Homes were found for three puppies and the foster family has three more that are in need of responsible and loving homes.
The puppies are thought to be about 5-6 weeks of age. There is one female and two males remaining to be adopted.
Call 483-4243 for more information.
March Against Cancer
(MMAC) — The Marianas March Against Cancer Committee have had its first meeting and is pleased to announce that this year’s March Against Cancer event will be held on May 22-23.
With only a few months away, the first team captains meeting is set for Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 5:30 p.m.
This meeting will take place in the Department of Public Health deputy secretary’s conference room, across from the gift shop at Commonwealth Health Center.
For more information, e-mail [email protected], [email protected] or may visit the Web site at www.ccamarianas.org.
You may also call 682-0050.
Free workshop, youth mini-camp for soldiers’ dependents
THE 9th Mission Support Command Family Programs Office invites the dependents of the deployed soldiers of Echo Company 100th BN 442nd and 368th MP Det. 1 for a free one-day family deployment workshop and youth mini-camp on Saturday, Jan. 31 — not Jan. 3 as earlier reported — at the Pacific Islands Club from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
You must register no later than Thursday, Jan. 29.
For more information or to register, contact Marcela Moody at 671-344-5012, Maj. Gregorio Sablan Gregorio at 322-6671 or Rita L. Chargualaf, Family Readiness Group leader, at 322-7814.
CPA new phone numbers
(CPA) — The Commonwealth Ports Authority would like to inform the general public that it has changed phones, resulting in new telephone numbers for the offices at the Francisco C. Ada/Saipan International Airport.
The new system is part of CPA’s efforts to streamline operations and enhance efficiency..
Main telephone numbers:
• 237-6500
• 237-6501
• Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting dispatch: 237-6551
• Ports Police dispatch: 237-6529
All other CPA numbers remain the same:
• Port of Saipan: 664-3550
• CPA Tinian: (433-9294
• CPA Rota: 532-9497
(PREL) — If you are a resident of the U.S.-affiliated Pacific and are currently working in a library, archive, or museum, you may be eligible for a training opportunity funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (www.imls.gov) and administered by Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (www.prel.org).
Leaders for Pacific Libraries is a 3-year project funded by IMLS to offer training for preprofessional library staff.
The third and final LPL training, “Building Digital Library Collections With Greenstone,” will be held May 4–22, on the national campus of the College of Micronesia-FSM (www.comfsm.fm/national), in Palikir, Pohnpei state, Federated States of Micronesia.
One week will be devoted to training on the software, and two additional weeks will be spent building a “Pacific Digital Library.”
The PDL will be an ongoing collaborative project of the participating institutions from throughout the U.S.-affiliated Pacific region.
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to build a variety of different kinds of digital library collections with the Greenstone digital library software, a comprehensive, open source system for constructing, presenting, and maintaining information collections.
Collections will be built from HTML documents; Word, PDF and PostScript documents; images in various formats; MP3 and MIDI audio; MARC records; and more.
For each collection, various different full-text search indexes and metadata-based browsers will be created.
Support for the Dublin Core, OAI, and METS standards will be discussed.
Attendees will receive this open source software on a CD-ROM that we will provide, along with various sample files, so that they can take it home and install it on their own machines.
Applicants will receive award notification by April 3.
Direct round-trip airfare to Pohnpei, housing, and a modest per diem will be included as part of this award.
For eligibility criteria and how to apply, visit http://www.prel.org/programs/clt/imls-lpl/call-for-applicants-2009-imls-lpl.aspx.
Carefully review the information to determine your eligibility, before completing the application process.
Contact Jane Barnwell, IMLS LPL Project Director, at [email protected], if you have any questions about your eligibility or program requirements.
PREL is an independent, nonprofit 501 (c)(3) corporation that serves the educational community in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific, the continental United States, and countries throughout the world.
PREL bridges the gap between research, theory, and practice in education and works collaboratively with schools and school systems to provide services that range from curriculum development to assessment and evaluation.
In addition, PREL administers the Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 1 of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories funded through the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.
With a commitment to ensuring that all students have an equal opportunity to develop a strong academic foundation, regardless of circumstances or geographic location, PREL has service centers in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands —American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Hawaii, the Marshall Islands and Palau.
Tobacco merchant education workshop
(CNMI Department of Commerce) — The Department of Commerce’s Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Control Division and the Community Guidance Center of the Department of Public Health, wish to inform all Class-2 Retail Dealer license holders that there will be a tobacco merchant education workshop today from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Pacific Islands Club’s Napu Room.
The workshop aims to educate the participants on the importance of reducing, if not eliminating, the use of tobacco products by our youths in the CNMI.
The program also targets the updates of laws, and the critical issues of retail stores selling tobacco products and the emphasis in combating and preventing the use of tobacco products by minors under eighteen years of age.
The workshop is limited to only 80 participants.
For more information, call David R. Maratita, at 664-3065, or Ed Camacho at 323-6586.
(VFW) — This is to invite all combat veterans and their dependents for an information/counseling session by Catherine Illarmo, the Department of Veterans Affairs Team Leader/LCSW from the Guam Vet Center.
She will be available on Jan. 28 from 0900 to 1600 and on Jan. 29, from 0900 to 1200 noon, at the Office of Military/Veterans Affairs on Capital Hill, Building 1364.
The Vet Center invites you to include them as provider for your readjustment counseling needs.
They are committed to providing quality readjustment services to returning war veterans.
In the effort to address the needs of veterans residing in the CNMI, they are making plans to extend the services to Saipan on a monthly basis.
This opportunity is critical and important that the veterans attend, in order to ensure services and that the services they plan to provide correspond with your needs.
In addition, there will be a limited number of individual counseling appointments available.
Should you be interested in counseling, call Catherine at 1-671-472-7160 or Ruth at 664-2650.
(DPS) — The Department of Public Safety’s traffic section will be conducting mandatory liability auto insurance checkpoints on the following day and times listed:
• Jan. 23
The first checkpoint will be on Beach Road Chalan Laulau. This operation will commence at 9 a.m. and terminate at 10:15 a.m.
The second checkpoint will be on Chalan Monsignor Guerrero’s Road by the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. Waterloo Station. This operation will commence at 4 p.m. and terminate at 5:15 p.m.
• Jan. 24
The first checkpoint will be on Beach Road Susupe by Minatchom Atdao. This operation will commence at 9 a.m. and terminate at 10:15 a.m.
The second checkpoint will be on Beach Road Garapan by Bank Pacific. This operation will commence at 4 p.m. and will terminate at 5:15 p.m.
Each checkpoint will last at least 75 minutes at each location.
This activity is part of the Department of Public Safety’s efforts to ensure that all vehicles on the highway have the mandatory liability auto insurance.
Traffic officers will also be conducting highway criminal interdictions, saturation patrols, aggressive driver interdictions, and laser activities.
For more information, contact Sgt. Paul Ogumoro or Police Officer Glenn Rabago at 664-9084/5/6.
