[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6091]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONGRATULATING ANGEL RAY GUERRERO

  (Mr. SABLAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SABLAN. Madam Speaker, Angel Ray Tudela Guerrero is a teenager in 
the Northern Mariana Islands who, despite facing health problems in his 
own life, has found ways to improve the lives of other young people.
  At age 12, Angel Ray was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. But 
Angel Ray did not let his disease control his life. Instead, he used 
his experience to empower himself to help others.
  During his year-and-a-half long stay in a Hawaii hospital battling 
cancer, Angel Ray found that time passed more comfortably because of 
the playroom there. But Angel Ray knew that kids back home in the 
Commonwealth Health Center in the Northern Mariana Islands had no 
playroom. So Angel Ray partnered with Hawaii Representative Glenn Wakai 
and with Reach Out Pacific, a nonprofit organization. Together, they 
organized donations of toys and books to create a playroom at the 
Marianas Hospital.
  Angel Ray Guerrero is an inspiration to us all, an individual who 
took the adversity of his own life and turned it into a benefit for 
others.

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