Sen. Escudero adopted son of La Union
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – Senator Francis Joseph ‘Chiz’ Escudero was adopted son of La Union by virtue of a resolution enacted by the provincial board.
Resolution No. 009-2008 was presented to Senator Escudero by Governor Manuel Ortega, Vice Governor Eulogio Clarence Martin de Guzman III and members of the provincial board on March 2 when the senator was the guest of honor and speaker during the 158th La Union Foundation Anniversary celebration.
The resolution stated that Senator Escudero has endeared himself to the people of La Union due to his unending support to the different projects and programs of the provincial government. Read more
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – Ilocos Sur Governor Deogracias Victor Savellano asked the newly assumed police regional director to look into the investigation of previous violent incidents perpetrated in the province in the past.
According to the governor, he made his request to new police regional director Chief Superintendent Romeo Hilomen during the latter’s courtesy call at the provincial capitol on Thursday.
He said that the occurrence of some crimes involving firearms and deadly weapons will tarnish the image of the province, being the most peaceful local government unit (LGU) in Ilocos Region today.
“We will not tolerate the occurrence of crimes in the province because this will destroy our present image in the region as well in the country and at the same time, our different tourism and investment development programs will also be affected,” he said. Read more
SAN JACINTO, Pangasinan – The province of Pangasinan is a recipient of the biggest number of new police stations constructed by the Philippine National Police since three days ago in the entire Ilocos region.
Police Regional Director Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil said there were 37 new police stations constructed throughout the region under the PNP transformation program with Pangasinan receiving 24.
The 13 others were distributed in the provinces of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and La Union.
The reason why there were more new police stations constructed in Pangasinan, than all the three other provinces combined is because the former is the biggest province and most populous province in the whole region, having 48 towns and cities.
The most recent new police stations inaugurated in Pangasinan were those in San Jacinto and Bautista towns Read more
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur – Local government officials and employees, students, soldiers and residents will participate in the simultaneous nationwide tree planting slated on Friday in different identified sites in the province.
Spearheaded by the Philippine Army’s 50th Infantry Battalion, with the help of local government units, national line agencies and the local media, the tree planting has for its theme: “Puno para sa Kinabukasan”.
This is in support of the National Greening Program being pushed nationwide by Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Angelo Reyes.
Capt. Dominador Valerio, Civil Military Office of the Army’s 50th Infantry Battalion, said they tapped students from 52 schools throughout the province to plant 40,000 seedlings.
Among the seedlings to be planted are mahogany, G-melina, narra, jack fruit, avocado, tamarind, atis, mango, santol and kamias. Read more
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union – A bomb squad was deployed by the police within San Fernando City in the wake of a powerful bomb explosion here on Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. that hurt a government employee.
Ilocos Region Police Director Chief Superintendent Leopoldo N. Bataoil ordered the deployment of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) team to investigate the bomb explosion at a garbage disposal area near the Marcos Building on P. Talavera Street in Barangay I here.
One Hipolito Aragon, 59, employed as painter of the San Fernando City government, was hurt by the explosion while he was walking on P. Talavera Street.
Aragon suffered multiple injuries due to sharpnels in different parts of his body and rushed to the Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center. Read more
SAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan – In the hinterlands of La Union where some public schools lack teachers, policemen put away their firearms in order to teach pupils how to read and write.
Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoiil said he had mobilized policemen to pick up chalks and erasers and teach while at the same time providing security in far-flung municipalities of La Union.
He noticed that some schools in these areas do not have enough teachers to teach the growing number of pupils.
“We noticed that while we have policemen who are graduates of Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, many schools in the Ilocos region do not have enough teachers to teach pupils,” he confessed.
“Many of these policemen, BSEED graduates are already in the hinterlands, providing security to the people, so we thought of putting them in schools too where there are no teachers,” he said.
Thus, the program called “Pulis ko, teacher ko” where policemen would fit in as teachers in schools, where there are only few teachers while they are doing their duty of maintaining peace and order was born. Read more
SANTA, Ilocos Sur - Tobacco farmers are now earning extra income by supplying the needs of the National Tobacco Administration-owned PGMA Multiline Food Processsing Plant here.
The first batc of tobacco farmers who ventured into hog production and turned their pigs over to the food processing plant received their first cash payments on Thursday.
Nestor Casela, deputy adminstrator of the National Tobacco Administration (NTA) handed the individual checks to the farmers, who he said, earned net incomes ranging from P1,500 to P2,000 per hog.
The first batch of swine raisers turned in a total of 28 hogs. All these are from Barangay Malammin in San Juan, and San Pablo in Narvacan. Read more
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union - Police Regional Director Chief Supt. Leopoldo Bataoil rushed on Friday to Batac, Ilocos Norte to get first hand information into the slaying Wednesday night of a radio reporter in that town.
Slain with three stab wounds in different parts of his body at about 10:00 p.m. Wednesday was Andy Acosta, 46, a beat reporter of radio station DZJC in Laoaga City and a native of Batac town.
Acosta was on board his motorcycle while he was bound for home to Batac from Laoag City when he was stabbed by the unidentified suspect or suspects using an ice pick in different parts of his body. Read more
DAGUPAN CITY - Officials of La Union, particularly San Fernando City are seeking greater involvement in the management of the territory vacated by the former U.S. Wallace Air Base at Poro Point, La Union, now under the administration of the Bases Conversin Development Authority (BCDA).
Gov. Joaquin Ortega and San Fernando City Mayor Maryjane Ortega lamented that not even one of them or their representative sits as members of the board of the BCDA even in ex-officio capacity to ensure that the plans of the latter conform to local laws.
The Ortegas told newsmen in Dagupan City that BCDA and its subsidiary company, the Poro Point Management Corporation had been ignoring their invitations to coordinate with them, as this is urgently necessary as the two are operating within their territory jurisdiction. Read more
VIGAN CITY, Ilocos Sur - Three big tobacco firms sought the early planting of tobacco crop by farmers not later than November 30 this year, according to the National Tobacco Administration (NTA).
NTA Administrator Carlitos Encarnacion said the request was made by the Anglo-American Tobacco Corp. (AATC), Universal Leaf Philippines, Inc., (ULPI) and Trans Manila Inc. (TMI).
Representatives of the three firms aired their request in a forum sponsored by the NTA held last Tuesday at the NTA central office in Quezon City.
They particularly asked that in the planting of tobaccos, a common farming technology would be adopted to ensure quality tobacco production, Encarnacion said. Read more
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