{"id":193084,"date":"2015-03-04T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=193084"},"modified":"2015-03-04T04:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:00:44","slug":"pdm-collects-1540-lbs-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pdm-collects-1540-lbs-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"PDM collects 1,540 lbs of trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paseo de Marianas Promoters, Inc. collected a total of 1,540 lbs of trash in the Garapan tourist district last Saturday during its second monthly cleanup of the year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_193096\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193096\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a attid=\"193096\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PDM-Promoters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PDM-Promoters-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Paseo de Marianas Promoters Inc. members pose for a group photo after collecting 1,540 lbs of trash last Saturday in the Garapan tourist district. (Contributed Photo) \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-193096\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paseo de Marianas Promoters Inc. members pose for a group photo after collecting 1,540 lbs of trash last Saturday in the Garapan tourist district. (Contributed Photo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twenty Saipan Awaodori members, nine Kinpachi Restaurant staff, and two Kagman High School students took part in the cleanup of the Paseo de Marianas and its environs.<\/p>\n<p>PDM Promoters\u2019 Sonia Siwa said they started around 9am and ended at 11:30am. Areas of the cleanup included the Paseo de Marianas and areas within Beach Road, Winchell\u2019s Road, Coral Tree Avenue, and American Memorial Park\u2019s road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe collected 1,540 pounds of trash, beer bottles, cigarette butts, dried bushes, and mostly the firecrackers scattered not only in Paseo de Marianas but all over the place,\u201d Siwa said. The firecracker litter came from the celebration of Lunar New Year last month.<\/p>\n<p>PDM does its cleanup every month, collecting up to 1,000 lbs of trash.<\/p>\n<p>For more information and to join the monthly cleanup, call the Kinpachi Restaurant at 233-7715 and ask for Siwa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paseo de Marianas Promoters, Inc. collected a total of 1,540 lbs of trash in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":193096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2580,2581,2582,2583],"class_list":["post-193084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-coral-tree-avenue","tag-kinpachi-restaurant","tag-marianas-promoters-inc","tag-twenty-saipan-awaodori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193084","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}