Spines is ill at ease with the media?

By Jun Velasco

ON our way to Dunkin Donut last weekend, a heart-wrenching sight moved us: groups of homeless, sorrow-stricken families lined the sidewalks in front of the University of Pangasinan and Insular Life building on Arellano Street.

A painful question hounded their minds. Where will they live now? How will they mend their broken lives after the shocking loss of home, properties and everything they had labored for for years?
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VM Belen and Lucy Honrado, ok kayo

By Gonzalo Duque

MOST of us in Pangasinan are uneasy and anxious at the political turbulence gripping Malacañang and the House of Representatives.

We share the mutual hurt that is slicing the hearts of two close allies, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Speaker Joe de Venecia. We can only hope and pray that the cause of their mutual hurts will be excised soon and crushed and revive their usual amity, not enmity, for the sake of the country.

And, if we may quote Macky Samson, “for their own mutual interest, too.” Macky, at the birthday of Brian Balingit recently, was quoting JdV when he warned that if he falls, Gloria also falls.
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Lauriat in Tokyo with Rene So

By Al S. Mendoza

GUESS what Rene So and I did only a while back?

We had dinner in Tokyo together with, among others, Danny “Sir John” Isla and Elijah Sue Marcial. It was held on October 23 in a plush hotel where only the likes of Lucio Tan and Bill Gates can afford to dine in nightly without hurting their wallet.

Of course everybody knows Sir John, the dapper Senior Vice President of Toyota Motor Philippines (….TMP), and Elijah, the TMP dynamite of an executive who orchestrated with much gusto the evening’s memorable affair.                                

But Rene So?
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Compost, liquid fertilizer from vegetable refuse

By Sosimo Ma. Pablico

The huge amount of vegetable refuse and other biomass generated everyday at trading posts, bagsakan centers and large public markets could very well be processed right away into compost and li-quid fertilizer that could be used in vegetable production. 

Profugo and Dr. Rene Sumaoang, president and general manager of Novatech Agri-Food Industries, said the liquid component of the biomass can also be processed quickly into liquid fertilizer in just a week.  Thus, LGUs (local government units) with vegetable trading posts or bagsakan centers could generate a lot of revenue by using this process.
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Forgiver and forgiven

By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.

In addition to the significance, gravity and implications of the offense done and proven, forgiveness necessarily carries two terminal reference points. These are none other than the forgiver and the forgiven, viz., the person giving the forgiveness and the person receiving the forgiveness. There is nothing complex or profound in this reality—specially so among Christians one of whose noble virtues is to forgive their offenders as a sign of their generosity and benevolence.
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Fernandez saves Fernandez

By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.

IS Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez self-destructing or anti-cycling?

This is a question which needs a clear and logical answer from public servant Madam Belen pertaining to a cycling event held last Sunday at Tondaligan, Bonuan.

I was not the organizer of last Sunday’s race. It was Ric David Rodriguez, a Tarlaqueno and a nationally well-known promoter. He is a relative of Madam Mina, who conceptualized the bikefest, which was originally called the “Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez Cup” as she was at that time the acting mayor of the city.
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Dagupan’s ‘Bayani’

By Marifi Jara

The October 21 fire that razed most of Sitio Aling, a wide slum area in Dagupan with more than 100 houses, brings to the fore a gnawing problem that is characteristic of most urban places in developing countries within Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Slum colonies are more often than not a breeding ground for criminal elements; without proper utility services, they are a threat to the wider health and sanitation condition; these, in some cases, literally impede on infrastructure development plans; and the sight is, uh, unpleasant.
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True jest is no true jest

By Emmanuelle

 

THE average Filipino must have been born equipped with a funny bone sticking out tickling him somewhere between joints of his skeleton. He is a jest in human form.

What is a jest? It is a joke, a witty remark, a short funny anecdote. It may take a more cruel form of a banter, taunt or a jeer. It can be a subject or action word. Here, it is personified.

Let us magpaligoy-ligoy for an example. Extract a Pinoy  from his natural, normal environment and plop him some place foreign where he sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. Does he cringe in agoraphobic fear and promptly melts himself down the sewers? Humph, no. He wiggles his shoulders, his hips; he cranks up his neck, his spine; he flexes his fingers and toes. He shifts shape!
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PROLONGED LEGAL BATTLE LOOMS

DPWH backs city engineer

A protracted legal battle over the issuance of a building permit may have just begun.

After the Regional Trial Court in Dagupan City issued a writ of mandamus directing City Engineer Ma. Virginia Rosario to immediately issue a building permit to MetroState Realty Corporation for the halted construction of the tourism-commercial building at the former Magsaysay Park, the Dagupan City government is poised to seek a reversal of the decision.

City Legal Officer George Mejia, who is representing Rosario in the civil case, said he has been instructed by Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. and City Administrator Alvin Fernandez to file a motion for reconsideration.
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SAN CARLOS CITY–Mayor Julier Resuello is crying out for justice.

     The young mayor, whose father, former Mayor Julian Resuello, was gunned down at the height of the campaign for the May election, said he is beginning to fear that the killing of his father will remain among the many unsolved killings in the province.

More than six months since the crime, “Nothing has happened yet,” lamented Resuello, the eldest among the 23 children of the slain mayor.

“Naiinip na rin ako (I’m also getting impatient),” he said.
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