SAN FABIAN — Mayor Mojamito Libunao has agreed to be among the major sponsors of the Mini-Olympics 2006 for Pangasinan’s media practitioners slated by the first week of December at the San Fabian gymnasium.

The mayor made the pledge on Monday in a meeting with Pangasinan Press and Radio Club (PPRC) president Charles Tabayoyong and Myla Hortaleza, sports committee chair person.

The mayor also suggested that the PPRC champion basketball team face his town’s cage champion in an exhibition game.

“When we exercise, we are not only strengthening our human body but also our mental system. You as media persons who are always busy must also unwind once in a while for you to recharge and ease the monotony surrounding you,” the mayor said.

Tabayoyong also called on all members of the media to participate in the sportsfest to strengthen their bond of unity, fellowship and camaraderie. — A.P.E

By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr.

FORMER national team member Reynaldo Navarro applied his international skills to out-speed 79 other contestants to win the VictoRey Tour de Tercero Gen. Velasco Cycling Classic last Sunday that started and ended at Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan.

Navarro, 32, of San Jacinto town, skillfully floated with the main pack up to the halfway mark,   then accelerated and caught up with the leaders 55 kilometers to the finish, and eventually out-sprinted his four breakaway partners in the last 250 meters to pocket the P10,000 top prize.

Navarro, set to marry on December 7, also won an incentive prize worth P500 at the second of two summit lines in San Carlos City donated by Houston, Texas based brothers Blandino and Amor Caguioa

Asingan stalwart Baler Ravina came in close second to bag P8,000 and P500 for topping the first summit line in  San Carlos City.
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The much awaited amateur boxing tournament dubbed “Congressman Mark Cojuangco Boxing Cup” will be staged on November 9 at the Urdaneta City Sports and Cultural Center.

      Former Villasis mayor Ramon Morden, chief coordinator of the event, said the tourney, open only to boxers from the fifth district of Pangasinan, will have two categories: 12-13 years old and 14-15 years old. Cash prizes and medals are at stake.

      He added that boxers from La Union will stage exhibition matches against Pangasinan’s best aged 18 years and above.

      Another highlight of the one-day fest are goodwill bouts between members of the Philippine national team and national teams of Sri Lanka and Malaysia. 

VELASCO CYCLING CLASSIC — Police Regional Director Leopoldo Bataoil, Korean cycling benefactor Dukshin Park and retired PNP Deputy Director General Reynaldo Velasco flash the V sign before sending off 80 cyclists to a 178-kilometer journey across eastern Pangasinan in the Victorey Tour de Tercero Distrito cycling classic held October 29. - (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)

CYCLING WINNER – Retired police director Reynaldo Velasco presents trophy and check to Reynaldo Navarro who ruled the Victorey Tour de Tercero Distrito (General Velasco’s Cycling Classic) last October 29 in Sta. Barbara town. Assisting him is his wife, Fatima. – (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)

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Mere opposition to sanitary landfill won’t cut it

here should be no question in anyone’s mind that our communities’ best alternative to an efficient waste management disposal is to construct a sanitary landfill. In fact, it’s the only remaining viable technology that the country has provided under R.A. 9003.

The only other choice is to maintain open dumpsites, build more Smokey Mountains across the country. This in effect is what the opposition to the construction of a sanitary landfill in Bayambang will lead to. But is this what the oppositors want? We seriously doubt it.

They have expressed their opposition but they have not presented any other alternative. And they won’t because they know that the only alternative left is in fact sanitary landfill. Meanwhile, Bayambang and all towns in Pangasinan will have to contend with the diseases and deadly pollution spawned by present open dumpsites, which by the way are already illegal.
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Wanted: a new JDV legacy

By Ermin Garcia Jr.

Finally outflanked and out-maneuvered. And surprisingly, for someone politically astute, Speaker Joe de V did not see that coming. 

            Don’t look now but the plot to double-cross the Speaker in GMA-vintage fashion is beginning to surface. Note how Executive Sec. Ed Ermita made no bones about Malacanang being open to a constitutional convention as the other avenue to amend the charter, even as other outspoken alter egos of Mrs. Arroyo like Gabby Claudio and Romy Makalintal started to douse cold water on the planned Con-ASS.

            The objective for the new GMA plot is - without the Con-ASS in place, all bets are off.  Our Joe de V will not be prime minister.
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Raul’s Sigaw: SC should deal with law not fact

By Gerry Garcia

THE Dawel-Pantal-Lucao diversion road meant to divert traffic around the traffic-congested city will end up, upon completion, at the new center of congestion in the Tapuac CSI Warehouse area. It’s here where bumper-to-bumper traffic is unavoidable due to the number of cars and jeeps entering and leaving the CSI complex especially during peak hours.

This is also where traffic from the de Venecia diversion road from Calasiao ends up finally to further confuse the ensuing congestion in the area.
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A few lessons from the China visit

By Jun Velasco

AS SOON  as he stepped down from the Presidential Plane from China, San Carlos City Mayor Jolly  Resuello, who was in the President’s Party, along with Congressman Gener Tulagan and a few others, called up just  to exult how deeply impressed he was with President Gloria Arroyo’s  round-the-clock work regimen.

At least, what he saw during the five-day China visit last week.

“Hindi na ata natutulog,” Resuello gasped. “Grabe, pare, all of us was on our toes, amazed at her minute-to-minute work, a fast-paced working machine; tireless, precise, almost perfect, always exuding warmth, friendliness, and we saw and felt her as our beloved leader.”

Was Jolly infatuated with Gloria?
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