Tropex Inc., the Water Task Force contractor, is scheduled to make the necessary installation of a 12” main valve at Isley Reservoir.
This required work is necessary to protect treated stored water and provide improved overall water quality for public consumption.
This work enables the CUC water division to comply with the stipulated order concerning drinking water operations and maintenance in correcting major sanitary deficiencies cited during storage tanks inspections.
Water service will be restored to affected customers as soon as the work is completed.
Residents are encouraged to practice strict water conservation and to teach children and household workers to save water, especially during this period.
Rainwater catchment systems/water tanks should be cleaned and float valves installed or replaced to ensure that water does not overflow from any tanks.
For more information, you may contact Bruce Megarr, deputy director for water and wastewater operations, at 235-7025 through 235-7032 ext. 172, or Alan Lebria, acting water and wastewater operations manager at ext. 152.
(NMI Humanities Council) — The NMI Council for the Humanities invites the public to attend a lecture titled “Article XII, Claims to Culture and Political Rights: the Race vs. Political Identity Dilemma” at the American Memorial Park Visitors Center Theater, 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 7.
In her lecture, Rose Cuison Villazor will discuss the legal, historical and cultural relationships between Article XII and other “blood quantum property laws” in American Samoa, Hawaii and other jurisdictions and situate them in constitutional jurisprudence.
The lecture is based in part on an article that Villazor published in the California Law Review and explains the ways in which blood quantum laws are examined under contemporary equal protection doctrine.
In particular, Villazor will discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s approach to analyzing blood quantum laws under either a race or political constitutional paradigm.
This binary framework, she contends, fails to address competing yet equally important issues of equality, liberty and political rights that relate to land ownership in formerly colonized territories. Accordingly, she will consider whether an examination of Article XII under due process analysis would better attend to various conflicting claims in post-colonial territories.
Villazor, a former Saipan resident and 1991 graduate of Mt. Carmel High School, is an associate professor of law at Hofstra University Law School.
She received her J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law and her LL.M. from the Columbia University School of Law.
The lecture is a part of the NMI Council for the Humanities continuing efforts to provide the community with information on Article XII of the CNMI’s Constitution from a variety of viewpoints.
Additional information about the lecture may be obtained from council staff at 235-4785.
CUC explains power outage
(CUC) — The Commonwealth Utilities Corp. would like to inform the general public that on Monday, June 28, at 2 p.m., a hot spot was identified on the power distribution system in the Feeder 4/7, As Mahetog area.
This hot spot on the terminal lug was affecting the power lines and if not repaired immediately, would have caused greater problems.
This repair required an emergency power interruption to ensure the safety of the linecrew.
The emergency outage was initiated at 3 p.m. after all the necessary materials and equipment were mobilized to the project location.
This coordination reduced the overall length of the power interruption.
The first partial was energized at 4:06 p.m. and the second partial at 4:20 p.m. to complete feeder.
In addition, the previously promulgated scheduled maintenance on Saturday, June 27, in Kagman 3 was performed and the project will once again continue on July 11.
The remaining stages of the project will be announced at a later date.
This maintenance project replaced approximately 42 deteriorated pole top pins — pole hardware — in the Kagman 3 area.
The deteriorated pins are of steel composite and were installed 12 years ago and have now exceeded their life span.
Because of their age and extensive exposure to the elements they require replacement to reinforce the circuit.
Nevertheless, because of the consistent ocean salt spray in that area, the new replacement pins have fiberglass shafts and are expected to be more dependable under the conditions.
CUC appreciates the communities understanding as it continues its maintenance program.
Beautify CNMI monthly meeting
BEAUTIFY CNMI will hold its monthly meeting on July 2, Thursday, in the DEQ conference room, 3:30 p.m.
The Agenda:
I. Roll Call
II. Assignment of Secretary
III. Committee Reports
a. Restoration
b. Junk Cars
c. Solid Waste
d. Parks & Trails
e. Graffiti
IV. Miscellaneous
a. Bridge Capital Donation
b. PAWS WARS
c. PIC Fundraiser
d. Champion & Steward Awards
e. Bumper Stickers
V. Other Business
VI. Adjournment
Yap legislative panel to hold public hearings
COLONIA, Yap (Yap State Government) — The Seventh Legislature of the State of Yap Standing Committee on Finance will be conducting a series of public hearings regarding a supplemental budget request, or Bill 7-111.
The request, which is in the amount of $16.26 million, is for infrastructure and development projects and other operation programs.
The committee will hold its three-day hearings on the 7th, 8th and 10 of July beginning at 9:30 a.m. each day.
Those who will be involved in the hearings include Lt. Gov. Tony Tareg, Attorney General Victor Nabeyan, Planning and Budget Director Kensley Ikosia, Health Services Director James Gilmar, Public Works and Transportation Director Alfonsus Ruema’, Resources and Development Director Michael Gaan and other departmental chiefs.
The committee is also inviting the public to offer testimony.
LA cardinal joins Bishop Samo in Ulithi ordination
COLONIA, Yap (Yap State Government) — The archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger Mahony, and Bishop Amando Samo of the Caroline Islands, arrived in Yap and were flown out to Ulithi where they ordained two priests at Falalop on Saturday.
Kelly Yalmadau from Falalop Ulithi, and Moses Tashibwelit from Ifalik were accepted into the clergy family by Samo.
A group of clergymen from the Micronesian region accompanied Mahony and Samo on their trip to Ulithi.
The group included Fr. Rusk Saburo, vicar of Palau; Fr. Preston Passos, assistant to the cardinal; Fr. Lomano, assistant to Bishop Samo; Fr. Tom McGrath, Jesuit from Guam; Fr. Dan Mulhauser, Jesuit of New York; Fr. Julio Angkel, vocation director of the Caroline Islands; Fr. Fernando Titus, pastor of Tol, Chuuk; three newly ordained priests — Khoi Phan, Bruce Roby and Richard Sumwoo; and two who are still in seminary — AJ Mathias and Andrew Chung.
People from as far as Pohnpei, Guam, Saipan, the islands of Chuuk, including the rest of the islands in the state, sent delegations to take part in the ceremonies.
