Bangus Festival's search for 'fairest bangus' on
Posted on April 6, 2008 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
THE search is on for the most “beautiful” bangus in Pangasinan.
Dagupan City Councilor Lino Fernandez, chairman of the committee for the Bangus Rodeo of the 2008 Bangus Festival, called on all bangus raisers in the province to bring their “biggest, heaviest, longest and most beautiful” bangus on April 29 at the Malimgas Market for the [...]
Mayors sign tri-city ferry MOA
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ALAMINOS CITY—The memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the ferry project within the Lingayen Gulf between this city and the cities of Dagupan and San Fernando in La Union was signed on March 31 at the Welcome House at Lucap Wharf here.
The MOA was signed by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza, Dagupan City Mayor Alipio [...]
Mayor Al supports plans for Dagupan "Chinatown"
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MAYOR Alipio Fernandez Jr. has expressed full support for the development of a Chinatown in Dagupan as proposed by the city’s Filipino-Chinese community. "I am open to the idea because it will be a big boon to the city," Fernandez said even as he pointed out that he and members of [...]
Reward up for info on killer of Urdaneta bank manager
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URDANETA CITY—An initial P50,000 reward has been raised by the Rotary Club of Urdaneta North (RCUN) for information that could lead to the arrest of the killer of a bank manager here, a Rotarian herself.
Superintendent Jimili Macaraeg, city police chief, said RCUN, through its president Bryan Sison, offered the [...]
Alaminos expands feeding program coverage
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ALAMINOS CITY—At least 12,000 public elementary school children here will be covered by the city government’s feeding program when classes begin in June.
Mayor Hernani Braganza told newsmen the feeding project, which has been ongoing for the last three years, is part of the local government’s program to help the impoverished families.
Previously, only malnourished children were [...]
Squatters to finally give way to seafood processing plant
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FIFTY three informal settler households will be relocated to give way to the construction of the Seafood Processing Plant in Bonuan Binloc beginning June this year.
City Engineer Virginia Rosario, chair of the city’s Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement, said some of the families will be moved to the Gawad Kalinga Bangusville [...]
Olympic-sized pool seen to boost Hundred Islands
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ALAMINOS CITY—The Hundred Islands will soon have an added attraction - an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
The pool, now under construction, is expected to draw in more tourists, said Mayor Hernani Braganza.
The swimming pool, a project funded by the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA), is built at the [...]
White shrimp summit set on May 8-9 at NFRDI
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THE Pacific white shrimp Penaeus vannamei takes center stage on May 8-9 when the National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI) hosts a summit highlighting the Philippine experience on the species.
Dr. Westly Rosario, NFRDI interim executive director and chief of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Dagupan, said this is the [...]
JCI commends Councilors Fernandez, Decano
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JCI Dagupan Inc. recently hailed two Dagupan City councilors “for distinguishing themselves with their unprecedented elections” as heads of their respective national legislators' leagues.
Businessman Alvin Coquia, past president of JCI Dagupan Inc., said the twin feats of Councilors Michael Fernandez and Farah Marie Decano, national chairman of the Philippine Councilors League and national president [...]
Duque passes bar exam
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A son of a prominent clan in Dagupan City was among the country’s new lawyers following the release last week of the 2007 bar examinations results.
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Gonzalito Nicolo E. Duque, son of Lyceum Northwestern University president Gonzalo T. Duque and Ruth E. Duque, who are also both lawyers, was among the law graduates who passed the [...]
