DAGUPAN'S RELIEF OPERATIONS 70% COMPLETE

DAGUPAN CITY – At least 70% of flood-affected Dagupenos have now received relief assistance, according to Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, who is expediting the relief operations in many of the flood and mud afflicted villages here.

As of July 27, relief operations have already been conducted in 21 barangays like  Malued, Bacayao Sur, Pantal, Salisay, Bonuan Gueset, Lasip Grande, Pogo Grande, Barangay I, Barangay IV, Herrero-Perez, Mayombo, Poblacion Oeste, Pogo Chico, Tapuac, Lasip Chico, Caranglaan, Bacayao Norte, Calmay, Carael, Mangin and Mamalingling.

Relief operations are being done in batches for those villages greatly affected by the flood, from five to six barangays per day.

Likewise, relief goods are also being distributed to families situated in the different evacuation centers such as those currently at the People’s Astrodome, Pangasinan Medical Society Center, West Central Elementary School 1 and East Central Integrated School.

Sec. Piñol awards P81M's palay, corn seeds to P'sinan

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – The province of Pangasinan received P81.6 million worth of agricultural assistance from the Department of Agriculture (DA) for the rehabilitation program for both agriculture and fishery industries badly damaged by tropical storm “Inday” and tropical depression “Josie.”

Leading the awarding of the initial Rehabilitation Assistance in Agriculture at the Sison Auditorium on July 26, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol assured that the national government is expediting recovery efforts.

The Canadian made military Bell 412EP helicopter that accompanied Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol's Raven II chopper when he and his staff made an ocular inspection last Thursday of the provinces of Bulacan, Tarlac, and Pangasinan that were badly damaged by two tropical storms and unabated monsoon rains that flooded the areas.

Mayor Iday, ABC prexy support Celeste bids for Liga Prov’l

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN – The mayor and the Liga ng Barangay (LnB) President here threw their support to the candidacy of Alaminos City LnB President Arth Bryan Celeste after his rival and a political patron did not show up to seek her support for the race on the  provincial board position.
Celeste is the son of Alaminos City Mayor Art Celeste.
“We were waiting for Congressman (Amado) Espino and Jinky (Zaplan) last week to call us to get my support and vote of my ABC President. They did not call or appear,” Mayor Josefina “Iday” Castaneda said.
She cited that last July 20 at dusk Abono Party List Congressman Conrad Estrella, Alaminos City Mayor Celeste, and former Balungao Mayor and present LnB President of that town Jose Peralta went to her house here and seek her intercession for the LnB presidency’s support.
“It was then raining heavily,” she said.
 

IDAY - Lingayen Mayor Josefina “Iday” Castaneda (third from right) poses with Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol (fifth from right) and some mayors of Pangasinan when Piñol visited last Thursday the Capitol in Lingayen to hand over to Governor Amado I. Espino, III (fourth from right), the certificate of award containing the agricultural assistance of the Department of Agriculture to the Provincial Government of Pangasinan for the rehabilitation program for both agriculture and fishery industries wrought by the unabated rains and rampaging floods. Over 81 million pesos of hybrid palay seeds (12,000 bags), certified palay seeds (20,000 bags) and hybrid corn seeds (100 bags) comprised the initial intervention of the DA.

A dialogue at the Sison Auditorium also ensued between Piñol , the provincial officials, and agriculture stakeholders.

The following morning, she cited, Zaplan, who is the present LnB President at the provincial board, husband Sta. Barbara Mayor Carlito Zaplan, and her party came to her house but she told her that she and her LnB President Darwin Jimenez, the present barangay captain of Pangapisan Sur, had already gave their unequivocal support for the candidacy of Celeste when the votation will start on Monday (July 30).
Castaneda said that Jimenez, the ex-officio member of the Sangguniang Bayan (town legislative council),  acquiesced to what she preferred to support because the former was a beneficiary of her intervention when he won unopposed the LnB presidency in the last July 16 election.

Sec Piñol awards agri assistance to P’sinan

Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol (3rd from left) hands over to Governor Amado I. Espino, III, the certificate of award containing the agricultural assistance of the Department of Agriculture to the Provincial Government of Pangasinan for the rehabilitation program for both agriculture and fishery industries devastated by incessant rains and massive flooding. Over P81 million worth of hybrid palay seeds (12,000 bags), certified palay seeds (20,000 bags) and hybrid corn seeds (100 bags) comprised the initial intervention of the DA which was handed over to the province shortly after the dialogue provincial officials and agriculture stakeholders held at the Sison Auditorium on July 26.:  /SMDG (Photo by BFSison)