Bank of Guam donated $5,000 to Junior Achievement Guam through a Pioneer Sponsorship. Bank of Guam, in partnership with IP&E, IT&E and Pacific Points, donated $20,830 to Make-A-Wish Guam and CNMI.
(From left) Abigail Uncangco, general ledger manager; Maria Luces, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering officer 1; Danny Daniel, vice president and director of brand and community relations; Danielle Lee, accounting officer 1 (general ledger); all with Bank of Guam and all mentors and advisors for Junior Achievement; Joshua Miller, executive director of Junior Achievement of Guam; Michael Dedrick Sicat, Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering analyst 1; Lesley Ann Leon Guerrero, senior vice president/chief experience officer and JA Guam board member; Marc Pilante, management trainee; and Bryan Paul Taijeron, business development officer, all with Bank of Guam and all mentors and advisors for Junior Achievement. Photo courtesy of Bank of Guam
Docomo Pacific donated $24,000 to the Guam Basketball Confederation.
(From left) Mark Johnson, executive director; Frank Cruz, general manager of Guam Fast Foods Inc. and secretary general and vice president; and Susan Lupola, secretary, all with the Guam Basketball Confederation; Christine Won Pat Baleto, president and CEO; Marilyn Borja, executive vice president, Consumer Business Unit; and Tito Castro, executive vice president, Enterprise Business Unit, all with Docomo Pacific. Photo courtesy of Docomo Pacific
Atkins Kroll Saipan donated $1,000 to the Mariana Skate Surf League.
(From left) Kevin Barnes, sales and rental manager; Kevin Ada, Toyota sales associate; Vincent Tudela, aftersales manager; all with Atkins Kroll Saipan; Edward Manibusan, chairperson for Marianas Surf Skate League; Tracy Guerrero, general manager of Atkins Kroll Saipan, Liza Taylor, Toyota sales associate; and Junping Woodruff, Toyota sales associate; all with AK Saipan. Photo courtesy of Atkins Kroll Saipan
The Felix M. and Gov. Carlos G. Camacho Scholarship Foundation awarded $2,000 scholarships to three undergraduate students from the University of Guam for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. The students are Freshman Mia Marchesseault, and Junior Brian Teodosio, both pursuing degrees in business administration; and Sophomore Yoonji Seo, majoring in accounting.
(From left) Mark Duarte, director of financial aid; Gena Rojas, interim dean of enrollment management and student Success, both with the University of Guam; Yoonji Seo, scholarship recipient; Mia Marchesseault, scholarship recipient; Anthony R. Camacho, general counsel to UOG and chairman of the board of the foundation; Carlos P. Camacho, community relations manager, PFC Shared Services; and Brian Teodosio, scholarship recipient. Photo courtesy of the University of Guam
The Christmas Drop is a famous annual event in December, where personnel aboard a C-130J Super Hercules execute low altitude drops that send welcome gifts down to the remote islands of the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.
Local donors in Guam to the Christmas Drop include DeWitt Guam Moving Co., which donated 250 cardboard boxes; R&E International, which serves as the broker for the Farmers Rice Cooperative in Sacramento, California, in the Guam-CNMI region, 120 bags of 50 pounds of rice; Cost U Less Guam, 120 bags of 50 pounds of rice; Pay-Less Markets/PDC Wholesale, 100 bags of 50 pounds of rice; Pacific Grocers, 50 bags of 50 pounds of rice; Ambros Inc., 220 48 quart ice chest coolers; Fastenal, 220 buckets and the plastic liners for the all the 220 boxes, Matson Navigation Co., $2,000 worth of rice and the ocean freight to ship in the ice chest coolers; Triple B Forwarders donated the receiving and handling of the ice chest coolers in Carson, Calif.; the Latter Day Saints donated three tons of rice and more, the Rotary Clubs of Guam, Japan and Palau donated more than $5,000, Micronesian Divers Association donated $60,000 of scuba fins, the Office of the Governor donated $750 of Tupperware, Rubbermaid and Glad plastic food containers, 76 Circle K gas stations were drop box stations for donations and Pay-Less also hosted Operation Christmas Drop food drives.
Senior Airman Kiersten Fausto and the personnel and families at Kirtland Air Base in New Mexico are supporting Operation Christmas Drop, which will run from Dec. 8 to Dec. 13. Fausto – who is from Guam spearheaded the collection and dispatch of donations from the base. The pallets sent from the Kirtland base include nonperishable foods, toys, school supplies and hygiene products, and Airman Fausto will accompany them to Guam.
Throughout October, the Westin Resort Guam donated $2 for each Starbucks Pink Drink sold, resulting in 574 drinks purchased and a donation of $1,148 to Guam Cancer Care.
Atkins Kroll donated $1,914 to Guam Animals In Need through its Community Matters program.
United Airlines has scheduled its 10th Fantasy Flight to the North Pole from the A.B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam for Dec. 10, and this year plans to host children from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, C.L. Taitano Elementary School's Special Education Resource Class, and J.Q. San Miguel Elementary School's Special Education Resource Class.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints donated wheelchairs and rollators to the Department of Integrated Services for Individuals with Disabilities.
For eligibility or information on the process for obtaining wheelchairs and rollators, please contact DISID at (671) 475-4624. mbj
