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Straightening up Saipan (Note: The following article is contributed by Jean Drake, who took part in a recent clean-up campaign by students of the Seventh Day Adventist School to improve the image of the island.)
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Posted on May 13 1999
On May 7, students from the Seventh Day Adventist School walked around the island of Saipan to collect garbage. they did this for the annual trash-a-thon, a school drive to raise funds.
Most of the students walked along the beach, picking up aluminum cans, glass bottles, scraps of papers and plastic bags, which they placed inside in bright blue and yellow bags.
The first and second graders started in Garapan and walked south to the Microl Toyota intersection. The third and fourth graders combed Sugar Dock and proceeded north to the Taga Beach Club, while fifth and sixth graders began at Sugar Dock up to SDA School.
The kindergarten class walked south from the SDA down to PIC, and seventh and eighth graders walked through Koblerville.
The students worked hard and gathered a couple of pick-up trucks full with garbage, one-third of which were aluminum cans.
The students thanked their school principal, Steve Namkung, for bringing the much needed refreshments and the two other men who were collecting garbage behind the Taga Beach Club and hauling away 27 bags of trash.
