The Ilocos Times

  Coconut week in Pagudpud . In celebration of the Coconut Week, the municipal government of Pagudpud, headed by mayor Rafael Ralph Benemerito together with the CPA, PNP, the Army, different cooperatives, employees of the municipal government and farmers planted an initial 200 coconut seedlings of the total 18,000 seedlings at Brgy. Kaparispisan in this town.  (Photo courtesy of LGU-Pagudpud)

  VERTEXT CARES. Vertext chief executive officer (CEO) and Smart Ilocos Norte sales operations manager Bjorn Lao hands over grocery items to Laoag barangay officials as part of VERTEXT CARES sharing blessings from the Lao family after super typhoon Carina.   Vertext Cares  has been operational and has been helping people and organizations in need for about a decade now which was launched during the time of Laoag councilor Handy Lao as Vertext CEO. (Doms dela Cruz)

  Pagudpud Mayor Rafael Ralph Benemerito and other municipal officials and department heads join the blessing of the newly acquired prime mover with boom crane of the Municipal Engineering and DRRM Office. The equipment is for the transport of heavy equipment and for rescue purposes for vehicles in road accidents. (Photo courtesy of LGU Pagudpud)