The City of Alaminos will again be celebrating its annual City Fiesta dubbed as 2008 Hundred Islands Global Homecoming (HIGH) from March 14-18, 2008.
The festivity is in honor of Saint Joseph, the city’s patronal saint.
With the theme, “Baley Co, Aroen Co… Gali La” (Bayan Ko, Mahalin Ko, Halika Na), the celebration indicates the strong resolve, overwhelming support and unwavering commitment of Alaminians all over the world in realizing a more sustainable, livable, peaceful, progressive and green city of the Hundred Islands and ultimately contribute to the nation’s development.
Mayor Hernani A. Braganza, along with other city officials, local folks and various organizations has lined up activities to make this year’s celebration more significant, joyous, and memorable.
The celebration commences with the Grand Civic and Military Parade that include the colorful barangay floats and the candidates for Mr. & Miss Little Hundred Islands 2008 on March 14.
It will be shortly followed by the Drum and Bugle Corp and Drum and Lyre exhibitions in front of the Nepo Mart.
The Agri-Trade Fair will also be formally opened at C.P. Garcia St. along with the First Invitational Cyber Games Tournament at the Don Leopoldo Sison Auditorium (DSLA).
The Diocese of Alaminos leads some religious activities starting with the Blessing Rites and Prayers of the Archbishop on the same day.
The Feast of Saint Joseph will also be celebrated with a procession of the image of the patronal saint around the city’s central business on March 15.
A Thanksgiving Mass on March 19 at Saint Joseph Cathedral will be the culminating activity of this year’s religious celebration.
Highlighting the opening day celebration is the food feast by noontime at the San Jose Drive (SJD), going to Lucap Wharf, with the city government as the gracious host. Read more
ALAMINOS CITY, Pangasinan – The tri-cities ferry service to be put up by the cities of Alaminos, Dagupan and San Fernando is all systems go this year.
“It is all systems go as far as all of us three mayors are concerned,” said City Mayor Hernani Braganza of Alaminos.
Braganza announced the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the project by the first week of March in a meeting among all city mayors involved.
Signing the MOA are Braganza, and Mayor Alipio Fernandez, Jr. of Dagupan City and Pablo Ortega of San Fernando City Mayor Pablo Ortega. Read more
SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan - A former private rest house of then President Ferdinand Marcos and his family taken over by the government through the Philippine Tourism Authority months after the Edsa Revolution in 1986 has not lost its magic charm even if it is now run by the municipal government.
Turned over to the San Fabian municipal government by the PTA in May this year with the concurrence of the Presidential Commission on Good Government was the San Fabian PTA Beach Resort in barangay Bolasi, a class ‘AA’ resort facility by the Lingayen Gulf.
Many said the complex once played a significant role somewhat in the political history of the country by serving as a hideaway of the Marcos family whenever they wanted to escape the intense heat and doldrums of Metro Manila.
San Fabian Mayor Mojamito Libunao who sought that the 9.5 hectare complex be turned over to the host municipality, said since this was managed by the municipal government barely five months ago, revenues every month exceeded those raised when it was still operated by the PTA. Read more
From the Saltbeds by Restituto C. Basa
LIMAHONG, who was dubbed by his enemies, the Spanish authorities, as a “blood-thirsty pirate”, built his fortress in Domalandan.
Here he tarried for over seven months from December 8, 1574 up to August 4, 1575.
In 1989, Professor Cesar V. Callanta, a native of Dagupan, wrote a book - “The Limahong Invasion”. In this book, Professor Callanta wrote:
“Limahong carried enough treasures to buy an empire.”
What happened to this treasure? Read more
From ‘Seasons’ by MITA Q. SISON-DUQUE
LOVE songs are expressions of the soul’s longings directed to one’s object of affections. While the more common love songs are written by love-struck lovers of all ages, the rare and purest of love songs are the ones that surpass physical parameters of love, but speaks of allegorical longings for one’s beloved.
When one listens to the love song, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco”, the city is given more pre-eminence than the object of one’s romantic dreams. The hills, the cable cars climbing high way to the stars, the morning sun clearing the air invites the perfect setting for love. And yet, it is never quite sure, if being in San Francisco makes one fall in love, or the place being what it is, the writer is in love with San Francisco awakening in the writer the stirrings of romantic love. Read more
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan - All is set for the first round evaluation of participants in the Search for the Cleanest Coastal Municipality (Linis Dayat program) slated from October 23 to November this year.
Now on its seventh year, the program was further intensified through the years with the revision of its criteria.
A brainchild of Gov. Victor E. Agbayani that has earned international citation, the Linis Dayat program was launched in 2001 to save the Lingayen Gulf from further degradation brought about by illegal fishing activities, pollution, destruction of mangroves and siltation. Read more
IT is said that Helen’s beauty sparked the Trojan war.
In the case of Anda, a maiden’s beauty moved the poblacion from Segat, now Namagbagan to Araub, the present townsite.
This narrative was based on two sources: One is the written history of Anda; two is a love tale narrated to me by Pastor Jose Q. Raguindin, a Methodist minister and a native of Anda.
Pastor Raguindin, at time I interviewed him, was 80 years old. He probably is the oldest citizen of Anda at this time (circa 2006).
From the written history of Anda, we gather that the town was founded as public in 1849. It started as a barrio (barangay) of Bolinao. This is the reason why the residents of Anda speak the Bolinao dialect. Read more
DAGUPAN CITY - A team of experts from the National Historical Institute (NHI), one of the country’s leading government agency, arrived in Dagupan City on September 1 to gain new insights and perspectives about the city by visiting its seven historical landmarks.
The NHI group headed by supervisor for history research architect Lorelei Devianna and history researcher architect Maria Luisa Valerio surveyed seven historical places in the city recommended by the Dagupan Heritage Commission and Metro Dagupan Culture and Arts Council (MDCAC). Read more
by RHEE Fer HORTALEZA and JOSEPH C. BACANI
BINMALEY, Pangasinan - Negotiations are now underway for the eventual conversion of a 191,479-square-meter military reservation located at barangay San Isidro Norte here into a tourist destination.
This was disclosed the other day by Mayor Simplicio ‘Sammy’ Rosario in an interview with mediamen after an ocular inspection of the area recently, even as he added that a tourist destination is something that augurs well for the town’s tourism thrusts.
Rosario explained that the area was converted into a military facility under Proclamation No. 119, which was assigned by then President Manuel Luis Quezon on December 18, 1936 or some 70 years ago. Sice then, the Philippine Army used the facility as a training camp. Read more
ALAMINOS CITY, Pangasinan - Four Irish youth had beautiful memories of Alaminos City, especially the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP), when they came for a visit last July 30.
The four - Brian McCabe, Jennifer Walsh, Aoife Gortmally and Mairead Curran, were parts of the 16-man volunteers sent to the country by SERVE, a non-government organization based in Ireland, to see for themselves the broader aspect of development works in the countryside.
SERVE, founded by Irish adults and Redemptorists, implements worthy projects all over the world that address youth poverty and activities seeking to empower those who are defenseless and deprived sectors in the communities for them to become agents of their own transformation. Read more
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