Their cleanup started at the 13 Fishermen Memorial in Garapan and ended at the Mina’chom Atdao pavilion in Susupe.
Staffers from the newsroom, advertising, art, administration, production, accounting and circulation departments scoured both sides of Beach Road to pick up trash.
Some of the garbage was beside trash cans, according to circulation department’s Richard Borja who coordinated the cleanup. Broken bottles, soda and beer cans, plastic wrappers and cigarette butts seemed to be everywhere near the beach.
There is really no excuse for anyone to litter as there are several trash cans in these areas.
The vegetation on the beach was not spared. Pieces of trash were stuffed into tree hollows.
After more than two hours, the Variety cleanup team reached Minachom Atdao with 220 pounds of trash.
Borja said he came up with the idea of a cleanup campaign after reading in the Variety reports about the similar activities conducted by other groups in the community.
“One of the things you want to do is help the community. And I thought the cleanup would be another way in which the Variety family could continue giving back to the community,” he said.
Variety has always been supportive of such initiatives and management gave the project the green thumbs up.
“I’m so happy that most of our staff show a strong sense of community today,” Borja said.
The Variety family would also like to thank Anthony Benavente of the Division of Parks and Recreation for making two pavilions available for the event, and Jose Kaipat of the Division of Environmental Quality for the gloves and trash bags as well as for sending the trash to the Lower Base transfer station.
Kaipat thanked Variety for “stepping to the plate” and becoming “environmental stewards.”
