The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve honored three individuals in the CNMI last Thursday by presenting each of them with the ESGR \u201cPatriotic Employer\u201d award, which recognizes employers who support employee participation in the National Guard and Reserve.<\/p>\n
The ESGR team, led by ESGR CNMI Area Committee chair Dr. Rita Sablan, presented the awards to Joseph Mu\u00f1a and Betty Terlaje from the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. and William S. Reyes Elementary School principal Lynn Sharon O. Mendiola.<\/p>\n
Mu\u00f1a and Terlaje received their awards at CUC\u2019s main office\u2019s conference room at the Joeten Dandan Building, while Mendiola received her award in her office at WSR.<\/p>\n
Terlaje, who was nominated to receive the award by long-time CUC employee and U.S. Army Reservist Robert Lieto, said that Lieto was actually named CUC employee of the year last January and described him as a \u201chard worker and go-getter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate Robert\u2019s acknowledgment, and if there\u2019s anything more that we can do for him, he knows he can [visit us] and let us know. …Robert\u2019s been [at CUC] for 20 years, he\u2019s a go-getter and gets the work done. I\u2019d like to thank Robert [for nominating CUC], but I\u2019d also like to say that it\u2019s Robert who really deserves the recognition. \u2026At the end of the day, you deserve recognition,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Mendiola, on the other hand, was nominated for the award by Roque Pulido, who is currently a registrar at the elementary school and is a U.S. Army Reservist. His nomination of Mendiola was read aloud prior to the award being presented.<\/p>\n
Pulido wrote that Mendiola hired him this year to work as a registrar, where his role is to process student registrations for the upcoming school year. Processing typically takes place in the summer, which coincided with Pulido\u2019s USAR unit\u2019s annual training. <\/p>\n
While he was off-island for a little over a month to attend the training, Mendiola and WSR vice principal Jocelyn Manibusan \u201cwithout any complaints took on the weight of my job,\u201d Pulido wrote. Pulido added that Mendiola regularly kept in touch with his fianc\u00e9, who is also employed at WSR as a kindergarten teacher, while he was off-island. <\/p>\n
Pulido lauded Mendiola for being accommodating with his need to go off-island for training, and for recognizing him and other past service members who are part of WSR staff during military holidays and yearly events. For the reasons above, \u201cshe should be considered for higher awards,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n
Mu\u00f1a, Terlaje, and Mendiola all received framed plaques and commemorative pins. Besides Sablan, the ESGR team was also composed of ESGR CNMI area chair emeritus in charge of employer outreach Rose Igitol and ESGR volunteer Joann Aquino.<\/p>\n
The \u201cPatriotic Employer\u201d award recognizes employers who have contributed to \u201cnational security and protecting liberty by supporting employee participation in America\u2019s National Guard and Reserve Force.\u201d Employers must be nominated by an employee who is a National Guard or Military Reserves member to be considered for the award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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