Palaspas ed Pozorrubio!

Written by Jing Villamil

Waving fronds of palms, they welcomed Him to Jerusalem. Before the end of the week, they would be shouting Him crucified. But this is no sermon on short memories and universal fickle-mindedness; sermons are better left to priest and sages.

Yesterday, Christendom welcomed Holy Week with Palm Sunday. To Pangasinenses, it was Domingo Ramos or Agew na Palaspas or simply Palaspas.

Palaspas roughly means: to cut a path through dense foliage or forest with a bolo or an instrument as sharply edged. On the other hand, palaspas also best describes: a steering of the air with a waving to-and fro of the fingers or its extensions (i.e. things that flop or swap). It was probably from this latter context that palaspas came to be associated with Palm Sunday; it was as near as near can be to refer to the palm fronds.

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An International Beauty Queen crowns Miss Eco Pozorrubio 2011

Written by Gin Quesada

The Miss ECO Pozorrubio 2011 pageant must be the luckiest and most memorable so far of the annual pageantry presented by Archers Productions. For the first time an international beauty queen, Miss Tourism Cosmopolitan International Barbie Salvador came to grace the occasion and to be the crowning guest of the event held last Januarry 18, 2011. In addition to the production’s regular annual viewing audience, the night’s spectators was increased by Pozorrubians curious to see their Kabaleyan international beauty queen. The crowd may be labeled ‘di mahulugang karayum’ as what one observer said.

Pangasinan News: Kinondena mangitatayak na istoryan mangibubulos na danum lay San Roque dam

Written by Danny O. Sagun, PIA-Pangasinan

Dagupan City (21 Oktubre) — Mabiskeg ya kinondena nen Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan iray mangitatayak na balitan sikatoy nampasakbay ed baleg a delap lapud pambubulos la na danum na San Roque dam.

Malet ton inburi ya sikatoy mangitatayak na ontan iran balita diad impituyaw tod saray managpalapag tan impangipaway toy statement to panamegley na text message. “Kokondenaen ko itay siopakaman ya mangitatayak na katilaan ya siak panamegley na text message et papasakbayan ko ray totoo ya say San Roque dam so mangibubulos na baleg a danum,” inkuanto.

Full transcript of President Aquino’s inaugural speech

Written by The President

06/30/2010 | 12:49 PM

The following is the full transcript of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s inaugural speech delivered after taking his oath as the 15th Philippine president at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila.

His Excellency Jose Ramos Horta, members of the diplomatic corps, Vice President Jejomar C. Binay, former President Fidel V. Ramos, former President Joseph E. Estrada, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and other members of the Senate, House Speaker Prospero Nograles and other members of the House of Representatives, members of the Supreme Court, local government officials, distinguished guests, mga minamahal kong kababayan.

Retired, not tired

Written by Leon Magpusao Jr. (philstar.com) Updated June 24, 2010 11:44 AM

Retrieved from Philstar.com

On February 6, 2002, I got a text message asking me to contact an agency for a job offer. I was considered for a one-year consultancy work by my former employer. The offer was unexpected; my wife considered the compensation “obscene.” Friends admonished me, that I would be a fool to refuse such a lucrative offer. Considering that my second child would be entering college, I accepted the job. I flew to Manila for my medical examinations and passport renewal. After completing all requirements — delayed by the bureaucratic processes in our government agencies — I departed on April 19 back to the land of kings and princes, oil and sand dunes.

Pozorrubio holds thanksgiving mass, oath-taking and turn-over ceremony in one sitting

Written by jV

June 28 was a good day to start afresh. Newly assigned parish piest Reverend Father Hurley John Solfelix officiated in the Thanksgiving Mass offered by and for the leaders and the people of this municipality, Municipal Circuit Trial Court (MCTC) Judge Ma. Ligaya Itliong-Rivera administered the oath to the new set of executive and legislative officers, and local DILG officer Ma. Floricel Servito turned-over 60-days work of the department heads, of assembled documents, records and inventory of all properties pertaining to the operations of this municipality, as commissioned by the outgoing Mayor Emma Zosima T. Chan.

Celebrating Pozorrubio’s Writers – 4: ” The Etiology of a Community Malady”

Written by “Rod Avlas” with introduction by Gin Quesada

(This is the fourth in a series of articles celebrating Pozorrubio’s writers. The piece below, ‘The Etiology of a Community Malady’, won the Special Award in the 1st Pozorrubio Essay/Expository Writing Contest. It was written by Dr. Francisco Raul D. Salvador, submitted under the pen name of ‘Rod Avlas’.

Dr. Francisco Raul D. Salvador, a true blooded Pozorrubian, is the youngest son of Francisco Salvador and Teofila Doras of Bobonan, a barangay north of the town. He is a medical specialist practitioner of family and community medicine, a professor of La Consolacion College, a former medical coordinator volunteer of Medecins Sans Frontiers, Switzerland section. He was a pioneering community and occupational health officer in Georgetown, British Guyana, South America.

Mang Inasal now serves Pozorrubio!

Written by jV

Pozorrubians need not go farther beyond the borders of Pozorrubio to feast on chicken cooked the uniquely ‘Inasal’ way. Beginning June 16, 2010, Mang Inasal has a kitchen and a dine-in in town!

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Pozorrubio observes 112th Independence Day

Written by jV

It was a long 3-day weekend and it began Saturday, June 12, 2010 with a parade through the main streets and a program at the open stage.  The 112^th Philippine Independence Day celebration has for this year’s theme: Kalayaan, Tagumpay ng Bayan.

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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 – a bridge to link the overseas barangays to the Poblacion.