could start soonest their projects in the province of Pangasinan.

This is to create jobs and livelihood opportunities to Pangasinenses.

Espino has just arrived from a five-day business trip in South Korea.

Provincial Information Officer Butch Velasco, who was with the governor in the trip, said the Korean investors presented a master plan and the latest Korean technologies to support three of its seven proposed ventures in Pangasinan.

He said JJGPK Co. Lt. made three presentations, which include the development of the eco-tourism zone, a cold storage and a chicken dressing plant.

Also discussed were that of a Korean surplus center, knowledge process outsourcing, mining and water transport,” Velasco added.

Espino and his party visited a cold storage facility (similar to what is being planned to be constructed here) that does not utilize ice or blower which can further prolong the life of stored fruits or vegetables.

The governor also met the inventor of the facility who is willing to visit the province.

The proposed business ventures from other Korean investors include: the establishment of a commercial and industrial complex, a Pangasinan Heart and Medical Center, electric vehicle manufacturing, housing program and waste-to-energy plant.

Accordingly, what enticed Korean investors to engage in water sport is Pangasinan’s long coastline and river ways. These investors plant to bring here ferry boats and barges for tourism and as alternative means to transport people along the major rivers of Pangasinan.

The Korean investors said that cruising Pangasinan rivers will be a tourist attraction since these are surrounded by breathtaking mangroves.

The Governor considers this timely since the Provincial Government has embarked on a massive cleaning and dredging operations of Pangasinan rivers.

Meanwhile, Espino told the Koreans businessmen to also look for investors who will set up a steel manufacturing in Pangasinan as he said the Philippines is rich in minerals yet there is no single steel plant in the country.

Velasco said prior to the governor’s meeting with the Korean investors, he attended the training conference on the Rice Processing Complex conducted by the Korean International Cooperation Agency from August 8 to 13.

The Korean-funded Rice Processing Complex being constructed inside the provincial nursery compound in Sta. Barbara town is already 70 percent complete.

Some Korean businessmen attended the groundbreaking sometime last April of the Pangasinan Eco-Tourism Zone located at barangay Estanza, Lingayen.

They also attended the inauguration of Espino and the other newly elected provincial officials last July 1.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/guv-returns-south-korea-trip

De Venecia prioritizes rebuilding of burned markets

Sunday, August 22, 2010

DAGUPAN CITY -- The towns of Mangaldan and Manaoag will have their new public markets before the year ends as assured by Representative Gina de Venecia to the stall holders and small businessmen who were displaced last year.

About 800 stall holders were affected when fire razed the old structure at Mangaldan Public Market second week of December 2009.

Temporary stalls were built to accommodate some of them.

Last April, part of the Manaoag Public Market was gutted, affecting about 39 stalls.

De Venecia said rebuilding of the public markets are among her priorities as these are the hubs of trade in the two towns, adding that this is part of her goal to prop up economic boom in her district.

She also said construction of the markets will start this October and she has earmarked P35 million for the two projects.

Of the total amount, P25 million is allotted for the construction of the Mangaldan while P15 million will be for the reconstruction of the Manaoag market.

Aside from the infra projects, de Venecia is now laying the groundwork for a micro-financing program that will create business activities in the 140 barangays of the fourth district, with the help of her daughter, former DTI Undersecretary Carissa Cruz Evangelista.

Meanwhile, it is quite common to see de Venecia presiding the sessions in the House of Representatives these days. As an Assistant Majority Floor Leader, she is tasked to supervise plenary sessions and help the majority leader rally support for the Administration’s priority legislations.

De Venecia is also the Vice Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Social Services.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/de-venecia-prioritizes-rebuilding-burned-markets

Small but rich towns in Pangasinan

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – They are called small but rich town. They are the municipalities of San Manuel, Calasiao, and Sual — all located in Pangasinan.

Calasiao has on 48.36 square-kilometer of land area, and a population of 85,419.

According to Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay, his town has a budget of P136 million yearly, 80 percent of which comes from the annual internal revenue allotment from the national government.

Calasiao’s growth comes from the commercial spill-over of Dagupan. The town is host to car distribution center Honda and Toyota , food chains like Jollibee and Gerry’s Grill, and braces for the opening of mammoth retail giant Robinson and Magic Mall.

According to Macanlalay, SM Mall wants to to put a branch somewhere in Nalsian village.

San Manuel has only 5368.82 square kilometers of land area, and a population of 41,206.

But according to Mayor Jericho Perez, aside from the P85 million internal revenue allotment it gets from the national government yearly, his first class town earns P24 million yearly from the business being tax paid by the mammoth world-class National Power Corporation runs San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam, and a yearly average of P3.4 million of the national wealth share his town gets from the dam as it uses San Manuel’s natural resources.

All these financial windfalls go to projects that benefit the people there.
With all those financial manna, San Manuel can afford to subsidize one book for each of its student at its public school, and even distributes school supplies like bag even to the remotest villages of this mountainous town that bordered with the province of Benguet .

“Meron tayung ginagawang proyekto dito like personal services, kagaya nitong nurses natin na we maintain dito. May dalawang doctors tayo, may med-tech (medical technologist) tayo, may pathologist tayo,” he enumerated.
He said all the health care personalities he mentioned are not funded by the national coffer.

“Walang supporta ang national government dito. Pera lahat ng municipio ang nag-papa-ikot dito,” he stressed.

He added that at his town’s Dr. Laureano Hospital, the services, the x-ray machine, and the medicines are given for free to the people that made one media interviewee to quip that this town’s health care practice is quite synonymous to the world class health services of the miniscule Cuba.

Sual has only a 130.16 square-kilometer of land area, and a population of . 29,925.

It is the home of the mammoth Team Energy’s run coal power plant that sells electricity to the Luzon grid.

When asked how much business tax, internal revenue allotment, share from the Value Added Tax from the national government, and other local revenues his first class town earns yearly, Mayor John Arcinue said. ”Our estimated income this year is P126 million, but we do not have (share of the) the national wealth kasi duon sa San Manuel iyung tubig kino-convert nila sa power. So, may national wealth sila, ang nakukuha namin sa plant ay business tax, and real estate property tax,” he stressed.

He said that his town could even be a city but it is hampered by the inadequacies of the requirements for population and land area.

In a joint project with the provincial government, Sual is reconstructing and sprucing-up its port so it can cater to foreign vessels that would call port there.

”Meron tayung (being constructed international) seaport, and that’s the time we can invite investors. Sabihin natin, you come to Sual then what they can offer na sabihin nila sa akin,” he said.

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/21/small-but-rich-towns-in-pangasinan/

Urbiztondo’s revenue collection turns around

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SAN CARLOS CITY – Tax agencies in the country should emulate this city’s treasurer who has just made a revenue collection in a nearby Urbiztondo turn around.

Professor Arturo Mandapat said he has not just breached the tax goal for 2010 during the 1st semester of January to June in Urbiztondo town where is the acting – where he is the acting treasurer.

“I have already collected the P4.5 million tax goal of Urbiztundo in the first semester and at the end of the year. I will be expecting to collect P6 million there,’ he stressed.

He said he has told Mayor Ernesto Balolong that next year, he can set a much bigger tax goal of P8.5 for the town.

“With P6 million local tax collections this year, it would bode well for the town as the mayor could buy more equipment and implement projects he deems would benefit his constituents,” he said.

He said that for this year the tax goal of this city is P80 million.
“In 2009, I was able to collect 69% of the P72 million tax goal we set for 2009,” he said.

Mandapat twitted the Bureau of Internal Revenue that if it wants to collect more taxes, the regional director of the BIR, or its revenue district officer can just write him a letter for him to give them the data of whom among in this city can be taxed because he has a substantial record in his position.

“They can check here. Actually, there should be a coordination operation. I do not think the local government units will refuse because we are practically getting income from the national government in terms of IRA (Internal Revenue Allotment), we have to emphasize that. You ask them (BIR), who are the delinquent tax payers? Do they have ready available records? We have their records in San Carlos . We have delinquent taxpayers in San Carlos , can they not identify them? These should be in their files. How can they not collect? If they don’t know the people who should pay the taxes, mali ang sistema nila,” he emphatically said.

He added that the government can solve its yawning P340 billion deficit if it can get rid of corruption at its different bureaus, prevent smuggling, and frustrate tax evasion.

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/21/urbiztondo%E2%80%99s-revenue-collection-turns-around/

Sison, Tesda opens training center

By Brando Cortez

SISON- The Municipality of Sison and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to provide technical education to residents 18 to 45 years old, including unemployed graduates, to better equip them in finding job opportunities.

Present during the signing of the MOA were 5th District Rep. Kimi Cojuangco, Mayor Mina Joy C. Pangasinan, Tesda Director Washington M. Agustin, Municipal Social Welfare Development Officer Nancy O. Haban, and Dr. Rosa P. Untalan, also of Tesda. Also on hand to witness the signing ceremony were members of the Sanggunian Bayan of Sison and Prof. Jesus O. Salagubang, Vocational Instructor Supervisor.

“Tesda will also help those who finished the course in their search for employment!” Untalan said.

According to Agustin, those who successfully finish any course at the Sison Training Center be awarded with Tesda accreditation certificate which is also recognized by the Civil Service Commission.

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/21/sison-tesda-opens-training-center/

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Pottery-making makes women busy, earn a decent living

By Johanna Morden
Inquirer Northern Luzon

SAN NICOLAS, Pangasinan – To have a better life is everybody’s dream, and Lydia Bibat is no exception.

Bibat is a 54-year-old homemaker from Barangay (village) Sto. Tomas here who grew up in a family steeped in poverty and who was able to finish only high school.

After spending most of her life taking care of her husband, who is a farmer, and their eight children, a chance to make her own living presented itself in the form of a pottery-making seminar held by the Department of Labor and Employment in 2008 for the unemployed wives of this town.

Bibat eagerly seized this opportunity and joined the Rural Improvement Club (RIC) of her village when it opened a pottery-making facility at an abandoned building in the Sto. Tomas Elementary School that same year.

The project’s goal of providing housewives additional income
was a success as it allowed women like Bibat to earn P100 for helping out each day in the production of clay flower pots and stoves.

Bibat is grateful for this source of income as it allows her to share with her husband the burden of caring for their family.

“I get to buy small things necessary at home like soap and to give allowance to my two youngest children who are still studying,” she says.

“My husband’s earnings are not enough to support our family, so it makes me happy to be able to help,” she adds.

Bibat works with 59 other women from nine villages here who are also employed as workers in the pottery-making facility. Work for a certain day of the week is assigned to every village, so that every community is provided a chance to earn.

Pottery-making is a long and arduous process, so Bibat works with five other women from her village, as well as two men hired by the RIC to handle the heavy machinery.

Their products include ceramic flower pots, which come in four sizes. The largest pots are sold for P10 while the smallest pots are sold for P5. Their clay stoves are sold sell for as much as P200 each.

Bibat says the P10 flower pot has been their bestselling item.

The women can produce as many as 300 pieces of assorted earthenware a day.

Pottery is a flourishing industry especially in the rainy season when planting season starts, so an official of the Department of Agriculture picks up products from the facility and brings them to potential buyers.

“We also accept orders from individuals and other businesses,” says Bibat.

The profits are shared by the women and their employees, although they also apportion amounts from the revenue for the shop’s upkeep.

A typical working day for the women begins with grunge work. They collect and then pour water over raw clay which is shipped in daily by a delivery truck. This is preparation work before a machine crushes the grains of clay into smaller pieces. The finely-ground earth will go through another machine that processes the clay so that it turns into a state of uniform thickness.

The clay will then be put into a mold where it will remain for a day until it is ready for a three-day drying period under direct sunlight.

Finally, the molded pot or stove will be roasted over a pit made of dried grass and bamboo.

Because the facility is housed inside a public elementary school, interested students get to learn how to do the craft by observing the work being done by the women.

“I’m glad that we have this kind of business here, because it’s really helpful to us who are in need of other sources of livelihood,” says Bibat.

http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20100821-288086/Pottery-making-makes-women-busy-earn-a-decent-living

MOA for Expanded PhilHealth coverage signed

A MEMORANDUM of agreement for the implementation of the expanded Philippine Health Insurance Program (PhilHealth) in Dagupan was signed last Thursday.

The MOA, signed by PhilHealth President and Chief Executive Officer Rey Aquino and Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim, provides separate mechanisms for the implementation of the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP).

The NHIP will be implemented in two phases: the Regular In-Patient and Outpatient Package (Phase I) and the Outpatient Consultation and Diagnostic Package (Phase II).

Phase I refers to the Medicare package covering hospital benefits for room and board, medicines, laboratory and professional fees, including existing outpatient benefits under the unified benefit schedule different from those provided by an accredited Rural Health Unit (RHU).

Phase II refers to the primary consultation and diagnostic services, which are included in the program’s benefit package and administered, managed and/or delivered by accredited RHUs/Health Centers.

Included under Phase II are primary consultations with general physicians and laboratory fees for chest x-ray, complete blood count, fecalysis, urinalysis, and sputum microscopy.

The MOA also covers a joint responsibility to provide a basic package of needed personal health services for the social and economic well-being of the city residents, specifically the marginalized and underprivileged, through the implementation of the Sponsored (Indigent) Program.

MORE ENROLLEES

At the same time, Lim has instructed the City Social Welfare Office to re-validate its data on the status of the families enrolled in PhilHealth for the plan to increase the present number of enrollees from 6, 225 to 10,000 families.

Of the current enrollees, 1,373 families already have expired PhilHealth cards since last August 15. The rest of the enrollees have cards due to expire on September 15 or a year after they were enrolled.

http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/08/22/moa-for-expanded-philhealth-coverage-signed/

May news ba sa Western Pangasinan such as Bolinao, Anda, Bani, Agno towns?

Small town girl makes waves in Asian chess

By Johanna Morden
Philippine Daily Inquirer 08/22/2010

ROSALES, Pangasinan, Philippines—At 11, Samantha Glo Revita has achieved more than most people could in their lifetime.

Not only is she the valedictorian of her class since kindergarten, fifth-grader Samantha also keeps a gold medal from the 11th Asean Age Group Chess Championships held in Subic in June, beating opponents from nine other Southeast Asian countries.

This new honor increased her haul to 21 medals—three golds from the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Asean chess championships, 10 silvers and seven bronzes—from contests she entered since she began competing at the age of 6.

What began as a diversion when she was taught by her father, Sammy, to play chess when she was 3, is now a source of pride for her school, Rosales North Central School, a public school of more than 900 students.

“We are very proud to count an international chess winner among our students,” says acting principal Consuelo Patawaran.

Revita attributes her accomplishments to hard work, training and a generous amount of prayer.

“I train in chess every day but I also make time for my studies,” says Revita, who is tutored in her academic subjects by her mother, Gloria, a teacher in her school.

Revita spends an hour and a half on weekdays practicing the game and seven hours on weekends with the guidance of her trainor, Michael Cariño.

Dreaming of one day becoming a lawyer, she makes sure to brush up on her school work even with her hectic training schedule.

“Playing chess is just a way for me to do better in my studies. When I go to college I want to play for the college varsity team,” she says.

It makes Revita happy to bring honor to her country and to her school, but not quite as happy as her father, who is a self-professed chess fanatic.

“I grew up wanting to join chess competitions but I never made it, so seeing my daughter do well in the sport makes me proud,” says Sammy.

Being parents of a child prodigy requires sacrifices from the couple, who pays for the services of their daughter’s trainor. They also spend for the cost of accompanying their daughter in her competitions abroad because only Revita’s expenses are covered by the government.

“Seeing our daughter win [in chess tournaments] and top her class is enough compensation for us,” Sammy says.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20100822-288139/Small-town-girl-makes-waves-in-Asian-chess

@ Fraulein- cut rate petrol for Bolinao. :)

Cheaper gas offered

PETRON Corp. launches today the company’s Pinoy Gasoline that it says will be P3 cheaper per liter than regular gasoline to make affordable gasoline available to more Filipinos.

It says the new brand is an affordable gasoline formulation for public utility vehicles, outriggers and farm equipment.

“Petron Pinoy Gasoline is a gasoline for the people,” Petron chairman and chief executive Ramon Ang said.

Regular gasoline is now being sold at P40.35 to P41.80 a liter.

“As the only Filipino-owned refiner, it was incumbent upon us to develop this gasoline brand and help our countrymen,” Ang said.

He said the newly introduced brand was a Petron initiative to help cushion the impact of high fuel prices on the marginalized sectors.
The gasoline will initially be available in Fairview , Quezon City; Ortigas Avenue. Extension, Cainta; Sipsipin in Jala Jala, Rizal; Malhacan in Meycauayan, Bulacan; Bolinao in Pangasinan; Mariveles in Bataan, and Ubando, Bulacan.

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNews.htm?f=2010/august/20/news10.isx&d=2010/august/20

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In Photo: The machinery section of the rice-processing facility being rushed to completion in Santa Barbara, Pangasinan. (Orly Guirao)

Rice-processing complex to reduce harvest spoils by 30% in Pangasinan

Written by Orly Guirao / Correspondent
Monday, 23 August 2010

STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan—In 60 days, a new phase in agriculture starts in Pangasinan with the completion of a P200-million Korean-funded modern rice-processing complex (RPC) here.

Most harvest losses in rice due to poor systems and technology have been estimated to be between 30 percent and 40 percent.

If postharvest losses are reduced, world supply of rice and to a large degree, other food crops will considerably increase. All this is expected to take place without cultivating additional hectares of land or increasing expenditure on seeds, fertilizer, irrigation and plant-protection measures. In Pangasinan, which produces about 62 percent of the Ilocos Region’s total rice supply, this would mean a big additional rice surplus, with the province already producing twice the rice requirement of its 2.68 million people

The biggest recipient of this projected production boon will be Pangasinan’s estimated 200,000 farmers.

