{"id":203763,"date":"2015-06-09T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=203763"},"modified":"2015-06-09T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T20:06:06","slug":"americorps-and-mypros-plant-trees-at-hopwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/americorps-and-mypros-plant-trees-at-hopwood\/","title":{"rendered":"AmeriCorps and MYPros plant trees at Hopwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AmeriCorps program at Hopwood Junior High School teamed up with the Marianas Young Professionals on Monday afternoon to beautify the middle school campus. AmeriCorps tutors and students, together with the MYPros members, planted over 20 flame trees, palm trees, and other plants at the school\u2019s soccer field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Social Studies teacher and AmeriCorps site supervisor Jackie Echon, the field is used for a plethora of community events such as the Marianas March Against Cancer and sports tournaments. AmeriCorps tutors Eimee Quilala, Melony David, and Thomas Manglona hope that the trees will provide much needed shade for spectators in the future.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203766\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203766\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"203766\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmeriCorps-pix1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmeriCorps-pix1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"AmeriCorps students and tutors pose for a photo with Marianas Young Professionals members and Tasi Watch Rangers after planting trees at Hopwood Junior High School on Monday.\u00a0(Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-203766\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AmeriCorps students and tutors pose for a photo with Marianas Young Professionals members and Tasi Watch Rangers after planting trees at Hopwood Junior High School on Monday.\u00a0(Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_203765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203765\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a attid=\"203765\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmeriCorps-pix3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/AmeriCorps-pix3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"AmeriCorps students plant trees during Monday&#039;s community service project.\u00a0(Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-203765\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-203765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AmeriCorps students plant trees during Monday&#8217;s community service project.\u00a0(Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Participating MYPros members include MINA\u2019s Becky Ada Furey, BECQ\u2019s Jihan Buniag, MINA volunteer Myla Capilitan, and organization vice president Nola Hix. Tasi Watch rangers Julius Roland and Wayne Dawe provided the organization\u2019s assistance in planting the trees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Agriculture provided the trees that were planted. Monday&#8217;s event is one of many community service projects that AmeriCorps members conduct during the school year. <em>(HJHS-AmeriCorps)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AmeriCorps program at Hopwood Junior High School teamed up with the Marianas Young Professionals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":203765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5226,4755,5227,554],"class_list":["post-203763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-jackie-echon","tag-marianas-young-professionals","tag-melony-david","tag-mina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203763","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=203763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}