The 2018 Liberation Day Committee has turned over the remaining money it has collected from the festivity. A total of $3,000 was funneled to the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office Dog Control Program, the CNMI Museum, and the Karidat Social Services\u2014with all the funds coming from the leftover funds collected from the 2018 Liberation Day Festival.<\/p>\n
LibDay Committee chair Joe Ayuyu Jr., along with president Louis Rodgers, presented Dog Control Program manager Spencer Marchadesch, CNMI Museum director Danny Aquino, and Karidat executive director Lauri Ogumoro $1,000 each.<\/p>\n
Ayuyu noted that the committee agreed to give the remaining proceeds to these three programs prior to handing out the funds,<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year was a successful year. We want to thank all our sponsors, everybody that donated, everybody that helped, the volunteers, of course,\u201d he said. \u201cWe cannot forget the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office for helping us out, including the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, the committee is a non-profit, so all leftover proceeds would go back to the community. Rodgers said that some of the proceeds were set aside to kickstart the 2019 Liberation Day festivities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to thank [Ayuyu and Rodgers] for working with us during our liberation activities,\u201d said Apatang in a statement. He added that Ayuyu would be stepping down as LibDay Committee chairman, while Rodgers would continue on as president.<\/p>\n
According to Karidat\u2019s Ogumoro, she plans to use the $1,000 for the program\u2019s new office at the former Sister Remedios Early Childhood Development Center.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026This money will go toward helping to pay for the parking lot,\u201d said Ogumoro, adding that the Saipan Zoning Board did not allow them to park in front. \u201c\u2026We have to construct a new parking lot,\u201d she said, with over 20 stalls to accommodate other government offices in the building, such as the Pacific Ombudsman for Humanitarian Law, the Marianas Behavioral Health Institute, and in the near future, the CNMI Drug Court.<\/p>\n
The cash for the NMI Museum, according to Aquino, would go a long way.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to continue to use the money donated to aggressively build the remaining structures [in the area],\u201d he said, referring to the old Japanese Laboratory. He noted that the museum is looking to raise $300,000 to set up a fence around the building and the storage building next to it.<\/p>\n
Aquino is looking at using the pavilion behind the museum as a storage house for artifacts since the old storage at the former Kalingo building was bought out by the Marianas Visiting Nurses, requiring the museum to move the artifacts stored in it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a significant amount of building property, so we are now transferring it out to the new building,\u201d he said.
\nMarchadesch noted that he has yet to specify where the money would go. He noted, though, that the Dog Control Program captured about 1,000 dogs a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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