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Marianas Young Professionals joins Adopt-A-Highway Program
The Marianas Young Professionals became the newest member of the Adopt-A-Highway Program of the Department of Public Works.
Road signs that will be used for the areas the group adopted were presented at the department’s office in San Jose yesterday.
The Marianas Young Professionals became the newest member to DPW’s adopt-a-highway program. MYPros president Bo Palacios and vice president Nola Hix met with Public Works Secretary James Ada, coordinator Jack Sablan, and other DPW members at the presentation of the road signage to be used in Garapan Street. (Frauleine S. Villanueva)
In attendance at the presentation of the road signs were MYPros’ president Bo Palacios and vice president Nola Hix, Public Works Secretary James Ada, Adopt-A-Highway coordinator Jack Sablan, and other DPW members.
“In behalf of DPW, thank you for being a part of our endeavor,” Sablan said.
“We plan to be very active in our community and try to make it cleaner, more safe. This is actually one of the things that we do as an organization,” Palacios said.
MYPros will now be responsible for Garapan Street (Route 308) in Garapan.
According to Hix, they chose to adopt this highway because they noticed the need to replace the bulbs of the light posts in the street. She added that they are working closely with DPW and other agencies to ensure that these are replaced so the community and our tourists will feel safe when walking through this highway.
“At night you will see few tourists but mainly kids who visit the Garapan Basketball Court walking up and down this busy highway in the dark. We must work together to ensure the safety of these kids, and we also plan to teach these kids to help us keep our island clean by volunteering to help us maintain this highway,” Hix said.
She said this will be an ongoing project for the MYPros Environmental & Community Projects Committees.
With the addition MYPros, there are now 23 members of the adopt-a-highway program.
Members of the program are expected to at least to clean their part of the roads every quarter.
