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Island Snapshots – May 2020
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Posted on May 04 2020
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- TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK Teachers at the Admiral Herbert G. Hopwood Middle School extend a happy Teacher Appreciation Week to all teachers in the CNMI, as the nation marks Teacher Appreciation Week on May 4-8, 2020. The U.S. Congress declared National Teacher Day on March 7, 1980. Five years later, the National PTA established Teacher Appreciation Week during the first full week of May. Since then, families around the nation and the CNMI have been showing their appreciation to teachers. This year, the Public School System has plans throughout the week and invite students and families to show their love and appreciation. (Contributed Photo)
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- MEMORIAL SERVICE-Some of the children, family members, and friends carry the coffin of Marianas Variety founding publisher Abed E. Younis into the hearse outside the Gov. Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe, where memorial services were held Saturday morning. Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres presented a plaque to the family to acknowledge the work and contributions Younis made to the Commonwealth and the development of local and regional media. Younis passed away from natural causes last April 18 at his home in Dandan. He was 83. (FERDIE DE LA TORRE)
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- GUARDING VS ILLEGAL FISHING The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Midgett lays out a fuel hose in preparation for a helicopter in-flight refueling operation with an Air Station Barbers Point MH-65 Dolphin helicopter off Oahu on March 26, 2020. The crew completed their first operation patrol in the Pacific at the end of April. (COAST GUARD/USCGC MIDGETT)
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- GUARDING VS ILLEGAL FISHING The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Midgett prepares to launch their small boat with a boarding team to conduct law enforcement boardings to ensure compliance with international fisheries regulations and counter illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing in the Pacific Ocean last April 23, 2020. (COAST GUARD/USCGC MIDGETT)
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- GUARDING VS ILLEGAL FISHING COAST GUARD/USCGC MIDGETT The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Midgett lays out a fuel hose in preparation for a helicopter in-flight refueling operation with an Air Station Barbers Point MH-65 Dolphin helicopter off Oahu on March 26, 2020. The crew completed their first operation patrol in the Pacific at the end of April. The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Midgett launches their small boat with a boarding team to conduct law enforcement boardings to ensure compliance with international fisheries regulations and counter illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing in the Pacific Ocean last April 23, 2020. Patrolling over 7,118 square nautical miles (8,191 statute miles), the Midgett’s law enforcement team boarded seven commercial foreign-flagged fishing vessels. The boardings verified compliance with WCPFC conservation management measures and specifications for the marking and identification of fishing vessels. They conducted 15 additional sightings and vessel queries. (COAST GUARD/USCGC MIDGETT
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- GUARDING VS ILLEGAL FISHING The crew of the Coast Guard cutter Midgett conducts navigation training in the wardroom while underway in the Pacific last April 10, 2020. The crew completed their first operation patrol in the Pacific at the end of April, ensuring U.S. presence to assure U.S. sovereignty and resource security in remote Pacific regions. (COAST GUARD/USCGC MIDGETT)
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- GUARDING VS ILLEGAL FISHING The landing signal officer on the Coast Guard cutter Midgett gives direction to an Air Station Barbers Point MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew while operating in the Pacific Ocean on April 10, 2020. The crews are required to maintain competencies to embark and refuel helicopters. (COAST GUARD/USCGC MIDGETT)
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- RELIEF DISTRIBUTION The Rotary Club of Saipan held a relief goods distribution using a drive-thru system last Friday at the San Jose pavilion that benefited about 200 individuals. Each beneficiary got a 5-lb bag of rice, noodles, chips, propane gas, and a hat. The club had a pre-drawn list of beneficiaries after reaching out to several individuals, mostly foreign workers who’ve lost their jobs or do not have a source of income during this time. (Krizel Tuazon)
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- RELIEF DISTRIBUTION The Rotary Club of Saipan held a relief goods distribution using a drive-thru system last Friday at the San Jose pavilion that benefited about 200 individuals. Each beneficiary got a 5-lb bag of rice, noodles, chips, propane gas, and a hat. The club had a pre-drawn list of beneficiaries after reaching out to several individuals, mostly foreign workers who’ve lost their jobs or do not have a source of income during this time. (Krizel Tuazon)
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- RELIEF DISTRIBUTION The Rotary Club of Saipan held a relief goods distribution using a drive-thru system last Friday at the San Jose pavilion that benefited about 200 individuals. Each beneficiary got a 5-lb bag of rice, noodles, chips, propane gas, and a hat. The club had a pre-drawn list of beneficiaries after reaching out to several individuals, mostly foreign workers who’ve lost their jobs or do not have a source of income during this time. (Krizel Tuazon)
