MAPANDAN—For Felipe Ogoy and his fellow farmers, time is gold.

     Ogoy said they wake up early every morning to till their farmlands and to gather grass they call dukayang (a type of wild grass for animal feeding), which sells for P20 per bundle.

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      Practical shooters from the different gun clubs in Pangasinan and nearby provinces participated in the 1st Borro’s Cup Invitational Shootfest held at the Dagupan Practical Shooters Association (DPSA) Firing Range in Bonuan Binloc on December15.

      Police Supt. Dionicio Borromeo, Dagupan City police chief, said more than 100 practical shooters joined the two-day event.
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Managing a million

A million pesos may sound like loose change in the big political landscape but that is definitely big bucks at the barangay level.

Speaker Jose de Venecia’s one-million endowment to every barangay in his district, which will come from his  Priority Development Assistance Fund — more popularly and fittingly known as pork barrel, reeks of patronage politics but it is there, it has been offered and barangay officials might as well take full advantage of it.
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Reclaiming Tondaligan Park for the people

By Ermin Garcia Jr.

Now that Dagupan Mayor Al Fernandez is back in the driver’s seat, and is now likely keen on shaping a legacy that Dagupenos will long remember, I certainly hope he will consider the restoration of the natural beauty of Tondaligan Park (Blue Beach) high on his priority action plan!

            While an efficient scandal-free governance should be on top of his list, the transformation of Tondaligan Park finally into a prime tourist destination that the Dagupenos can truly be proud of will long be remembered by generations.
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Good news for home-grown singers from a San Fabian doc

By Gerry Garcia

HERE are encouraging words from Dero Pedero, doctor-columnist of Phil Star’s Health & Family section who is from San Fabian of this province: Singing is good for your health.

Bulletin correspondent Jun “frustrated Elvis” Velasco, especially, and his coterie of fellow-habitues at Vicar Restaurant’s video karaoke bar will get a big kick from Dero’s delightful proclamation.
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Martinez clan is one for Ripley

By Jun Velasco

SOME of the Rotarians thought they were listening to Raul Manglapus when Joey de Venecia hammered at the tough issues Tuesday night at Charlie Ngo’s Star Plaza.

 The  inter city  Rotary  meeting led by Downtown president Romel Partosa , however,  were biting their nails at the avalanche of guests who  came to see and  hear Joey, who became an overnight sensation after he  exposed the aborted NBN ZTE  caper.  We hope the oversized audience didn’t cost the Rotarians a fortune.
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Aguinaldo

By Gonzalo Duque

WE were sad to learn that our Capitol employees will not be given Christmas bonuses because the province’s founding date is not yet an established historical fact.

Wait, whoever was behind this preposterous reasoning must be unChristian.  Even your columnist is being blamed for the sorry fate of the employees because it was us   who started the controversy over the actual discovery of the province.
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‘Simbang Gabi’

By Al S. Mendoza

WE called him Papang (my beloved father). His friends and close kin called him Tonyong (Antonio). Had he not died in 1990, Papang would have turned 91 today.  He was as strong as an ox, until cancer struck.

He and Ermin Garcia Sr. were friends.
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Rough road to development

By Sosimo Ma. Pablico

The mountainous portion of Buldon town in Shariff Kabunsuan, formerly a part of Maguindanao province, was known as the camp of Muslim separationists and fierce encounters between the rebels and the military had been top of the news several years back.

This could be one of the reasons why the road going to this town is “peppered” with several stretches of deep muddy portions such that any ordinary vehicle would have extreme difficulty extricating itself from the mud.
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Unpriestly priests

By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.

Time again from the arrival to the territorial incarnation of the Catholic Church in the Philippines during the Spanish regime to these days, time and again there are downright scandals—immoral acts and dishonest living—committed by the members of the Catholic Clergy here and there, every now and then. And this shameless and disgusting phenomenon in the Church is neither a secret not a big extraordinary rarity. Much less is the serious blatant and at times even bizarre wrongdoing of the Clergy, confined to one country. Instead such gross unpriestly behavior is every now and then witnessed and experienced in other nations where the Church is present and active, and where her Clergy are assigned to different places and given different tasks.
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