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COMREL volunteers up for one-day eco activity
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Posted on Jan 23 2005
Keeping the environment clean makes the community a healthy place to live in.
Community Relations volunteers will seek to achieve this during a one-day beautification project tomorrow, Jan. 25, from 9am to 4pm.
The volunteers will come from the 200 uniformed men and women onboard the USS Gary set to dock on Saipan early tomorrow for a four-day rest and recreational activity, which also calls for them to do some port duties on the island.
Saipan Mayor Juan Borja Tudela will officially join the men and women of USS Gary through a welcome “island-style” barbecue lunch at the Sugar King Estate.
Ensign Jamarr Johnson from the frigate and Ruth Coleman of the CNMI Military and Veterans Affairs Office will also attend the luncheon.
Tudela will also preside over a recognition ceremony as appreciation to the USS Gary volunteers for the whole day “eco” activity, and he will also recognize USS Gary staff for the participation and help during the 60-year anniversary of the liberation of Saipan.
The volunteers in the one-day community project will be busy with tree trimming, raking, and water blasting around the slab pavements, vehicle parking, re-painting of historical buildings, planting of trees, flowers, shrubs, and other plants, drainage cleaning, and reopening of overgrown nature trails, among other beautification efforts on the island, according to the Saipan Mayor’s Office.
The activity is in line with the calls by international economist, Dr. Wali M. Osman, for the Commonwealth, “to enhance the tourist infrastructure and maintain its tropical ecosystem…to remain popular as a tropical paradise,” the press notice stated. (Marconi Calindas)