Dalisay Moya, chief of the Provincial Agriculture Office, said the RPC’s promise lies in its given function as center for milling, drying and storing palay, aside from providing modern and effective technologies in high-quality rice production.

The RPC was launched after Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr. entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Korean International Cooperation Agency (Koica) and the Department of Agriculture (DA) for its establishment at the Provincial Nursery Compound in Sta. Barbara.

A funding of P160 million was granted by the Korean government while the DA shouldered the transportation cost of the facility materials from port to site, plus a P20-million start-up capital.

In a statement issued after the signing of the RPC-MOA, Espino said the project will enhance Pangasinan’s position as the undisputed food basket of the Ilocos Region.

Moya said it is part of the Pangasinan’s program of upgrading provincial agricultural facilities. The program is expected to signal a production boom.

The postharvest industry in the Philippines is beset with several constraints. These include a wide economic gap between farmers and businessmen who usually own and control postharvest facilities.

Many farmers are still reluctant to adopt improved postharvest technology due to the absence of a strong linkage between producers and the market.

The usual problems are lack of farm-to-market roads, packinghouse and storage facilities, appropriate containers, packaging materials and transportation. Inadequate information also contributes to farmers’ inability to improve their post-harvest systems.

Due to the small landholdings of farmers, the ownership of agricultural machinery or crop processing facilities is difficult for them.

One solution is the strengthening of farmers’ cooperatives to enable them to secure loans or combine individual farmers’ resources for the procurement of post-harvest facilities.

Also, since agricultural lands in the Philippines are predominantly small and non-contiguous, produce is usually collected by traders who transport and sell them to the wholesale and retail market, thus earning more than the farmers themselves.

Under such conditions, postharvest technologies are the most appropriate to rural areas for employment generation opportunities expected to be opened up by the rice-processing facility in Sta. Barbara.

This way, postharvest and handling technologies will not only reduce losses and improve the quality of produce, but will also help the farmer families establish their own farm-level secondary handling and value-added processing businesses, resulting in more income opportunities, thus empower and improve the lives of farmers.

The significant benefits and effects of rice processing centers as implemented under the Koica plan are expected to be enjoyed as soon as the Sta. Barbara RPC becomes fully operational.

The Sta. Barbara RPC can increase by about 50-percent palay procurement in the area and its neighboring farming communities.

Already, other Koica PRCs in other Philippine provinces had increased by 10 percent the milling recovery of crops. In the case of Aurora Province, farmers and farmers cooperatives receive patronage incentive of 10 centavos per kilo.

In all, what the Koica PRC also hopes to achieve is the promotion of equitable and sustainable development in the recipient areas. The final outcome is helping reduce poverty and promote socio-economic development.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=402:rice-processing-complex-to-reduce-harvest-spoils-by-30-in-pangasinan&catid=53:agri-commodities

Rice seeds subsidy for wet season released (Alaminos)

One thousand six hundred sixty six bags of certified rice seeds were distributed recently by city agriculture office to the city’s farmers as part of the city government’s rice seed subsidy program.

According to Arceli Talania, city agriculturist, the rice seeds are intended for wet season noting that majority of farmers in the cluster D barangays namely, Alos, Amandiego, Balangobong, Bolaney and Cabatuan, where irrigation facilities and line canals were mostly constructed have already planted as early as May and June.

She said the rice seeds were also helpful to farmers in other areas especially in cluster C in replacing the damaged seedlings which were infested by army worms. Cluster C is comprised of barangays Landoc, Amangbangan, Sta. Maria, Dulacac and Balayang.

Talania stressed that this program of giving the free seed subsidy to the city’s farmers is already on its fourth straight year.

“And we are the only city or town in the Region I that is doing it,” she added.

“It’s a continuing thrust of the Braganza administration as one of major assistance provided to further improve productivity of our farmers in order for them to contribute to the city and nation’s food security.”

The Department of Agriculture has an existing program which subsidizes half of the price of certified seeds being sold to the farmers.

Mayor Hernani A. Braganza then complemented said initiative by coming up with its own seed subsidy program on which the farmer’s equity or half of the total cost of the certified seeds is being shouldered by the city government.

With these seed subsidy programs of both the DA and the city government, farmers who availed of the program could instead make use of that savings for other farm inputs.

The city agriculturist noted that the farmer who tills at least one hectare of land could avail of one (1) bag of certified rice seeds. While, those who have a half hectare or less farm lands are given 20 kilos of certified rice seeds.

She added that aside from the seed subsidy program, the city government continues to transfer technology to the farmers particularly on organic farming practices and palay check system as well as the season long integrated farm management trainings and seminars.

Organic farming is one of the flagship programs of the DA in partnership with the Alaminos government and the Go-Organic Philippines Movement.

For the last six years, the city government had distributed a total of 18, 444 bags of certified rice seeds of which 9,732 were fully subsidized by the city government with an end goal of helping the farmers in further bolstering the city’s rice production.

Among the varieties of certified palay seeds which were made available for the farmers include: PSB RC 18, NSIC RC 14, NSIC RC 146, NSIC RC 130, NSIC RC 154, and the newly introduced variety-NSIC RC 160.

The certified rice seeds that were distributed to the farmers were produced by the group of seed growers based in the city.

It was also learned that hybrid rice seeds are also available upon request at the city agriculture office but are not covered by the city’s certified rice seed subsidy program. Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit-1 covers seed subsidy for hybrid seeds.

Mayor Braganza once said that the city’s subsidy program is one way of helping the national government goal of “freeing the farmers from hunger and bolster rice production in the country and ultimately become self-sufficient in rice”. (CIO)

http://www.alaminoscity.gov.ph/news/newsdetails.aspx?newsid=623

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Wow! so many good news! Matagal ako hindi nakavisit dito eh... naputulan ng internet...
pero naka Globe broadband WiMax na ako ngayon.. so far so fast... haha!

Korean investors outline big projects in Pangasinan (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=295911)

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 20 (PNA)-- A big group of Korean investors presented a master plan and latest Korean technologies in connection with its three of seven projects that it intend to build in Pangasinan. the province.

This was made during a business trip of Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. to South Korea last August 14 to 17 when he and other Philippine officials were invited to attend an agricultural seminar that involves the operation of Rice Processing Complex.

The JJGPK Co. Ltd. made three project presentations that include the development of an eco-tourism zone, cold storage and chicken dressing plant.

The other projects that were also discussed include the establishment of a surplus center, knowledge process outsourcing, mining and water transport.

Governor Espino told the investors that they must start any of their projects as soon as possible to provide and generate jobs and livelihood opportunities to Pangasinenses.

It was agreed upon that a retirement village, which will not only cater to Korean retirees but also to Filipino Korean war veterans, and a golf course, will be the first projects that will set up by the group.

The retirement village will feature high-rise residences that will cater to upper and mid-income clients.

The eco-tourism zone, conceptualized under the working title “Lingayen Land,” is conceived as a self-contained community that will feature African and Asian safari tours.

It will have its own mono trail, entertainment center which will be a little kind of Disneyland dubbed as “dream land.”.

With children as its target market, this is synonymous to a theme park that will also include scenes from the significant periods of Philippine history.

The complex will also be a host to a yacht club, docking areas,water sports area, a string of restaurants with a floating restaurant as a highlight, hotels and a water park with a wave pool for children and adults.

While in Korea, Governor Espino's party also visited a cold storage facility, similar to what is being planned to be constructed here, that does not utilize ice or blower which can further prolong the life of stored fruits or vegetables.

The governor personally met the inventor of the facility and who expressed his willingness to visit Pangasinan.

Another Korean investment is a chicken dressing plant to help poultry growers in Pangasinan. This facility uses technology that is six times faster than an ordinary chicken dressing plant in the country.

On the other hand, the surplus center, is intended to sell slightly used home and office appliances.

Espino said the Koreans were also enticed by Pangasinan’s long coastline and river ways where they expressed their desire to engage in water transport.

They vowed to bring ferry boats and barges for tourism and as alternative means to transport people along the major rivers of Pangasinan.

The Korean investors said that cruising Pangasinan rivers will be a tourist attraction since these are surrounded by breathtaking mangroves.

The Governor considers this timely since the Provincial Government has embarked on a massive cleaning and dredging operations of Pangasinan rivers.

The governor also told the group to look for investors that will set up a steel manufacturing in Pangasinan, saying that the country though rich in minerals has no single steel plant.

The governor told the Koreans that their steel industry catapulted them as a very progressive nation.

In his trip to Korea, Governor Espino was joined by Executive Assistant Ramon Morden and Office of the Provincial Agriculturist staff Nestor Batalla.

He was later joined by Provincial Information Officer Butch Velasco for his meetings with the JJGPK investors.

The proposed business ventures from other Korean investors include: the establishment of a commercial and industrial complex, a Pangasinan Heart and Medical Center, electric vehicle manufacturing, housing program and waste-to-energy plant.

Other foreign investors who have expressed business ties with the provincial government include those from the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. (PNA)
LOR/lvm/lvmicua/rma


Good job Gov Espino!:banana::banana::banana:

uhmm...tepet ko pa labat...wig may buek nen gov. espino? :tongue2:

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^^
mall architect?? so wala pa palang design? man-apply ak pa :lol:

uhmm...tepet ko pa labat...wig may buek nen gov. espino? :tongue2: Nampa hair implants la nen saman :lol:

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DAGUPAN CITY

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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STI BLDG. PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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GALVAN ST.

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UNIVERSITY OF LUZON, PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.
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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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GALVAN ST.

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GALVAN ST.

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MALIMGAS PUBLIC MARKET, GALVAN ST

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CSI MARKET SQUARE, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE CORNER RIZAL AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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QUINTOS BRIDGE

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STAR PLAZA HOTEL, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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VICTORIA BLDG, AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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AB FERNANDEZ AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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LENOX HOTEL, RIZAL AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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RIZAL AVE.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.
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PEREZ BLVD.

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PEREZ BLVD.

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MH DEL PILAR ST.

Kapigan ka unlad Lucao tan Arellano? :)

Covenant for massive clean-up drive inked

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

LINGAYEN -- Political will, logic, and conscience were emphasized Tuesday by Governor Amado Espino Jr. after the covenant signing for the province-wide joint clean-up drive of rivers and waterways.

The signing was held in the morning at the Sison Auditorium here.

Aside from Espino, present during the event were Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr. and other provincial officials, signatories e Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Regional Director Samuel Penafiel, representative of the DPWH-Ilocos director, provincial board members, city and municipal mayors and other stakeholders and local media practitioners.

“When I was PNP provincial director here, we started with this. But when I came back as governor in 2007, nakita natin na masyadong madumi na ang ating mga ilog. So we started this again for the sole purpose na dapat din sana makita ng mga anak natin yong mga nakita natin nong tayo ay bata,” Espino remarked.

“Kahit wala sana ang mga batas natin, hindi dapat yong mga nangyayari ngayon. There are few people who will be against what we are doing dahil masyado silang makasarili. Sila lang ang gustong mabuhay. Hindi lang po ang may mga nagkakapital na maglalagay ng fishpens and fishcages ang dapat makinabang sa ating mga ilog. Dapat kahit na sino pagsilbihan natin; lahat ang ating mga kababayan na gusto lang makitang maganda, malinis, mabango ang ating mga ilog,” Espino further said.

He said that since he became governor in 2007, he has signed several covenants.

The governor hopes this will be the last, that laws (national, provincial, municipal/city, barangay) be fully implemented for the protection and preservation of the natural resources and the environment.

“Logic will dictate, hind naman kailangan ang mga batas kung protection ng natural resources. Alam natin ang tama of mali, konsensiya lang actually ang dapat na ipairal,” he stated.

With the Task Force Kalikasan headed by Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) Executive Officer Paterno Orduna, Espino lead the launching of the massive clean-up drive of rivers last month.

In his report Tuesday, Orduna said that cleared so far of fishing paraphernalia are the rivers in Binmaley and Lingayen and other areas. Next to be scheduled is the dredging of rivers.

The clean-up drive, he said, is continuous. In Binmaley town, they have so far deployed two Task Force Kalikasan teams at the rivers in Poblacion, barangays Manat (four teams), and Naguilayan (two teams); four teams at the river in barangay Baay, Lingayen and two teams at the river connecting Barangay Balococ, Bugallon and Banaga, Lingayen.

“We don't have any timetable in this clean-up driver. We've started it, tuloy-tuloy na ito. If we get the commitment of all stakeholders (local government units, government agencies and the people), we will attain our goal,” Espino stated.

The covenant mentions the need to repair and revitalize the ecosystem, primarily by cleaning the rivers and waterways.

“We recognize that the conservation, protection, enrichment, sustainable development, and efficient cleaning of rivers and waterways are matters of crucial importance to the survival, health and socio-economic growth of the entire populace of the province, hence, effective collaboration and harmonious cooperation between and among the parties is desired.”

“We endeavor to secure the commitment of communities and members of the civil society so that together, they can analayze options, make decisions, take actions and participate in the sustainable protection and management of rivers, water resources, and solid waste.”

Since the local government units play a crucial role in the implementation of the environmental enforcement and compliance assurance program relative to the clean-up drive, the mayors are committed “to preserve the cleanliness of the rivers, protect them from the establishment of any illegal and related structures that will contribute to the degradation and pollution of the same and maintain their improved condition after the initial clean-up drive activities.”

Espino's goal is for all rivers in the province of Pangasinan not only a source of livelihood, but also, a mode of transportation of people and commodities from one point to another. (Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/covenant-massive-clean-drive-inked

Deadline for stay of fish pens in Dagupan reset to Sept. 30

By Leonardo V. Micua

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 24 (PNA) — The Dagupan City government has extended the deadline for all fish pens and other illegal structures along rivers in that city to stay from August 31 to September 30, this year.

This was announced by Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim when he joined Tuesday in the signing of a covenant for a province-wide joint Clean Up Drive of Rivers and Waterways at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen, spearheaded by Governor Amado Espino Jr.

An earlier press release by Lim’s City Information Office showed August 31 as the original deadline and that dismantling of fish pens begins immediately on September 1.

Lim said the one-month grace period was given by him to enable owners of fish pens to allow the fish that they have previously re-stocked in their pens to grow more for them to at least recover part of their investments.

He said since he just took over as chief executive of Dagupan City on July, this year, there may be fish pen owners who restocked their pens in June or July, thus it would be a big loss to them if they are not given a little grace period to grow their fish.

It was learned that milkfish (bangus) in Dagupan and elsewhere in the coast of Pangasinan normally grow to marketable sizes in at least 90 days or three months.

He said after the September 30 deadline, there should be no more excuse for fish farmers in Dagupan not to remove all their contraptions in the water.

As to the earlier threat of some fish pen owners that they will file a case against the city government for violation of contract, Lim said, on the contrary, it is the city government that will file cases against the fish pen owners.

It is because, according to him, it is the fish pen owners who violated their contracts with the city and it is not the other way around.

Fish pen owners in Dagupan are required to sign Aqua-culture Lease Agreements (ALAs) with the Dagupan City government before they are allowed to put up their contraptions.

The agreement prescribes all the requirements provided for in an existing fishery ordinance, which many ALA holders had ignored.

“Let them try (to sue us),” Lim, in a talk to newsmen, dared the fish pen owners, reiterating that there will be no more extension after the deadline.

Lim explained that the removal of all fish pens and illegal structures in rivers and waterways in Dagupan is in consonance with his announced policy to provide one-year moratorium for fish pens.

This, he added, will enable the rivers in the city to rest for a while so that the fish and other aquatic life would be allowed to re-generate.

But, he said, before declaring a moratorium, he will first call a symposium sometime in mid September among all river stakeholders, namely owners of fishponds and pens, fisher folks, bangus wholesalers and retailers, representatives of barangays, advocacy groups, environmentalists and businessmen, to discuss with them what to do with the city’s rivers.

Lim also said that there is already a fishery ordinance passed by the city council in 2003 which, he added, needs to be reviewed periodically because some of the penalties for violators therein are negligible, thus the same is prone to violation. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=296506

Measure seeks drug test for Dagupan employes

By Danny O Sagun

Dagupan City (24 August) -- The city council here Monday passed a resolution asking Mayor Benjamin S. Lim to direct all city government employees to undergo voluntary drug test.

Councilor Jesus D. Canto, who authored the measure, said that civil servants must set a good example in the community by voluntarily subjecting themselves to drug testing.

"This is in line with the time-honored dictum in the Constitution that a public office is a public trust so much so that all civil servants must show themselves fit to serve in the government," the resolution said.

It added that persons hooked on prohibited drugs are not fit to serve in the government.

Meanwhile, Canto filed a draft ordinance banning the sale and/or use of plastic and styrofoam packaging materials and kitchen utensils in the city. The measure was referred to the committees on environment and natural resources, laws and ordinances, and judiciary.

He said that plastics and styrofoam materials are non-biodegradable, thus compounding disposal problems. He pointed out that Republic Act 9003, known as the "Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000" encourages regulation of certain products and materials that are considered non-environmentally acceptable or friendly.

Said materials also pose hazards to health if not properly handled, Canto, a medical practitioner, said.

The ordinance, if approved, imposes a fine of from P1,000 to not more than P2,000 for first offense, P2,000 to P3,000 fine for second offense, and fine of P3,000 to P5,000 or imprisonment for 15 days to one month, or both, for third offense and closure of the erring establishment.

A similar measure filed by Councilor Marc Brian Lim sought to prohibit the use of buntings and pennants made of plastic and other non-biodegradable materials for promotion purposes especially during fiestas.

Lim said such promotional materials should be biodegradable, either made of cloth or natural fibers, or of indigenous materials like rice stalks, leaves, soft drink cans or tetra packs.

First offenders will be fined P500; second offenders, P1,000; and third offenders, P2,500 or imprisonment of three months, or both, at the discretion of the court, and for business entities, cancellation of licenses or business permits. (PIA Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p100824.htm&no=51

Espino vows more aid for public schools

LINGAYEN--- Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. vowed to extend continuous assistance to the field agencies of the Department of Education (DepEd) in Pangasinan for them to attain their targets on quality education.

