Since the beginning of PAWS, the main focus of the organization has been to help animals in need of homes and medical care.
Over the years, the organization has offered the community help with veterinary costs, hosted low-cost spay and neuter clinics, found homes for unwanted animals, organized a humane education committee, hosted dog shows, and worked toward improving the lives of Saipan’s people and animals by lobbying for an anti-cruelty statute and a humane animal shelter.
PAWS is currently a working partner of the United States Humane Society and the World Society for the Protection of Animals, a United Nations Partner.
With the help of these organizations, PAWS has obtained dog safety and humane education materials for children K-8, dog catching cages, muzzles, leashes, and animal care items.
“Unfortunately, having these items or the money to purchase necessary items is not enough for us to be sustainable,” said PAWS president Katie Busenkell. “We need volunteers — manpower — to really help the community and the animals of Saipan.”
PAWS is currently reduced to three board members and fewer than 30 general members.
“We cannot continue to operate with so few active volunteers. The demand for help is too much for three people to handle alone. So, the board has decided that if fewer than 15 people attend the meeting on the 30th, we will be forced to dissolve the organization.”
In what Busenkell called a “last ditch attempt” to save the organization, PAWS is meeting for a no-host lunch at Coffee Care on Thursday, April 30, at noon.
All those interested in attending should RSVP no later than April 29 to [email protected] or call 483-9464.
Alternatively, you may contact 285-PAWS.
Abalone workshop on Rota
(NMC) — Northern Marianas College-Cooperative Research, Extension and Education Service is inviting community members in Rota to a free workshop titled “Grow-Out Requirements for Abalone Production.”
Michael Ogo, NMC-CREES aquaculture program leader, will educate participants on how to grow abalone in their backyards.
The free workshop will be held in Room B-2 of NMC’s Tatachog campus on Rota, Thursday, April 9, from 1 to 4 p.m.
To learn more about this workshop, or any other NMC-CREES program, contact 234-5498 ext. 1707.
Abalone is an edible mollusk. It is a highly priced food item in southeast and east Asia, Latin America and New Zealand, and has been farmed since the 1950’s in Japan and China.
However, farm stocks in China have been adversely affected by disease.
Ogo believes that this is a good time for CNMI residents to look conducting their own local production of abalone.
Abalone are easy to grow, and that there is large demand locally and worldwide, he added.
OES registration for SY 2009-10
(OES) — Oleai Elementary School announces that the registration for all incoming kindergarten for school year 2009-10 will be from April 1 to April 30.
Students entering kindergarten must be born between Sept. 1, 2003 to Aug. 31, 2004.
For new first grade and transfer-in students, grades first to sixth, registration will be on June to July 2009.
Documents required for registration are as follows:
• Birth certificate (from the court)
• School entrance health certificate (updated)
• Current school accident/health insurance coverage/Medicaid card (updated)
• Residency map
• Legal adoption/guardianship documents (if applicable)
• Valid CNMI entry permit (if applicable)
Oleai Elementary School zone covers the areas bounded by south of Naked Fish Restaurant on Beach Road, Gualo Rai, Chalan Laulau, Chalan Kiya (golf course), bottom of as Terlaje Hill, north of Island Market to Falughula and San Jose (Oleai).
For any questions, call the school at 664-3942.
University of Guam schedules job fair for May 1
MANGILAO (UOG) — Over 20 companies, including military contractors, are participating in the job fair to be held by the University of Guam’s Career Development Office at the UOG fieldhouse from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on May 1.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Executive Typing and Employment Services, Bank of Guam, Payless Supermarket, Guam Memorial Hospital, U.S. Coast Guard, Sorensen Broadcasting, Wells, Fargo, U.S. Navy Honolulu, GTA TeleGuam, Guam Army National Guard, The Shaw Group, UOG ROTC, Group 4 Securicor, and Louis Vuitton are among the companies that will set up booths at the job fair.
The job fair is open to the public.
For more information, call the UOG Career Development Office at 671-735-2228 or 671-734-0477.
