Cong Toff Opens P3.5M Bldg

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY  - Pangasinan Congressman Christopher de Venecia (4^th District) inaugurated  an almost four million pesos’ three rooms edifice the government constructed for the village officials of Barangay Bonuan Binloc here.

According to the district's Department of Public Works & Highway Assistant Chief District Engineer Rebecca Zaratan, the building of the project had undergone three stages where it started during the watch of former congresswoman Gina de Venecia and continued by her incumbent solon son.

“Three  million pesos tatlong phases stage 1, stage 2… kay Manay Gina ni continue ni Representative Toff,” she stressed.

NEW - The new edifice (left) inaugurated recently by Pangasinan Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia in Barangay Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City.

Engineer Zaratan said the second storey is a conference hall while one of the rooms in the ground floor is for the day care center.

Barangay Bonuan Binloc Administrator Feliza Gonzales disclosed that her son Punong Barangay Jojo Gonzales intended the building for free for the residents here to hold their weddings, baptisms, and other events.

Representative de Venecia said that the conference hall will be used too as an evacuation center for the people here in case calamities like typhoon, flood, and other that hit the area.

“Sana magamit po ng barangay family and mga Barangay Health Workers para talaga ma implement ang mga pangangailangang pangkalusugan para sa kabarangay like vaccine sa mga babies. Sana magamit  ng senior citizen para sa magandang samahan sa inyong organisasyon at baka sakali maka contribute sa kabutihan ng ating barangay,” Congressman de Venecia cited.

Congressman de Venecia in a huddle with a priest during the opening of the almost four million pesos building.

Engineer Zaratan said that the construction of project like the one here and those in the other parts of the Fourth and Second Congressional Districts were smoothly implemented because of the supervision of District Engineer (D.E) Edita L. Manuel.

Manuel replaced last March this year former D.E Rodolfo Dion who retired after serving the DPWH for 41 years.

According to Dion there is roughly P1.5 billion projects primordially from the national departments and agencies intended for the one city and four towns district in central Pangasinan.

Meanwhile, DPWH Pangasinan Third Engineering Office District Engineer Simplicio Gonzales, whose office is based in Sta. Barbara, Pangasinan, told this newspaper early this year that the one city five towns's district has P1 billion projects mostly from the national offices in this year, too.

Many of these infrastructures were intended for flood mitigation.