By Gemma Q. Casas
Variety News Staff

A SENATOR wants to honor a local woman who served as a midwife and nurse on Tinian despite not having a license to do so, by naming the island’s health center after her.
Sen. Henry H. San Nicolas, Covenant-Tinian, introduced Senate Bill 15-80 which seeks to rename the Tinian Health Center after the late Lucia “Chiang” Villagomez Arizapa.
The Senate unanimously passed S.B. 15-80 during its session last week.
San Nicolas said Arizapa dedicated many years of service to the people of Tinian “as a nurse and midwife.”
Though she was not officially licensed to practice, the then-Trust Territory government hired her to work at the Tinian Health Center.
San Nicolas proposes to appropriate $2,000 to finance the renaming of the health center which will be called the “Lucia “Chiang” Villagomez Arizapa Memorial Health Center.”
“The new name shall be prominently affixed at the main entrance to the facility, the height of the letters not less than 10 inches. The mayor of Tinian and Aguiguan shall ensure that the change of name in Section 2 of this Act is completed by Dec. 24, 2007,” the bill stated.