LEAVE us alone.

This was the sharp retort of Liga ng mga Barangay president Eric Muñoz to Mayor Benjamin Lim who wrote the former last week urging him to settle the discord within the ranks of their organization.

In his letter to the mayor, Muñoz asked Lim to allow him and the Liga members to settle their problems without him getting into the picture.

“I respect you so much, but I do not want to add this organizational problem hanging on your back, so please allow us to settle this among ourselves and ourselves alone,”  Muñoz  urged the mayor.
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THE SHORTER BRIDGE FIRST - Workers now put finishing touches to the approach to the newly-built concrete bridge along the still unfinished Dawel-Pantal road, a far shorter bridge compared to the P903 million new Pantal bridge whose construction has already started. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)

NEW CHAPEL - Congressman Conrado Estrella III and Engr. Rosendo So, president of the Eastern Pangasinan Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, cut the inaugural ribbon for the newly constructed chapel of Camp Narciso Ramos in Tayug last September 15. Also in photo are P/Supt. Ruben Catabona (left), group director of the 10th Police Mobile Group and Mayor Carlos Mapili of Tayug.

JDV MEDICAL MISSION–Residents of barangay Malued in Dagupan are attended to by personnel of the Region I Medical Center participating in a free medical mission of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., using the mobile JDV Diagnostic Center. The weekly medical mission provides medical and dental services, medicines, laboratory, x-ray and ECG examination as well as minor surgeries for indigents.

Some sixteen “barkers” won’t be barking any time soon.

They were apprehended and issued warnings by the Public Order and Safety Office last Thursday for violating a city ordinance prohibiting anyone to call passengers to board a particular jeepney whether it’s in designated loading and unloading area in the city.

 City Ordinance No. 1849-2005 that bans any person, individual or street child who entices passengers of public utility vehicles at any designated loading and unloading points. It allows only persons in uniform or the legitimate conductors of public utility vehicles to assist passengers within or near any loading and unloading area.
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TAYUG - A bodyguard of a former town mayor was sentenced to life imprisonment for the gunslaying of a former policeman in Umingan town.

In a 13-page decision promulgated Sept. 19, 2006, Judge Ulysses Raciles Butuyan of the regional trial court branch 51 sentenced the accused, Esteban Navarrete, 40, of barangay Maseil-seil, Umingan to life imprisonment for the murder of Romeo Malbas Sr.

The court also ordered Navarrete to pay the heirs of Malbas the sum of P600,000 for damages.

Malbas was shot dead with .45 caliber gun by the accused on Sept. 22, 2001 along barangay Montano, Umingan. The lone eyewitness, Romeo Malbas Jr, positively identified Navarrete as he was then about six meters away only when his father was killed.
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LINGAYEN - The 300-unit Maniboc Housing project, a new low-cost housing project of the provincial government here is now underway.

According to Alvin Bigay of the Pangasinan Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Office (PHUDCO), the construction of the dwelling units is set to start before the yearend with the help of the National Housing Authority and other agencies.

Applicants were recently briefed on loan counseling by representatives of the NHA and PHUDCO to create awareness on their duties and responsibilities as owners, such as monthly amortization, corporate program for housing loan.
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LINGAYEN–The provincial government is out to protect its status as one among the few provinces in the entire country known to be free of the foot-and-mouth disease.

Provincial Board Member Danilo Uy, chairman on agriculture of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, president of the Northern Luzon Hog Raisers Cooperative, composed of owners of 56 commercial  farms, noted that  the provincial government’s checkpoints in various entry points in the province  have been reinforced.

Earlier reports that some traders attempted to bring in diseased livestock from Region III into Region alerted the provincial government.
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WHITE SHRIMP- Director Westly Rosario of the National Fisheries Research Development Institute holds a bowl of two kilos of harvested Peneus vannamei white shrimp produced by 1,000 breeders imported by the government from Hawaii last year.

MISS ENVIRONMENT 2006 — Six-year old Nathalie Earl Caguioa, a kindergarten pupil of the Virgen Milagrosa Child Learning Center (VMCLC) in San Carlos City, holds her trophy for winning Miss Environment 2006 (Twinkler Level) during the annual observance of the GSP Environmental Peace Rally 2006 (Girl Scout Week Celebration) with the theme, “10 million girls… 1 voice, Girls Worldwide Say Discover Your Potentials” last September 19. She was also adjudged Best in Talent. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Caguioa.