The assurance was expressed by the Governor during the question hour of the third regular session of the 7th Sangguniang Panlalawigan where heads of the various schools divisions were invited to enlighten the members of the legislative body on matters involving the needs of the education community.

The governor, however, reminded the education officials of their duties and responsibilities of informing on time the provincial government about the status of funds released to them by the national government, including financial aids secured from other sources, such as the development funds of senators and congressmen.

“We are always ready to help, especially during calamities, but we need to be properly and promptly informed of the necessities,” the governor said, as he pointed out that there are times the provincial government experiences budgetary lack owing to unexpected natural disasters.

“We should be informed as much as possible to know exactly your status, yet you do not even furnish us where budget for the repairs of classrooms were channeled,” he said.
Invited during the question hour were Dr. Viraluz Raguindin, schools division superintendent of Pangasinan II, Dr. Shiela Maria Sison, assistant schools division superintendent of Pangasinan I, City Schools Superintendents Rowena Banzon (San Carlos City) and Maria Celia Fernandez (Urdaneta City) and Wilfredo Sindayen, acting city schools superintendent of Alaminos City.

The province’s most important resource is human resource, the governor stressed, as he called on the school authorities to focus more on approaches aimed at improving the climate of learning in the public school system.

In the same occasion, the Governor urged the school officials to be more circumspect in implementing programs designed to spruce up the learning environment, especially to make available sanitary comfort rooms and drinking water facilities for the school children.

“As much as possible, we should avoid using stones as decorative fences as these could be harmful to the grade schoolers,” the governor said.

The school officials thanked the governor for his commitment of support, citing, among others, the donation by the provincial government of new service vehicles, the repair and construction of school rooms and the continuing assistance to DepEd’s sports development program.

They also sought the SP’s intervention for the review of the localization law, particularly on the provision pertaining to hiring and promotion of teachers.

Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario, acting SP presiding officer and chairman of the Education Committee, called for maximization and utilization of the Special Education Fund (SEF) which, he said, is a trust fund intended for the repair and construction of school buildings and the purchase of learning materials.

He also batted to activate the Local School Board in every municipality and in the province.
He said it is high time for teachers to be aware and vigilant of their right to know how the SEF is used and spent which is a ready fund before thinking of any other sources. (PIO/Rafael Manuel III)

Flooding problem in 5th District prioritized

AFTER the massive devastation suffered by towns in the 5th District at the height of Typhoon Pepeng last year, Rep. Carmen “Kimi” Cojuangco, who is on her first term after previously serving as mayor of Sison town, is making flood prevention one of her top priorities.

Last week, on her first visit to the district since she assumed the congressional post, Cojuangco inspected two flood control infrastructures in the area, the Bued River Dike and the Agno Floodway together with government engineers and municipal mayors.

She met with Mayor Artemio Chan of Pozorrubio, Mayor Mina Joy Pangasinan of Sison and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) engineers to assess the state of the Bued River Dike.

In case the Bued River dike breaks, expected to bear the brunt of the damage will impact on Pozorrubio’s barangay Agat all the way to Amagbagan in Sison.

According to the DPWH engineers, P19 M was already spent in the rehabilitation of the dike.

But Cojuangco described the repairs as mere “band-aid remedy” that do not really solve the core problem and that repairs could cost more in the long run.

FUNDING PROBLEM

Possible permanent solutions were drafted during the meeting, which all require considerable funding that Cojuangco promised to work for.

At the Agno Floodway in Alcala, Cojuangco met Alcala Mayor Manuel Collado and Bautista Mayor Amado Espino III.

According to Collado, floodwaters will continue to ravage both his town and Bautista every typhoon season if the floodway is not widened to accommodate at least 50% of the total volume of water from Agno River, which serves as the spillway of the San Roque Dam.

Presently, the diversion channel allows only 25% of the spill while the bigger 75% volume proceeds to flood Bautista, while the backflow goes to most parts of Alcala.

Espino added that his town suffers further damage as a whirlpool of flood is created when the spill from Agno River meets with the rushing waters from neighboring Tarlac province.

She later met with Agno Flood Control Director Engr. Fidel Ginez and Mayor Ditas Abrenica of Villasis to discuss possible flood-control measures further.

Cojuangco said she will meet with DPWH Sec. Rogelio Singson to discuss the results of her inspection trips and meetings.

http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2010/08/15/flooding-problem-in-5th-district-prioritized/

kumusta sa lahat..
salamat alinguas pangasinan ed kadakel ya litrato.
makapaermen ya nanengneng so kondisyon na McAdore Hotel.diad pakaantak so gawa na city government la yang property so kinmulang so kontrol daray naneley/manueley ta obviously ya tinatakew daray bintana tan arum siguron parte na building.
this is supposed to be the tallest and most modern one - being an earthquake proof and it has like rollers. it was built in the mid 70's and I used to work as an accountant in their Quezon city office during that time.

Robinsons Place Pangasinan la manaya


Kapigan ka unlad Lucao tan Arellano? :)

:lol:
Nu makakar ak ed City Mall tan Nepo Mall:)

robinsons place pangasinan?? mas marakep ni may robinsons calasiao parad siak, umpanu nu manpaalagey ni ray sakey nin robinsons ed pangasinan, umpano nalingo ray totoo nu iner so laen da ya robinsons..hehe..

kumusta sa lahat..
salamat alinguas pangasinan ed kadakel ya litrato.
makapaermen ya nanengneng so kondisyon na McAdore Hotel.diad pakaantak so gawa na city government la yang property so kinmulang so kontrol daray naneley/manueley ta obviously ya tinatakew daray bintana tan arum siguron parte na building.
this is supposed to be the tallest and most modern one - being an earthquake proof and it has like rollers. it was built in the mid 70's and I used to work as an accountant in their Quezon city office during that time.
:)
walang anuman :cheers: balbaleg man ya bldg., sayang iman, sarag to ni balet ya pasantingen tan usaren, irenovate tan pintaan da labat, sarag to lamet!!nayari met ya iconvert da tan gaween dan shopping mall o di nu hotel o call center...nayari met ya gaween dan opisina na gobyerno ta asinger lan lamang iya ed city hall na dagupan :)

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:banana::banana:
manapply kila ta pyan nasumpal ya tampol yay mall tayo!!! :cheers:

:lol:
Nu makakar ak ed City Mall tan Nepo Mall:)

robinsons place pangasinan?? mas marakep ni may robinsons calasiao parad siak, umpanu nu manpaalagey ni ray sakey nin robinsons ed pangasinan, umpano nalingo ray totoo nu iner so laen da ya robinsons..hehe..Sige alageren koy pictures. Kumon Rob Place Calasiao la, ag tayo anta ampano after 3 years wala met lay Rob Place Urdaneta

btw, September 10 may opening na 168 Urdaneta

Japanese to conduct skills training for Dagupan folk

DAGUPAN CITY, Aug. 25 (PNA) -- A group of Japanese retirees is coming here shortly to conduct skills training for unemployed youth and adults in Dagupan.

This was disclosed by Mayor Benjamin Lim who said the skills training will be offered for free to any interested parties by the Nihon Skilled Volunteers Association of Japan.

Representatives of the group were already in Dagupan last week to sound off their project with Mayor Lim.

The skills training the group will conduct include welding, sewing, cooking Japanese food and others, said Akira Fotagoishi, Reizo Fukushima and Alberman Baraquiel, the group's corporate secretary.

Mayor Lim lauded the project, explaining that the idea of bringing skilled Japanese people here is for Dagupenos to be able to enhance and hone their knowledge on various skills so that they can earn a living and be more productive.

The same association previously conducted skills training for interested people in Pangasinan, particularly in the town of Sual.

As its counterpart, the city government will shoulder the board expenses of the Japanese trainors, including their traveling expenses from their billeting area to the training center. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=296853

Gap continues to widen between executive, legislative branches in Dagupan

By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, Aug. 25 (PNA) — A modus vivendi, albeit temporarily, between the executive and legislative branches in Dagupan continues to remain an elusive dream, mainly as a result of the memorandum of the mayor directing department heads and staff not to attend sessions and meetings of the city council without his clearance.

This was gleaned from the council's regular session last August 23 when many of the department heads of the city, including one consultant, again snubbed the invitation of the city council to attend their session so that they can clarify some matters pertaining to some issues affecting their offices, in aid of legislation.

It was the third week that the department heads were snubbing the invitation of the city council on account of the memorandum of Mayor Benjamin Lim on August 6, 2010 prohibiting them to attend sessions and meetings of the council without his clearance.

In a radio interview, Lim defended his memo and said he will only allow the department heads to attend council sessions when the body considers adopting an ordinance, otherwise, they should better spend their time attending to problems in their respective offices.

Last August 23, only the assistant budget officer as well as the city treasurer appeared before the body but only to provide justification on a proposed supplemental budget of P7.2 million requested by the executive.

Lim had given clearances for the two to appear though he did not give any to several other department heads invited by the legislative body.

These were City Social Welfare and Development Officer Elsa Santillan, City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina, City Engineer Virginia Rosario, City Accountant Teresita Manaois and Market Superintendent Carlito Vallo, as well as consultant Phillip Soria.

Santillan was among the department heads who wanted as much as possible to attend the SP session to explain her side on the issue that came out in a television report that made it appear her office was keeping expired goods which it allegedly was giving to poor families and the needy.

Santillan wrote a letter to Mayor Lim seeking her clearance but was not given any. Instead she received a hand-written note from City Administrator Vlad Mata directing her to answer the question of the city council in writing.

Thus, Santillan merely furnished a report on the incident that transpired at her office on July 31, 2010 detailing what happened when reporters of a local television station and from the City Information Officer barged in and opened cabinets and drawers without her permission while searching for alleged expired goods.

Vice Mayor Fernandez, presiding officer of the city council, said had Santillan been allowed to attend the session, she would have been asked to elaborate more on her claim that her rights were trampled upon when reporters barged into her office and started searching for something without her permission.

Claiming her rights were violated by reporters, Santillan filed a case before the Human Rights Commission regional office.

Though acknowledging that the department heads are under the mayor, Fernandez lamented that the memo of Lim to department heads not to attend the sessions of the city council has encroached upon the power of the legislative body to make laws.

Saying this is not in keeping with the principle of transparency all officials must uphold, Fernandez urged Mayor Lim to re-think his position because this is not good for the city and people.

She said the mayor is virtually denying them the proper data that they need in crafting resolutions and ordinances which only the department heads can provide.

Councilor Jesus Canto likens the memorandum of the mayor to department heads to a 'gag' order similar to the controversial Executive Order No. 464 issued by former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to her department heads which she eventually revoked when this was questioned in the Supreme Court.

The Dagupan council found their ally in the person of Rep. Gina de Venecia Jr. of the Fourth District of Pangasinan who also deplored the memorandum of Mayor Lim, saying it is not in keeping with the principle of good governance and transparency.

The wife of former seven-time House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said she was disturbed by the mayor’s memo, pointing out that it is not in consonance with the mission of President Benigno Aquino III in bringing about change in the country.

“I would like to think that most, if not all of the stakeholders in this new administration, are one with P-Noy in his mission to bring about change,” said Mrs. De Venecia, assistant majority floor leader in the House of Representatives.

She maintained that a similar attempt to curtail public’s right to information, through EO 464 issued by former President Arroyo "was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court".

In denouncing the mayor’s memo, Rep De Venecia said: “May I remind our city government officials of their obligation and duty as public servants. Let us not lose sight of the fact that we are all here to protect the interest of our constituency.”

She said this can only be done by exercising transparency “as we conduct the business of our city.” (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=296658

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maganda ang labas ng mall na ito..pero kailangang irenovate yung loob...malaki potential nito kase nasa sentro ng dagupan...dapat gawin nilang parang shangrila mall yung loob para maging tourist attraction

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di ba eto yung vbictoria hotel?

Gov. Espino inspects dismantling and dredging operations
Gov. Espino inspects dismantling and dredging operations

“Comparable, if not better, with the Bohol river cruise!”

This was the pronouncement of Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., on board a motorized banca, when he personally visited and inspected the on-going dismantling of illegal structures and dredging operations along the tributaries of the Agno River in Barangay Dupo in Binmaley last August 4.

One can only appreciate the beauty of the Agno River, with its tributaries adorned with different species of mangrove, once you see the effects of the on-going clean-up being undertaken by the Provincial Government. Gone were the stinking smell of the illegal fish pens and the bamboo structures that made it almost impossible to navigate the waterways.

The efforts, aimed at desilting the rivers and bring back the natural flow of water, are part of the long-term solutions being undertaken by the Provincial Government, led by the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC), to mitigate the ill-effects of climate change such as flashfloods and riverside erosion.

Also, the activity is part of Governor Espino’s continuing commitment and advocacy to protect and save the environment since he was still a police officer.

“It’s not the response or rescue efforts that are important kundi ang mga solusyon upang mapangalagaan natin ang ating kapaligiran,” PDCC Executive Officer Paterno Orduña stressed.

The massive river clean-up kicked off last July 19 with the Agno River tributaries within the cities of Dagupan and San Carlos and the municipalities of Binmaley and Lingayen as pilot areas.
For this, Task Group “Baklas,” Provincial Task Group “Linis,” PNP Task Group and Task Group “DRAGA” were formed. (PIO/ Rafael Manuel III)

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Dredging of silted rivers in Binmaley, ongoing. Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. (right of upper left photo) waves at the machine operators (upper right photo) during his ocular inspection of the ongoing dredging operation and dismantling of illegal structures (lower photo) along the river of Brgy. Dupo in Binmaley. The provincial government recently imported two dredging machines directly from the United States of America to clear the rivers from silt and prevent unnecessary flooding during the onslaught of typhoons. The river rehabilitation project is implemented through the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council headed by Ret. Col. Paterno M. Orduña (left of left photo). (PIO photo by Bob Sison)

Pangasinan grabs No. 1 post in athletics in 13th MILO Little Olympics
LINGAYEN---Despite being third in the elementary division and seventh in the secondary overall ranking, Pangasinan athletes became a potent force in the field of athletics in the just concluded 13th Milo Olympic last August 1 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center here.

After three days of action, Pangasinan team came up with a strong finish grabbing the number 1 post in various games in athletics like 100-meter run, 110- meter hurdles, 4x100- meter relay, 4x400- meter relay long jump, high jump shot-put, and discuss throw. The team also bagged the top post in volleyball, sipa, lawn tennis, table tennis and chess.

Telbang Elementary School of Alaminos City emerged the best in athletics after garnering first place in both elementary boys and girls division while Alaminos National High School and Telbang National High School wrapped the second slots in the secondary boys and secondary girls division, respectively.

Homegrown table tennis athletes also earned honors for the province after Clark Educational Center in San Carlos City and Bani West Central School captured the top slots for the elementary boys and girls divisions with Binmaley School of Fisheries topping the secondary boys division. Labrador National High School placed third in the secondary girls division.

Other participating institutions in Pangasinan that emerged victorious in the different sports events were Cabuyao Elementary School (Bolinao) and Pangapisan Elementary School (Lingayen) for volleyball boys and girls; Alos Elementary School (Alaminos) for elementary boys in sipa; San Carlos College (secondary boys division for chess); and Mother Goose Special School (Dagupan City) for lawn tennis elementary girls division.

Milo Olympics is the country’s biggest inter-school junior sports competition which gathered athletes from Regions 1,2,3 and the Cordillera Autonomous Region including participants from international schools and other schools in Bulacan. A total of 83 schools throughout the province participated in the said competition.

Meanwhile, Modesto Operaña, Sports Consultant of the provincial government, earlier said on behalf of Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. that sports and youth development is one of the priority thrusts of the present administration that is aimed to transform the young generation into well-rounded and sports oriented individuals.

Tess Bernardino, Milo Sports Organizer, on the other hand, thanked Governor Espino for his untiring support on the said event which she dubbed, “an avenue for strengthening ties among the competing teams.” (PIO/Chona C. Bugayong)

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Pangasinan team rules in athletics. Pangasinan team snatches the number one slot in various games in athletics during the 13th Milo Little Olympics last July 30 to August 1 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen. The team also bagged the top post in volleyball, sipa, lawn tennis, table tennis and chess. (PIO Photo by Bob Sison)

Pangasinan Tourism Frontliners Training

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Pangasinan Tourism Frontliners Training. To better serve the burgeoning number of local and foreign tourists visiting the Capitol Complex, the Pangasinan Tourism Office conducts Tourist-Friendly Pangasinan Frontliners Training to administrative aides, security guards and utility workers at the conference room of Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council Building in Lingayen. Tourism Officer Malu M. Elduayan said the three-day workshop, which aims to deliver the best tourism services, deals with effective communication, customer service and basic tour guiding among others. (PIO Photo by Bob Sison)

DENR Region I cites Pangasinan Ecological Solid Waste Management Program

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DENR Region I cites Pangasinan Ecological Solid Waste Management Program. Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. (center) presents the plaque of commendation to Capitol Solid Waste Management Office (CSWMO) Chief Rowena dela Cruz (left) for being cited by the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Region I as one of the best recycling practitioners and environmental program implementers during its Search for Likas Yaman Award. Witnessing the awarding ceremony are (from right counterclockwise) Provincial Administrator Rafael F. Baraan, Lingayen District Hospital Chief Athena Marie Merrera and outgoing Provincial Health Officer-in-Charge Ferdinand Totaan. (PIO Photo by Bob Sison)

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di ba eto yung vbictoria hotel?

:) yes sir..yan ang old VICTORIA HOTEL... sad to say di na sya operational ngayon..

