Auntie Charo's Soapbox

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 23, 2005) The East-West Center will receive $62,500 from the Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs to provide funding for a regional Leadership Seminar for Pacific Island Power Utility Managers, it was announced today. The seminar will promote regional cooperation on issues facing power utility managers in the Pacific Islands.“The Office of Insular Affairs enthusiastically supports the Center’s activities,” said Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs,
David B. Cohen. “Established by the U.S. Congress in 1960, the East-West Center’s programs of cooperative study, training and research have long served the insular areas. Professionals and students from the United States, Asia and the Pacific study and work together at the East-West Center to better understand issues of common and critical concern and explore mutually beneficial
ways of addressing them.” The East-West Center is an education and research organization to strengthen relations and understanding among the nations of Asia, the Pacific and the U.S. The Center promotes the development of a stable, prosperous and peaceful
Asia Pacific community through cooperative study, training, research and dialog.
The grant will be matched by at least $62,500 from the East-West Center, thereby leveraging available federal funds. The grant will be funded through the Office of Insular Affairs’ Operations and Maintenance Improvement Program, which generally is designed to help insular area governments address critical needs for which funding is not otherwise available."
(NOTA BENE......Have no idea what the Greek-looking letters are that appear in the copy....seem to get them in Keith's notes.)