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Sulat ni Kitz Basila

INILUNSAD kamakailan ang Paraw Festival sa lunsod ng Alaminos.

Ito ang maliit na banca na may layag para kumilos na pwedeng sakyan ng dalawang piloto at dalawang pasahero. Madalas noon na gamit sa pangingisda, paglalayag sa malapit sa baybayin. Ang banca na animo sa gabi ay isang paru-paro na may sulo (ilaw na lampara).

Sa mata ng mga mas nakababata tila isang palabas na magandang tunghayan lalo na sa mga dalampasigan na pasyalan. Pagbabalik sa unang kasanayan at kakayahan noon para sa mga mas nakatatanda.

Ewan kung ito na nga ang hamon ng bagong dekada, ang bumalik sa mas payak na pamumuhay dahil labis nang masalimuot ang kapaligiran, siste ng pamumuhay, galaw ng lipunan at, pati asal na tahak dahil sa makabagong-gamit at kasanayan.

Pati nga sa pagkain at paghahanda ay simbilis na inihahain at isinasagawa na kalimitan ay labis na nalalagyan ng iba’t-ibang pampalasa, pampatagal sa pag-iimbak, isinisilid sa nakakalason na sisidlan at apurahang pagluluto. Sa mga nagawang pagbabago na indak sa panahon ay natanto na mas maraming pahirap ang dulot nito sa katawan, kalusugan at kaisipan ng tao.

WALANG PERMANENT, meantime lang!

Opinion ni Kitz Basila

Got a taste of her own medicine, a saying na tila balik karma kay dating DOJ Secretary and now jailed Senator Leila Delima.

Kung nagawa daw niya noon na apihin ang dating Pangulo Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, ipinakulong pronto sina Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Bong Revilla at Jinggoy Estrada, sa balikwas ng karma kuno ngayon ay katabi na niya ang kanilang selda sa Camp Crame custodial center.

Bad health and old age ang nagpalabas sa kulungan kay Enrile, gumigiling pa sa wisyo at huwego ng korte ang usapin nina Revilla at Estrada.

Mga kabanata ng mga kwento at pangyayari sa Pinas na buong sanlibutan ay alam.

Lately, impeachment bruohaha sa pangulo at kay Leni, inaamba na maging usapang bayan sa mga darating na linggo. Si Atty Lozano, kilalang Marcos fan, ang nagtatatangka na maimpeach ang bise presidente. Habang kasama sa tropang nagmutiny noon ni Senator Trillanes, na ngayon ay Cong Alejano ang pasimuno sa tangkang alisan ng mandated position si Pangulo Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

Masalimuot na hinaharap ang aabangan, pero, sa babaw daw ng mga dahilan na inilatag laban sa gustong patalsikin, sa basurahan ng Kongreso pupulutin ang mga inihandang pantanggal sana.

What's up na ba ang mga usaping pang ekonomiya, kapayapaan, pangangailangan at kabuhayan, may saysay bang pagusapan?

Sabi nga madalas, problema yan. Mas gustong kalkalin ng mas nakararami ay mga hitik sa drama na yugto ng ngayon na maging istorya sa hinaharap. Mga usapin na mas makulay pa sa palabas na bunga ng malikot na kaisipan ng may akda na huhusaying ilalatag ng direktor at aartehan to the max ng mga artistang sangkot para uupuan ng matagal ng mga manonood nito bilang pelikula, soap opera o serye na walang katapusan.

Balon Dagupan Children's Choir is Ani ng Dangal awardee

DAGUPAN CITY – The Balon Dagupan Children’s Choir was honored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ (NCCA) in the 9^th Ani ng Dangal awarding ceremonies last February 27 at the Bureau of the Treasury main office in Intramuros, Manila.

The Ani ng Dangal Award is an annual event, which recognizes artists who have earned international awards and accolades during the past year. it serves as the closing activity on the NCCA’s celebration on the 2017 National Arts Month.

For this year, 71 artists and works from different fields of the arts – 36 for cinema, 16 for dance, one for dramatic arts, one for literary arts, seven for music and 10 for visual arts - were honored by the NCCA headed by its chairman, National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario and Officer-In-Charge Executive Director Marichu Tellano.

The Balon Dagupan Children’s Choir (BDCC) was among the seven awardees for music along with the famous Philippine Madrigal Singers.

Other awardees include popular actor John Lloyd Cruz and veteran actress Jaclyn Jose.

