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High school coed youngest Pangasinan board member
By Jennelyn Mondejar

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – A 15-year-old high school sophomore, a daughter of Pangasinan first district Rep. Arthur Celeste, formally assumed last week her post as the youngest member of the provincial board as president of the provincial Sangguniang Kabataan federation.

Kazel Celeste became the latest member of the 15-man provincial board in an ex-officio capacity.

In her privilege speech, Kazel, who studies in Miriam College in Quezon City, said, “I was awe-inspired into thinking that I now actually follow the footsteps of the only man I hold very dear in my heart.”

Kazel said her father was proud to see her take a seat among the honorable men and women of the province.

She said her priorities include health and education for the youth in Pangasinan.

“Anticipating your patience, I hope that my thirst for knowledge will become the guiding light in doing my role as your youngest member,” she told the board members.

However, when asked by sixth district board member Alfonso Bince, the Sanggunian’s eldest, how she would divide her time between her studies and her obligation as SK representative, Kazel admitted she intends to attend the sessions only once a month.

This prompted Bince to remind her of the board rule that four consecutive absences might lead to suspension or removal.


2 dead, 3 others hurt in bus-trike collision
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Two persons, one of them a seven-year old boy, died while three others were injured when the tricycle they rode in collided with a Five Star bus along the national highway here in Sitio Parongking, Barangay San Miguel.

Fatalities in the Jan. 12 vehicular accident were identified by police as as Carlo Osian, 35, resident of Poblacion Sur, Sta. Barbara town and his nephew Philip Joshua Osian.

They were rushed to the Region I Medical Center in Dagupan City by responding policemen but were declared dead on arrival by their attending physicians.

Injured and also brought to the same hospital were Gina Osian, 32, Angel Osian and Pilar Osian, wife, daughter and mother respectively of the tricycle driver.

Though already injured, Pilar wrote down the plate number of the bus bound for Manila that bumped them whose driver surrendered later to the Villasis Police Station in Villasis town. – Jerry Padilla