Mission: Make Pangasinan harelip-free

By Eva C. Visperas

It started as a pity on his niece. She had harelip and had developed an inferiority complex, shying away from people, even from her relatives, because of her physical deformity.

Dr. Jess Canto, Region 1 Medical Center hospital director based in Arellano district, Dagupan City, narrated last week to a group of sexy reporters (just ask me who they are as this is very confidential) that he felt he could do something to put an end to this niece’s misery.

And he did. He performed the surgery and the rest was history, as we love to put it.

When he became lieutenant governor of Kiwanis Club, he achieved a sterling record when he implemented “Children Priority One Project” that promoted child care starting from pregnancy. In fact, he was one of the five finalists for Civil Service Commission’s Lingkod Bayan last year for his good public service record.
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Pangasinan’s pride in Agricultural Research

By Sosimo Ma. Pablico

DR. JOVITA M. Datuin of San Carlos City, 52, is probably one of the busiest bodies in the Department of Agriculture in the Ilocos nowadays, as she is the lead person in the agency’s efforts of pushing livestock production in the region, most especially goats.

Jovy, as she is more popularly known, has hardly enough time to sit down in her office, as she is out most of the most time conducting farmers’ field schools for livestock raisers as well as following up the implementation of in the project with municipal agriculture technologists in the four provinces of the Ilocos Region.

One project that she has been hell-bent in implementing after finishing the Doctor of Philosophy in animal science at the Central Luzon State University in 2004 is goat production. Together with her team from the DA Ilocos Integrated Agriculture Research Center [ILARC], which is headed by Edmund Quinit, she has established demonstration sites in Bani, Bugallon, Mangatarem and Alaminos City in Pangasinan, as well as Galimuyod and Vigan City in Ilocos Sur.
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Jokes Unlimited

By +Oscar V. Cruz

It is said that among their distinct traits, Filipinos love music, food and fiestas, in particular, they enjoy making and telling jokes. And it is no secret that most of the jokes they think, write and send are rather good. In fact, very good. The jokes are not only funny but also incisive and revealing of both ridiculous and sad realities.

The truth is that jokes about the previous Malacaňang occupant were so many and varied that certain individuals found it fun and profitable to gather them and have them printed in book forms. The joke books sold only but a little less than the Da Vinci Code. The joke books published locally even reached many Filipinos living abroad to their delight.

Something however has to be said about the jokes on the previous national leadership. The fun and pun were mostly intended for good laughs, for innocent diversion. The jokes ranged from speaking and understanding English to the matter of table manners and social graces. The jokes were by and large innocent ones such that there were times that even their target made fun of himself as a sign of good humor.
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Story of an OFW

By Emmanuelle

Elena was the only child of a widowed mother.  She had only her high school diploma to her name, and a few semesters in a university in Pangasinan to affix to her biodata; but Elena had overwhelming ambition and determination. And she had the luxury of time before the rush. Elena belonged to the earliest groups of Filipina women who flocked to the various overseas employment offices in the 80’s, when lines were not so long as to snake from block to block, and recruiters did not charge as much as the worth of a house.

Elena was contracted for two years as a domestic help in Hong Kong. She embraced her mother goodbye: Inay, this will only be for a little while. Her mother burst in tears; but she had always been in tears each time her daughter left - for school, for a job, and now this. What mother wouldn’t? Elena promised she would always take care of her mother, and her mother’s relatives in need. And she did so, simply and without much ado.

Elena first became an OFW when she was still in her early twenties. She pushed her homesickness aside by burying herself in good, honest work that she was renewed for another contract of two years. Home for a while in her barrio near the foot of the Cordillera range, she bought her first investment - her first parcel of land in her name.
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Eduardo Pontaoe
15 July 2006

Mr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico:

The profession you are in allows no mistake. Any word or two could make or break a person. What you write is the guideline for readers especially the young ones. Any misinformation they gleaned is destructive to their educational growth.

You disagreed most profoundly when I said your articles are full of confusion which is true basing on the simple analysis on what you wrote.

Mr. Brando Garcia, on his post on the 3rd discussed the implications of cloning on his understanding how you explained biotechnology which a lay person could comprehend very clearly it was cloning . . . the horizontal transfer of genetic material.

But, just looking at what Miss Danilda can do, I can say with utmost sincerity, she is not yet capable of specie duplication on her experience, her knowledge and what kind of equipment at her disposal.

When you made that fatal mistake of the relation of cryopreservation and vitrification you seemed oblivious to the consequence that you might get caught with the infraction. Still, you wrote it up without proper research, assuming it will pass. It did not.

Was it huris, Mr. Pablico that drove you to such a blunder? The overconfidence of your persona? That you were so sure of yourself you need no editor to look it up?

My basis, Mr. Pablico, on the confusion you sown on your articles is not at random. I don’t have to read your write-ups since the sixties to see how you performed. There was a precedent prior to my post on the 8th.

My post on the 28th of April disputed your enthusiastically endorsed innovation of Bautista and Tadeo of the PRRI on the walk-behind tractor we call “kuliglig”. Though it was problematically impossible to put the additives on a machine designed for simplicity, you without proper engineering consultation trumpeted to a gullible public such machine is capable for change. Never heard from you, Bautista and Tadeo if that idea tanked or you made a financial killing. Your silence meant it took a dive.

I knew then your journalistic consistency is something to be desired. Defective.

Well, Mr. Pablico, let me be unambiguous. Before you offer any advice remember what I always emphasized in the Forum . . . . don’t get caught.

Brando Garcia
15 July 2006

Not bad. These are all good ideas. Keep on dreaming. How about teaching the children at school (elementary, high school and college, particularly elementary), the value of ETHICS and MORALITY? This is what everybody lacks, ETHICS and MORALITY. I bet you that if you do drug testing on all this so called “Philippine politicians”, they will be much obliged. But if you do an Ethics and Morality testing on them? They will file a protest right away. Your dreams, it may happen someday, but not in my generation.