{"id":202425,"date":"2015-05-21T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=202425"},"modified":"2015-05-21T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:22:07","slug":"softball-team-youth-join-beautify-my-marianas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/softball-team-youth-join-beautify-my-marianas\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball team, youth join Beautify My Marianas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s softball team Y-Sei Y-sei hit a homerun with their participation in the Beautify My Marianas program on May 9, 2015. Eight members of the team collected 160 lbs of trash at the Coral Ocean Point Resort beach area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe walked the beach, collecting plastic and cans,\u201d said Lani Fritz in the group\u2019s post-cleanup report. \u201cThe boonies had a lot of trash too. Beer cans, cardboard, plastic, and household trash [that] were thrown in the woods were also collected.\u201d<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_202429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-202429\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"202429\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Beautify-pix11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Beautify-pix11-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Women\u2019s softball team Y-Sei Y-Sei picked up 160 lbs of trash at Coral Ocean Point beach on May 9, 2015, as part of the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s Beautify My Marianas program. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-202429\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-202429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women\u2019s softball team Y-Sei Y-Sei picked up 160 lbs of trash at Coral Ocean Point beach on May 9, 2015, as part of the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s Beautify My Marianas program. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nBeautify My Marianas is a program of the Marianas Visitors Authority and offers $100 for each 1-mile cleanup in assigned areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is always a great feeling to be part of protecting and beautifying our environment,\u201d said Fritz.<\/p>\n<p>The Youth Advisory Panel club also collected 100 lbs of trash from Saipan World Resort to Oleai Beach on the same day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a nice morning with a small crowd gathering at the beach to attend a canoe race.  Along the beach we picked up mostly plastic bags&#8230;[and] cans,\u201d said the group in their post-cleanup report. \u201cThe most disappointing part of the day was when we came into the main pavilion, Minachom Atdao, at Kilili Beach.  [There were] piles of trash on the fly-infested sink containing beer and soda cans, scraps of food, plastic bags, paper bags, etc. It seemed to us that it was left from the night before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group urged \u201ca system of accountability for whoever uses these pavilions and don\u2019t clean up after themselves\u201d and to \u201cfine littering individuals.\u201d (MVA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women\u2019s softball team Y-Sei Y-sei hit a homerun with their participation in the Beautify My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":202429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3756,4745,43,4746],"class_list":["post-202425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kilili-beach","tag-lani-fritz","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-minachom-atdao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202425","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=202425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}