The winning entry in the 2009 Aquatic Technology Competition (ATCOM) sponsored by the Philippine Council for Aquatic and Marine Research and Developmant (PCAMRD) is the improved processing and packaging of fermented mudfish (burong dalag) entered by researchers based at Pangasinan State University (Bayambang Campus). They received a cash reward of P150,000 during the commemoration of the 21st Anniversary of the council. In the pictures are (from left) Executive Director Rafael D. Guerrero III, Researchers Wilma de Vera, Veronica Austria, and Raquel Pambid, Zonal Center 1 Coordinator Jennie R. Mamhot, and Secretary Estrella F. Alabastro. (Ruben E. Taningco)
What is now known as Doña Leonila (Mini-Forest) Park overlooking the Sampaloc Lake is actually a portion of the site for the City Hall Complex purchased in 1937 by the Municipal Government of San Pablo headed by President Inocencio Barleta, which was partly developed after the termination of World War II under the administration of appointed City Mayor, Dr. Fernando A. Bautista. During the incumbency of elected Mayor Lauro D. Dizon Sr., with the help of the Rotary Club of San Pablo, and under the supervision of Dr. Juan B. Hernandez, then club secretary of the local Rotary Club and Chairman of the City Beautification Committee, constructed some park structures at the park, with the fountain featuring the country lass with agriculture harvest as centerpiece. Probably, Hernandez and then City Engineer Perfecto Reyes were inspired by the figures affixed on the façade of the City Hall Building which symbolizes progress. Sometimes on April of 1961 when then President Carlos Garcia made a
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