Internatio​nal Golf Academy & Preparator​y School @ LaoLao Donates Trash Gripper Tools to Beautify CNMI!

Thanks to the generous support and donation of International Golf Academy & Preparatory School @ LaoLao, Beautify CNMI! was able to donate 24 aluminum trash pick-up grippers to Kagman Komunidat Association. Daniel Huh, the new president of Kagman Komunidat Association, accepted the donated tools. These trash-gripper tools will aid the Association and student volunteers from Kagman High School in their on-going efforts to keep Kagman and the CNMI! clean and beautiful.

"I have been following Beautify CNMI! on-line for the past couple years before I moved to Saipan a year ago," said Gary Liddle, Director/Headmaster of International Golf Academy & Preparatory School @ LaoLao. "I appreciate going to clean beaches and living in a clean environment," he continued. Liddle shared that he even picks up trash on his way to and from work.

Beautify CNMI! continues to succeed because of the on-going collaborative partnerships between the private-sector, the community volunteers and the government. Thank you, International Golf Academy & Preparatory School @ LaoLao and thank you to all the hardworking volunteers in our community!

Pictured from L-R:  Community volunteers, Kagman Komunidat Association President Daniel Huh,
Beautify CNMI!'s Cinta Kaipat and Laurie Peterka, and
Gary Liddle, Director/Headmaster of International Golf Academy & Preparatory School @ LaoLao.

PIC Donates to PAWS & Beautify CNMI!

Pacific Islands Club Saipan designated PAWS & Beautify CNMI! as the recipients for all proceeds from its 2009 PIC Palooza party. The event raised an amazing $5,000 with $2,500 going to P.A.W.S. and $2,500 going to Beautify CNMI!

Beautify CNMI! receives $2,500 from Vicky Benavente
at the 2010 Kickoff meeting at DEQ conference room, January 22, 2010

The use of these funds will be determined in the next Beautify CNMI! meeting, scheduled for February 11, 2010 at 6pm (location TBA). In the past, donations such as these were used for purchasing trash bags, gloves and water for various clean up activities.

THANK YOU PACIFIC ISLANDS CLUB SAIPAN!

Bridge Capital donates to Beautify CNMI!

Generous Donation: Angelo Villagomez (left) and Joe Kaipat (right) accept the donation from Bridge Capital at the Governor's Office this past Thursday.

Bridge Capital donated $2000 to Beautify CNMI last Thursday during a ceremony at the Governor’s office on Capital Hill.

Beautify CNMI has earmarked the funds to support the Solid Waste Committee, which coordinates weekly cleanups. The donation will fund at least six months of volunteer cleanups.

“For three years we have depended on the generosity of the community to support our volunteer programs,” said Angelo Villagomez of Beautify CNMI. “This donation will ensure that 2009 will be our most successful year yet.”

Bridge Capital, LLC is an international investment banking firm specializing in high yield real estate secured lending, distressed debt acquisition and restructuring, equity and debt placement, and investment management services. The company is based out of Saipan, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Beautify CNMI! is a coalition of concerned citizens, private groups, and government entities united to enhance the CNMI's natural beauty and foster community pride in its residents and visitors. Beautify CNMI was the 2006 Saipan Tribune Person of the Year, was a recipient of a 2007 EPA Environmental Award and received a Certificate of Commendation from the United States Congress in 2009. For more information visit them online at http://www.beautifycnmi.org.

Thank you Miss Earth Diva

I had a letter to the editor appear in both papers today:

I would like to extend a warm si yu'us ma'ase to the sponsors, contestants and organizers of the very successful Miss Earth Diva pageant.

Environmental outreach is one of the most important activities of the Beautify CNMI coalition and your partners are very appreciative of all the hard work you put into promoting environmental stewardship during the pageant.

Congratulations on a successful event and thank you once again for your support.

Angelo Villagomez
Gualo Rai, Saipan

The pageant organizers donated $100 to Beautify CNMI to support our environmental programs. I am going to use the money to pay for the new t-shirt design. The money to print the shirts is coming from the revenue we raised during last year's Jake Shimabukuro concert.

