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Newborn babies to get Rotary blankets
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Posted on Feb 10 2009
The next 300 babies to be born at the Commonwealth Health Center will be getting blankets that have a logo of the Rotary Club of Saipan on them.
The donation is part of Rotary’s outreach program.
About 100 babies are born in each month in the CNMI, said Maggie Wonenberg, president of the CHC Volunteers Association.
Wonenberg, accompanied by Veronica Servidad, supervisor of the OB/Gyne and Nursery sections at CHC, and volunteer Sylvia Haywood, received the baby blankets from Rotary president Ben Babauta during the club’s regular meeting yesterday at the Hyatt Regency Saipan.
Wonenberg said the blankets would introduce the new babies to the Rotary Club.
Members of a Rotary group from Japan also showed up at the meeting yesterday.
Tetsuo Yamagishi, president of the Kishiwada North Rotary Club, talked about their group’s campaign to eradicate AIDS and solicited help from Saipan Rotarians to do their share.
He also hopes that this visit will establish stronger friendship and deepen relationship between the two sister groups and invited the local club to visit them in Japan.
