{"id":107007,"date":"2006-12-14T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a9e1b297-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-12-14T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T19:30:00","slug":"a9e1b2ad-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a9e1b2ad-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in the Marianas Walk set for tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Walking Association, Inc., in collaboration with the Marianas Visitors Authority, will hold the annual Christmas in the Marianas Walk tomorrow along the Saipan Beach Pathway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBring you families and friends for a healthy walk. Finish early and enjoy a festive holiday celebration,\u201d said SAIWAI officer and event coordinator Mario Espeleta.<\/p>\n<p>The walk will start with a 4pm registration at the Chamolinian Cultural Village Utt in Garapan and participants have a choice of taking part in either the 10- or five-kilometer courses of the event. Registration fee is $6, includes event T-shirt and refreshments.  <\/p>\n<p>As part of the Christmas in the Marianas celebration, a parade by elementary students has also been scheduled to start beginning at 6pm from the American Memorial Park to the Chamolinian Cultural Village.<\/p>\n<p>It will be followed by costume contest and fireworks. Drinks, BBQ, ice cream, and shave ice will be available for sale during the parade and costume contests.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee you all there and Happy Holidays to everyone!\u201d added Espeleta.<\/p>\n<p>Like all SAIWAI activities, IVV members will receive credit for joining the Christmas in the Marianas Walk.<\/p>\n<p>IVV has member walking clubs in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Turkey, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, the CNMI, and 29 other European countries, including Germany.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Christmas in the Marianas Walk and SAIWAI\u2019s future events, contact Mario at 322-8876, Hiroko at 322-8781, or Bea at 285-1694.<\/p>\n<p>SAIWAI was incorporated as a non-profit corporation on July 27, 2001 and was established to promote public health through non-competitive walking. (Mark Rabago)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Walking Association, Inc., in collaboration with the Marianas Visitors Authority, will hold the annual Christmas in the Marianas Walk tomorrow along the Saipan Beach Pathway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}