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maganda ang labas ng mall na ito..pero kailangang irenovate yung loob...malaki potential nito kase nasa sentro ng dagupan...dapat gawin nilang parang shangrila mall yung loob para maging tourist attraction

:)nice suggestion yan..pero sa liit ng mga stalls dun sa loob di sya pwedeng gawin ala shangrila mall...me mga stalls na closed na dun dahil sa mahal ang rent..usually makikita mo mga tipong divisoria stalls ang mga paninda dun sa 2nd floor...kumbaga masang masa ang dating nya...isa na nga cinema house ang nag ooperate dun, yun isa sarado na sya...it's because of of poor facilities or lack of moviegoers...:ohno:

:) yes sir..yan ang old VICTORIA HOTEL... sad to say di na sya operational ngayon..

one of the biggest hotel pa naman yan sa Dagupan.. hay... :ohno:

New Pangasinan Mayors League officer named

Thursday, August 26, 2010

DAGUPAN CITY - The Pangasinan Mayors League (PML) elected new set of officers at a posh hotel here Wednesday.

Thirty four of the 44 municipal mayors in the province attended the event hosted by outgoing PML president, former Binalonan mayor Ramon Guico.

Bugallon Mayor Rodrigo Orduna was unopposed in his presidential bid of the PML.

The other officers are Lingayen Mayor Ernesto Castaneda (executive vice president), San Fabian Mayor Irene Libunao (secretary general), Infanta Mayor Ruperto Martinez (vice president, first district), Binmaley Mayor Lorenzo Cerezo (vice president, second district), Sta. Barbara Mayor Carlito Zaplan (vice president, third district), Mangaldan Mayor Herminio Romero (vice president, fourth district), Alcala Mayor Manuel Collado (Vvice president, fifth district), and Tayug Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili(vice president, sixth district); Asingan Mayor Heidi Chua (treasurer), Villasis Mayor Dita Abrenica (auditor), Sison Mayor Mina Pangasinan and Laoac Mayor Silverio Alarcio Jr. (business managers), Calasiao Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay and Rosales Mayor Ricardo Revita (PROs) and Tayug Mayor Mapili as legal counsel.

"I did not really aspire to become president of the league, but I have to accept this great responsibility entrusted to me by my fellow mayors," Orduna said.

Among the concerns that the new league will focus into is environmental protection, to include problem on Solid Waste Management as mandated by Republic Act 9003.

He said they participated in the covenant signing for the Joint Clean-up Drive of Rivers and Waterways.

Orduna said their respective local government units will work hand-in-hand with Governor Amado Espino Jr. in clearing and cleaning the rivers at their localities.

Meanwhile, the Calasiao Vice Mayor Roy Macanlalay was recently elected as president of the Vice Mayors League of Pangasinan. (Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/new-pangasinan-mayors-league-officer-named

Mayor resets demolition of fishcages

Thursday, August 26, 2010

DAGUPAN CITY – For humanitarian consideration, Mayor Benjamin Lim resets the demolition of illegal fishpens and fishcages for another 30 days.

Lim earlier called on operators of illegal fishpens to harvest their fish stocks and dismantle their structures, setting the demolition schedule on September 1.

"I understand may mga palaki pa lang na mga isda. Since I took over last July 1 until Septermber that is already 90 days. By that time, their bangus are already harvestable, they could no longer say na hindi pa lumaki ang mga isda," he said.

"There is really a need for the city council to review the penalty clause for violation of the city's fishery ordinance. Kaya malakas ang loob ng violators dahil napakababa ng P1,000 penalty. It is a million industry yet ganon lang ang kanilang babayaran," Lim said.

In October, illegal fishpens in the city especially fishpens which are not constructed in the right location, oversized fishpens, and fishpens which are operating without Aquaculture Lease Agreement (ALA) will be demolished.

Meanwhile, the City Government is organizing a symposium to discuss and review the city's bangus industry, as well as, the protections of the rivers here.

Participants will be fishpond owners, marginalized fisherfolks, environmentalists, consignations and other stakeholders.

Lim earlier stated about the plan to implement a one year moratorium or close the fishpen industry momentarily. This is to pave way for the clearing of the city's rivers and later on dredging of these waterways clear it of silts.

"We need to get the consensus of the majority who will agree later on that there is a need to implement a moratorium so we can have time to plant mangrove trees in the riverside for the meantime," Lim said.

"During the symposium, there will be a comparison on the advantages and disadvantages of maintaining a fishpen and a fishpond," he said.

The mayor added that there is also a need to address concerns or questions on how to improve production in the fishpond; how to substitute fishpen with other fish crafts like the floating cage; and whether or not to concentrate only on bangus or raise other species that could give more yield or earning like talakitok, pampano, and lapu-lapu, which are high-value fishes. (LCMY/Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/mayor-resets-demolition-fishcages

Third case versus Napocor, SRPC filed

August 26, 2010

By Yolanda Sotelo

ROSALES—The National Power Corporation and the San Roque Power Corporation are facing another damage suit for the massive flooding the San Roque Dam caused in October last year.

This is the third case against the two companies, filed by a rice miller from this town who claimed to have lost P6.6 million worth of rice and palay, and P4.4 million worth of damages to the rice mill, warehouse, vehicles and equipment.

Roger Tan, who represents his father Tranquilino, named NPC President and Corporate Executive Officer Froilan An Tampinco, SRPC President and CEO Ryukchi Kawaguchi, SRPC Vice President for Corporate Social Responsibility Tomas Valdez and Alex Palada, NPC’s flood operation manager.

The Tans own the Anson Rice Mill in Carmen East of this town, along the Agno River whose dikes collapsed because of raging water from the dam.

San Roque Dam opened all its gates at the height of typhoon Pepeng on October 8, 2010, releasing 5,000 cubic meters of water per second, after the dam reached 289.98 meters above sea level, forcing the dam owners to release water.

The dam, according to the protocol, should start releasing water when it reaches 280 masl.

In the case filed at the Regional Trial Court, Tan said massive amount of water from dam razed down the warehouse’s concrete wall, soaking 1,300 sacks of rice worth P1.82 million and 5,500 sacks of palay worth P4.46 million.

“The rice mill and six vehicles including delivery trucks parked near the warehouse, also went under water, necessitating their major repair,” Tan said.

He added that a bulk of the rice were already due for delivery and he was just waiting for the rain to stop. “But then the dam opened its gates and the rice were destroyed.”

Tan, who manages his father’s various businesses, was able to take photos of the destroyed properties which he attached to his complaint.

“I have been residing in Rosales for 30 years, and this is the first time that such kind of flooding occurred, which happened because of negligence and imprudence of the operators of the dam,” Tan said.

He said he was able to file the case only now, ten months after the tragedy, because “we got confused and did not know what to do after we lost much of our investments to the flood. We also have to come up with the filing fee which amounts to P221,018.”

“We were also waiting for the provincial government to file the case against San Roque, but until now, it has not filed a case yet,” he said.

Two other businessmen from eastern Pangasinan — owners of a piggery and of a hospital – are also contemplating to file a damage suit against NPC and San Roque Dam, he said.

Many other businessmen want to file cases, but they were not able to take photos of their destroyed properties.

This is the third damage case filed against NPC and SRPC. A group of trial lawyers filed their complaint in December last year.

Last July, Goldon Agritec Products, Inc, a fertilizer company also based in this town, asked for P12.9 million for the destroyed fertilizer in its warehouse.

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/26/third-case-versus-napocor-srpc-filed/

Reward seen to up Luzon tax collection

By LIEZLE BASA IÑIGO
August 26, 2010

DAGUPAN CITY — Region 1 and the rest of Luzon are expected to increase tax collections under a program that would reward individuals who tip off tax evaders to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).

Assistant Regional Director Ernesto de Vota said that under the Run After Tax Evaders (RATE) program, informers will be rewarded with 10 percent of the amount to be collected from a tax evader they tip off.

De Vota described a tax evader as one who willfully intends not to pay the correct amount of taxes by not declaring his actual sales or overstating his expenses.

Ensuring to protect the identity of the informers, he expressed optimism that many would be encouraged to report tax evasion incidents.

“Your identity won’t be known. If you wish, you may report tax evaders in the BIR’s Manila office instead of here in Calasiao (Pangasinan),” he said.

De Vota said that with the help of the citizenry and the determination of the government to prosecute alleged tax evaders, the bureau would be able to meet its collection goals.

The RATE, along with the “Oplan Kandado,” should help jolt taxpayers to pay their obligations to the government, added the BIR official.

While the bureau as a whole fails to collect its goal, the regional office, he said, has been able to realize its target.

Asked if Pangasinenses are good taxpayers because of the fine collection records, De Vota said: “Definitely. They are cooperative.” He underscored that BIR Region 1 ranked No. 3 last year as best performing region in terms of paying taxes.

As of July 31 this year, the regional office already collected P3.8 billion which is P800 million more than its collection of P2.7 billion in the same period last year.

With its goal of P2.9 billion for the first semester, the office already surpassed its goal by some P600 million or 21 percent, he said.

“We’ll try to do our best,” he said when told that the bureau updated and increased its goal for the second semester.

Revenue District No. 4 Head Yolanda Ferrer, likewise, expressed optimism that her district can reach its goal for the year in spite of the increased goal for the period of July to December.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/274299/reward-seen-luzon-tax-collection

^^ Bulk of taxes collected in R1 from Pangasinan:lol:

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Dagupan seafood processing plant now in BFAR hands

By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, Aug. 26 (PNA)-- The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources has now assumed full control and responsibility of the newly completed Korea-Philippines Dagupan Seafood Processing Plant in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City.

Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center, said this was based on a resolution of the Dagupan City Council on May 25, 2010 during the term of then Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., which was accepted by the BFAR.

Rosario said that Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala already gave his nod for BFAR to assume the responsibility. BFAR, he said, also communicated its acceptance to new mayor, Benjamin Lim.

“We briefed the new Secretary about the project and went on to ask him to invite President Benigno Aquino III to inaugurate it on a date that the chief executive is available", said Rosario.

He said that it was the request of the Koreans who funded the project that the President does the honor in inaugurating the plant since they consider this as their first gift to him.

The seafood processing plant, touted as the most modern of its kind not only in the country but in southeast Asia, was funded by a US$ 2 million (approximately P100 million) grant of the Korean government through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

Being now under its care, BFAR will have to bankroll all operational expenses, including the cost of electricity that was consumed even when the project was still being built, said Rosario.

Rosario, named head of the technical working group created by BFAR to initially oversee the project and prepare its operational manual, said all the unfinished projects of the city government, like the water treatment plant, will now be completed by the BFAR.

He said they have to complete the water treatment plant, which is one of the requirements for the accreditation of the project in the American market to assure access of the products that it turns out in the United States.

U.S. market accreditation is necessary because the expected private fish processors that will avail the services of the plant are already exporting their products to the U.S.

Moreover, the seafood processing plant needs security guard, a CCTV camera and paging system to be used by supervisors, an alternate source of water supply and a seawall to arrest soil erosion in the beach front, all to be provided by BFAR.

Rosario doubts very much if the Dagupan City government can provide all of these nor has any personnel who can run the plant professionally at this stage.

He, however, admitted that since it is already the third quarter of the year, funding is a bit a problem but nevertheless, he is trying his best to source out some funds to finance a one-month trial run this September. .

He promised that things will go better for the plant next year as it will soon be included in the yearly budget of the BFAR.

At the same time, Rosario belied the fear of residents of sitio Korea in Bonuan Binloc that the government has already forgotten its commitment to employ them as workers of the plant.

“On the contrary, we are re-grouping those who we have trained earlier as deboners,” said Rosario, indicating that they need the workers in the one-month test run that they will do in September.

The members of the technical working groups are now in fact studying the mode of payments that will be given to the workers that will either be on per piece basis , per kilo basis or on a daily basis.

To determine the proper payment scheme for workers, some members of the technical working group are now visiting similar fish processing plants in Davao, Cagayan de Oro City and Bulacan to find out how much they are paying their workers

Rosario pleaded to the prospective workers not to lose their faith as they are doing everything possible to prepare the plant so that it can be run professionally in order to assure them continuous work.

Rosario also said five years is what the BFAR needs to prepare the plant and after which it can turn this over to the Dagupan City government.

By that time, Rosario expects that the city has already trained its personnel to take over the facility from BFAR. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=11&rid=297294

New building for local police soon

Friday, August 27, 2010

BASISTA –- Representative (2nd district) Leopoldo Bataoil announced that the local police, currently housed at a dilapidated building located at the back of the municipal hall, will soon have their own PNP building.

The lawmaker was guest of honor and inducting officer at the recent induction of Parent-Teachers Association (PTA) officers at the Basista Central School.

“Parang nasa squatter area yong police station natin with a make shift headquarters. Nakakaawa yong situation nila yet we demand a quality service from them. We have to make them high morale also by giving them a good working place,” he explained.

Bataoil said the Police Regional Office 1’s (PRO1) engineers had already inspected the proposed site of the police station building. “That is already a sign that that is one of their priority projects which I am pushing through also.”

For his part, Mayor Manolito de Leon said they have allotted a 400 square-meter near the town hall.

As required by the PNP national headquarters in relation with construction of a new PNP building, the local government has to donate to the PNP a minimum of 400 square meters covered by a deed of donation.

With the deed of donation, the PNP leadership will then allot funds for the said projects. The municipal/city mayor usually seeks financial assistance from their district congressman for the equipment needed at the new police station and for furniture and furnishings.

Basista Police Station is one of the few (if not the only) remaining police stations in the province of Pangasinan with very poor building condition. (LCMY/Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/new-building-local-police-soon

Robot na gawa ng mga estudyante ipinakita sa Pangasinan

BALITANG AMIANAN – Bida sa isang unibersidad sa Urdaneta City, Pangasinan ang mga obrang robot na gawa ng mga estudyante ng electronics and communications engineering.

Simple at gawa sa mga recyclable material ang mga robot na naka-display sa exhibit. Kabilang dito ang line tracker mobile robot na gawa ng grupo ni Fred Jelien Samilin, ECE student sa PanPacific University North Philippines.

Sinabi ni Fred na kahit nahuhuli na ang robotics sa bansa, may pag-asa pa rin umanong makahabol ang mga Filipino. Pangarap niyang makagawa ng isang human robot.

Bukod sa line tracker mobile robot, makikita rin sa exhibit ang sound detector robot kung saan sinusundan ng robot ang naririnig na ingay tulad ng palakpak.

Gumawa rin ang mga engineering student ng ‘diorama’ ng mga traffic lights.

Target din ng kanilang grupo ang paggawa ng mga robot na makatutulong sa komunidad. – Balitang Amianan

DPWH exec explains how “pork” is funded

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

STA. BARBARA – The chief of the fund-rich second sub-engineering district of Pangasinan that is based here explains how the P70 million Congressional Development Fund (CDF) of a member of the House of Representatives is bankrolled.

Engineer Marietta B. Mendoza said that before the CDF, known as pork barrel, could be appropriated by the government in the budget, elected barangay, municipal, and city officials should submit first at her office or at the office of Congresswoman Rachel Arenas their request of what projects they want to be funded.

“Ang ginagawa, the lawmakers will look at their request. Doon nila ibi-based kung ano ang projects (they want to implement),” she stressed.

She said, a solon does not have a direct hand in putting money to every project because his function is only to identify the project and its recipient.

“Sa congress din pinag-uusapan na nila iyung appropriation. You will request congress for your priority project,” she continued.

On the case of Rep. Arenas, she has a matrix where her projects to be implemented are listed.

Meanwhile, Mendoza said her work as a district engineer is a very serious job every time there is a calamity.

“Hindi kami umuuwi kahit may bagyo. Ang tawag sa work namin ay 24 hours a day.”

She remembered that when DPWH was under Hermogenes Ebdane, she was always on guard because the former secretary would call her even at the wee hours of the day.

“Tulog ka na? , he asked me in the middle of the night just to get the latest information on the status of the flood here,” Mendoza reminisced.

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/26/dpwh-exec-explains-how-%E2%80%9Cpork%E2%80%9D-is-funded/

Alcala town has recycling machines

Friday, August 27, 2010

ALCALA -- To lessen the number of jobless residents or tricycle drivers who are not earning much, the local government years ago introduced a skills training on welding.

Mayor Manuel Collado said they bought training equipment and tools for the students to have hands-on training.

The program was under the close guidance and supervision of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda)-Pangasinan.

Now, the town has the most number of skilled welders, some employed at shipyards as the Collado also sourced companies needing welders.

Several years ago, the local government introduced a technology in recycling plastic containers of bottled water and other drinks.

Former vice mayor now Board Member Clemente Arboleda Jr. said the machine dices the plastic containers into pellets. The plastic pellets are mixed into the sand and gravel being used in concreting barangay roads.

Collado said they had constructed a three-kilometer road out of such mixture.

Arboleda said this recycling project was started in 2001 by former mayor Juanito Collado. It was continued by his brother, the current mayor.

He further said before his term as vice mayor was over, the municipal government acquired a machine which melts plastic containers.

“Yong tunaw na plastic, ipinubuhos sa hulmahan ng upuan. Nakapag-produce na kami kaso medyo rough at kulay itim. Kailangan munang i-refine ng konti para Alcala town will be producing its own. We are recycling wastes, at the same time, the town gives livelihood to its people,” he remarked.

Board Member Arboleda said the municipal government is able to introduce new technologies because he and Mayor Manuel Collado are open to such things.

“Hindi yong traditional way. We do some research. We we invest on researchers. Kapag pumupunta kami sa abroad, kung ano ang ginagawa ng local na pamahalaan doon, ginagawa namin sa aming bayan,” he added.

The town's Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is located at Barangay San Pedro Ili.

“When we made the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, we made sure that the MRF, to include the red light district, are away from the Poblacion area and from residential areas,” Arboleda stated.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/alcala-town-has-recycling-machines

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Pangasinan News: Kooperasyon na karaklan kinerew na BIR

Nen Danny O Sagun

Kinerew karuman na Bureau of Internal Revenue ed saray mibabaley ya ireport ed opisina ra so sususpetsaen ya kaso na tax evasion.

