{"id":191300,"date":"2015-02-09T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=191300"},"modified":"2015-02-09T04:00:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T18:00:35","slug":"community-briefs-feb-9-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-feb-9-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS &#8211; Feb. 9, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Survivors, caregivers\u2019 support meeting on Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Cancer Association\u2019s monthly survivors\/caregivers support meeting will be held on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, at the Hyatt Regency Saipan\u2019s Chamolinian Room, from 5:30pm to 7pm. The special guest speaker will be the Medical Referral Office Director, Ronald Sablan. To RSVP, email us or call our office at 682-0050. (CCA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Naval Base Guam to conduct Giant Voice testing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SANTA RITA, Guam\u2014Naval Base Guam will conduct routine testing of the vital communication and advance warning system, \u201cGiant Voice,\u201d today, Feb. 9, starting at 3pm. Residents in surrounding areas of the GV speakers should only hear short verbal tests of the system, including warning tones.  This is a monthly test that typically falls on the first Monday of each month, at 3pm. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free class on Japanese culture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Consular Office of Japan on Saipan will organize a class about Japanese culture. Any interested person is kindly requested to register your name by Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, by contacting the Saipan Register at cojsf@ag.mofa.go.jp.<\/p>\n<p>The class will be open to just 15 people on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<p>The class will be held Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, from 2:30pm to 4:30pm, at the conference room of the Consular Office of Japan, second floor, Bank Hawaii Building, Mariana Heights Business Park, Puerto Rico, Saipan<\/p>\n<p>The class will take up Japanese animation Nitabo, a story of the founder of Tsugaru, shamisen, origami (paper folding), Japanese sake, etc. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>MHS calendar of events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marianas High School events happening this month:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Feb. 16: President\u2019s Day (a holiday)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Feb. 26: Early dismissal for high school due to professional development for all PSS staff<\/p>\n<p>Should you have any questions or need to make an appointment to see your child\u2019s teacher, call the Main Office at 237-3206\/5\/4. You can also check our website at www.marianashighschool.com. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors, caregivers\u2019 support meeting on Thursday The Commonwealth Cancer Association\u2019s monthly survivors\/caregivers support meeting will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1027,170,1772,1240],"class_list":["post-191300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-giant-voice","tag-japan","tag-marianas-high-school","tag-saipan-register"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191300","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}