GUAM PRESERVATION TRUST
IMMEDIATE PRESS RELEASE
January 11, 2010

The Guam Preservation Trust, with its mission to preserve and protect Guam’s historic sites, culture, and perspectives for the benefit of our people and our future, will be nominating the ancient Pågat Village site to America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Properties, a designation program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This program is a powerful tool for raising awareness and rallying resources to save endangered sites from every region of the country. The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to saving historic places and revitalizing America's communities.

If selected, the ancient Pågat Village will benefit through:

• Promotion through the National Trust for Historic Preservation web site, which receives over 200,000 visitors a month, and an entire web page dedicated to the endangered place.
  
  
• Inclusion in a feature story about the 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in Preservation magazine.
  
  
• Support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in planning a local media event and reaching out to national and local press. Past coverage has included The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News, Associated Press, Bloomberg, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, CNN Headline News, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, MSN City Guides, NBC News, USA Today, TIME, and dozens of local outlets.
  
  
• Support from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in developing and implementing an advocacy plan and action steps that the public can take to help save the endangered place in the coming year and beyond.
  
  
• A promotional toolkit and press release.
  
  
• Use of the 11 Most Endangered program logo on all materials.

The Guam Preservation Trust is still seeking support from the community. If you have photos, video clippings or oral histories of the ancient Pågat Village, please call or email the Guam Preservation Trust office at:

Tel: 472-9439/40
Fax: 477-2047
Email: jqpreservation@guam.net

The Guam Preservation Trust would like to thank everyone who in one way or another supported the effort to preserve and protect Pågat Village.