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Artie Stovall, the General Manager of Payless Supermarket in Uliga, has approved a five percent discount for current members of the Mieco Beach Yacht Club. Simply show your card to the cashier and she or he will apply the discount. Note that there’s no double discounting, so if you have a senior’s discount, you can choose which of the two to apply. To see what other discounts are available for yacht club members, click on the Membership link below.  ...

Weeks of organizing paid off last Friday as the members of various local NGOs volunteered to do beach cleanups around Majuro in honor of World Oceans Day. The local beaches and ocean environments were the winners, with tons of plastic, cans, and assorted debris picked up and brought to disposal centers. One group, the members of the Mieco Beach Yacht Club, generously provided their yachts (five in all) for transporting 25 volunteers to Enemanet, along with all their clean up supplies. The ocean and lagoon side beaches were targeted for cleanup, along with the shallow water lagoon-side to 30...

Come join in the Oceans Day clean-up. For more information, email miecobeachyachtclub@gmail.com World Oceans Day 2018 Agenda Friday June 8th   YACHTS AND VOLUNTEERS (so far) s/v KATIE G: Chuck and Caesar s/v SWIFTSURE: Lanny,  Ginger & Nikki s/v TRIBUTE: Larry and Gary (Apolima)                      s/v VIANDONTE: Grant, Doug & Mika        s/v MOONBIRD: Darryl and Cyndi   Provided by WOD Committee: Copra Style bags- for trash collection and  transportation Mesh Bags-for ocean pickup/cleanup Gloves Hand Scale- to weigh trash Bring your own: Day at the beach stuff Snorkel or Dive gear-if you plan to help “in” the ocean.   Food/drinks Camera-...

Wotje residents thanked the cruisers for their new glasses with bunchs of fruit. Thumbs up from an elderly gentleman on an outer island in the Marshall Islands. The Sea Mercy program in action on Maloelap. Cruisers provide glasses to people on Likiep Atoll. Two boats with strong connections to the charity organization Sea Mercy visited the Marshalls this past cruising season. Yachties Johnathon Robinson and his wife Donna arrived on their boat Chez Nous while Nigel Skeggs and his wife Susan and their two daughters came in on their yacht Unique. Nigel is the Director at Port Denarau Marina in Fiji and that marina partners with Sea Mercy, which...