Australian WW II vets honored in Pangasinan
Posted on | February 21, 2009 | No Comments
LINGAYEN — The Australian embassy and the Pangasinan provincial government on Friday unveiled a commemorative plaque here to honor Australian World War II veterans who died during the battle between the Allied Forces and the Japanese Imperial Army in the Lingayen Gulf in 1945.
In a solemn ceremony, Les Kennedy, president of the Commemoration Committee of Victoria (Australia) said: “The Australian country had also played a very significant role during the World War II, as we, too, sacrificed our lives to help the American troops led by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in liberating Luzon from the Japanese forces.”
Kennedy said members of the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Air Force took part in the Philippine liberation where four in a fleet of 15 Australian warships figured in the big naval action of the liberation campaign.
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Enrile joins call for Bataan nuke plant reopening
Posted on | February 21, 2009 | No Comments
By Brando Cortez
SAN MANUEL, PANGASINAN — Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said here that the massive brownouts the country experienced in the 1990’s would not have happened if only the administrations after that of the late President Ferdinand Marcos operated the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
“We could have avoided these massive and brownouts and the expensive contracts with independent power producers,” said Enrile, who visited the San Roque Power Corp. here on Friday.
Enrile said that he supports Pangasinan fifth district Rep. Mark Cojuangco’s HB04631, also known as “Bataan Nuclear Power Plant Re-Commissioning Act of 2008,” which has been co-authored by at least 122 congressmen.
“The people paid for the construction of the mothballed BNPP and up to now not a single kilowatt-hour of electricity has been produced,” said Enrile.
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Abono bares Games winners
Posted on | February 20, 2009 | No Comments
By Yolanda Z. Sotelo
Industriousness, determination, community support, will to win.
These were the basic factors behind the winning schools in the provincewide Gulayan at Maisan sa Eskuwelahan contest sponsored by the Abono party list group.
The students, teachers and staff of each school and the community worked together to come up with a “winning piece” – a 300-square meter area in the school yard that bloomed with vegetables and corn – and won prices that would surely benefit the students.
“It was all worth it. Even if we did not win, we feel already like winners because we were able to show that if everyone cooperated, we will accomplish what we want to do,” Marissa Tababa, principal of the Macalong Elementary School in Urdaneta City which won first place in elementary (city category), said.
“The parents came by to help, even bringing their own snacks. We are grateful for having joined the contest because it united us as a school and as a community,” Tababa said.
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Arenas’ accessibility seen as her ‘best legacy’
Posted on | February 18, 2009 | No Comments
Pangasinan Rep. Maria Rachel Arenas (third district) said that it was not the vaunted P720 billion worth of projects that she unloaded in her district in her barely two years in office that people there would remember her but her ubiquity and accessibility to them.
“What is the use of those hundreds of millions of projects if your constituents could not even confide personally their problems to their congressman?” she asked.
The neophyte solon – whose enviable access to public funds because of her being part of the “sanctum-sanctorum” of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo – has just arrived from her recent official sojourn with the president in a four-country swing in Europe, Middle East, and the United States.
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Actress Joyce Jimenez figures in Urdaneta road accident
Posted on | September 29, 2008 | No Comments
DAGUPAN CITY – Television and movie actress Joyce Jimenez and three others were hurt when their car rolled into a ricefield in Urdaneta City early Monday morning.
Supt. Isagani Nerez, Pangasinan police director, said that Jimenez’s sport utility vehicle, a Toyota 4Runner, crashed after its driver, Sandy Juno, avoided a speeding public utility bus heading to their direction at the south-bound lane of the national highway in Barangay Anonas in Urdaneta City at about 2 a.m. Monday.
“Her driver apparently lost control of the vehicle and rolled to the rice field,” Nerez said. Jimenez’s vehicle was wrecked, Nerez said.
Jimenez (Joyce Herrin Reintegrado in real life), her driver and her companions, Diosdado Espiritu and Cathleen Transporte were immediately taken by concerned citizens to the Urdaneta City Sacred Heart Hospital, where they were treated.
A hospital source, who requested anonymity, said Jimenez and her companions suffered minor injuries. But she said they were transferred to a hospital in Metro Manila at about 6 a.m.
At least P15,000 worth of palay ready for harvest were destroyed during the accident, police said.
All Pangasinan village chiefs now have shotguns
Posted on | September 18, 2008 | No Comments
The provincial government has finally completed the distribution of shotguns to all the village chiefs in Pangasinan.
The last group, who received their guns on Wednesday, was from the province’s first district.
Aksyon Radyo reporter Susan Yadao reports:
Pozorrubio places 3rd nationwide in NAT
Posted on | September 18, 2008 | No Comments
The Pozorrubio Central School in Pozorrubio town ranked third nationwide in this year’s National Achievement Test.
Aksyon Radyo reporter Minnie Caburnay reports:
Seminar for Dagupan trike drivers, operators held
Posted on | September 18, 2008 | No Comments
An orientation seminar for tricycle drivers and operators in Dagupan City was conducted to remind them of the city’s existing traffic rules and regulations.
The seminar was conducted as part of the government’s effort to minimize traffic violations in the city.
Aksyon Radyo reporter Joseph Bacani reports:
Developmental cagefest slated in Dagupan
Posted on | September 18, 2008 | No Comments
To enhance value formation and inclination to sports, a developmental basketball championship will be held in the Dagupan City to be participated in by students on Sept. 19.
At least 30 public and private elementary and high schools are expected to take part in the event.
Aksyon Radyo reporter Joseph Bacani reports:
Arenas vows to support rebuilding of burned Calasiao town hall
Posted on | September 17, 2008 | No Comments
Pangasinan Rep. Rachel Arenas vows to support the reconstruction of the Calasiao town hall and Senor Tesoro Shrine, which were razed by a three-hour fire on Monday.
Arenas said she feels sad that the historical structures, especially the shrine, had turned into ash.
Aksyon Radyo reporter Susan Yadao reports:
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