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 News from Around Banderas Bay | December 2005 
USGC Cutter Breaks A Record
 Peter Gray - PVNN
| | The USGC Active was in Puerto Vallarta this weekend, and literally half the ship's crew turned out on Saturday to work at the Refugio Infantil Santa Esperanza. |
Puerto Vallarta - The USGC Active was in port this weekend. And literally half the ship's crew turned out on Saturday to work at the Refugio Infantil Santa Esperanza, also popularly known as the RISE Orphanage. Having thirty sailors visit the orphanage on one day is certainly a record.
This level of participation is outstanding and speaks volumes about the generosity and goodwill we find among these young men and women. The reply I got when I thanked some of the individuals for their time and effort was a consistent "Thank you for inviting us!" That's pretty special.
This was the fourth time the Navy League has organized a work party at this orphanage. In just a few years, the need for maintenance has increased substantially as the building has enlarged and paved areas and terraced gardens have been created.
So this time the work party was divided between painters and gardeners. Which is why I found the ship's Press Relations Officer, LTJG Meredith Jennings, busy hoeing a flower bed. Meanwhile, the leader of the party, LCDR Greg Burg was orchestrating several groups of painters who were hard at work both outside and inside the orphanage.
Dusty Graham of the Navy League was continually on the move, making sure things were running smoothly. A task made a bit more complicated by the happy interference created by the boys of the orphanage, who were enticing the sailors to join them in kicking several footballs about. Added to that, some young volunteers from the Iglesia Aramara in Pitillal were also at work cleaning furniture they had moved out onto the patio.
These sailors had been away from home for two months and still have to make it back to their home base of Port Angeles, Washington. The Navy League aims to make the visits of naval ships to Puerto Vallarta as enjoyable as possible. It is indeed no small thing that so many volunteers include a community work project among the things they are happy to do in the couple of days they spend here. |
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