The BDCC won the Malaysia International Children Chorale Festival 2016 on July 16 and received the Gold A Award, the highest recognition being given to a choral group for outstanding performance; the Shah Alam Mayor Award for being the overall champion; and the Most Promising Choir (Overseas) Award.

The organization of the BDCC is part of Mayor Belen T. Fernandez' program in developing the talent of the city’s children, not just in sports but also in culture and arts. (Joseph C. Bacani/CIO)

Six clustered barangays to compete in Gilon-Gilon

DAGUPAN CITY – Six clustered barangays will compete  in the featured Gilon-Gilon ed Baley on April 21 as part of  the Dagupan Bangus Festival 2017.

This year’s Gilon-Gilon will be chaired by Punong Barangay Julie Ann Perez of Barangay Pantal as her barangay is now excluded in  this year’s competition, now  being a hall of famer for winning the title of the Gilon-Gilon Street Dancing for three consecutive Bangus Festivals.

Bangus Festival 2017 Executive Chairman Epee Rafanan disclosed that the clustering aims to provide opportunities for the barangays to be able to showcase  bigger and better street dancing presentations.

The participants  are Cluster 1: Salisay, Mangin, Bolosan, Tebeng, Mamalingling and Tambac; Cluster 2 – Bonuan Gueset, Bonuan Binloc, and Bonuan Boquig; Cluster 3 – Calmay, Carael, Salapingao, Lomboy and Pugaro.

Cluster 4 – Caranglaan, Bacayao Sur, Bacayao Norte, Mayombo and Herrero-Perez; Cluster 5 - Lasip Grande, Pogo Grande, Pogo Chico, Malued, Lasip Chico and Lucao; and Cluster 6 – Tapuac, Poblacion Oeste, Barangay 1, Barangay 2 and 3, and Barangay 4.

Eventual winner in the Gilon-Gilon will earn the right to represent the city in the Festivals of the North, a battle of Festivals’ All-Star Street Dancing winners in different provinces and municipalities set  on April 28.

Broadcast Exam and the Fear of Ridicule

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

When I was asked to do radio commentary, I relished it because I was a radio bug on selected Filipino political broadcasters especially during the time of the perceptive Louie Beltran, the humorous Rod Navarro and everything hilarious and vulgar about what U.S No. 1 shock jock Howard Stern dishes on Sirius Radio and YouTube.

Man, I loved to talk especially the way former five-time House Speaker Joe de Venecia and Civil Rights Activist Al Sharpton rabble roused. Their ding-dong gift of gab I imitated and polished on air with my belief that they could help proselytize by playing with the emotions of the listeners here and abroad, thanks to free Face Book Live Feed video where listeners overseas could listen to my antics.

Even during my early days in broadcast last July, I saw to it that once in while I browse on the internet’s manual how broadcasters were governed by their police body Kapisanan ng Brodkaster ng Pilipinas( KBP).

When Jay Mendoza, then manager of DZRD Sonshine Radio-Dagupan City who I worked with asked me last December if I want to take the KBP accreditation examination, I did not only tell him affirmatively but told him I was too willing to shell out the seven hundred  fifty pesos examination fee when he told me there was a charge for it.

Son of a gun, that’s

Cong Toff to follow up Dagupan's CLUP, asks other LGUs to prepare their own

Pangasinan Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia Jr. offered to help follow up the approval of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) of Dagupan still pending before the National Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (NHLURB) in Manila.

Congressman Christopher de Venecia 

 

De Venecia  said he will work closely with Mayor Belen Fernandez  and all other officials of Dagupan to secure the approval of the CLUP from the regulatory body soon after he was informed that the city’s CLUP has not been reported out by NHLURB where  it was  submitted since last year.

 

 

De Venecia also called on all towns in his district to follow  the example set by Dagupan City  by preparing and adopting their respective CLUPs so their development can be accelerated or shifted to higher gears.

Appointment by Rody of barangay officials lawful – Solon

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY – The appointment of new sets of barangay chairmen and council members by President Rodrigo Duterte will be lawful because they will be backed up by a law crafted by Congress, according to a solon.

DRUGS BOOKS. Pangasinan 2^nd District’s Congressman Leopoldo N. Bataoil and former Regional Trial Court’s Judge Victor Llamas (not in photo) promoting in a radio station in Dagupan City the books' "Drugs, Law, DU30, and You" and "How to Catch a Liar" the latter authored as his contributions to the present administration's war against illegal drugs. 

