Dagupan Civil Registry bags national award
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, People & Events | Leave a Comment
Dagupan City Civil Registry was among those recently cited by the National Statistics Office for efficient performance and delivery of service to Dagupeños and non-Dagupeños.
The City Civil Registry placed sixth, under the extra large category, "in the performance and delivery of its civil registration programs, activities and services" during the period of January to [...]
Dagupan lady lawyer named Assistant Solicitor General
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, People & Events | Leave a Comment
PRESIDENT President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently appointed a Dagupeña as assistant Solicitor General.
Atty Sarah Jane Fernandez graduated with a degree of B.S. Legal Management from the Ateneo de Manila University. She was conferred a Juris Doctor Degree (Second Honors) by the Ateneo de Manila School of Law in 1994.
ASG Fernandez, 37, also holds a Master in [...]
HARVARD CLASSMATES
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, People & Events, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
HARVARD CLASSMATES — Rachel Arenas and her mother-philanthropist Rose Marie “Baby”Arenas recently honored Nileema Noble (right), UNDP resident representative at a reception held at Captain’s Bar of Mandarin Oriental, Manila. Noble, a classmate of Rachel at the Fletcher School of Management in Harvard is concurrently the United Nations Resident Coordinator. The occasion, which coincided with [...]
Ex-Miss Dagupan turns centenarian
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, People & Events | Leave a Comment
ROLL out the carpet, sound the trumpets! Make way for the oldest living "Miss Dagupan"!
Miss Dagupan Luisa Legaspi Maramba, will turn 100 years old on August 25 this year.
She was chosen Miss Dagupan in 1930 when she was 24 years old.
"Metring", as she is fondly called by her friends and relatives, is the [...]
MAYOR'S BIRTHDAY BASH
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, People & Events, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
MAYORS BIRTHDAY BASH — The Biskeg na Pangasinan's board of directors led by its founding chairman Usec Antonio Villar Jr. (seated, second from right) joins hundreds of well-wishers who greeted Bayambang Mayor Leocadio de Vera Jr (standing third right) on the occasion of his birthday celebration last Aug. 11. Also present were, Board Member Emmanuel [...]
UPang launches project CESAR
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, People & Events | Leave a Comment
The University The University of Pangasinan last week launched "CESAR", a community-oriented program that would put more meaning to its vow to transform individuals and communities.
CESAR, an acronym for Community Extension Services through Action and Research in honor of its chairman Cesar Duque who inspired it, will use and align its resources to develop [...]
UPang Pitaki Boyz rip PSU quintet
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under News, People & Events, Sports | Leave a Comment
By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr.
BARGING into the top four for the semis didn't seem like a tall order for the defending champion University of Pangasinan Pitaki Boyz early in the tournament.
Last Monday, the fourth day of hostilities of the PRISAA Pangasinan-Dagupan Intercollegiate Basketball Invitational Championship held at Dagupan People's Astrodome, the Pitaki boyz were [...]
Editorial
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon | Leave a Comment
Leave the electric poles alone
What appears to be simply a legal tussle between two giants, the Dagupan City government and the Dagupan Electric Corporation over the payment of real property tax by the latter is actually a Damocles' sword hanging over the heads of all Decorp customers. This is a legal war whose only [...]
Punchline
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under Opinion, Punchline | Leave a Comment
Decorp customers, the ultimate victims
By Ermin Garcia Jr.
There is definitely more to the brouhaha over the insistence of the Lim government to compel Dagupan Electric Corporation to pay real property tax for the hundreds of electric poles erected around the city. [...]
Here and There
Posted on August 21, 2006 - Filed Under Here and There, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Choral rebirth in Dagupan?
By Gerry Garcia
The University of Pangasinan Glee Club's bagging top honors, together with Russia, in the choral competition in Xiamen, China mid-July (dubbed the 4th World [...]
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