{"id":193697,"date":"2015-03-12T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=193697"},"modified":"2015-03-12T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T18:00:22","slug":"lets-go-employees-rid-mt-tapochau-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-employees-rid-mt-tapochau-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Go employees rid Mt. Tapochau of trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-193697 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-employees-rid-mt-tapochau-trash\/gopr0-01\/'>GOPR0-01<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-193705'>\n\t\t\t\tThe volunteers collected lots of cigarette butts throughout the area, prompting Let\u2019s Go Tour Company to consider donating a commercial ashtray for the area. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-employees-rid-mt-tapochau-trash\/gopr0-02\/'>GOPR0-02<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-193704'>\n\t\t\t\tEmployees of the Let\u2019s Go Tour Company show off some of the garbage they collected during the cleanup on March 10 atop Mt. Tapochau.\n (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-employees-rid-mt-tapochau-trash\/gopr0-03\/'>GOPR0-03<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-193703'>\n\t\t\t\tLet\u2019s Go tour guides collect trash that were hanging over ledges and obstructing photos and views of Garapan. \n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-employees-rid-mt-tapochau-trash\/gopr0-04\/'>GOPR0-04<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-193706'>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the vehicles of Let\u2019s Go Tour Company is shown atop Mt. Tapochau. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-employees-rid-mt-tapochau-trash\/gopr0-05\/'>GOPR0-05<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-193707'>\n\t\t\t\tEmployees of the Let\u2019s Go Tour Company pick up trash that have accumulated along the lookout point of Mt. Tapochau. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Employees of the Let\u2019s Go Tour Company on Saipan collected several large bags of trash from Mt. Tapochau during a cleanup on March 10. The volunteers decided as a group that they would start to collect trash that was accumulating in the parking lot and around the viewing decks.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Sablan, Operation Manager said: \u201cAll of our guides are from Saipan and they take pride in their Island. Mt. Tapochau is absolutely one of the most beautiful places in the region and having a clean tourist stop makes it easier for our guides to show how pristine our islands are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The guides also brought tools with them to collect trash that were hanging over ledges and obstructing photos and views of Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>Tour guide Dan Sanchez said: \u201cEvery time I bring tourists up here I always try to pick up some trash, and I\u2019m glad my co-workers and I got together to do this. We\u2019re going to keep doing this each time we come up here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s Go Tour Company will also donate a commercial ashtray for visitors use. \u201cWe collected lots of cigarette butts throughout the area. In these windy and dry weather patterns, this could be disastrous for our environment. At least having somewhere to safely extinguish cigarettes would mitigate this problem,\u201d Sablan said.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s Go Tour Company opened in December 2014 and offer unique off-road tours with Polaris RZR vehicles. 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