Check Presentation by Aqua Resort Club

Aqua Resort Club will be making a very generous donation to Beautify CNMI during a happy hour presentation in their lobby this Friday, November 16, 2007 from 5-7 PM. The presentation will be made at 6:30. ARC will be providing some food and all drinks will be 50% off the regular price.

Everyone who has been involved with Beautify CNMI is invited to attend. Please come help us celebrate this generous donation.

Some of us are going to have dinner at the Seafood Night buffet afterwards. Dinner is $25 and includes some of the best seafood on Saipan and free beer and champagne.

Club V Party Time!!!

Did you know that everytime you ate at Grand Hotel or Fiesta Resort from March 15 - April 15 you made a $1 donation to Beautify CNMI?

They are going to present the money they collected at a ceremony at Club V on Friday night. Come watch the presentation and then party with us!!!

Exxon-Mobil Donation

Today Exxon-Mobil donated $2500 to Friends of the Mariana Islands to support their environmental projects. Pictured above (from left to right) are EJ Lee, Rina Manabat, Angelo Villagomez, Cecile Suda, Marites Castillo, Jun Palad, and Rene Vergara.

This is a good week for Beautify CNMI! We won an EPA Award, received this donation, and tomorrow we have our one year anniversary banquet. Bank of Guam also called me today to let me know that they are going to donate $500 to Beautify CNMI to pay for a trash trailer.

What can I say but, Woot!

Thank you, Aqua Resort Club!

Aqua Resort has extended their Beautify CNMI! promotion until the end of September. Thank you!

Several (OK, more than several) Beautify CNMI! volunteers went out to Aqua last night for Mongolian BBQ night. I'll post more pictures later!

Mongolian BBQ Night

Aqua Resort has an ongoing fundraiser for Beautify CNMI! at their Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday buffets.

Wednesday night is Mongolian BBQ night. Locals who enjoy the buffet will receive a 10% discount. Aqua Resort has pledged to then donate an additional 10% to Mariana Islands Nature Alliance (MINA) in support of Beautify CNMI! activities.

Not only will you have the chance to eat some of the best food in Saipan while enjoying bottomless draft beer, but you will get to do so while donating to a worthy environmental cause.

Just a reminder...

...that the MINA/Beautify CNMI promotion is ongoing at Aqua Resort. Locals who enjoy the Wednesday, Friday, or Sunday buffets will receive a 10% discount on their meal and Aqua Resort will donate an additional 10% to MINA to support Beautify CNMI! activities.

The buffets feature bottomless Miller Lite draft beer and champagne and some of the best food in Saipan. Eat, drink, and help Beautify the CNMI!

Eat, drink, and Beautify the CNMI!

Every local who enjoys the three buffets pictured above at Aqua Resort Club between now and April 1 will receive a 10% discount. For every local diner, Aqua Resort Club will donate an additional 10% of the meal to the Mariana Island Nature Alliance to support Beautify CNMI! projects. As if enjoying great food while you donate to protect the environment wasn't enough, each of the buffets features bottomless draft beer.

Does life get any better than that?

The discount applies Wednesdays and Fridays from 6:30 - 9:00 and Sundays from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM.

Give me a B! Give me a C!

Saipan Tribune, Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Environmental cheering and dance contest on
By Marconi Calindas
Reporter

The Saipan Grand Hotel will be hosting an Environmental Cheering and Dance Showdown that will highlight not just the talent of contestants but will also promote environmental awareness and beautification projects in the CNMI.

Events manager and “eventologist” Oscar Yema presented his newest undertaking to Beautify CNMI! during the group's general meeting last Thursday at the Division of Environmental Quality Conference Room.

Yema told the Beautify CNMI! members and officers that the contest is open to all primary and secondary schools in the CNMI, as well as to tertiary, non-government organizations, private schools, and out of school youth in the Commonwealth.

He said the contest aims to give students and others the opportunity to showcase their talent in composing cheers and choreographing dance routines that would express the message, “Everyone has a part to play in keeping CNMI clean and beautiful.”

The competition also hopes to make the participants learn to appreciate and care for the environment through fun and creative activities, he added.

