{"id":311364,"date":"2019-11-05T06:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=311364"},"modified":"2019-11-05T06:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T20:05:54","slug":"community-encouraged-to-help-beautify-saipan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-encouraged-to-help-beautify-saipan\/","title":{"rendered":"Community encouraged to help beautify Saipan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_311374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311374\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mayors-Office-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-311374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The operations crew of the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office get ready to fan out across Saipan early morning yesterday for a day of cleanup operations in<br \/>the community. (Iva Maurin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the CNMI gets ready for the arrival of even more tourists on the island, especially Japanese, the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office is fortifying its beautification program and calls on the community to help.<\/p>\n<p>It could be as simple as keeping the surroundings clean, said Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office special assistant Henry Hofschneider. And it\u2019s not just the tourists who will benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst and foremost, it is for the people living here, our residents and businesses, because without a clean environment, we will have sick people. [We will have] rats running around and carrying diseases,\u201d Hofschneider said.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the islands beautiful and clean will also leave a good impression amongst tourists. \u201cIt is to show visitors that we care about their visit, their time here. We want them to bring back to wherever they come from nice memories, beautiful pictures that don\u2019t show trash on the ground or graffiti all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-311375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mayors-Office-2-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saipan is expected to draw more tourists in conjunction with Skymark Airlines Inc.\u2019s non-stop daily regular flights from Tokyo-Narita to Saipan that is set to launch on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking the community to help us,\u201d Hofschneider said. \u201c[Help in] picking up the trash. Anyone walking on a sidewalk or jogging along a road, they can stop and pick up a plastic bottle or a can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from helping with the cleanup, the mayor\u2019s office is also calling on the community to report people who are vandalizing public facilities, as well as private properties.<\/p>\n<p>All these small individual efforts will greatly help the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office, which is responsible for keeping villages clean, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that the mayor\u2019s office\u2019s operations crew will do whatever they can to make sure roads are clean. Vegetation growing and blocking or hindering traffic will also be cut and removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[All these are] inclusive of the beautification program because we are cleaning our island. Beautification is not just planting ornamental plants, or painting the curbs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The beautification program has been reprioritized by the mayor\u2019s office early this year, following the cleanup operations that had to be implemented due to Super Typhoon Yutu.<\/p>\n<p>One of the operations crew, Jeff Magofna, said they have been cleaning up sites along highways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the CNMI gets ready for the arrival of even more tourists on the island,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311364","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}