Dagupan City is host to the Philippine Society of Anesthesiologists (PSA), Inc.’s annual mid-year convention scheduled on May 2 - 4.

This year’s theme is ‘Hundred Islands, Hundred Options’ in recognition of Panga-sinan’s world-renowned Hundred Islands. The event will also highlight Dagupan as the “Bangus Capital.”

Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim will welcome the delegates from all over the country on opening night (May 2). Invited as keynote speaker during the welcome dinner is Pangasinan Governor Victor Agbayani.
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FORMER Councilor Belen Fernandez vowed to put more help to the city’s day care centers in order to boost the early education of pre-schoolers.

FORMER Councilor Belen Fernandez urges
parents to send their children to day care centers

Interviewed by Orly Navarro in his program at Aksyon Radio, Fernandez called on parents to enroll their youngsters in day care centers and guide them to study harder up to high school and college.

FORMER Councilor Belen Fernandez
reiterates support for Day Care Centers.

An advocate for better literacy, Fernandez reiterated her support to day care center to help toddlers obtain better education during their formative years.

PUPILS and their parents at the recognition program
for Barangay IV at Bacayao Sur Elementary School.

She said that even after leaving the city to concentrate in her private business, her company City Supermarket Inc. continued its support for day centers to make sure that the day care pupils and their teachers will have an ally in the private sector.

Councilor Dada Reyna greets parents attending
the recognition program for Cluster IV.

She recalled that CSI was among the first companies in the city to give its support to day care centers.

Ms. Fernandez said she is willing to sit down with private educational institutions to ask for their advice on how to institutionalize help to the different day care centers.

The former councilor was the guest of honor and speakers in cluster recognition programs of different day care centers supported by CSI recently.

DAY care center pupils during their Cluster IV recognition program at the Bacayao Sur Elementary Gym with the guest speaker former City Councilor Belen Fernandez at the back with teachers and barangay officials.

De Venecia

MEMORIES might be too short for a few of us. But had it not been for then Congressman Jose De Venecia Jr., life would STILL be a little miserable for all of us in Dagupan City.

Think about it.

When Dagupan was buried by mountains of rubble left by the July 16, 1990 earthquake, there was little hope that the city can get back to its feet. There was widespread panic caused by fears that the city will sink to the bottom of the sea.

But the durable Dagupeños, buoyed up by their faith that help will be coming, dug in and hoped for the best.

It did come. Congress responded quickly by passing on August 7, 1990 Republic Act 6960 authored by Fourth District Congressman Jose de Venecia Jr. that appropriated P10 billion for the massive aid and rehabilitation of all areas in Luzon affected by the killer earthquake and its aftershocks.

Uncertain on where the government would get this big amount of money to rebuild the area devastated by the quake, President Corazon C. Aquino sent Congressman De Venecia and other lawmakers on a mission abroad to look for funds from foreign donors to bankroll a giant effort to bring the devastated areas back to their feet.

Dagupan City, one of the most devastated areas in Luzon, initially received a total of P1.1 billion as its share from RA 6960. This big amount of money was used to build entirely new roads, new Magsaysay Bridge, new public market, new water system, new hospital, new and more modern communication system, new school buildings and new life for all Dagupeños.

Had it not been for the inventive mind of Congressman De Venecia during those darkest hours in the history of the city, can Dagupan be able to rise quickly as fast as it did?

Think again.

SO THE PEOPLE MAY KNOW

List of completed projects of the 4th congressional district
thru the initiative of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.

For Calendar Year - 2001

For Calendar Year - 2002

For Calendar Year - 2003

For Calendar Year - 2004

For Calendar Year - 2005

List of completed and on-going projects

for Calendar Year - 2006