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ISLAND SNAPSHOTS – April 2022
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Posted on Apr 05 2022
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- VICE PRINCIPAL’S WEEK Gratitude is extended to Hopwood Middle School vice principals Karen Manuel and Ben Seman, who are being honored this week as part of the celebration of National Vice Principal’s Week (April 4-8), when school systems nationwide recognize vice principals who have demonstrated unwavering leadership—becoming a source of strength and inspiration for us all. Thanks to Manuel and Seman for their dedication, leadership, and contributions to our school. (Contributed Photo)
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- NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK Thank you to Hopwood Middle School librarian Janet Sablan for your guidance and support, as the nation marks National Library Week (April 3-9) to celebrate our nation’s libraries, library workers’ contributions and to promote library use and support. The theme this year is “Connect with Your Library.” (Contributed Photo)
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- F-18 FIGHTER PILOT Erin Overcash, the only female F-18 fighter pilot in the Navy’s Carrier Air Wing 5, stands inside a cell of the Old Japanese Jail in Garapan, Saipan, where local lore holds that famed aviator Amelia Earhart was held by the Japanese military after her 1937 disappearance. Other photo shows Overcash standing in the corridor of the Old Japanese Jail. (Walt Goodridge)
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- F-18 FIGHTER PILOT Erin Overcash, the only female F-18 fighter pilot in the Navy’s Carrier Air Wing 5, stands inside a cell of the Old Japanese Jail in Garapan, Saipan, where local lore holds that famed aviator Amelia Earhart was held by the Japanese military after her 1937 disappearance. Other photo shows Overcash standing in the corridor of the Old Japanese Jail. (Walt Goodridge)
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- PUBLIC SERVICE RECOGNITION WEEK Gov. Ralph DLG Torres is joined by the CNMI Office of Personnel Management director of Personnel Frances T. Torres-Salas, members of the Public Service Recognition Week Committee, dignitaries, and representatives of CNMI government departments and agencies for a souvenir picture after Torres signed yesterday the designation of the week of May 2-6, 2022 as Public Service Recognition Week. (Office of the Governor)
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- Mount Carmel School kindergarten student Yzzabella Fernando Vergel de Dios reads “The First Station: Jesus is Condemned to Death” during the Stations of the Cross.(MCS )
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- Mount Carmel School students position themselves with candles during “The Tenth Station: Jesus’ Clothes are Taken Away” during the Stations of the Cross.(MCS)
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- Mount Carmel School students position themselves with candles during “The Thirteenth Station: The Body of Jesus is Taken Down From the Cross” during the Stations of the Cross. (MCS)
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- LENTEN CELEBRATION As part of Mount Carmel School’s Lenten celebration, the entire Mount Carmel School family gathered in the school’s quad on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, to pray the Stations of the Cross. Each grade level took turns reading each station and participated later in activities that highlighted the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. (MCS)
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- CONFERENCE ON ISLAND SUSTAINABILITY Saipan’s Rep. Sheila Babauta (D-Saipan) encourages the audience to build solidarity with each other throughout the Mariana Islands as a featured CIS Seed Talks speaker of the 2022 University of Guam Conference on Island Sustainability on April 8 at the Hyatt Regency Guam. Babauta is an environmental justice movement fellow with The New School (N.Y.) and is a representative in the 22nd Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature. (UOG)
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- CONFERENCE ON ISLAND SUSTAINABILITY Austin Shelton, director of the Center for Island Sustainability, speaks on a panel about harnessing opportunities for Guam from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, at the 2022 University of Guam Conference on Island Sustainability on April 8 at the Hyatt Regency Guam. (From left) Moderator Melanie Mendiola, CEO and administration, Guam Economic Development Authority; Carlotta Leon Guerrero, chief adviser on military and regional affairs to the governor of Guam; John Miller, president, Mana Pacific Inc. (Hawaii); and Shelton. (UOG)
