USSP marks 13th year with weekend bash

USS Peleliu Club does not believe in the curse surrounding the number 13 and in fact will be celebrating its baker’s dozen anniversary with a Memorial Day Weekend Bash from May 26 to May 28.

Owner Rose Phillips is promising a party like no other in the three days starting this Friday at 8pm.

For starters, the former hotelier said USSP Club has brought in the Nuggetz Band from Guam to perform live on stage together with the sports bar and watering hole’s in-house band, Rock Islanders.

USSP Club will also be holding its ever-popular Bottom’s Up competition as well as the Four-Headed Frozen T-Shirt contest, which is one of the fastest-growing bar games in the U.S., according to Phillips.

Six teams will vie for the championship of the Four-Headed Frozen T-Shirt contest. Four teams have already advanced to the final round with the last two groups to be decided in the coming days.

Winners in the first week were the group of Grace Sablan, Oscar Ogo, Mary San Nicolas, and Alfred Taitano; and Liezel Aldan, Edwin Takai, Rose Ann Kuan, and Sheena Sablan.

Second week winners include the team of Jermaine Quitugua, Ed Manglona, Doris Cabrera, and Patricia Ann Farnsworth; and Julian Tagabuel, John Attao, Conrad Iba, and Frank Olopai.

Winners of the competition will take home a cooler of fish, a box of stuffed crab, cash prize, and other food items.

Depending on the number of participants, Phillips is also expected to stage a billiards tournament on Sunday, May 28, to celebrate USSP Club’s 13th year anniversary.

On Sunday, Phillips said the celebrations at USSP Club will be broadcasted live beginning at 8pm by Power 99.

Together with event host Pacific Trading Co., the sports bar will only be charging a $5 cover charge for the event, which will include a complimentary drink of either Miller Lite or Pepsi Cola.

Phillips and her husband, Ken, founded USSP Club in May 28, 1993. Then known as Club 19th Hole, it was located beside Tropical Color along Beach Road in Garapan.

It was re-christened USP Club in 1997 and moved to the present location of Shooters Sports Bar, at the back of Saipan Gold Beach Hotel also in Garapan. It then followed the “migration path of tourists” in 2003 in its present location near Garapan’s hotel row and reincarnated into USSP Club.

Rose Phillips said the name change from Club 19th Hole, to USP Club, to the current USSP Club reflects her love of her Palauan hometown, as she came from the island of Peleliu.

For more information about USSP Club’s Memorial Day Weekend Bash, call 233-1984 after 5pm.