{"id":19577,"date":"2012-05-16T06:29:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T06:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=19577"},"modified":"2012-05-16T06:29:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T06:29:49","slug":"gcas-aldan-francisco-top-ccacs-poster-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gcas-aldan-francisco-top-ccacs-poster-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"GCA&#8217;s Aldan, Francisco top CCAC&#8217;s poster contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Press Release<a href=\"http:\/\/saipantribune.com\/contact.aspx?user_num=152\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/imgupload\/issx9999ns118924.jpg\" alt=\"Grace Christian Academy's CCAC art contest top winners Tommy Aldan and Joyce Liv Francisco have their picture taken inside the GCA campus. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0 Tommy Aldan and Joyce Liv Francisco from Grace Christian Academy&#8217;s second grade class under Rachel Epperson captured top awards in this year&#8217;s Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture&#8217;s poster contest.<\/p>\n<p>CCAC invited grades 1 to 3 students from public and private schools to make a poster about the coconut in celebration of the 31st Annual Flame Tree Arts Festival last April.<\/p>\n<p>Aldan will receive $100 cash prize for winning first place and second placer Francisco will receive $75 cash prize from the council. Both of them made a poster of coconut with an island scene during their art class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll GCA students from grades 1 to 3 made their posters during their art classes in school and I helped them in mounting and framing them,\u201d said art teacher Esther Manzano.<\/p>\n<p>This is Aldan&#8217;s first year at GCA and his first time to win first place in an islandwide contest. \u201cI was really happy to win,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>GCA kindergarten teacher Marilyn Aldan, the mother of Aldan, said, \u201cI was really surprised! I even asked Mrs. Manzano, &#8216;What did he do?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francisco, who just enrolled at GCA this school year, was born and went to school in California. This was also Francisco&#8217;s first time to win an award as a GCA student.<\/p>\n<p>Francisco&#8217;s parents, Jeffrey and Crizelda Francisco, were both happy and proud of their daughter&#8217;s award. \u201cShe was really surprised and never thought that she will win. She never told us about the contest,\u201d said Crizelda Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Even though this is their first year at Grace Christian Academy, Manzano has already seen their artistic talents. Both students&#8217; artwork have been displayed a lot of times in the weekly \u201cBest Art Works\u201d for grades 1 to 6 students.<\/p>\n<p>Manzano said, \u201cWe are thankful for all the talents that God gave to our students especially in art. We have eight art winners in different art contests this school year.\u201d <strong><em>(GCA)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Press Release \u00a0 Tommy Aldan and Joyce Liv Francisco from Grace Christian Academy&#8217;s second&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577","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=19577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}