It will also promote Beautify CNMI! and the Micronesian Challenge, which seeks to conserve 30 percent of near shore resources and 20 percent of forest resources among Pacific Islands.

Since the competition will also involve community members voting for their favorite contestants through texting, co-sponsor Pacific Telecom Inc. has promised to donate 1 cent of every text vote that the contestants will receive. This comes in the wake of the recent success of the text voting during the Saipan Singing Superstar competition that garnered over 3 million text votes.

Schools and other organizations have already been invited, said Yema. The registration for the contest was opened last Saturday. Elimination rounds will be held this coming Saturday while the grand finals will be on Feb. 3.

Beautify CNMI! gave Yema the nod to proceed with his planned activities and thanked the hotel for making the group its beneficiary.

Entry forms can be downloaded online through web address: www.saipan-grandhotel.com or at the Saipan Grand Hotel front desk. For further information, contact Yema at 234-6601 local 651 or through mobile phone at 483-6489.

Eat, drink, and Beautify the CNMI!

Saipan Tribune, Monday, January 15, 2006

ARC donates 10% of food sales to Beautify CNMI!

By Marconi Calindas
Reporter

The Aqua Resort Club is donating 10 percent of its dine-in sales to the environmental campaign group, Beautify CNMI!

ARC sales manager Yoshimi Kodama spoke in front of the members of Beautify CNMI! during its monthly general meeting last Thursday. Kodama said the premier hotel in the Achugao area is aiming help and assist the group through this promo.

Kodama said local residents that would be dining inside the hotel's Costa Terrace Restaurant would be able to indirectly donate to the cause of the environmental group. She said that each dining person from the CNMI for the hotel's buffet would provide 10 percent of the revenue for the group.

She said the promo is good for buffets on Wednesdays with the hotel's Mongolian BBQ from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Also on Fridays with their Seafood Night Buffet from 6:30pm to 9:30pm and Sundays with their Champagne Sunday Brunch from 11am to 2pm. The promo ends in April. Local discounts apply to the local dine-in guests, she added.

Kodama added that the hotel would be turning the donations over in April. She said the donations would be given to Beautify CNMI! through the Mariana Islands Nature Alliance group, also a partner of the Beautify CNMI!

The Beautify CNMI! group acknowledged the plans of the hotel during its general meeting last week. The members commended Kodama and the hotel in its pursuit of providing more environmental awareness in the CNMI, also for promoting the group.

“We at Aqua Resort Club, Saipan, are committed and will establish our status as one of the official sponsors of Beautify CNMI!,” said Kodama.

In October 2006, the hotel donated $200 to MINA, a partner of Beautify CNMI! that was one of the beneficiaries of the Ari Onishi Green Concert Dinner Show, also held in October.

Kodama earlier said that the Ari Onishi/Green Concert Dinner Show was an evening of enchanting piano music and a full course gourmet dinner that aimed at raising funds for environmental organizations and activities, including Beautify CNMI! Ari Onishi is a singer/songwriter from Japan and has performed with many celebrities in the past.

Enjoy Sunday Brunch and Support Beautify CNMI!

Enjoy Sunday Brunch at Aqua Resort and Support Beautify CNMI!

Aqua Resort is offering a 10% discount to all locals who enjoy their Gourmet Champagne Sunday Brunch in January, February, and March. In addition to the 10% local discount, Aqua Resort is donating another 10% from the price of each brunch to Beautify CNMI!

Internet Donations

Beautify CNMI! received our first online contribution on September 29, 2006. There are several online contributors to Beautify CNMI! that deserve recognition:

$250 from Randy Schmidt
$100 from Lowell Kuehn
$50 from Nancy Rushmer
$50 from Abe Malae
$50 from Daisy Clifton

Donations for Beautify CNMI! can be made to the Mariana Islands Nature Alliance or through my National Fish & Wildlife Fund Coral Reef Outreach Project. Donations made through paypal will support the activities that you read about on this website every weekend.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us!

P.S. I still owe some of you T-shirts

Donation

Soo Min Kim from HE Auto Shop donated 12 boxes of water and two boxes of garbage bags to Beautify CNMI! this afternoon.

Thank you, Mr. Kim!