Inkuanen abogado Ernesto de Vota, assistant regional director na BIR Region 1, ya walay insentibo o regalo parad saramay manreport ed kason ag panagbayar na buis lautla na saray walaay negosyo o propesyonal. Dies porsiento na samay nakolektan buis so iter ed samay informant, inkuanen De Vota sanen kinatuyaw na saray managpalapag ed agawan Engkwentro forum na Pangasinan Press Club diad Jurassic Ark.

Getman tangguyoren na insentibo iray karaklan ya mangireport na tax evasion cases, inyarum to. Impaseguro to met ya mansiansian maamot o kumpidensyal so impangireport. "Agkayo mapaga, ag da kayo nakabat," inkuan to.

Peles ya ipapakurang na gobyerno so programan Run After Tax Evaders (RATE) pian napasoot ya manbayar na dugan buis iray taxpayers, inkuanto. Say tax evader et samay gagala ton ag talaga manbayar na buis diad pangitagey ton maong na gastos to odino agto ideklara so peteg ton alako, impaliwawa to.

Likod ed RATE, ipapakurang met na BIR so Oplan Kandado diad saramay negosyo ya kulang so idedeklara dan nanlakoan, ag manisyu na resibo o ag ira namparehistro bilang VAT taxpayer.

Pigara lan restaurant, drug store tan merchandize stores so impakapot diad Pangasinan nen apalabas iran bulan lapud insunggay dad ley.

Suni ed performance na BIR ed intero, say BIR Region 1 so makakaabet na goal to ed imbeneg laran taon tan diad akaunan anemiran bulan na peles ya taon.

Impalapag nen De Vota ya akakolekta la na P3.8 bilyon so Rehyon Uno ed apalabas ya anem bulan, odino manga P800 milyon ya sulok no ikompara ed kolekson ed imbeng ya taon.

Ed pinasimbalon goal ya mas atagey ne say akaunan target, inkuan ton gawaen day angaay nayarian dan abeten so asalitan balon goal ed komaduan semestre.

Komatloy Rehyon Uno ed interon bansa nen imbeneg ya taon nipaakar ed maong ya agawaan.

Kaiba nen De Vota ya bisita ed agawan sinimban media forum si Revenue District Officer Yolanda Ferrer na distrito kuatro, di abogadon Beverly Milo tan Francisco Sarmiento, tan Carmelito Caday ya angipaliwawa met na saray gagawaen dan sagpot pian nakolekta so manepeg ya buis. (PIA Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&sec=reader&fi=p100826.htm&no=36

Manay Gina to finish Mangaldan and Manaoag markets this year

August 28, 2010

Before the year ends, the towns of Mangaldan and Manaoag will have their new public market, assures Manay Gina de Venecia, solon of Pangasinan’s 4th District.

De Venecia said, she has prioritized the rebuilding of the said markets as they are the hubs of trade in the said communities. This, she said, is in line with her goal to prop up economic boom in her district.

The construction of the said markets will start this October. A total amount of 35 million pesos is earmarked for the said projects. Twenty million is allotted for the construction of the Mangaldan market which was razed by fire last year, while the remaining fifteen million will be spent for the reconstruction of Manaoag market which was burned last April 20.

Aside from the said infra projects, de Venecia is now laying the groundwork for a micro-financing program that will create business activities in the 140 barangays of the Fourth District, with the help of her daughter, former DTI Undersecretary Carissa Cruz Evangelista.

Meanwhile, it is quite common to see Manay Gina presiding the sessions in the House of Representatives these days. As an Assistant Majority Floor Leader, she is tasked to supervise plenary sessions and help the majority leader rally support for the Administration’s priority legislations.

De Venecia is also the Vice Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Social Sevices.

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/28/manay-gina-to-finish-mangaldan-and-manaoag-markets-this-year-2/

Dugo Mo Buhay Ko

August 28, 2010

Brando Cortez

BAYAMBANG-People from different walks of life came to donate blood in a mass bloodletting activity which was conducted here by the local government of Bayambang.

Majority of those who donated blood were the employees of the local government including the members of the national police and the fire department and students fro the Pangasinan State University.

The activity was led by Mayor Ricardo Camacho together with Vice Mayor Mylvin Junio and the Sangguniang Bayan.

Mayor Camacho said that the activity is to attract new and regular blood donors for the growing need for blood to save lives.

“We need a new generation of blood donors will follow the example we are doing today,” Camacho said. “We are doing this so that we can provide blood for possible use wherever and whenever it is needed to save life.”

Sangguniang Bayan Health Committee Chairman councilor Levin Uy said that the activity was made possible through the active participation of Municipal Health Officer Dr. Paz F. Vallo in cooperation with the Rotary Club of Bayambang and the Philippine National Red Cross-Dagupan Chapter.

“We need to overcome the crisis in blood collection,” Uy said. “We must bear in mind that the blood we donate today will save a life tomorrow.”

A blood donor went through the process of registration, blood pressure taking, physical examination, blood typing and blood extraction.

Balut and juice were given to those who donated.

“Balut po ang ipinapakain natin sa blood donor para lumakas agad siya, Uy said. “Nakakapanghina ang mawalan ng dugo…mataas po ang iron content ng balut at doon nagmumula ang pampalakas.”

Bayambang has one government hospital with a 30-bed capacity and one private hospital with a 25-bed capacity.

The local government maintains 2 rural health units while there are 23 private medical clinics and 5 private dental clinics.

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/28/dugo-mo-buhay-ko/

Sanggunian issues 381 new trike franchises

Written by PIA Pangasinan

DAGUPAN CITY - The Sangguniang Panlungsod issued 381 new franchises to tricycle operators today at the Dagupan City Astrodome.

Councilor Karlos Reyna said the mandated legal number of tricycles plying in the city is only 2,500. The 381 are not additional franchises but those old franchises which were either revoked or expired.

The distribution of franchise was announced a week before. Franchise fee is P500.

There was a long queue of drivers and operators, and many were not able to get their franchises. They were told to wait for the next issuance. (Venus/ PIA)

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Sison Training Center opens

August 28, 2010

By Brando Cortez

SISON- The Municipality of Sison and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) signed a memorandum of agreement to provide technical education to residents 18 to 45 years old including unemployed graduates to better equip them in finding job opportunities.

Present during the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) were Pangsinan 5th District Rep. Kimi Cojuangco, Municipal Mayor, Hon. Mina Joy C. Pangasinan, Dir. Washington M. Agustin, MSWDO Nancy O. Haban, and Dr. Rosa P. Untalan. Also on hand to witness the signing ceremony were members of the Sanggunian Bayan of Sison and Prof. Jesus O. Salagubang, Vocational Instructor Supervisor.

“TESDA will also help those who finished the course in their search for employment!” Dr. Rosa P. Untalan said.

According to the TESDA Regional Director Washington M. Agustin, those who successfully finish any course at the Sison Training Center be awarded with an individual TESDA accreditation certificate which is also recognized by the Civil Service Commission

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/28/sison-training-center-opens/

Engr. Dion distinguishes role of DPWH

August 28, 2010

By Brando Cortez

Lingayen- The head of the Pangasinan 2nd Engineering District said clarified that the Department of Public Works and Highways functions as the engineering and construction arm of the government and has the responsibility of maintaining national roads and bridges amidst tirades against it for poor road conditions in the province.

Engr. Rodolfo “Boy” Dion who heads the Pangasinan 2nd Engineering District said that their office has always been blamed by the local residents for unrepaired and poorly maintained roads in the province.

Dion illustrated that our roads are classified as national roads; provincial roads; and municipal/city and barangay roads.

He said that the municipal/city and barangay roads are under the responsibility of the municipal or city government while provincial roads are the responsibility of the provincial government.

Dion said that the DPWH mantains the following: Pangasinan 1st Engineering District based in Alaminos City; Pangasinan 2nd Engineering District based in Lingayen; Pangasinan 3rd Engineering District based in Rosales; and Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office based in Sta Barbara.

He explained that asphalt overlay on concrete is a protective measure to retard the deterioration of the road and lessens wear and tire of tires of vehicles.

“Mas madaling mapudpod ang goma ng gulong kung ang mga bato sa concrete na kalsada ang dinadaanan mo,” Dion said. “Ang ipinatong na aspalto ay tatakip sa mga bato at magiging mas maganda ang takbo ng sakayan tapos hindi makakalbo kaagad ang gulong ng sasakyan.”

Dion said the flood control is under the office of the DPWH Project Management Office headed by director Philip Meñez.

He said that flooding in Dagupan City is natural since it is below sea level and no amount of canal excavations can deter the flooding since water seeks its own level.

Dion believes that the flooding along the towns near the Agno River may not happen again because the management of San Roque Dam will be very careful in releasing water that cannot be carried by the the Agno River and its tributaries.

He said that he welcomes the strict management style of Sec. Rogelio Singson and that he is always prepared to accept to be posted to a different assignment.
“Ayaw ni Sec. Singson ng mga padri-padrino…marami na tayong napuntahang probinsiya,” Dion said. “Kung saan tayo ilagay, doon tayo magtrabaho ng mabuti.”

http://northernwatchonline.com/2010/08/28/engr-dion-distinguishes-role-of-dpwh/

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MUTYA NG PILIPINAS TOURISM INTERNATIONAL 2010
Barbie Salvador (Mutya ng Pangasinan)

OTHER AWARDS:

L’Oreal Paris Award – for her beautiful hair.

The Mutya Ng Pilipinas 2010 Coronation was held last night, August 28, 2010 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila, Pasay City, Philippines.

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The other major title, Mutya ng Pilipinas - Tourism International 2010 went to Pangasinan's Barbie Salvador (center), another stunning beauty who was a Binibining Pilipinas 2009 Top 15 semifinalist.

All three of them will soon compete in international pageants: Ashley in Miss Asia Pacific International (meron ba this year?), Carla in Miss Tourism Intercontinental 2011 and Barbie in Miss Tourism International 2011.

Even the runners up were great choices, one of which will represent the Philippines in Top Model of the World 2011. (In the 2010 Top Model of the World, Ashley was a Top 15 Semi-Finalist).

Among the judges last night were Derek Ramsay, Angel Aquino, Rajo Laurel, Robby Carmona and Mikaela Lagdameo-Martinez while the performers were The Philippine All-Stars and O.N.E. It was hosted by Phoemela Barranda, RJ Ledesma and Sarah Meier.

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The Mutya Ng Pilipinas 2010 Coronation Night will have its telecast this September 5 on ABS-CBN's Sunday's Best.


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MUTYA NG PILIPINAS TOURISM INTERNATIONAL 2010
Barbie Salvador (Mutya ng Pangasinan)

OTHER AWARDS:

L’Oreal Paris Award – for her beautiful hair.

The Mutya Ng Pilipinas 2010 Coronation was held last night, August 28, 2010 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila, Pasay City, Philippines.

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The other major title, Mutya ng Pilipinas - Tourism International 2010 went to Pangasinan's Barbie Salvador (center), another stunning beauty who was a Binibining Pilipinas 2009 Top 15 semifinalist.

All three of them will soon compete in international pageants: Ashley in Miss Asia Pacific International (meron ba this year?), Carla in Miss Tourism Intercontinental 2011 and Barbie in Miss Tourism International 2011.

Even the runners up were great choices, one of which will represent the Philippines in Top Model of the World 2011. (In the 2010 Top Model of the World, Ashley was a Top 15 Semi-Finalist).

Among the judges last night were Derek Ramsay, Angel Aquino, Rajo Laurel, Robby Carmona and Mikaela Lagdameo-Martinez while the performers were The Philippine All-Stars and O.N.E. It was hosted by Phoemela Barranda, RJ Ledesma and Sarah Meier.

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The Mutya Ng Pilipinas 2010 Coronation Night will have its telecast this September 5 on ABS-CBN's Sunday's Best.


Read more: http://mykiru.blogspot.com/2010/08/mutya-ng-pilipinas-2010-winners-crowned.html#ixzz0xzM6imBK

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Dengue still under control in Pangasinan

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 29 (PNA) — The dengue disease is still under control throughout the province of Pangasinan, according to a report of the Provincial Health Office (PHO).

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Ana de Guzman admitted that there were 316 cases that were so far registered from January to August 23 this year, though she clarified that this is not yet alarming.

The number, she added, is lower by 65 percent than the 980 cases that were registered by the PHO for the same period last year.

She, revealed, however that 10 towns had been placed under the watch list because they were among the places where dengue cases are high at this stage.

Dagupan City to date registered the highest number of dengue cases, but De Guzman is confident that the City Health Office there headed by Dr. Leonard Carbonell is responding well to the situation.

The same is true in the town of Mangatarem, having the second highest incidence of dengue. Mangatarem was the only town so far that had declared a dengue outbreak since three weeks ago.

De Guzman clarified, however, that though Mangatarem had declared a dengue outbreak, its 63 registered cases have not yet passed the alert level prescribed by the World Health Organizations.

De Guzman said Dagupan, Mangatarem and eight other towns in the watch list are now having an aggressive program to control dengue in their respective jurisdictions, involving their respective local government units.

At the same time, De Guzman called on rural health units to mobilize their barangay health workers so that residents who are suffering from fever and other symptoms of dengue be brought immediately to the hospitals.

She said the Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City as well as the other government hospitals operated by the province to give priority attention to dengue patients. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=297553

Ilocos? bat sinabit pa mga lugar na pangasinan speaking at baguio? dapat mga historical ilocano areas lang like Abra or areas na maraming ilocanos like eastern Pangasinan, northern Tarlac, northeastern Nueva Ecija etc. :lol::lol::lol:

Nakakaloko ang website. Major Philippine ethnic group ang Pangasinan and again it is being marginalized. Ginagawang saling pusa :bash:

I don't know why the website has included Baguio, but hey, aren't you part also of the Ilocos Region? Don't be feel marginalized, we're both part of the region. Ilocos region naman ang pinopromote ng website, hindi Ilocanos lang.

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MUTYA NG PILIPINAS TOURISM INTERNATIONAL 2010
Barbie Salvador (Mutya ng Pangasinan)

OTHER AWARDS:

L’Oreal Paris Award – for her beautiful hair.

The Mutya Ng Pilipinas 2010 Coronation was held last night, August 28, 2010 at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila, Pasay City, Philippines.

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Two Bicolana beauties walked away with the major titles and they were: Ashley McGarry (2nd from right) as Mutya ng Pilipinas - Asia Pacific 2010 and Carla Lizardo (2nd from left) as Mutya ng Pilipinas - Intercontinental 2010. (But Ashley McGarry represented East Coast-USA).

The other major title, Mutya ng Pilipinas - Tourism International 2010 went to Pangasinan's Barbie Salvador (center), another stunning beauty who was a Binibining Pilipinas 2009 Top 15 semifinalist.

All three of them will soon compete in international pageants: Ashley in Miss Asia Pacific International (meron ba this year?), Carla in Miss Tourism Intercontinental 2011 and Barbie in Miss Tourism International 2011.

Even the runners up were great choices, one of which will represent the Philippines in Top Model of the World 2011. (In the 2010 Top Model of the World, Ashley was a Top 15 Semi-Finalist).

Among the judges last night were Derek Ramsay, Angel Aquino, Rajo Laurel, Robby Carmona and Mikaela Lagdameo-Martinez while the performers were The Philippine All-Stars and O.N.E. It was hosted by Phoemela Barranda, RJ Ledesma and Sarah Meier.

It was a commendable job from the organizers. Indeed, new organizers means new prestige for Mutya ng Pilipinas!

The Mutya Ng Pilipinas 2010 Coronation Night will have its telecast this September 5 on ABS-CBN's Sunday's Best.


Read more: http://mykiru.blogspot.com/2010/08/mutya-ng-pilipinas-2010-winners-crowned.html#ixzz0xzM6imBK

:nuts::nuts::nuts::nuts:Ang Sexy ng kababayan natin!!!:eek2::eek2::eek2::bow::bow::bow::cucumber::cucumber::cucumber::cheers1::cheers1::cheers1::omg::omg::omg:

in fairness maganda sya...nakuha nya brown color sa lahi nating bombay which is i think maganda

ay di ba may napabalita dati na isang pangalatok ang tumama ng $250 Million Lotto sa USA? Taga Binmaley daw, gaano katotoo ba yun? sana totoo..para may balato tayo haha

ui... maunlad ang Dagupan... hindi ito maikukumpara sa ibang lungsod sa Pangasinan maging sa buong Hilagang Luzon...

hehe tama! agree ako dian...


Dagupan City top 3 city outside Metro Manila. (w/ Cebu & Cagayan de Oro)

'New mayors should learn from most competitive cities'
Written by JESUS F. LLANTO, Newsbreak
WEDNESDAY, 21 JULY 2010

MANILA, Philippines--The cities of Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, and Dagupan have been named as the most competitive cities outside Metro Manila in the Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2009 (PCCRP) of the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center. The study, which was launched Monday in Pasay City, used six criteria in ranking the 29 cities: dynamism of local economy, responsiveness of the LGUs to business, infrastructure, quality of life, and cost of doing business and human resource and training.

It is based on official government data, perception survey among businessmen, and interviews with local chief executives and local business group’s representative The PCCRP also classified the cities into three groups: metropolitan growth centers, growth centers and emergent cities.

Cebu City bested Davao in the metro growth center category, which refers to cities with an average of P3.05 billion total income and average population of 1.08 million. Cagayan de Oro, meanwhile, topped in the growth centers category, which included the cities of General Santos, Baguio, Lapu-Lapu, Zamboanga, Olongapo, Batangas, Iloilo, Bacolod, and Mandaue. These cities have an average income of P1.2 billion and population 421,165.

Dagupan City is the most competitive among the emergent cities. It bested the cities of Angeles, Butuan, Cotabato, Lucena, Naga, Legaspi, Pagadian, Puerto Princesa, Ormoc, Iligan, Tagum, and San Fernando in La Union, Surigao, Tuguegarao, Tacloban and Santiago.

