\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the Northern Marianas College Nursing Club collect trash along the beach in Susupe on Nov. 8, 2014, as part of the \u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d program administered by the Marianas Visitors Authority and the Saipan Chamber of Commerce.\n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n
\nThe Northern Mariana College Nursing Club turned its care and attention to a new beneficiary last month, participating in the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s \u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d campaign to help improve the island environment.<\/p>\nSixteen members of the club cleaned a two-mile strip of the beach in Susupe, facing rainy conditions and filling a pickup truckload with trash ranging from beer cans to plastic debris and cardboard.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlong the beach there was only one trash bin available, but it too was rusted and broken at the bottom. The trash was scattered around the bin and not actually in the bin,\u201d said the club in their post-cleanup report. \u201cWe believe that one or more signs should be put up indicating the fines for littering. More trash bins that aren\u2019t falling apart need to be implemented, especially in the beach area around the [restaurant] establishment. We picked up a great amount of beer cans and beer bottles there. <\/p>\n
The \u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d program offers $100 for each mile cleaned up in assigned areas.<\/p>\n
Cleanup participants were Byung Kwan Ohn, Allison Madamba, Mayleen Aldan, Maria Atrero, Evangelina Manalili, Andrew Villanueva, Seung Jun Cha, Rosher Apolinar, Lealynn Valdez, Marianne Ejercito, Peachy Quitugua, Maritoni Raganot, Michael Hidalgo, Gemmilie Eugenio, Cristine Ocampo, and Imari Feria.<\/p>\n
For more information or an application for \u201cBeautify My Marianas,\u201d visit the MVA homepage at www.mymarianas.com. (MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Northern Mariana College Nursing Club turned its care and attention to a new beneficiary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":187081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-187068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}