Keeping the environment clean makes the community a healthy place to live in.
\nCommunity Relations volunteers will seek to achieve this during a one-day beautification project tomorrow, Jan. 25, from 9am to 4pm.
\nThe volunteers will come from the 200 uniformed men and women onboard the USS Gary set to dock on Saipan early tomorrow for a four-day rest and recreational activity, which also calls for them to do some port duties on the island.
\nSaipan Mayor Juan Borja Tudela will officially join the men and women of USS Gary through a welcome \u201cisland-style\u201d barbecue lunch at the Sugar King Estate.
\nEnsign Jamarr Johnson from the frigate and Ruth Coleman of the CNMI Military and Veterans Affairs Office will also attend the luncheon.
\nTudela will also preside over a recognition ceremony as appreciation to the USS Gary volunteers for the whole day \u201ceco\u201d activity, and he will also recognize USS Gary staff for the participation and help during the 60-year anniversary of the liberation of Saipan.
\nThe volunteers in the one-day community project will be busy with tree trimming, raking, and water blasting around the slab pavements, vehicle parking, re-painting of historical buildings, planting of trees, flowers, shrubs, and other plants, drainage cleaning, and reopening of overgrown nature trails, among other beautification efforts on the island, according to the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office.
\nThe activity is in line with the calls by international economist, Dr. Wali M. Osman, for the Commonwealth, \u201cto enhance the tourist infrastructure and maintain its tropical ecosystem…to remain popular as a tropical paradise,\u201d the press notice stated. (Marconi Calindas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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