Ma. Lourdes Sereno Diokno, executive director of the AIM Policy Center, said that they decided to group the cities into three brackets because it would be unfair to compare the metropolitan and highly-urbanized cities like Cebu and Davao to new and emerging young cities.

“Cebu City and Davao City outpaced the rest in many indicators,” added Ana Maria Tabunda, chief research fellow at Pulse Asia and consultant for the PCCRP 2009. Roger Carlson, acting mission director of the USAID, one of the sponsors of the PCCRP, said that the findings of the study can guide the local officials in introducing policy changes in their localities.

“Newly-elected mayors can base their reform efforts on information that comes from business operators themselves,” Carlson said. The PCCRP 2009 also recognized the cities that topped in each of the criteria used in the study. Below is a complete list of the winners:

Rewards:
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Mayors of the winning cities said that the recognition they received should inspire their cities to do better and to sustain the reforms and policies they have started. “This will serve as an impetus to us,” said Zamboanga City Mayor Celso Lobregat, whose city received three awards. He added that he is hoping that the awards can help them attracting investors who are afraid to invest in Zamboanga City because if the perception that it is not safe.

San Fernando City Mayor Pablo Ortega, meanwhile, said that his city’s efforts to address pollution and to simplify the process in applying and reviewing business permits helped them win four awards. “We put up a one-stop shop for those who want to do business with us,” Ortega said. “The system is very transparent and because it is fast we are able to curb bribery. (Newsbreak)

Yan pakibasa. :banana:

Ilocos? bat sinabit pa mga lugar na pangasinan speaking at baguio? dapat mga historical ilocano areas lang like Abra or areas na maraming ilocanos like eastern Pangasinan, northern Tarlac, northeastern Nueva Ecija etc. :lol::lol::lol:

Nakakaloko ang website. Major Philippine ethnic group ang Pangasinan and again it is being marginalized. Ginagawang saling pusa :bash:

Correct agree ako allan_dude! yaan nyo na yan... wag mo na pansinin. papansin lang. :ohno:

Ilocos? bat sinabit pa mga lugar na pangasinan speaking at baguio? dapat mga historical ilocano areas lang like Abra or areas na maraming ilocanos like eastern Pangasinan, northern Tarlac, northeastern Nueva Ecija etc. :lol::lol::lol:

Nakakaloko ang website. Major Philippine ethnic group ang Pangasinan and again it is being marginalized. Ginagawang saling pusa :bash:

From the start.. Mali talaga na nilagay ang Pangasinan sa Ilocos Region... Because Pangasinan has its own identity as Pangasinenses and the inhabitants here in the east must be called Pangasinense paren because we live in Pangasinan not because we speak iloko...

I move that Pangasinan be an Autonomous Region because it cant cant blend with other provinces Region 1 which is Pure Iloko and to Central Luzon which is mixture of Tagalogs, kamampangans, ilokos, and etc. ..:lol::lol::lol::lol:

hehe tama! agree ako dian...


Dagupan City top 3 city outside Metro Manila. (w/ Cebu & Cagayan de Oro)

'New mayors should learn from most competitive cities'
Written by JESUS F. LLANTO, Newsbreak
WEDNESDAY, 21 JULY 2010

MANILA, Philippines--The cities of Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, and Dagupan have been named as the most competitive cities outside Metro Manila in the Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2009 (PCCRP) of the Asian Institute of Management Policy Center. The study, which was launched Monday in Pasay City, used six criteria in ranking the 29 cities: dynamism of local economy, responsiveness of the LGUs to business, infrastructure, quality of life, and cost of doing business and human resource and training.

It is based on official government data, perception survey among businessmen, and interviews with local chief executives and local business group’s representative The PCCRP also classified the cities into three groups: metropolitan growth centers, growth centers and emergent cities.

Cebu City bested Davao in the metro growth center category, which refers to cities with an average of P3.05 billion total income and average population of 1.08 million. Cagayan de Oro, meanwhile, topped in the growth centers category, which included the cities of General Santos, Baguio, Lapu-Lapu, Zamboanga, Olongapo, Batangas, Iloilo, Bacolod, and Mandaue. These cities have an average income of P1.2 billion and population 421,165.

Dagupan City is the most competitive among the emergent cities. It bested the cities of Angeles, Butuan, Cotabato, Lucena, Naga, Legaspi, Pagadian, Puerto Princesa, Ormoc, Iligan, Tagum, and San Fernando in La Union, Surigao, Tuguegarao, Tacloban and Santiago.


Yan pakibasa. :banana:

congratulations, PANGASINAN!

congratulations, PANGASINAN!

Mabuhay Dagupan City! Mabuhay Pangasinan! :banana:

Wow galing naman ...weeeeee

Goooooo Pangasinan.......:cheers:

Ni man abwasan la lamet so post ko...hmmmm :ohno:

Since we are talking about cities here... you might want to read this..

VOTING 7-6 with two justices abstaining, the Supreme Court has reversed itself anew in the controversial case of 16 cityhood laws, this time reinstating its 2008 decision that declared these laws unconstitutional.

In a 16-page decision penned by Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, the Court said that a tie-vote on the second motion for reconsideration cannot reverse the Nov. 18, 2008, decision of the high tribunal on the case.

Aside from Carpio, those who voted in favor of reinstating the 2008 decision were Justices Conchita Carpio-Morales, Arturo Brion, Diosdado Peralta, Martin Villarama Jr., Jose Mendoza and Maria Lourdes Sereno.

Dissenter

Justice Presbitero Velasco Jr., who penned the 2009 ruling that reversed the 2008 decision, wrote a dissenting opinion.

He was joined by Chief Justice Renato Corona and Justices Teresita Leonardo-de Castro, Lucas Bersamin, Roberto Abad and Jose Perez.

Those who took no part in the voting were Justices Antonio Nachura and Mariano del Castillo.

The Nov. 18, 2008, decision declared the cityhood laws unconstitutional and denied a March 31, 2009, motion for reconsideration filed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

“These priority majority actions of the court en banc can only be overruled by a new majority vote, not a tie-vote because a tie-vote cannot overrule a prior affirmative action,” the high court said in its latest decision, promulgated on Aug. 24.

Tedious

The Supreme Court, by a split-vote of 6-6, denied a second motion for reconsideration on April 28, 2009.

Subsequently, the November 2008 ruling became final and executory and recorded in the Book of Entries of Judgement on May 21, 2009.

“However, shortly thereafter, it was realized that there were still pending unresolved motions. Hence, in the resolution of pending motions, the court, on Dec. 21, 2009, reversed its Nov. 18, 2008, decision,” the Supreme Court said in a press statement Friday.

The majority said the denial of the second motion for reconsideration by a split vote, “inevitably rendered the [Nov. 18, 2008] decision final.”

Declared as unconstitutional were the city status of Baybay in Leyte, Bogo in Cebu, Catbalogan in Samar, Tandag in Surigao del Sur, Lamitan in Basilan, Borongan in Samar, Tayabas in Quezon, Tabuk in Kalinga, Bayugan in Agusan del Sur, Batac in Ilocos Norte, Mati in Davao Oriental, Guihulngan in Negros Oriental, Cabadbaran in Agusan del Norte, El Salvador in Misamis Oriental, Carcar in Cebu and Naga in Cebu.

No other interpretation

In reaffirming the original decision of the Supreme Court, the justices reiterated that the Constitution “expressly provides that no city shall be created except in accordance with the criteria established in the local government code.”

“This provision can only be interpreted in one way,” said the latest Supreme Court decision.

“Clearly, the cityhood laws contravene the letter and intent of … the Constitution,” it said.

The justices also said Congress “exceeded and abused its law-making power.”

In his dissenting opinion, however, Velasco said he found the decision “rather startling.”

Velasco insisted that exemptions from requirements of cityhood are allowed by the Constitution.

Mayors thankful

Officers of the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) on Friday hailed the Supreme Court decision.

“The League of Cities of the Philippines is thankful to the members of the Supreme Court who opted to observe the Constitution, judicial precedents and the law concerning conversion of municipalities into cities,” City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar Rodriguez, the LCP president, said.

“The last bulwark of democracy has spoken,” said Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan, the LCP public relations officer.

here is the link.... (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20100828-289180/SC-Its-a-final-no-to-16-new-cities)

From the start.. Mali talaga na nilagay ang Pangasinan sa Ilocos Region... Because Pangasinan has its own identity as Pangasinenses and the inhabitants here in the east must be called Pangasinense paren because we live in Pangasinan not because we speak iloko...

I move that Pangasinan be an Autonomous Region because it cant cant blend with other provinces Region 1 which is Pure Iloko and to Central Luzon which is mixture of Tagalogs, kamampangans, ilokos, and etc. ..:lol::lol::lol::lol:

awww. naku wag naman sana tayo maging divided na parang hundred islands...

awww. naku wag naman sana tayo maging divided na parang hundred islands...

i am not for breaking ties with ilocos... i am just after the advantage of economic development and budget allocation as an autonomous region... hahaha... un lang...
:lol::lol::lol:

I don't know why the website has included Baguio, but hey, aren't you part also of the Ilocos Region? Don't be feel marginalized, we're both part of the region. Ilocos region naman ang pinopromote ng website, hindi Ilocanos lang.

No WE are not part of your so "called" region. (I'm referring to the name) Ilocanos and Pangasinan along with several minority ethnic groups comprise Region 1 geographically through this political division. however, it's politically incorrect to generalize a region with a specific ethnicity, "calling it Ilocos Region", when two major equally strong cultures exist. I'm sure people studying Pangasinan culture would agree with me.

Digging deeper to the root cause of such bitterness, I blame the late Ilocano president Marcos in regrouping Pangasinan from Central Luzon to Region 1, just to compensate your region's deficiency in a lot of statistical aspect, then created a turf. Worst, he officially named it honoring his lineage. What a selfish and insulting act.

This issue will continue to go on circle as long as Pangasinan and other minorities are not properly addressed or given a fair dealing. Our representatives in the Congress can file a petition to amend the region's charter name although it is not their priority. We've always been very tolerant, nevertheless we also uphold our pride.

In an exaggerated comparison, we are like the Moro of Mindanao fighting for our homeland, even more so, our identity. Good for them they are now acknowledged and a special autonomy was given. We don't have anything.

I envy how in Central Luzon- Kapangpangan, Tagalog, Aeta and beleive it, Ilocano co-exist without any ethnic divisiveness and prejudice. They have mutual respect and there's no superiority attitude, except in the kitchen of course!

Why cant we do the same rather than pressing us here that WE are Ilocos? WE ARE PANGASINAN.

That's my 1 centavo! Apir!:2cents: :lol::lol::lol:

Very wisely and honestly stated. BRAVO !!!!

No WE are not part of your so "called" region. (I'm referring to the name) Ilocanos and Pangasinan along with several minority ethnic groups comprise Region 1 geographically through this political division. however, it's politically incorrect to generalize a region with a specific ethnicity, "calling it Ilocos Region", when two major equally strong cultures exist. I'm sure people studying Pangasinan culture would agree with me.

Digging deeper to the root cause of such bitterness, I blame the late Ilocano president Marcos in regrouping Pangasinan from Central Luzon to Region 1, just to compensate your region's deficiency in a lot of statistical aspect, then created a turf. Worst, he officially named it honoring his lineage. What a selfish and insulting act.

This issue will continue to go on circle as long as Pangasinan and other minorities are not properly addressed or given a fair dealing. Our representatives in the Congress can file a petition to amend the region's charter name although it is not their priority. We've always been very tolerant, nevertheless we also uphold our pride.

In an exaggerated comparison, we are like the Moro of Mindanao fighting for our homeland, even more so, our identity. Good for them they are now acknowledged and a special autonomy was given. We don't have anything.

I envy how in Central Luzon- Kapangpangan, Tagalog, Aeta and beleive it, Ilocano co-exist without any ethnic divisiveness and prejudice. They have mutual respect and there's no superiority attitude, except in the kitchen of course!

Why cant we do the same rather than pressing us here that WE are Ilocos? WE ARE PANGASINAN.

That's my 1 centavo! Apir!:2cents: :lol::lol::lol:
^^
:okay:
tama!! dagdag ko pa, dapat ang alias ng region 1 ay Pangasinan and Ilocos Region at hindi ilocos region lang. medyo nakakainsulto kasi sa aming pangasinense ang alias na yan, Hindi kami Iloko, Pangasinense kami, may sarili kaming wika at kultura. Bat kasi Ilocos Region ang ipinangalan sa rehiyon? Pangasinan kaya may pinakamalaking naiaambag sa rehiyon: 60% ng ekonomiya, 58% ng populasyon at 42% na land area, kung sinabi mo kasing ilocos, either Ilocos Norte at Ilocos Sur lang, kahit pagsamahin ang dalawang province na yan o kahit 2 i.norte + 2 i.sur ay di parin matatapatan ang Pangasinan :) sinisisi ko ang dating pangulong marcos kung bakit nagkaganito ang rehiyon natin, bat pa kasi inalis pa nya ang pangasinan sa central luzon at inilipat sa region 1. cguro gusto nyang ipataas ang reputasyon ng ilocos provinces sa pamamagitan ng pagsali ng pangasinan sa rehiyon 1. "PANGASINAN bilang SALING PUSA??" oo, tama, tayo ay mga saling pusa sa rehiyon dahil Ilocos ang name ng rehiyon, nakikijoin lang tayong mga Pangasinense. Opinyon ko lang po, sinasabi ring, UNDER lang tayo ng mga Ilocos Provinces!!

isa pa, ung isang ospital sa Dagupan, REGION 1 MEDICAL CENTER, ang pinakamalaking ospital sa rehiyon, bat di nila pinangalanan na Ilocos Region Medical Center? mas attractive at madaling tandaan ang IRMC kesa sa pangalan nito..dahil nga siguro, hindi ilokano ang nakatira sa syudad na pinagtayuan ng ospital na iyon o di kaya pag sinabing ilocos region medical center, sa ilocos provinces lang..

opinyon ko lang po :) pizzz

No WE are not part of your so "called" region. (I'm referring to the name) Ilocanos and Pangasinan along with several minority ethnic groups comprise Region 1 geographically through this political division. however, it's politically incorrect to generalize a region with a specific ethnicity, "calling it Ilocos Region", when two major equally strong cultures exist. I'm sure people studying Pangasinan culture would agree with me.

Digging deeper to the root cause of such bitterness, I blame the late Ilocano president Marcos in regrouping Pangasinan from Central Luzon to Region 1, just to compensate your region's deficiency in a lot of statistical aspect, then created a turf. Worst, he officially named it honoring his lineage. What a selfish and insulting act.

This issue will continue to go on circle as long as Pangasinan and other minorities are not properly addressed or given a fair dealing. Our representatives in the Congress can file a petition to amend the region's charter name although it is not their priority. We've always been very tolerant, nevertheless we also uphold our pride.

In an exaggerated comparison, we are like the Moro of Mindanao fighting for our homeland, even more so, our identity. Good for them they are now acknowledged and a special autonomy was given. We don't have anything.

I envy how in Central Luzon- Kapangpangan, Tagalog, Aeta and beleive it, Ilocano co-exist without any ethnic divisiveness and prejudice. They have mutual respect and there's no superiority attitude, except in the kitchen of course!

Why cant we do the same rather than pressing us here that WE are Ilocos? WE ARE PANGASINAN.

That's my 1 centavo! Apir!:2cents: :lol::lol::lol:

:) that's was a Major Major explanation indeed...well said and done..allan-dude:cheers:..dugay tay imbagan.

malaki ang ilocos sur at norte, alam nyo ba na ang biyahe mula dagupan hanggang vigan ay full 7 hrs? mas malayo pa sa manila? pero kung sabagay, pangasinan should be belong to central luzon dahil, from pangpanga to la union was pangasinan

^^
:okay:
tama!! dagdag ko pa, dapat ang alias ng region 1 ay Pangasinan and Ilocos Region at hindi ilocos region lang. medyo nakakainsulto kasi sa aming pangasinense ang alias na yan, Hindi kami Iloko, Pangasinense kami, may sarili kaming wika at kultura. Bat kasi Ilocos Region ang ipinangalan sa rehiyon? Pangasinan kaya may pinakamalaking naiaambag sa rehiyon: 60% ng ekonomiya, 58% ng populasyon at 42% na land area, kung sinabi mo kasing ilocos, either Ilocos Norte at Ilocos Sur lang, kahit pagsamahin ang dalawang province na yan o kahit 2 i.norte + 2 i.sur ay di parin matatapatan ang Pangasinan :) sinisisi ko ang dating pangulong marcos kung bakit nagkaganito ang rehiyon natin, bat pa kasi inalis pa nya ang pangasinan sa central luzon at inilipat sa region 1. cguro gusto nyang ipataas ang reputasyon ng ilocos provinces sa pamamagitan ng pagsali ng pangasinan sa rehiyon 1. "PANGASINAN bilang SALING PUSA??" oo, tama, tayo ay mga saling pusa sa rehiyon dahil Ilocos ang name ng rehiyon, nakikijoin lang tayong mga Pangasinense. Opinyon ko lang po, sinasabi ring, UNDER lang tayo ng mga Ilocos Provinces!!

isa pa, ung isang ospital sa Dagupan, REGION 1 MEDICAL CENTER, ang pinakamalaking ospital sa rehiyon, bat di nila pinangalanan na Ilocos Region Medical Center? mas attractive at madaling tandaan ang IRMC kesa sa pangalan nito..dahil nga siguro, hindi ilokano ang nakatira sa syudad na pinagtayuan ng ospital na iyon o di kaya pag sinabing ilocos region medical center, sa ilocos provinces lang..

opinyon ko lang po :) pizzz


Hehehe.... agree ako dian. Totoo namang, ang pinakamalaking ambag sa rehiyon UNO ay sa Pangasinan...(esp. Dagupan City, Urdanet City and San Carlos City & Alaminos city), in terms in almost all aspects. Ipagpalagay mo kayang wala ang Pangasinan sa Region 1? Sa tingin mo kasama tayo sa mga nangungunaang rehiyon sa pilipinas?
:)

It is not about who and where you are.... or your place is better and mine is not. We should put in mind that Ilocos Region includes Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte.

