Bridging the overseas barangays!

Written by jV Bantugan, Nantangalan, Maambal, Castaño, Haway. Not anymore “the overseas barangays”, but “the barangays just over the bridge”. Over the Malasin-Bantugan Bridge. At 6:30 Saturday morning of June 5, 2010, twenty-five days before Mayor Emma Chan turns over the reign of the local government to the new administration, she fulfills a promise – [...]

Sangguniang Bayan okays supplemental budget for Mayor Chan’s priority projects

Written by jVillamil In a sudden surprising turnabout, the Sangguniang Bayan of Pozorrubio approved on 2nd reading last Monday  February 1, 2010 the P10 million plus Supplementary Budget #01 Series 2010  allocating initial, counterpart or additional funding for the socio-economic projects of the town, all of which are clearly identified as Mayor Emma Chan’s top [...]

Malasin-Bantugan Bridge resumes construction

Written by jVillamil Photo shows the completed Phase 1 of the Malasin-Bantugan Bridge, which readies it for the succeeding continuing phases. Phase 1 was  contracted by the municipal government to Kenwood Construction and was supposed to have been completed by the end of 2009, but was delayed due to the damage wrought by supertyphoons Pepeng [...]

Malasin-Bantugan Bridge resumes construction

Written by jVillamil

Malokiat Bridge is now under construction!

THEN, the frail but still serviceable Malokiat Bridge was waiting patiently in line for restoration/rehabilitation. The unwelcome visit of the supertyphoon Cosme way back in 2007 changed the situation drastically. After Cosme, the bridge practically begged for attention. Last July, under the combined initiative of the Provincial Government under Governor Amado T. Espino Jr. and [...]

One-month feeding program for daycare pupils!

by JVillamil Pre-school pupils enrolled in the various daycare centers in Pozorrubio are the beneficiaries of a one-month feeding program being implemented by the Municipal Social Welfare Office, the Municipal Nutrition Action Office, and the Municipal Agricultural Office of the Local Government Unit under Mayor Emma Chan, in partnership with the office of Senator Chiz [...]

An Invitation to Join the ‘First Pozorrubio Writing Contest’

by Gin Quesada Dear Fellow Pozorrubians, We are cordially inviting you to join the ‘First Pozorrubio Essay/Expository Writing Contest’. We particularly call on our Pozorrubian writers, leaders, technocrats, public administrators, educators, economists, intellectuals, pragmatists, government employees, politicians, and students to participate. Our St. Philomena’s Academy Batch 64 Alumni together with Quesada eTechnologies are jointly sponsoring [...]

Municipal Scholars 2009 selected

by jv ONE of the important accomplishments of both the Office of the Mayor and Sangguniang Bayan, past and present, is the annual selection of five (5) municipal scholars from the poor but intelligent high school graduates. This time-honored practice started way back in 1992 during the administration of former Mayor Noli Venezuela, and was [...]

Five barangays receive water pumps

by Clarito T. Corpuz /Fernando C. Gabuat/jvillamil IN LINE with the national thrust of the Department of Agriculture (DA) through the Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) to boost agricultural production, its Regional Field Unit I (RFU I) in San Fernando, La Union and the local government of Pozorrubio represented by Mayor Emma Chan entered into an [...]

For Mother Earth, for Pozorrubio; and of course, for ourselves

by Jing Villamil LAST Saturday, the 2nd day of the simmering summer month of May, was the day after Labor Day. It was also the 2nd day of a long 3-day no-work weekend. Everyone, with no exemption, would have preferred not to be up and about stretching muscles and inviting heatstroke. It was a day [...]