Rice supply in Pangasinan assured until August
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LINGAYEN—Rice supply won’t be a problem for Pangasinenses, at least until August.
With 2.8 million bags of rice currently on stock, the National Food Authority (NFA) based here said there should be no shortage problems.
The inventory consists of government stock of about 69,880 available at their warehouses, commercial stock from retailers, wholesalers and millers at 112,136 [...]
Rich squatters defy city hall
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THE campaign of the Dagupan City to regain the shoreline of Bonuan from affluent squatters is now meeting stiff resistance from the latter, with a new trick.
After Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. issued an executive order canceling all the Tax Declaration Certificates (TDCs) over public lots in the area, some of [...]
Villar pledges to help stop smuggling of agri goods
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LINGAYEN–"I will do my part."
This was the response of Undersecretary Antonio Villar Jr., head of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG), to the appeal of Gov. Amado Espino Jr. to help curb the smuggling of agricultural products into the province.
Espino made the appeal when Villar attended the capital town's fiesta celebration last week.
Villar, for his [...]
Dagupan wants P300 M Landbank load restructed
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WITH its annual debt service reaching P60 million a year, Dagupan will seek to restructure its more than P300 million loan with the Land Bank of the Philippines this year.
Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez said a restructuring will enable the city to pay its obligations without compromising its services to the residents.
The planned restructuring [...]
City council OK's P427.5M budget for 2008
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The Dagupan City council approved in its special session on Monday a P427.5 million budget for Dagupan in 2008.
The approved budget is P52 million higher than the P375 million budget last year.
Stressing that the budget is realizable, Councilor Danilo Torio, chair of the committee on finance and appropriations, pointed out that the bigger 2008 budget [...]
New plan for Tondaligan Park set into motion
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TO the relief of city workers, the owners of the remaining old and unsightly picnic sheds at Tondaligan Park in Bonuan Gueset offered no resistance when the deadline for their demolition lapsed.
Councilmen Eddie de Vera and Roger Ceralde said owners of the sheds voluntarily tore down their sheds and beat a bulldozer from [...]
Villasis 'Talong' Festival beckons on January 18
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VILLASIS–Talong (eggplant), the main produce of this town known as the Vegetable Bowl of Pangasinan, takes center stage on January 18, the annual fiesta celebration highlighted by the Talong Festival.
Mayor Nonato Abrenica said the people in their town will once again take the streets for the street dancing, cookfest, float parade, and a grilling showcase, [...]
Prov'l board backs priests vs. marriage seminar order
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LINGAYEN—Provincial officials have thrown their support behind priests and pastors in their protest against a national policy requiring them to undergo a paid orientation seminar on marriage laws. The provincial board of Pangasinan passed a resolution last week urging the National Statistics Office (NSO) to withdraw its memorandum circular, issued in November 2007, requiring Catholic [...]
Gawad Kalinga, Uduja will build 1,048 homes on "sweat equity"
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LINGAYEN–Gawad Kalinga (GK) and the provincial government will provide more than a thousand new houses for the province's poor through“sweat equity” of the beneficiaries.
Engr. Alvin Bigay, provincial housing and homesite regulation officer, told The PUNCH that about 1,048 housing units will be jointly built at a 10-hectare lot within the 30-hectare property of [...]
Sto. Tomas all geared up for longest grill record
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STO. TOMAS–”Walang sunog na mais, lahat masarap kainin (No charred corn, all good for eating).”
Mayor Vivien Villar proudly told The PUNCH after the town completed its fourth dry-run on January 4 for its bid for the longest barbeque in the Guinness Book of World Records using its glutinous white corn product.
Villar said they are ready [...]