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- CONFERENCE ON ISLAND SUSTAINABILITY University of Guam president Thomas W. Krise and Guam Gov. Lourdes Leon Guerrero answer questions during a press conference to open the 2022 University of Guam Conference on Island Sustainability on April 5 at the Hyatt Regency Guam. This marks the third year the governor and UOG president have served as co-chairs of the conference. (UOG)
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- CONFERENCE ON ISLAND SUSTAINABILITY Conference on Island Sustainability keynote speaker Suzanne Vares-Lum, the new president of the East-West Center in Hawaii as of January, shares what her father told her after surveying various Micronesian islands with the Army in 1962: “We have a lot to learn from those who live there … there’s no such thing as an orphan, there’s no such thing as someone who’s homeless… there was no such thing in 1962. There wasn’t an idea that you wouldn’t share everything you had with someone else.” She spoke at the University of Guam conference on April 7 at the Hyatt Regency Guam. (UOG)
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- CONFERENCE ON ISLAND SUSTAINABILITY Heidi Kujawa, CEO of ByFusion Global Inc. based in California, explains her company’s development of construction-grade building blocks made from recycled and unrecyclable plastics. She was a featured speaker of the 2022 University of Guam Conference on Island Sustainability on April 7 at the Hyatt Regency Guam. (UOG )
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- COMMUNITY SERVICE Members of the Tau Gamma Phi Northern Mariana Islands Council continue their community service of handing out refreshments during the annual Mt. Tapochao Good Friday service. (Contributed Photo)
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- WELCOME BACK! Some of the staff of T Galleria by DFS line up inside the luxury mall to welcome guests as they await the opening of the doors last April 8. (Leigh Gases)
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- EARTH DAY CLEANUP Island Keepers CNMI volunteers clean up the Sugar Dock last April 22, as part of the islandwide cleanup organized by the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality to celebrate Earth Day and Environmental Awareness Month. ( Island Keepers CNMI)
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- EARTH DAY CLEANUPS Precinct 5 Rep. Richard Lizama (D-Saipan) provided trash hauling services for the Marine Beach cleanup organized by Miss Northern Marianas Earth. Photo courtesy of Miss Northern Marianas Earth. (Contributed Photo)
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- EARTH DAY CLEANUPS 2022 Earth Day Cleanup at Marine Beach organized by Miss Northern Marianas Earth, in partnership with the CNMI Youth Affairs, Tan Siu Lin Foundation, and the CNMI Women’s Affairs Office. Photo courtesy of Miss Northern Marianas Earth. (Contributed Photo)
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- EARTH DAY CLEANUPS Earth Day beach cleanup. Salty Skin Pacific keeps true to their mission to help protect the ocean as they cleanup Obyan Beach, as part of the Earth Day Islandwide Cleanup last April 22. Photo courtesy of Salty Skin Pacific. (Contributed Photo)
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- ARTS FESTIVAL SPONSOR IT&E is a proud partner and sponsor of this weekend’s Flame Tree Arts Festival festivities. From left, Rob Harrell, IT&E executive director of Customer Operations; Department of Community and Cultural Affairs Secretary Joseph P. Deleon Guerrero; Parker Yobei, executive director of Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture; and Velma Ann M. Palacios, IT&E director of Network Operations and Engineering. (IT&E)
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- PROCLAMATIONS Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, joined yesterday by Department of Corrections Commissioner Wally F. Villagomez, Department of Corrections officers and employees, Department of Public Safety Commissioner Robert A. Guerrero, dignitaries, and community members, proclaimed the week of May 1-7, 2022 as CNMI Correctional Officers and Employees Week. (Office of the Governor)
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- PROCLAMATIONS Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, with Marianas Visitors Authority managing director Priscilla M. Iakopo, MVA board members and staff, dignitaries, and community members, yesterday proclaimed May as Marianas Tourism Month. (Office of the Governor)
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- PROCLAMATIONS Gov. Ralph DLG Torres, joined yesterday by Office on Aging director Walter Manglona, Department of Cultural and Community Affairs Secretary Joseph P. Deleon Guerrero, the man’amko, Office on Aging staff, dignitaries, and community members, proclaimed the month of May as Older Americans Month in the CNMI. (Office of the Governor)
