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                    [Title] => 2 village chiefs receive coffins as 'gifts'
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Two barangay captains each received a “surprise gift” from an unknown person delivered right at their doorstep – white coffins.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 534041 [Title] => Town known for eggplant to launch cookbook [Summary] =>

After successfully staging four series of talong (eggplant) cookfests as part of its annual fiesta celebration, this town is set to make a record by launching a book that contains the winning recipés of its main vegetable produce on Jan. 15 next year.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 39337 [Title] => Balikbayans join Talong fest [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 380062 [Title] => Eggplant takes center stage in Pangasinan fest [Summary] => VILLASIS, Pangasinan — Once again, talong (eggplant), the main product of this agricultural town known as the "vegetable bowl" and "pinakbet capital" of the province, takes center stage in the second Talong Festival on Jan. 19.

The festival, which has gained a following, promises to be bigger and more exciting this year as the town celebrates its 200th foundation day.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374298 [Title] => P’sinan town gets new hall [Summary] => VILLASIS, Pangasinan — The newly constructed town hall here, a gift of Villasinians working or residing abroad to their hometown, is an example of a project undertaken with transparency and public accountability.

Mayor Nonato Abrenica said that it was the full trust of his townmates and their transparency in spending the money raised from conducting the yearly search for Miss Villasis that paved the way for the construction of a new town hall building.

The structure, which cost P13 million to build has a floor area of 1,700 square meters.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 290285 [Title] => Pinakbet Town is ‘vegetable bowl of Pangasinan’ [Summary] => VILLASIS, Pangasinan – It was a dream come true.

This "Pinakbet Town" in this province could rightfully hold its crown as the Vegetable Bowl of Pangasinan as it opened recently its spacious and modern Bagsakan Market for various types of vegetables produced here and in adjacent towns and cities as well as in neighboring provinces.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 261446 [Title] => P’sinan town out to regain tag as ‘veggie bowl’ [Summary] => VILLASIS, Pangasinan — This agricultural town is set to regain its old glory as the "vegetable bowl" of Pangasinan as it implements next month an ambitious P25-million bagsakan (trading post) market in the poblacion area.

Mayor Nonato Abrenica told The STAR that funding will come from the P15-million savings of the municipal government from the P40-million Philippine National Bank loan used to construct the town’s public market in 2002.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 203902 [Title] => No ‘beso-beso,’ handshakes for now, suggests Magsaysay [Summary] => DAGUPAN CITY — No beso-beso (cheek-to-cheek), no handshakes for the meantime.

This advice came from Sen. Ramon Magsaysay Jr. when local reporters asked him what to do best to avoid the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus.

But Magsaysay himself apparently could not help but shake the hands of local folk when he spoke during the 83rd annual convention of the American Legion Auxiliary here yesterday.

"They (might) get mad at us (if) we refuse to shake their hands," he quipped.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096897 [AuthorName] => Eva Visperas [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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By Eva Visperas | January 18, 2008 - 12:00am
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