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LINGAYEN, PANGASINAN—Three-time Filipina world boxing champion Ana “The Hurricane” Julaton finally set foot on her grandparents’ home province on Wednesday on her way to Pozorrubio town to visit more relatives.

“It’s amazing. It’s my first time here and everything is just beautiful. Everyone’s heart’s warm and it feels like family,” Julaton said shortly after meeting with provincial officials here.

Julaton arrived in the country on Monday, 12 days after successfully clinching the World Boxing Organization super-bantamweight crown against Mexican Maria Elena Villalobos on June 30.

Julaton also holds the International Boxing Association female super bantamweight crown and the World Boxing Council international female super bantamweight title.

“This [visit to Pangasinan] is the most memorable thing that happened to me so far,” said Julaton, who was born in California.

Read more: ‘The Hurricane’ traces Pangasinan roots

Finale of the observance of this year’s Nutrition Month was the 3-day community activity conducted in Nama, Dilan and Inoman, the selected barangay sites for this year’s  Adopt-a-Barangay project of the Municipal Nutrition Committee (MNC). The MNC is chaired by Mayor Artemio Chan and implemented by the Municipal Nutritionist Bernadita Dela Rosa through its memberline agencies such as the Sangguniang Bayan and staff, the LGU officials and employees, and the semi- and non-government organizations (NGOs) such as KALIPI, KABALIKAT Civicom and the Knights of Columbos,.  

For three days, July 29-31, the group planted tree seedlings (mahogany, gmelina and malunggay) and made home-visitations to encourage backyard vegetable gardening. They also conducted free medical and dental missions and nutrition education in the said three barangays.

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Wednesday July 14, 2010, just only a few hours after Ana “The Hurricane” arrived in the Philippines for a promotional tour, she takes a long ride back to home. No, she did not take another flight back to the USA.

Also home to the World Boxing Organization (WBO), World Boxing Council (WBC) and International Boxing Association (IBA) super bantamweight world champion is Barangay Villegas, Pozorrubio, Pangasinan where her Dad, Cesario M. Julaton II, was a resident before he emigrated to the USA. Generations of Julatons still live there, and Dad Cesario goes back on short visits now and then.  

Read more: Anna “The Hurricane” Julaton: Proud to be Pinay, Pangasinense and Pozorrubian!

Sometime last year, I published an article about Richard Banegas, the husband writer of a Pozorrubian, Zonia Quesada. Richard relates that it took him approximately 7 years to finish his first book, “Hands of Fire/the Phantom Body”, a book prompted by the death of Richard’s brother. After the publication of his first book, 2 more books followed publication. And he is coming up with the third! I believe, instead of 1 book after 7 years, he will come up with 7 books in 1 year. Below is a preview of the books by Richard, which I asked him to send me for publication in Pozorrubio Online. This article becomes a part of my series, “Celebrating Pozorrubio’s Writers”.

Read more: Support a Pozorrubian Writer

This month of July, the sun still toasts the fields and our bared skins at midday; but the rains are now here at least (and at last!) to mend us, earth and all.

This morning, July 6, 2010, farmers from the 34 barangays formed early lines before their municipio for the free 2-sack fertilizer pack (complete and urea) courtesy of former 5th District of Pangasinan Congressman Mark Cojuangco and now Congresswoman Kimi Cojuangco and Mayor Artemio Chan.

Read more: Seeding the farms

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.

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.

Read more: Retired, not tired

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.

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

(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.

Read more: Celebrating Pozorrubio's Writers - 4: " The Etiology of a Community Malady"

Father's Day is a day honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. It is celebrated on the third Sunday of June in 55 of the world's countries and on other days elsewhere. It complements Mother's Day, the celebration honoring mothers. It is a widely known celebration.

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