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Several hundred people took time away from their busy holiday schedules to pause and remember the sacrifice of military veterans and their loved ones during a ceremony Saturday.
For four games plus four innings, the GISA Guam Seniors 50 softball team was all business.
Memorial Day ceremony brings back old traditions View Comments This year's Memorial Day ceremony at the Piti Veterans Cemetery was different than the one held in May of 2020, when the yearly tradition honoring fallen veterans was closed to the public due to the pandemic. This year, 99 official guests were invited by the governor's office, mostly representatives from veteran's groups and military servicemen and women. Residents visiting family members at the cemetery walked between the rows of headstones or attended the ceremony at a distance, though the governor's office encouraged virtual ...
Governor announces new cabinet appointments Staff Reports Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero announced the following cabinet appointments: Sarah Thomas-Nededog has been tapped as executive director for the Office of Homelessness Assistance and Poverty Prevention. Thomas-Nededog has served as the deputy director for the Government of Guam Association of Retired Persons Senior Citizens Program, program officer for the Guam Humanities Council and executive director for Sanctuary Inc. Edith Pangelinan has been named president of the Guam Housing Corporation. Most recently, she served as deputy director of th...
It's hard to see how the situation of the Guam Veterans Cemetery in Piti could get much worse. The popular community institution is under severe criticism by the national Veterans Administration. Its budget and staffing falls short. “You can’t expect three guys to take care of this large footprint on a daily basis and conduct funerals of which we have an average of about two a day,” said Tim Aguon, acting Guam Veterans Affairs Officer. Last Sunday Gabriel Barcinas, the cemetery's maintenance supervisor for more than a decade, died. Aguon stationed himself at the cemetery for the pa...