by Marve SanggalangAlmost hundred of youths from different corner of Pangasinan gathered to attend the Guhit Pinas Pangasinan (GPP) Chapter’s meet up, October 2 at the Dagupan City Plaza. Guhit Pinas is a group of amateur artist who wants to inspire the youth to express their self through arts.
This month’s meet up is a little bit special especially to the Admins of the Guhit Pinas Pangasinan Chapter. The founder surprise the crowd for showing up and mingle with the participants to the said event. Mr. Rodman M. Papros the one who created the group and name it as Guhit Pinas inspires a lot of aspiring artist to pursue their passion and gives them the courage to excel more when it comes to arts. Activities on the meet up are Quizbee, Sketching good for one (1) hour, Doodling that has a theme Pangasinan, Plein air ( live sketch) this is an on the spot sketching, they will sketch or draw an image connected to the word they have picked. Guhit Pinas Pangasinan also made a short demonstration regarding to charcoal graphite portrait shading and shadowing.
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By: Angelica UyAlmost 40 architects and architecture students of Dagupan chapter attended the World Architecture day in the highlands of Bugallon, Pangasinan on Monday, October 3.
The members of Union International Architects founded the annual celebration of the World Architecture Day way back 2005. This event have been annually celebrated every first Monday on the month of October. With a theme of “Design a Better World”, the event highlighted the essential role of design in alleviating human suffering, reducing planetary burdens and enhancing the quality of life. According to an architecture student of the PHINMA-University of Pangasinan, Mr.Rafy Austria who attended the event, this kind of celebration is a great help for them meeting the architects and future architects of Dagupan. World Architecture Day aims to remind the world of its collective responsibility for the future of human habitat. By: Angelica UyBarangay Nilombot in Mapandan experienced a 5-hour power interruption caused by electrical posts repair on Saturday, September 24.
According to Mr. Charlie Santiago, one of the 10 linemen of PANELCO 3 who were assigned to fix the electrical post of Nilombot, the power interruption began from 10:30 A.M. and switched on at 3:30 in the afternoon. They electrical power was turned off to avoid any accident occurring from the fixation of the electrical posts along the road of the said Barangay. The reparation is made to change the old wood fools into new cemented posts, to make it stronger and prevent any possible accidents, most especially when calamities occur. As of now, there are still no announcements for the next power interruption. It was expected to happen again for further fixation By: Angelica UyAverage Monthly Crime Rates (AMCR) in Mapandan decreased of about 20.79% as of Thursday, September 22.
According to Crime Statistics given by the PNP (Philippine National Police) Mapandan, the AMCR reduced from August’s 57.17% to September’s 36.38 %. This implies that the cops of Mapandan were efficient in implementing the new policies of the new administration in effectively reducing the number of crimes in the town. With the total crime volume of 166, 158 of those were crime cleared, and 135 was solved. PNP Mapandan ensures that they will continue to produce different practices that can help the town in reducing crime rates and in making the Mapandan a “Crime-free Community”. By: Angelica Uy PNP Mapandan launches DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program for elementary students on Saturday, September 17.
Every Tuesday, the two trained personnel of Mapandan PNP, PO3 Topol Calaunan and PO2 Rafael Mayugba are conducting lectures about the awareness in smoking, alcohol and drugs. The scheduled time is from 7:30 in the morning up to 4 o’clock in the afternoon, depending on the availability of the school. They make sure to give a 1-hour time per class and teach two lessons each week out of 17 desired lessons. Further, they also give worksheets and show some visual aids to evoke and educate the children on the possible effects and danger of such vices. DARE program will continue until they are able to lecture all the public and private elementary schools in Mapandan. As of now, their program is still on the process of teaching the students of Mapandan Central School. By: Angelica UyAs of Monday, September 12, there were a total number of 176 drug users who surrendered to the Mapandan Police Station.
PNP Chief Superintendent Ronald "Bato" dela Rosa's nationwide project called "Oplan Tokhang", where policemen knocks on the houses of the alleged drug user or pusher, creates a big help in encouraging the illegal users by asking him/her to surrender in their respective police stations to be monitored for further assessments. According to PO3 Charisse Lalas of Mapandan Police Station, from July 1 to September 12 they have a total number of 176 drug users surrendered in their station. Most of them were bystanders aged 16-22. The 176 users will undergo counselling, drug tests and PNP Mapandan's project IDOL (Illegal Drugs Obstructive to Life) program. By: Angelica UyIn response to President Rodrigo Duterte's program against illegal drugs, Mapandan Police station conducted a program called Project IDOL (Illegal Drugs Obstructive to Life).
Project IDOL was formed in cooperation with the Mapandan's PNP (Philippine National Police), LGU's (Local Government Unit) and NGO's (Non-Government Organization). This was made to promote awareness, intervene the surrendered drug users and obstruct them to drugs. It all began on the month of August and will continue until Mapandan became a drug free community. PNP Mapandan's Senior Inspector Samuel Arcano advised the youth to not ruin their lives in the temptation of drugs rather focus into their family and future careers in life By: Angelica UySome residents from the Barangay Nilombot, Mapandan, Pangasinan created a way for flood that is made up of sacks of rock.
Almost 20 families were affected by the sudden flood made by the blocked drainage and continuous heavy rains along the road. In response to this problem, they come up with an idea of putting a hundred sacks of rocks in the left side of the street and make it a way that will help everyone cross that without being harm in the possible diseases in flood. They all work together and contribute some money for all the expenses of the bridge-way. According to one of the residents, Mr.Rudy de Guzman, the bags of rocks help them a lot in preventing the water to come into their houses and in avoiding diseases that mighy get from the flood, most specially to the children who daily cross that avenue. By: Angelica UyA 5-year-old innocent girl was shot dead by an unidentified riding-in-tandem in Mayombo, Dagupan on August 23.
Three days after her grandfather, Maximo Garcia, surrendered to the police, after knowing that he was on the drug watchlist, the gunmen opened fire at their home at 12:30 p.m. Unfortunately, Danica Garcia, the granddaughter of Garcia, was hit in the head by a bullet intended for Mr.Garcia. Danica was rushed to the hospital but later died. Her grandfather has a bullet wound on his stomach yet survived. Chief Neil Miro, Dagupan police chief said that they have a witness that will identify the gunmen but, for some reasons, they will withhold the name of the suspect. They are still investigating the real motive, but they believe that the attack has something to do with the grandfather's drug activities. by Angelica UyAlaminos City will no longer be producing ‘bangus’ (milkfish) to protect its tourism industry, specifically the Pangasinan’s prime tourist destination, the Hundred Islands National Park.
Mayor Arturo Celeste of Alaminos City, said that the commercial feeds used in culturing bangus had polluted the seas, so instead of bangus they will rather culture tulya (oysters) and tahong (mussels), the so-called janitors of the sea which clean the marine ecosystem. The shutdown of the milkfish industry will serve as a great help to prevent contaminating the waters of the said tourist spot and might not influence the province’s bangus industry. However, about 50 fish pens located at Mona, Tanaytay and Cayacay will be affected. High price of the alternative culture’s commercial feeds is expected, but some fishpen owners were willing to sacrifice their fishpen to Celeste’s decision, in protection of the Hundred Islands National Park. |
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