News Update 2 Ifugao towns get special fund LAGAWE,

Ifugao - Two Ifugao towns are set to receive the Performance Challenge Fund from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) because of their good housekeeping practices that helped their towns gain recognition from the concerned national government agencies. Rose Domelod, Chief of the Operations Services Division of DILG-CAR said that the municipalities of Banaue and Lagawe are the only two towns in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) who were qualified for the seal of good housekeeping program of the DILG. ''They will receive R1million each,'' Domelod said. (Dexter A. See) D.P.W.H. to plant highway trees SAN FERNANDO CITY, Pampanga - Officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Regional Office 3 assured the public yesterday that hundreds of trees that were cut on the stretch of MacArthur Highway, here, will be replaced.