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- RELIEF DISTRIBUTION The Rotary Club of Saipan held a relief goods distribution using a drive-thru system last Friday at the San Jose pavilion that benefited about 200 individuals. Each beneficiary got a 5-lb bag of rice, noodles, chips, propane gas, and a hat. The club had a pre-drawn list of beneficiaries after reaching out to several individuals, mostly foreign workers who’ve lost their jobs or do not have a source of income during this time. (Krizel Tuazon)
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- RELIEF DISTRIBUTION The Rotary Club of Saipan held a relief goods distribution using a drive-thru system last Friday at the San Jose pavilion that benefited about 200 individuals. Each beneficiary got a 5-lb bag of rice, noodles, chips, propane gas, and a hat. The club had a pre-drawn list of beneficiaries after reaching out to several individuals, mostly foreign workers who’ve lost their jobs or do not have a source of income during this time. (Krizel Tuazon)
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- DETAIL TINIAN Culinary Specialists 3rd Class Nathaniel Jones, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5’s Detail Tinian, hangs restroom stall doors to revitalize a children’s park on Tinian. (U.S. NAVY/ENGINEERING AIDE 2ND CLASS YOHANES NUGUSE )
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- DETAIL TINIAN Engineering Aide 3rd Class Hunter Sylvester, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5’s Detail Tinian, cleans a restroom using a power washer as part of an effort to revitalize a children’s park on Tinian. (U.S. NAVY/ENGINEERING AIDE 2ND CLASS YOHANES NUGUSE)
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- DETAIL TINIAN Construction Mechanic 1st Class Joshua Hobelman, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5’s Detail Tinian, cleans debris left by a typhoon that hit Tinian in 2018 using a skid steer. (U.S. NAVY/ENGINEERING AIDE 2ND CLASS YOHANES NUGUSE)
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- DETAIL TINIAN Equipment Operator Constructionman Cameron Cook, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5’s Detail Tinian, operates a 120M Caterpillar Motor Grader to grade Tinian’s expeditionary camp site to prepare for the construction of Southwest Asian huts. (U.S. NAVY/ENGINEERING AIDE 2ND CLASS YOHANES NUGUSE)
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- DETAIL TINIAN Construction Mechanic 1st Class Joshua Hobelman, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 5’s Detail Tinian, loads a dump truck using and skid steer for a local children’s park on Tinian.( U.S. NAVY/ENGINEERING AIDE 2ND CLASS YOHANES NUGUSE)
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- NEARLY DONE-Construction work on the new U.S. federal courthouse building in Gualo Rai appears to be nearly done. It broke ground in December 2017 and was originally scheduled for completion in summer last year. Once completed, it will house the U.S. District Court of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. Probation Office, the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Federal Protective Service. The courthouse will include one courtroom, two judges’ chambers, a jury assembly room and office space for building tenants. There is no word yet on when the project will be finished. Since 1989, the U.S. District Court has convened at the Horiguchi Building. (KRIZEL TUAZON)
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- ARMY RESERVE NURSES Nurses from the 1984th U.S. Army Hospital-Pacific, headquartered at Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii, are deployed to the CNMI to help increase the CNMI’s medical capacity. (Contributed Photo)
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- ARMY RESERVE NURSES Nurses from the 1984th U.S. Army Hospital-Pacific, headquartered at Fort Shafter Flats, Honolulu, Hawaii, are deployed to the CNMI to help increase the CNMI’s medical capacity. (Contributed Photo)
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- RELIEF GOODS-The Rotary Club of Saipan and Karidat Social Services teamed up yesterday to hand out relief goods via a drive-thru system at the Rotary Club’s newly painted pavilion in San Jose. The beneficiaries were those who have already registered with Karidat. (KRIZEL TUAZON)
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- SITE TOUR-Members of the CNMI Legislature check out Friday the Alternative Care Site being built at the Kanoa Resort in Susupe. (IVA MAURIN)
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- SAIPAN LIGHTHOUSE Renovation work at the Saipan lighthouse has been suspended since the start of the government shutdown in mid-March this year. (Krizel Tuazon)
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- STIMULUS LINE-People wait in line in front of the Bank of Guam last Friday to process the stimulus funds they received from the federal government. The sight of long lines in banks—whether in person or in cars—were a common sight in banks since last week, when the Department of Finance released the stimulus funds. (KRIZEL TUAZON)
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- DFEMS RESPONDS TO BRUSH FIRE-The Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services puts out this brush fire that broke out yesterday in Koblerville. (KRIZEL TUAZON)
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- MESSAGES OF HOPE One of the six signboards with inspirational messages that the Marianas Visitor’s Authority has installed outside the tourism bureau’s San Jose office. The signboards were painted by middle school students Soarin Jeong Hyun Oh, Filomenaleonisa Iakopo, and Elizabeth Babauta on reused A-frames from the MVA’s annual sporting events. (Krizel Tuazon)
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- EMS WEEK First responders from the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services line a section of Beach Road yesterday afternoon, May 28, as part of the observance of EMS Week. Passing cars showed their gratitude to the men and women at DFEMS by honking their horns. (Krizel Tuazon)
