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I need a vacation

Hafa Adai Everyone,

Pictures and anecdotes from these weekend can be found on our website, www.beautifycnmi.com.

Our cleanup with Hopwood was featured on KSPN on Friday night. The video can be found on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckOHW-y1hww

I will be taking a long vacation starting this weekend. I will be off island and will return in approximately 6 weeks.

It rained on Sunday, so we were not able to finish painting the lighthouse. Dr. Khorram has most of the supplies at his house should some one want to take the lead on this project while I am away. If not, we'll finish it when I get back. The exterior still needs a final coat of paint, but the graffiti is pretty much gone.

The other Beautify CNMI Committee chairs are going to take over the duties that I currently have, including coordinating volunteer activities, updating the website, sending out emails, notifying the press, keeping track of donations, and so on. I will give them the email list and they will take over from there.

Angelo

I won't be on Saipan for my birthday, which is October 5, so we are going to do something this Saturday. I'm not going to announce where we will be on this email list, but I'll post the details on The Saipan Blog. All are invited. I'm going to be 29...one more year until I am officially "old."

World Resort Cleanup

Volunteers from World Resort cleaned up the road and beach between Quartermaster Road and World Resort on Saturday morning.

Thank you, World Resort!

Hopwood Students Hard At Work

Ninety 8th graders from Team E at Hopwood Junior High School, went on a service learning adventure to the Lighthouse on Friday, September 22, 2007. They were accompanied by 4 of their teachers and several community volunteers. The students helped remove scarlet gourd vines, scraped paint, painted and picked up trash. On Sunday, 6 of the students returned to help with additional scraping and painting. Way to go Team E!!!

Laulau Beach and Dive Cleanup

I love it when people do the posting and the writing for me. Thank you, Mark, and thank you, Mike.

There, my job is done here.

Beautifying With Nihon University

Aya-san and Willy-san Matsumoto invited me and other Beautify CNMI! partners to join Isa-CNMI and Nihon University students in a beach cleanup at Aquarius Beach Hotel. I was there with my staff, Dennis Cabrera, Angelo Villagomez of RC&D and MINA, and FMI President Marites Castillo at 7 a.m.
We armed ourselves with gloves and trash bags and fanned out.
Honda-san (far right) of ISA-CNMI leads a group.
And everyone was off and running.
The group made their way towards the Sugar Dock and then looped around.
We ended up right back where we started. We had a short presentation of gifts.
Aya-san, who is a board member of MINA, presents the group with a MINA t-shirt.
Marites and I presented them with a Beautify CNMI t-shirt.
I presented them with a Beautify CNMI! bag.
And then we took the obligatory group shot and shouted -- 1, 2, 3 -- Beautify CNMI!
There was also time for one last photo. Aya-san Matusumoto, Sensei Koshiro, me, and Marites.

Arigato Gozaimasu! Si Yu'us Ma'ase! Olomwaay! Thank You!

I left the beach at 8:10 and rushed home to get ready for my meeting with the SWAT team who is looking at overhauling our entire workfrorce training system. The meeting started at 9 a.m.

I arrived there about 9:10, just in time for the slide presentation of HB 15-38, my labor reform bill. The presentation went well; it was well received.

Then I had to leave at 11:15 to head up to the Hachiman Jinja for a luncheon meeting. The Nihon University students met us there, as seen in the photos below.

Rep. Cinta Kaipat
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