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The Provincial Board Members and their Chair, Vice Governor Marlyn
Primicias Agabas were in official attendance and in their required
office garb.
They formed their own straight line infront of the Executive Building
among the rank and file of the municipality of Pozorrubio for the
regular Monday flag-raising ritual this January 11, 2008. They sang the
Pambansang Awit ; they pledged allegiance to the nation. They applauded
the formal presentation to the public and the awarding of cash
incentives (P500 for each and every gold, silver or bronze) to the
almost a hundred young athletes from the town’s elementary and
secondary schools who won in the just-concluded Congressional and
Division Sports Meet , thus making Pozorrubio’s unit the Overall
Champion, a proud record to take to the coming IRAA event.
This outreach program, of bringing the provincial legislative body out
of the “sterile” halls of Lingayen, to where the members can breathe the
air, the soil and the sweat of the place and the people most concerned
in the laws they formulate and the resolutions they approve or
disapprove – this is a fresh and welcome innovation in the field of
legislation. And only during this present term that it is being
implemented in full scale.
Pozorrubio is the 1st outreach site among the eight towns of the 5th
District. After the flag-raising ceremony, the Board conducted a
“working-breakfast” at the Social Hall on the 3rd Floor of the Executive
Building, with the town’s administrative and legislative officials and
also with the mayors, the vice-mayors of the other towns of the 5th
District. The meeting lasted for almost 3 hours. The Board then
proceeded to Urdaneta City for their “working-lunch”.
The outreach schedule goes back full cycle to the 5th District at the
end of 6 months after going through all the 6 districts of Pangasinan.
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