This was the reaction of Congressman Leopoldo Bataoil when asked if the appointment by the president of the village violates the right of suffrage of the Filipinos.

He explained that he and fellow members of the House of Representatives comes May 2 this year will resume session and will discuss how to amend the law that will empower the president to postpone the election of village chiefs and council members.

DCSC TO CONDUCT SUMMER SPORTS CLINIC

DAGUPAN CITY – The Dagupan City Sports Commission (DCSC) will conduct another summer sports clinic for children inclined to sports on May 5-27.

DCSC Commissioner Finnela T. Sim disclosed that the summer sports clinic is open, free and with unlimited slots for all Dagupeños
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Ms. Sim said children may enroll in 11 different sports events like arnis, gymnastics, wushu, athletics, badminton, table tennis, chess, football, futsal, archery, and swimming.

Each sports event will last for 10 sessions except for archery, which will take eight sessions.

Arnis, gymnastics, wushu and athletics are scheduled every Monday, Wednesday and Friday while badminton and table tennis are scheduled every Tuesday and Thursday at the Dagupan City Astrodome from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

Arnis and table tennis will be open for children aged 8-16 years old, gymnastics for 5-16 years old, wushu for 12-16 years old, athletics for 10-16 years old and badminton for 8-15 years old.

DA Sec Piñol asked to open Pangasinan’s ‘Umaani Expo 2017’

By Philippine News Agency

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol has been invited to open the “Umaani Expo 2017” to be held at the Pangasinan Provincial Nursery in Barangay Tebag, Sta. Barbara on March 28 to April 1

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol

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The five-day exposition, to be spearheaded by Governor Amado Espino III, will raise the curtains for Pangasinan’s mother of festivals, the “Pista’y Dayat” set along the shores of the province.

A wide array of the province’s farm and fish crops — from rice, corn, watermelon, mango to vegetables and from bangus, tilapia, gourami and catfish to the tasty carabeef will be displayed on booths during the exposition, said provincial agriculturist and chief event organizer Dalisay Moya.

“Umaani Expo 2017″ will also showcase latest farm technology innovations being used by the farming community, including upgraded services system of the provincial government to further improve the quality of crops yield and increase farmers’ income.

For the past three consecutive years, Pangasinan was acclaimed as one of the country’s top three achievers in rice and corn production.

Dulay wants new BIR’s CPAs pay spike

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN – The top man of the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the country wanted salary of newly hired Certified Public Accountants in the tax agency hike by exempting them from the government’s salary standardization law (SSL).

Commissioner Caesar R. Dulay lamented that the salary of a new examiner at the agency starts between twenty thousand pesos to twenty five thousand pesos a month.

TAXMEN. Bigwigs of the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s regional office in the Ilocos Region 

wait inside the

 swanky and embellished Sison Auditorium in Lingayen, Pangasinan for the arrival of BIR

 Commissioner

 Caesar R. Dulay during the 2017 Regional Tax Campaign Kick-Off of the BIR held last week.

 Seating at 

extreme right is the award-winning Revenue District Office-6 Chief CPA-Lawyer Maria

 Isabel B. Utit.

“At the Security Exchange Commission and the Insurance Commission the pay entry of the new accountant there is between thirty five thousand pesos to forty thousand pesos a month,” he explained to the hundreds of people and BIR officials in Region -1 who attended recently here the 2017 Regional Tax Campaign Kick-Off of the BIR.

Dulay exhorted the participants to write and talk with their congressmen to hammer a law that would exempt these junior level officials from the SSL.

“BIR contributes revenues to government. Talk with your congressmen  (to pass a law exempting examiners from SSL) so we can achieve our (tax collection) goal or beyond our goal to build infrastractures,” Dulay stressed.

He cited that the BIR will be collecting 1.83 trillion pesos as its tax goal this year.

“With improved collection, the Duterte Administration can introduce and implement more programs,” the commissioner who is a lawyer urged BIR officials led by BIR Region 1 Officer-in-Charge Regional Director Teresita Dizon and OIC Assistant Regional Director Fely Simon.

 Dizon was optimistic that the four provinces regional office can help collect the P1.83 trillion.

The regional office based in Calasiao, Pangasinan will be collecting P15.6 billion taxes this year.