Beautify CNMI! Committee Chairs Meeting Reminder

Our regular monthly meeting is this week!

Thursday, 5pm at the DEQ conference room

This meeting is open to anyone who is interested in joining!

Please bring a friend and see what you can do to help Beautify CNMI!

Note: You may have to enter from the stairwell in the garage if you arrive after 5pm. The conference room is on the second floor near the restrooms. Please call if you are trying to get in the building and cannot figure it out.

Laurie 483-7499
Joe 285-8509

PAWS (Pet Assistance and Welfare Services)

There will be a meeting of the PAWS Board of Directors this evening (Wednesday, February 10) at 6:00 p.m. at Dr. Jack's (on Isa Drive near Sta. Lourdes Road).

All are welcome to attend and participate!

PDM Promoters collected 440 lbs of trash in Garapan area!

Ms. Sato Toshiko, a Japanese tourist who visits Saipan four times a year, joins PDM Promotors for clean ups each time she is here. This time the group met from 9am to 11am and collected 440 pounds of trash in the Garapan area. Kudos to PDM Promoters! And a very big thank you to Ms. Toshiko!

Join PDM Promoters at one of their regular clean ups! For more info, contact Sonia:

Sonia G. Siwa at kinpachi@pticom.com
Volunteer, PDM Promoters, Inc.

Junk Cars Program

Some people have been calling lately asking about the junk cars program.

There was an article in the Marianas Variety today - Zoning Office: Junk vehicles to be removed this month

It gives an update on the CNMI Zoning office's progress. It is our understanding that the Saipan Mayor's office is also getting involved.

Please contact Therese Ogumoro at the CNMI Zoning office for more info: tee.ogumoro@gmail.com or call (670) 234-9661

Beautify International

First posted on The Saipan Blog.

Mom asked me to help out with Catie's girl scout meeting today. She said something like, "We're planting trees and I want you to make sure we're doing it right." I never turn down the opportunity to dig some holes, so I donned my Beautify CNMI 2nd Anniversary shirt and we drove out to Lake Highland Preparatory School.

Catie's girl scout troop is based at her school and the meetings are in her 4th grade classroom. Mom and another parent are the den mothers. They fed the girls apples, cheese, and Oreos and then talked with them about the planting by telling them what plants they would be planting and what benefits they would have to the environment.

Then it was time to march from the classroom down to the lake where we were going to plant our plants.

Each of the girls carried a plant while Mom directed traffic.

The lake is right behind the school and we just had to walk a short way. The lake is fenced off and the girls were very excited to be going "beyond the locked gate."

I was going to make "Beyond the Locked Gate" the title of this post but decided to go with Beautify International to take the focus off the girls and put it back on me. This is my blog, after all.

:)

We dug our nine holes right along the shore of the lake. The soil was very rich and wet, not rocky and hard like on Saipan. Even so, the 60 lbs girls needed some help from the 210 lbs fat boy wearing the blue shirt.

The edge of lake is kind of smelly and some of the girls didn't like it. Some of the girls didn't mind the smell and the mud, while a few others wanted to wash their hands immediately after touching the ground.

When Catie bent over to transfer her plant to the ground she found a worm. Catie doesn't like worms.

I pulled the worm out and showed it to the rest of the girls. I would say they were cautiously interested.

A big thanks to the girl scouts of Lake Highland for letting me participate in their planting and lake cleanup. I enjoyed every moment.

And how about if we finish this post with some birds:

Public Calendar Now Under Construction

Do you have regular Beautify CNMI! events that you want the world to know about?!

We want the world to know about it too, which is why we are in the process of adding a public calendar to our website www.beautifycnmi.org.

Please send your info to us at beautifycnmi.saipan@gmail.com and we will add your event. This is a free service being created by BeautifyCNMI! coalition partners.

For questions or more information, please contact Laurie Peterka at beautifycnmi.saipan@gmail.com.

P.A.W.S. Requests Your Help

Your help is needed in distributing REWARD posters around the island.


We are asking all of our members to print at least five (5) copies of the REWARD poster that is available as a download on our website at www.paws-saipan.org. We are asking that you distribute these fliers in your neighborhood and Garapan, where the violent act took place.


Also, a clarification needs to be made regarding the article which appeared in the Saipan Tribune Wednesday, January 27, 2010, about the PAWS reward for information leading to the apprehension of the individual or individuals responsible for the gruesome beheading of a cat in Garapan on or about January 24, 2010.


Since NMI Crime Stoppers has agreed to assist in obtaining information on this terrible act, PAWS has agreed to step aside until such time an apprehension has been made.


The $400 reward PAWS is offering is on top of any award given anonymously by Crime Stoppers, if a call leads to the identification and arrest of the person or persons who committed this act.


Any and all information regarding this act should directed to NMI Crime Stoppers at 234-7272 or https://nmicrimestoppers.com/tippost.asp.