Valenzuela articles
Valenzuela City, tech firm ink joint venture agreement
To fund the medical expenses of dialysis patients in Valenzuela, the city government has entered a joint venture agreement with a traffic systems company for the No Contact Apprehension Program, officials announced Wednesday. The city government signed the agreement with QPax Traffic Systems Inc. f...
Valenzuela LGU, private sector launch plastic recycling program
The Valenzuela City government and Nestlé Philippines have teamed up to launch the country’s first citywide residual waste collection program that aims to recycle and reduce the amount of plastic and used beverage cartons in the city landfill. City government officials and Nestlé...
Valenzuela completes Bahay Pag-Asa renovation
As Bahay Pag-Asa in Valenzuela City marked its sixth year as an institution for children in conflict with the law, the city government announced the completion of renovation works. The former two-story building is now a three-story structure, with additional male quarters and a multipurpose hall, t...
Valenzuela LGU gives away free school bags to grade school pupils
Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian on Tuesday, May 21, led other city officials in distributing free school supplies to some 10,964 kindergarten and elementary school pupils in different barangays of District 1 on the third day of the Balik Eskwela Project. Each pupil took home backpacks containi...
Valenzuela joins nationwide Brigada Eskwela
Teachers, students, parents, and other volunteers trooped to public schools in Valenzuela City to participate in the first day of Brigada Eskwela, May 20. Now on its 16th year, Brigada Eskwela, or National Schools’ Maintenance Week, is a community-based program of the Department of Education ...
Valenzuela kids to receive Balik Eskwela 2019 packages
The Valenzuela City government is giving free school supplies to all public school students in the city for the upcoming academic year which starts on June 3. The yearly Balik Eskwela initiative is among the myriad projects that comprise Valenzuela City and Mayor Rexlon “Rex” Gatchalian...
Valenzuela village celebrates Feast of San Roque
Hundreds of tourists and residents filled the streets of Barangay Mabolo in Valenzuela City on May 12, 2019, as they celebrated the 257th Mano Po, San Roque Festival’s “Sayawan Sa Calle: Sayaw Pasasalamat,” a street dancing festival dedicated to patron San Roque, or St. Roch. Vale...
P20.2-M shabu seized from Chinese national, Pinoy cohorts in Valenzuela
Around P20.2 million worth of suspected shabu was seized from a Chinese national and three Filipinos in a buy-bust operation in Valenzuela on Friday. Adrian Alvarino, director of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Region IV-A, identified the Chinese national as Wu Lianlai from Fujian province, ...
Valenzuela starts post-election cleanup
Some Valenzuela City government workers started taking down all campaign materials in public places on Tuesday, a day after the 2019 midterm elections. Zyan Caiña, city chief public information officer, said the immediate cleanup was being carried out upon the instruction of Mayor-elect Rex ...
Gatchalian proclaimed mayor of Valenzuela
Rex Gatchalian has been proclaimed as the mayor of Valenzuela by the city board of canvassers. Garnering at least 249,508 votes, or 96.69 percent of voters in the city who turned out to cast their ballots, Gatchalian is set to serve his third term as Valenzuela mayor. Gatchalian’s opponents,...