When can we learn? We are one... BUT everytime I comment about being as one and we are together, the moderator is junking my comments. So here I am again posting.
:ohno: :ohno:

HELLO,Basta syak Pangasinense so ingkatook,masantos ya ngarem kabaleyan 5 ya bulan ak aga aka pan post messages ed thread tayo pacensya ya balbaleg musta allan_dude?

BAYAMBANG, PANGASINAN

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ROYAL MALL U/C

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wow...ganda naman ng pics mo,yan na ba ngaun ang bayambang parang kailan lang ng umalis ako dyan last 2007 may CSI mall at Royal Mall ba yan?yan ba ung sinasabi ni allan_dude na savemore ang supermarket,aba kung yan nga ung naku lalong dudumugin ang bayambang ng mga ibang bayan like alcala,bautista,basista at maging southern part ng malasiqui at northern part ng camiling.btw,anong mga tenant kaya ang nasa loob nyan ,infairness 3 paaalapag sya hopefully may jolly-b na dyan at bangko like Banco de oro kasi db ang sm at banco de oro ay mag sister co.?about sa csi resort sobrang ganda sana matuloy tuloy na yan para lalo pang makilala ang Dagupan bilang sentro ng kalakalan at torismo sa hilagang luzon.salamat Aliguas sa mga pixs,nextime try mo nga kuhanan ung munisipyo kung may pagbabago na plssssss.salamat ya balbaleg ed sika kaaro:):)

Hehehe.... agree ako dian. Totoo namang, ang pinakamalaking ambag sa rehiyon UNO ay sa Pangasinan...(esp. Dagupan City, Urdanet City and San Carlos City & Alaminos city), in terms in almost all aspects. Ipagpalagay mo kayang wala ang Pangasinan sa Region 1? Sa tingin mo kasama tayo sa mga nangungunaang rehiyon sa pilipinas?
:)

korek ka dyan,isa pa tignan nyo ung mapa ng region 1 napapansin nyo ang pangasinan ang sumasalo sa 3 probinsya na yan so kung wala talga ang pangasinan ano kayang mayroon ang region 1 para ipagmalaki nila,torismo?even pangasinan have a lot of tourist destination,beaches,old churchs and a lot more.additionally,kapag nag bukas na ang airport ,seaport,expressway,malls like Robinsons and SM at ung mga projects from korean government siguro lalong pang uunlad ang Pangasinan,tama ba ako ?

malaki ang ilocos sur at norte, alam nyo ba na ang biyahe mula dagupan hanggang vigan ay full 7 hrs? mas malayo pa sa manila? pero kung sabagay, pangasinan should be belong to central luzon dahil, from pangpanga to la union was pangasinan

Just so you know... PAMPANGA not PANGPANGA. I think Kapangpangan is widely accepted pero sa sarili kong opinyon, KAPAMPANGAN pa rin ang aprub!:banana::banana::banana: Thank you Pangasinan thread!!!!:):):)

Maganggana manaya! Taga iner kasi?

:) Tagad Pozurrubio ,pangasinan.graduate ed ATENEO DE MANILA..angalay Communications major..maganang talaga..5'7 so tagey to.:)

masantos ya labi sikayon amin dyad thread,any info about sa Royal mall kung kailan ang grand opening nito dyan sa Bayambang?plsssssssss tnx and God bless sa inyo lahat

ang ganda na ng bayambang ah...kailan kaya magiging city? ang dami pwede idevelop dyan

wow...ganda naman ng pics mo,yan na ba ngaun ang bayambang parang kailan lang ng umalis ako dyan last 2007 may CSI mall at Royal Mall ba yan?yan ba ung sinasabi ni allan_dude na savemore ang supermarket,aba kung yan nga ung naku lalong dudumugin ang bayambang ng mga ibang bayan like alcala,bautista,basista at maging southern part ng malasiqui at northern part ng camiling.btw,anong mga tenant kaya ang nasa loob nyan ,infairness 3 paaalapag sya hopefully may jolly-b na dyan at bangko like Banco de oro kasi db ang sm at banco de oro ay mag sister co.?about sa csi resort sobrang ganda sana matuloy tuloy na yan para lalo pang makilala ang Dagupan bilang sentro ng kalakalan at torismo sa hilagang luzon.salamat Aliguas sa mga pixs,nextime try mo nga kuhanan ung munisipyo kung may pagbabago na plssssss.salamat ya balbaleg ed sika kaaro:):)

Is that true? Save more ang super market nitong royal mall?

Ilocos? bat sinabit pa mga lugar na pangasinan speaking at baguio? dapat mga historical ilocano areas lang like Abra or areas na maraming ilocanos like eastern Pangasinan, northern Tarlac, northeastern Nueva Ecija etc. :lol::lol::lol:

Nakakaloko ang website. Major Philippine ethnic group ang Pangasinan and again it is being marginalized. Ginagawang saling pusa :bash:

Baguio City used to be a part of Region 1. I included Baguio because of the North Luzon growth quadrangle effort of the Ilocos.

The site is barely a month old . Definitely contents for Pangasinan will be coming soon. I am open to content contributors with all the credit due to the content provider concerned.

ang ganda na ng bayambang ah...kailan kaya magiging city? ang dami pwede idevelop dyan

masantos ya labi si kayo kakaaro dyad thread, :):):) Switch sa tingin mo kailan kaya maging city ang bayambang?gusto nyo guest tayo kung sino ang susunod na maging lungsod dito sa pangasinan,,,,,

Is that true? Save more ang super market nitong royal mall?

yes...100% savemore, yan kasi ang nabasa ko sa mga previous post try mo basahin lahat ng post sa thread na ito at confirm na ito ay savemore from sir allan_dude info and posted.laong lalaki ang income ng bayambang this year at ff.years kasi last 2008 ang income ng bayan ay umabot na ng 134million pesos+,siguro sa ngaun 150million na,tapos magbubukas pa itong Royal mall ohww talagang going to city na nga ang bayambang,:banana::banana::banana:

Baguio City used to be a part of Region 1. I included Baguio because of the North Luzon growth quadrangle effort of the Ilocos.

The site is barely a month old . Definitely contents for Pangasinan will be coming soon. I am open to content contributors with all the credit due to the content provider concerned.

hello po, saka napansin ko rin ung profile ng Pangasinan bat 3 cities lang ang naka highlight doon bat di ba city ang Alaminos na kung saan mas sikat pa nga sa ibang lungsod sa region 1,comment ko lang po make sure na bago maglabas ng mga ganyan site eh sana updated na di ba ?:ohno::ohno::ohno:

hello mga kababayan ,magbotohan kaya tayo kung anong bayan ang magiging pang 5th syudad dito sa PANGASINAN.kung sino manalo may regalo mula sakin pagbalik ko yan sa pinas,totoo itooooooo,

LINGAYEN
BAYAMBANG
MANGALDAN
this is my vote.make a vote plssss.

wow...ganda naman ng pics mo,yan na ba ngaun ang bayambang parang kailan lang ng umalis ako dyan last 2007 may CSI mall at Royal Mall ba yan?yan ba ung sinasabi ni allan_dude na savemore ang supermarket,aba kung yan nga ung naku lalong dudumugin ang bayambang ng mga ibang bayan like alcala,bautista,basista at maging southern part ng malasiqui at northern part ng camiling.btw,anong mga tenant kaya ang nasa loob nyan ,infairness 3 paaalapag sya hopefully may jolly-b na dyan at bangko like Banco de oro kasi db ang sm at banco de oro ay mag sister co.?about sa csi resort sobrang ganda sana matuloy tuloy na yan para lalo pang makilala ang Dagupan bilang sentro ng kalakalan at torismo sa hilagang luzon.salamat Aliguas sa mga pixs,nextime try mo nga kuhanan ung munisipyo kung may pagbabago na plssssss.salamat ya balbaleg ed sika kaaro:):)

:okay: on atan amo may ibabaga nen allan ya savemore supermarket, agko amta balet nu iyan da ed royal mall..hehehe.

:) Tagad Pozurrubio ,pangasinan.graduate ed ATENEO DE MANILA..angalay Communications major..maganang talaga..5'7 so tagey to.:)
:lol:
hindi lang pala si Julaton(women world boxing champion) ang pinagmamalaki ng Pozurrobio, wala ni manaya, tan beauty queen ni :D galikayo ta unkaraw tayo..hehe

LINGAYEN
BAYAMBANG
MANGALDAN
this is my vote.make a vote plssss.

Mairap so manpili ed sa 'ra yan baley tayo nu syopay makaunan makaalay city status..hehe
pero parad syak, singano makauna'y Bayambang, unsublay so Mangaldan, tan Lingayen, iarom mo met la may Calasiao, sakey ya maaliguas tan progersibon baley tayo :)

hello mga kababayan ,magbotohan kaya tayo kung anong bayan ang magiging pang 5th syudad dito sa PANGASINAN.kung sino manalo may regalo mula sakin pagbalik ko yan sa pinas,totoo itooooooo,

haha, siren ahh :lol: sige, Bayambang la!! sakey ya Rolex labat imay walay diamante to :lol:

:okay: on atan amo may ibabaga nen allan ya savemore supermarket, agko amta balet nu iyan da ed royal mall..hehehe.

he;;o k,naunaan moak ,panun to kasiy mangawa na tag singa ed sayay ginawam ya inararok so luyag na pangasinan 100% pangasinense,,plsss ibangat mo ak tnx a lot

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LINGAYEN

:lol:
hindi lang pala si Julaton(women world boxing champion) ang pinagmamalaki ng Pozurrobio, wala ni manaya, tan beauty queen ni :D galikayo ta unkaraw tayo..hehe

taga ditan met amo imay ina nen GMA tan margie moran?

Good morning Pangasinan!:) Ang ganda na ng Bayambang, daming malls, at ang luwang ng kalsada nila. Gusto kong mamasyal diyan minsan.:)

Good morning Pangasinan!:) Ang ganda na ng Bayambang, daming malls, at ang luwang ng kalsada nila. Gusto kong mamasyal diyan minsan.:)

hi tarlaqueno,,,,,san ka sa tarlac,taga bayambang din ako kaso nga lang dito me sa south korea ngaun ,miss ko na nga bayan namin,dami na pala improvement,cge try mo mamasyal sa Bayambang at ibalita mo sa amin ha,kuha ka na rin ng mga picx,sunod pasyalan kita dyan sa tarlac thread nyo,

kulaan dala ra kasiy ray pangasinense aken net anggapoy man po post ed thread tayo ,apuyat ira amo o dino bc rad iray trabaho da tan negosyo,,,hellloooooooooo Kabaleyan bangon kila ta atagey lay agew,aken et nakar yola,bangon bangon

Gooo pangasinan....hmmm nakar to may post ko abalang amo...


Best Actress Gloria Romero ...from Mabini Pangasinan....siya di po ba...

Hmmmm Carmen Rosales pala.....weeeeee

bz ray totoo kanyan agara makadalan ed diad abong tayo...

asinger la kasi so December kanyan.....matalag eran

un bisita ed thread tayo...

hi tarlaqueno,,,,,san ka sa tarlac,taga bayambang din ako kaso nga lang dito me sa south korea ngaun ,miss ko na nga bayan namin,dami na pala improvement,cge try mo mamasyal sa Bayambang at ibalita mo sa amin ha,kuha ka na rin ng mga picx,sunod pasyalan kita dyan sa tarlac thread nyo,

Sa Camiling ako, kabit bayan lang pala tayo. Kaya lang nasa Manila ako, dito ako nagwowork.:D:D Baka kilala mo si koreanboy, forumer din dito na taga Bayambang at nasa Korea.

Speaking of Camiling....pinadadaan na ba ulit sa Hi-way ang mga Bus..
or umiikot pa din mula sa Mangatarem thru Urbiztondo-Bayambang-Camiling

ang layo ng daan don at liblib...delekado pag gabi wala pa namang mga ilaw sa poste...

LINGAYEN
BAYAMBANG
MANGALDAN
this is my vote.make a vote plssss.

Alam nyo guys, yan dapat ang karapat-dapat na maging city kasi puro developments. Di tulad ng ibang lugar na lang na nagka-Jollibee or mall na, ay city na kaagad... Buti na lang naibalik na yung mga naging city sa municipality... Yung iba nga doon, ngayon ko lang narining sa tanang buhay ko...:ohno:

masantos ed sikayo kabaleyan dyad thread,.....asumpal la lamet so sakey agew,istorya nyo no antoy ginawa yud san ngarem,syak so ginawak nansamba tan nan telektelek dyad syudad na pusan south korea,amayamay lad dyay pinoy si nga ak metla walad pinas kaso angapoy jolly-b dya,mc do at kfc labat tan pizzaaaaaaaa....:banana::banana:

Gooo pangasinan....hmmm nakar to may post ko abalang amo...


Best Actress Gloria Romero ...from Mabini Pangasinan....siya di po ba...

Hmmmm Carmen Rosales pala.....weeeeee

kabaleyan,musta ka ,eu abalang iray post mo kanyang man post dakel anggan antotan basta marakep.balitaan yo ak no antolay kipapasen na Pangasinan ta pyan maka pan comment ak ,:):):)

bz ray totoo kanyan agara makadalan ed diad abong tayo...

asinger la kasi so December kanyan.....matalag eran

un bisita ed thread tayo...utman siren, say pinoy ya talga basta walay okasyon lanang ya number 1,mabayag ni pasko balet akinnet nabebetelan lara amo akenet agla ra makadalan dyad thread tayo siguro wala larad divisoria ya mangasaliw na antokaman,hehehe:nuts::nuts:

Sa Camiling ako, kabit bayan lang pala tayo. Kaya lang nasa Manila ako, dito ako nagwowork.:D:D Baka kilala mo si koreanboy, forumer din dito na taga Bayambang at nasa Korea.nabasa ko yung mga post nya,kaso mukhang nagpahinga rin ata napagod siguro sa kakakayod para kumita ng money.heeehehe anong work mo sa manila?kailan ka kaya makapunta ng bayambang para makuhanan mo ung bagong munisipyo annex yata yun ano?tama ba ako ?

Speaking of Camiling....pinadadaan na ba ulit sa Hi-way ang mga Bus..
or umiikot pa din mula sa Mangatarem thru Urbiztondo-Bayambang-Camiling

ang layo ng daan don at liblib...delekado pag gabi wala pa namang mga ilaw sa poste...bakit ano bang nangyari sa highway na yan, yan ba yung rumulo high way ang tinutukoy mo kurimaw este suri_maw ?hehehehe

Alam nyo guys, yan dapat ang karapat-dapat na maging city kasi puro developments. Di tulad ng ibang lugar na lang na nagka-Jollibee or mall na, ay city na kaagad... Buti na lang naibalik na yung mga naging city sa municipality... Yung iba nga doon, ngayon ko lang narining sa tanang buhay ko...:ohno:

hi frauline,musta kabayan .oo nga ung iba porke provincial capital lang gusto maging syudad na,anong mayroon sa syudad na wala sa bayan,ahhhhh ung tinatawag na IRA siguro mas malaki kasi ang ira ng syudad kaysa sa bayan,or siguro mas malaki ang sahod ng mayor sa syudada kaysa sa bayan.buti na lang naibalik na ang mg iyan.ilan na ba ang bayan ngaun sa Pangasinan na 1st class ang status,tulungan nyo ako mag search para may maiambag naman tayo dito sa thread plsssssss

http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/image021.gif http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/image039-1.jpg http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/da5.jpg http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/z191223261.jpg http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/pangasinan_hundred_islands.jpg kahit saan anggulo tignan ang Pangasinan tunay nga na maipagmamalaki ko,kultura,torismo,ekonomiya,at iba pa.

^^
masantos ya labi ed sikayo!

ni, nya so aerial view na pantal river, Dagupan city
http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/1-THE-FISH-PEN-CITY.jpg
http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/1-THE-FISH-PEN-CITY.jpg

LINGAYEN -- President Benigno Aquino III picked three Pangasinenses to help his administration.

The Provincial Board members officially congratulated two of them by passing provincial resolutions.

But they missed out one who was also recently appointed.



During their session Friday morning, the Provincial Board chaired by Acting Governor Jeremy Agerico Rosario passed provincial resolutions number 91-2010 and 92-2010.

Resolution 91-2010 congratulates former fifth district congressman and Urdaneta City mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. who was named as head of the Manila Economic and Cultural Office (Meco).

The second resolution was for the appointment of former Board Member Francisco Baraan III as Undersecretary at the Department of Justice.

But there was no resolution for Undersecretary Dante Velasco of the Department of Transportation and Communication.

The board members describe the appointment of Perez as a manifestation of Perez's "capability and capacity to head the Meco in the promotion of trade, investments, tourism, labor and scientific and cultural cooperation with Taiwan in coordination with Philippine government and the private sectors."

"That, his unparalleled accomplishments and achievements as former congressman and former mayor are indeed enviable and worth emulating and will serve as an inspiration for others to follow," they said.

Perez is one of the most respected political leaders in the province of Pangasinan. He was succeeded as mayor in Urdaneta City by his son Amadeo Gregorio Perez IV.

Baraan, a lawyer, served as board member in 1988 to 1992, 1995 to 1998 and 1998 to 2001.

Provincial Resolution 92-2010 described Baraan's stint in the Provincial Board as fruitful, and that he served his province well in the performance of his legislative function through the passage of quality and effective legislations.

