By Emmanuel T. Erediano
Variety News Staff

VOLUNTEERS will now have enough supplies for cleanup activities as the Marianas Visitors Authority has donated a supply of gloves and plastic bags good for one year.
Angelo Villagomez, executive director of the Marianas Islands Natural Alliance and coordinator of the Resource Conservation and Development Council, said, MVA donated 8,500 pairs of gloves and 3,500 plastic bags for Saipan cleanup activities.
Villagomez said MVA brought boxes of supplies during the latest cleanup drive in Garapan on Sunday involving over 100 volunteers from the Japanese community, including tourists, and members of the MOVER organization.
MVA, as partner of the Beautify CNMI! coalition, has been focusing on improving the Garapan tourist district.
The supplies, Villagomez said, will allow volunteers and Beautify CNMI! to schedule at least two cleanup drives every weekend.
Villagomez is again encouraging residents to continue “adopting” roads and beaches.
The Sunday cleanup, he added, did not include the drainage system in Garapan.
He said a committee has been formed to address the “long-term problem,”
It will take a lot of planning to resolve the drainage problem in Garapan, he said.