Mayor’s Council executive director Angel Sablan said the Liberation Committee recently met with the governor to discuss the council’s proposed activities at the carnival including the Texas Hold’Em.
Sablan, Liberation Day Committee chairman, said Camacho told him he wanted a family-oriented carnival but the council is hoping the governor would reconsider.
“We mentioned to him that we want to raise more money this year and even if we have to call it ‘huegu balaha’ (play card game). He didn’t say yes and he didn’t say no,” Sablan said, adding that the governor instructed the council to send a letter formalizing the proposal.
Acting on the governor’s instruction, the mayors last week adopted a resolution pertinent to the poker proposal.
Dededo Mayor Melissa Savares, president of the Mayors Council and committee co-chair, said the term can be referenced to any type of card game whether it is poker, gin rummy or “pusoy dos.”
She pointed out that one of the things the governor doesn’t want is a closed facility for the game of chance. “It’s not going to be open where children can come in,” Savares said. “It’s going to be a screened area and not as open as bingo.”
The council also discussed this year’s theme “We are Guam Honoring Our Heroes.”
Savares said the council is still working on the logo that was presented to the mayors at the meeting. The logo depicts Marines placing the U.S. flag during the liberation and a B-52 flying over in honor of the airmen who died when a B-52 that was to do a fly-over crashed instead off the coast of the island a few years ago.
As for the 2010 Miss Liberation Pageant, at least 10 candidates are representing 10 villages.