"Atty. Baraan is known to be one of the more popular and respected legal luminaries this province has ever produced," it further read. (LCMY/Sunnex)

panoramic view na dagupan nu labi
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source: miguelvaldez : flickr.com

LINGAYEN–The Dagupan City government has extended the deadline for the dismantling of all fish pens and other illegal structures along rivers in the city from September 1 to the 30th.

Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim said the one-month extension is intended to let fish pen owners recover part of their investment by giving them time to allow the fish that they have restocked in June or July to grow bigger for harvesting.


Lim, who took over the mayorship in July, noted that bangus in Dagupan and elsewhere along the Lingayen Gulf coast normally takes 90 days to mature into a marketable size.

At the same time, the mayor stressed that after September 30, there will be no more excuses to delay the removal of all contraptions in the city’s rivers.

Lim made the announcement when he joined on August 24 the signing of a covenant for a province-wide Clean Up Drive of Rivers and Waterways spearheaded by Governor Amado Espino Jr.

CONTRACT VIOLATION

The mayor also said that the city government is set to file cases against the illegal fish pen owners for violation of contract as contained in the Aqua-culture Lease Agreements (ALAs) even as some fish pen owners have earlier threatened to sue the city government for violation of contract.

Lim countered it is the fish pen owners who have actually violated the contract by failing to follow the terms provided under the ALA.

“Let them try (to sue us),” Lim dared the fish pen owners.

The ALA, issued by the city government to fish pen owners, is required by the local ordinance before the construction of structures can commence.

The removal of all fish pens and illegal structures in rivers and waterways in Dagupan is in line with Lim’s announced policy for a one-year moratorium on the establishment of fish pens to give the city’s waters some rest and allow fish and other aquatic life to re-generate.

But before officially declaring the moratorium, city hall will hold a symposium in mid September to be participated in by all stakeholders that include owners of fishponds and pens, fisher folks, bangus wholesalers and retailers, representatives of barangays, advocacy groups, environmentalists, and businessmen to discuss the state and future of the city’s rivers and the aquaculture industry.

The mayor also pointed out a need to amend the existing fishery ordinance which took effect in 2003, particularly the terms for penalties which he said are too light and prone to abuse.—LM

^^
masantos ya labi ed sikayo!

ni, nya so aerial view na pantal river, Dagupan city
http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/1-THE-FISH-PEN-CITY.jpg
http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/1-THE-FISH-PEN-CITY.jpg
marami daw ipinatatayo ngayon dyan na buildings...anu-ano ba yung mga yun? sana may mag-post ng picture kahit renderings lang, dapat maging concious sila sa design para maging tourist friendly

umbabantay kayoy primera balita? :D

nyay litrato da ni,
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0385.jpg?w=599&h=448
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0385.jpg?w=599&h=448
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0384.jpg?w=637&h=483
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0384.jpg?w=637&h=483
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0386.jpg?w=641&h=482

GMA Channel 10 Compound, Dagupan City
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0387.jpg?w=642&h=488
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0387.jpg?w=642&h=488

source: http://timelessleap.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/gma-channel-10-guest/

^^
masantos ya labi ed sikayo!

ni, nya so aerial view na pantal river, Dagupan city
http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/1-THE-FISH-PEN-CITY.jpg
http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/1-THE-FISH-PEN-CITY.jpg

mas masangting siguro no walay makaalay aerial view na buong dagupan city awa,gawan aliguas_malamang sika so sangkaunaan ya makagawa ya ed thred tayo.:):)

panoramic view na dagupan nu labi
http://i41.tinypic.com/25i3azb.jpg
source: miguelvaldez : flickr.com

wow,masangting manaya so view na dagupan no labi,,,antomay singa nan hugis x mas light,taytay ta man?

marami daw ipinatatayo ngayon dyan na buildings...anu-ano ba yung mga yun? sana may mag-post ng picture kahit renderings lang, dapat maging concious sila sa design para maging tourist friendly

mukhang magandang gawing cbd ang junction ng De venecia expressway at ng tapuac road, di ba tapos tuloy tuloy hanggang doon sa junction ng calasiao.

marami daw ipinatatayo ngayon dyan na buildings...anu-ano ba yung mga yun? sana may mag-post ng picture kahit renderings lang, dapat maging concious sila sa design para maging tourist friendly
:cheers:
oo, nung nagpunta ako ng Dagupan, may under constuction sa may perez blvd, tabi niya mismo ung tulay dun, isuzu ata ung may ari, un kasi ang nakasulat :),mukhang malaki. :banana: dun sa ab fernandez ave., meron din, sa tapat ng city hall, mukahang malaki un. ung CSI resort and hotel at ung Leduc Hotel sa may bandang Tapuac at Lucao un.

umbabantay kayoy primera balita? :D

nyay litrato da ni,
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0385.jpg?w=599&h=448
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0385.jpg?w=599&h=448
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0384.jpg?w=637&h=483
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0384.jpg?w=637&h=483
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0386.jpg?w=641&h=482

GMA Channel 10 Compound, Dagupan City
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0387.jpg?w=642&h=488
http://timelessleap.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mgcarpizo_0387.jpg?w=642&h=488

source: http://timelessleap.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/gma-channel-10-guest/

aliguas-walalay manayay GMA7 ed dagupan city,panun to kasi nabantayan tan no walad byek taew.antoy site so pakabantayan tan ya station?

mas masangting siguro no walay makaalay aerial view na buong dagupan city awa,gawan aliguas_malamang sika so sangkaunaan ya makagawa ya ed thred tayo.:):)

haha:lol: singa lanti gabay kon makalugan ed mini airplane na lingayen tan nu bilbilang makalugan ak, mangala ak na aerial view na dagupan tan arom na baley :D

Yupe....ang Rumulo Highway nga mula Mangatarem hanggang Camiling, meron tulay don na inaayos nila kaya di pwede sa mga Tuck at Bus ito...mga light vehicle lang ang pinadadaan nila, para di na maulit ang nangyari na aksidente nang gumuho iyong isang tulay kasama ang Truck.


bakit ano bang nangyari sa highway na yan, yan ba yung rumulo high way ang tinutukoy mo kurimaw este suri_maw ?hehehehe

wow,masangting manaya so view na dagupan no labi,,,antomay singa nan hugis x mas light,taytay ta man?

on taytay man diad AB Fernandez. singano Golden Bridge na San Francisco lanti so ginawa da :cheers:

:cheers:
oo, nung nagpunta ako ng Dagupan, may under constuction sa may perez blvd, tabi niya mismo ung tulay dun, isuzu ata ung may ari, un kasi ang nakasulat :),mukhang malaki. :banana: dun sa ab fernandez ave., meron din, sa tapat ng city hall, mukahang malaki un. ung CSI resort and hotel at ung Leduc Hotel sa may bandang Tapuac at Lucao un.

aba mukhang updated ka aliguas sa lahat ng developments dyan sa dagupan ,sige kaw ang asahan namin sa projects na yan na magpost ng mga pics nyan,ok lang sa iyo total kaya naman di ba,hayaan mo pagbalik ko 20 months na lang kita tayo dyan sa dagupan treat kita hehehe,eat ol u can hanap ka ng restaurant:banana::banana::banana:yan magsaya kana hehehe.

dapat kaibiganin mo doon ang mga teacher at studyante ng Flight school para maka kuha ka ng aerial shot ng mga lugar sa pangasinan.

haha:lol: singa lanti gabay kon makalugan ed mini airplane na lingayen tan nu bilbilang makalugan ak, mangala ak na aerial view na dagupan tan arom na baley :D

aliguas-walalay manayay GMA7 ed dagupan city,panun to kasi nabantayan tan no walad byek taew.antoy site so pakabantayan tan ya station?

abayag la tan ya programa da, nen 2008 ni tan, 7am, pagkatapos ng unang balita ng unang hirit tas matatapos ng 8am saka unang hirit ulit.wala met so balitang amianan, before 24 oras

aba mukhang updated ka aliguas sa lahat ng developments dyan sa dagupan ,sige kaw ang asahan namin sa projects na yan na magpost ng mga pics nyan,ok lang sa iyo total kaya naman di ba,hayaan mo pagbalik ko 20 months na lang kita tayo dyan sa dagupan treat kita hehehe,eat ol u can hanap ka ng restaurant:banana::banana::banana:yan magsaya kana hehehe.

^^
araratan!! :D
masanting so mangan ed Dagupena restaurant o nu gabay moy pigar-pigar, diman ta ed galvan st. :D

dapat kaibiganin mo doon ang mga teacher at studyante ng Flight school para maka kuha ka ng areal shot ng mga lugar sa pangasinan.

:nuts: kumon hehehe. milugan ak met labat aliwan manpatikyab, katon anggapoy mauges awa?

haha:lol: singa lanti gabay kon makalugan ed mini airplane na lingayen tan nu bilbilang makalugan ak, mangala ak na aerial view na dagupan tan arom na baley :Datan talagan malakas talagay loob mo ah,iner ka mantratrabaho aligus ?

Yupe....ang Rumulo Highway nga mula Mangatarem hanggang Camiling, meron tulay don na inaayos nila kaya di pwede sa mga Tuck at Bus ito...mga light vehicle lang ang pinadadaan nila, para di na maulit ang nangyari na aksidente nang gumuho iyong isang tulay kasama ang Truck.
so ang ibig mong sabihin lahat ng bus mula alaminos(eastern part ng luyag dyan dumadaan sa bayambang?naku lalong makikila ang bayambang nyan dahil makikita ng mga pasahero mula eastern part ng pangasinan ang san carlos at bayambang ay tunay nga na maunlad na.marakep
on taytay man diad AB Fernandez. singano Golden Bridge na San Francisco lanti so ginawa da :cheers:
project nen fernandez ni tan awa,anto kasiy masangting ya nagawa nen LIM dyad dagupan city,kumon na maintain toy 1st class city status na dagupan awa,

atan talagan malakas talagay loob mo ah,iner ka mantratrabaho aligus ?

manaaral ak ni :lol:

Agla undalan so Bus ed San Carlos....Bayambang tan Urbiztondo, no nabalang may Driver...ampano nasabi to ni Basista san undalan ed Urbiztondo-Mangatarem deretson la.....

Baleg manaya'y simba-an ed Bayambang atan la bat traffic ta dakel so estudyante ed baley.... :)


so ang ibig mong sabihin lahat ng bus mula alaminos(eastern part ng luyag dyan dumadaan sa bayambang?naku lalong makikila ang bayambang nyan dahil makikita ng mga pasahero mula eastern part ng pangasinan ang san carlos at bayambang ay tunay nga na maunlad na.marakep

nayari siguro..basta man pirma ka na waiver for safety reason...... :)

:nuts: kumon hehehe. milugan ak met labat aliwan manpatikyab, katon anggapoy mauges awa?

dapat kaibiganin mo doon ang mga teacher at studyante ng Flight school para maka kuha ka ng aerial shot ng mga lugar sa pangasinan.pwede rin.:nuts::nuts::nuts:aliguas maganda ang suggestion ni kuri_maw este suri_maw joe lang .hehehehe taga san ka suri ?

abayag la tan ya programa da, nen 2008 ni tan, 7am, pagkatapos ng unang balita ng unang hirit tas matatapos ng 8am saka unang hirit ulit.wala met so balitang amianan, before 24 orasay si,maganda rin bang panoorin yan balita na yan ,interesting din ba ,ano ang laman ng mga balita buong pangasinan ba o buong northern luzon,kasama pa siguro ang central luzon?

^^
araratan!! :D
masanting so mangan ed Dagupena restaurant o nu gabay moy pigar-pigar, diman ta ed galvan st. :Daggoanta no atawayan ko la tay pigar pigar ,antoy itsura to tan ya naakan na?

:nuts: kumon hehehe. milugan ak met labat aliwan manpatikyab, katon anggapoy mauges awa?mas masanting no lugan kad NAIA odino dyad DMIA tapos mangawit kay parakyut tapos no wala ka lad petek na pangasinan taboy ka la mangawit kamet ya videocam mo,sa palagay mo marakep ba ?.hehehe:lol::lol::banana::banana::banana::badnews::badnews::badnews:parang ganito hehehe

speaking bayambang...di ba may lugar dun sa mataas na hill at may crater sa gitna na pag napabayaan ng mga farmers ang kanilang kalabaw bigla na lang nawawala at may kumakain na di pa nila nakikita hanggang ngayon? subrang laki daw yun na halimaw na naninirahan dun sa gitna ng crater na yun....kase may lamang tubig

Taga Lingayen ak....

Nitan pigar-pigar....di nan tan...amay ilalako da ed gilig labat o amay kien
kukuyungen ni......:bash:

Agiii..no unlugan ed DMIA or NAIA...CX lanang ya undadalan diad Pangasinan..


pwede rin.:nuts::nuts::nuts:aliguas maganda ang suggestion ni kuri_maw este suri_maw joe lang .hehehehe taga san ka suri ?

aggoanta no atawayan ko la tay pigar pigar ,antoy itsura to tan ya naakan na?

mas masanting no lugan kad NAIA odino dyad DMIA tapos mangawit kay parakyut tapos no wala ka lad petek na pangasinan taboy ka la mangawit kamet ya videocam mo,sa palagay mo marakep ba ?.hehehe

manaaral ak ni :lol:sige suportaan taka ed planum except ed allowances hehehehe

Agla undalan so Bus ed San Carlos....Bayambang tan Urbiztondo, no nabalang may Driver...ampano nasabi to ni Basista san undalan ed Urbiztondo-Mangatarem deretson la.....

Baleg manaya'y simba-an ed Bayambang atan la bat traffic ta dakel so estudyante ed baley.... :)suri taga iner ka dyad pangasinan?kakaunla kala manaya ed bayambang antoy ginawam di man.angaliw ka siguro na sibuyas hehehe

nayari siguro..basta man pirma ka na waiver for safety reason...... :)nasusulsulan la si aliguas say irap to et nabwas et gawaen to lan tampol so plano to whahahahaha.

pwede rin.:nuts::nuts::nuts:aliguas maganda ang suggestion ni kuri_maw este suri_maw joe lang .hehehehe taga san ka suri ?

ay si,maganda rin bang panoorin yan balita na yan ,interesting din ba ,ano ang laman ng mga balita buong pangasinan ba o buong northern luzon,kasama pa siguro ang central luzon?

aggoanta no atawayan ko la tay pigar pigar ,antoy itsura to tan ya naakan na?

mas masanting no lugan kad NAIA odino dyad DMIA tapos mangawit kay parakyut tapos no wala ka lad petek na pangasinan taboy ka la mangawit kamet ya videocam mo,sa palagay mo marakep ba ?.hehehe:lol::lol::banana::banana::banana::badnews::badnews::badnews:parang ganito hehehe

natuloy din pala yung pagaya ng GMA sa ABS-CBN na may parang regional programming scheds bawat region

Dimmalan labat ta aga nayari so dalan ed Romulo highway saray Bus.... :)


suri taga iner ka dyad pangasinan?kakaunla kala manaya ed bayambang antoy ginawam di man.angaliw ka siguro na sibuyas hehehe

ay si,maganda rin bang panoorin yan balita na yan ,interesting din ba ,ano ang laman ng mga balita buong pangasinan ba o buong northern luzon,kasama pa siguro ang central luzon?

Napakagandang programa ng GMA yan, may one on one interview pa sila sa mga pulitiko, ngo's, pulis, etc.
Buong Northern Luzon at pati ibang probinsya ng Central Luzon(Tarlac at Nueva Ecija)


aggoanta no atawayan ko la tay pigar pigar ,antoy itsura to tan ya naakan na?

mananam tan, search mod google nu anton klasen kakanen tan hehe.


mas masanting no lugan kad NAIA odino dyad DMIA tapos mangawit kay parakyut tapos no wala ka lad petek na pangasinan taboy ka la mangawit kamet ya videocam mo,sa palagay mo marakep ba ?.hehehe:lol::lol::banana::banana::banana::badnews::badnews::badnews:parang ganito hehehe
hahaha, akalek ak lasid inpambagam, sarag to met, ipatey ko la balet :nuts:

speaking bayambang...di ba may lugar dun sa mataas na hill at may crater sa gitna na pag napabayaan ng mga farmers ang kanilang kalabaw bigla na lang nawawala at may kumakain na di pa nila nakikita hanggang ngayon? subrang laki daw yun na halimaw na naninirahan dun sa gitna ng crater na yun....kase may lamang tubigmalapit lang sa amin ung hill na yan yang tinutukoy mo pero wala pa naman akong balita ,siguro dahil dito me sa ibang bansa,pero kung halimaw naku nakakatakot lamang lupa yata iyon,o di kayay taong lupa(magnanakaw)hehehe

Taga Lingayen ak....
Nitan pigar-pigar....di nan tan...amay ilalako da ed gilig labat o amay kien
kukuyungen ni......:bash:

Agiii..no unlugan ed DMIA or NAIA...CX lanang ya undadalan diad Pangasinan..ay si ,masanting ya lugar so lingayen kasi patag tan baleg so area na poblacion kanyan walang potential ton pangipaalageyan na tourism zone,apigar pigar ya tuwa si aliguas ontan so nagawa to no gawaen to yay sulsul ta hehehe

Taga Lingayen ak....

Nitan pigar-pigar....di nan tan...amay ilalako da ed gilig labat o amay kien
kukuyungen ni......:bash:

Agiii..no unlugan ed DMIA or NAIA...CX lanang ya undadalan diad Pangasinan..

taga ka lingayen manaya, sige siren ta sika lay unlugan ed eroplano da :lol:

speaking bayambang...di ba may lugar dun sa mataas na hill at may crater sa gitna na pag napabayaan ng mga farmers ang kanilang kalabaw bigla na lang nawawala at may kumakain na di pa nila nakikita hanggang ngayon? subrang laki daw yun na halimaw na naninirahan dun sa gitna ng crater na yun....kase may lamang tubig
agi, makapataktakot diman manaya, natan k labat tan naantaan:lol: