{"id":389628,"date":"2023-04-17T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=389628"},"modified":"2023-04-17T06:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T20:06:38","slug":"alpha-kappa-rho-adopts-aquarius-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/alpha-kappa-rho-adopts-aquarius-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Kappa Rho \u2018adopts\u2019 Aquarius Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Alpha Kappa Rho Humanitarian Council, including Ricardo \u201cRick\u201d Ansay, the organization\u2019s grand president, fifth from right, pose with Saipan Mayor Ramon \u201cRB\u201d Camacho, sixth from right, during the \u201cAdopt-a-Place\u201d ceremony at the Aquarius Beach in Chalan Kanoa last Friday. (LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Alpha Kappa Rho or AKRHO Humanitarian Council has adopted a place to maintain\u2014the Aquarius Beach in Chalan Kanoa,<\/p>\n

The Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office held an \u201cAdopt-a-Place\u201d ceremony last Friday at one of the beach pavilions behind the Aquarius Hotel, which was attended by Saipan Mayor Ramon \u201cRB\u201d Camacho, Ricardo \u201cRick\u201d Ansay, the organization\u2019s grand skeptron or president, AKRHO members, Rep. Roy Ada (R-Saipan), Sen. Francisco Cruz (R-Tinian), Rep. Ralph N. Yumul (Ind-Saipan), Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality administrator Eli Cabrera, and BECQ and Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are able to serve communities while we are strengthening our young organization here [on] Saipan. We are not here to make any promises, but we are going to work hard\u2026to maintain and improve this area,\u201d Ansay said in his remarks. \u201cMost importantly, we want to make this functional and available to the community for everyone\u2019s enjoyment. We are very excited to start planning and we will happily share our plans with everyone,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026We embrace the opportunity to serve the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The AKRHO mission is to offer its members the best internal experience focusing on personal character, development through leadership, and community service. It was established on Saipan in 2020 and since then has been doing various community services.<\/p>\n

Camacho thanked the organization for lending a hand. \u201c\u2026You guys care for the island and you treat the island as your home. \u2026You decided to join the program, take ownership to beautify it, because we benefit from all of this,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce we fix up our place by promoting a safe community and a safe and clean island, then we can all sit down and open the\u2026doors\u2026for the tourists to visit us. You don\u2019t have to worry about crime. You don\u2019t have to worry about the eyesore because we all work together and treat this place as home.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Adopt-A-Place program of the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office is meant to empower people to be responsible and have a hand in the betterment of their community. The program is open to any groups\u2014nonprofits, religions, ethnic groups, or others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Alpha Kappa Rho or AKRHO Humanitarian Council has adopted a place to maintain\u2014the Aquarius…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16769],"class_list":["post-389628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-aquarius-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389628","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}