CNMI Museum thanks Saipan Mayor’s Office and volunteers
The CNMI Museum extends its sincerest of thanks to Mayor David Apatang and his staff for the significant assistance they extended us with the cleanup.
The Museum sustained significant damage to most of the large trees on the grounds and had significant amount of roof materials wrapped in the trees and blown onto the grounds by Typhoon Soudelor.
The Saipan Mayor’s Office staff spent two days loading and removing the very large piles of debris that had been amassed over the last several weeks. They also assisted cut and remove some of the larger trees that remained uncut, and removed large amounts of roof material.
You could not find a harder-working and more accommodating group of people, working from morning through the close of day, in the sweltering heat, with only a short break for lunch, and this was taken next to their equipment.
We also extend thanks to Cathy Rosario Perry and Barry Wonenberg for volunteering for many days in the cutting and clearing of debris, and to Paul Ackerman and New Garapan Market for the much welcomed cold beverages, and Best Sunshine, for making possible some of the assisting cleanup staff.
Robert Hunter
CNMI Museum of History and Culture
Kudos! to the staff of the Mayor of Saipan; and please Mat don’t forget to remove the 90 year old Adbot Tree from my late parents home in Chalan Kanoa. You folks started to cut it down BUT he forgot to go back to finish the project. Si Yu’us Ma’asi!
On another note, can the Board of Governors of the Museum share with the community why is the museum turning into a MAUSOLEUM – an interment space or burial chambers of deceased person or burial place.
Why? because you folks agreed to hold the 595 ancient Chamorro ancestors whose bodies were dug up by Best Sunshine since April 2015 – June 2015 (to include the 263 human remains of our ancient Chamorro ancestors that were dug up by Mike Fleming’s archaeological group).
The museum is a place for ARTIFACTS NOT HUMAN REMAINS! Our ancestors needs to be buried back to where they were dug up – Anaguan, Garapan where Best Sunshine proposes to build their “Grand Mariana Casino.” You folks at the museum, Mertie Towai Kani – HPO Director and the HPO board, Mark Brown and Viola Alepuyu of Best Sunshine and Archaeologist Mike Dega of Scientific Consulting Services – are PATHETIC to even conceive this ‘GRAND PLAN!’
Give our Ancestors the respect they have ALWAYS DESERVED! Bring them back to their home, their resting place. And LEAVE THEM TO REST IN PEACE FOREVER! It is bad luck to continue the desecration.
Peace!