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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”.

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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"