The Ilocos Times

  The  City of Batac celebrated mayor Albert Chua’s birthday with the distribution of  farm machineries and equipment for select farmer beneficiaries held at the Imelda Cultural Center. Witnessing the blessing are Chua, members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod headed by Batac vice mayor Windell Chua and the city’s department heads. The farm machineries and equipment distributed were 1,000 units of water pump; 1,800 rolls of irrigation hose; 500 units of 2-in-1 knapsack sprayer; six units walk-behind transplanter; 30 units of riding type hand-tractor; 30 units of multi-cultivator; 40 units rice reaper; 40 units hold-on thresher; two  units of amphibious vehicle; one water tanker; three garbage compactor; one manlift and two dump trucks. Chua said the funding for these came from the city’s RA 7171 share. ( Doms dela Cruz)

  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)