VP Binay gave me 1000 bags of relief goods - Zaplan

STA. BARBARA – Mayor Carlito Zaplan said that Vice President Jejomar Binay gave recently here one thousand pieces of relief goods for the people of this town who were affected by the flood brought by Typhoon Maring.

Vice President Jojo Binay and  Sta. Barbara Mayor Lito
Zaplan (2nd, 3rd from left respectively) strike a pose
after they distributed recently relief goods in the town.

He said that 12 of the villages here have been declared under the State of Calamity. “There were 12 barangays but we considered them minimal. Those villages that were struck by huge flood were Barangays Dalonge, Malibago, and Songkil,” Zaplan explained in Pilipino.
But he said the beneficiaries of the relief goods who trooped to the public gym were not necessary those who were from the 12 barangays. “We just invited some of them. They were residents who did not suffer the way those villages I mentioned where flood were deep, ” he stressed.
 Zaplan said he discussed too with Vice President Binay housing projects here through the social _Pag-Ibig. Binay was accompanied by Pangasinan Vice Governor Ferdinand Calimlim, Pangasinan Police Director Marlou Chan, Colonel Castro of the Army Brigade assigned in Binmaley, Pangasinan, Binmaley Mayor Sam Rosario. (MCO)