{"id":204926,"date":"2015-06-24T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=204926"},"modified":"2015-06-24T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:00:09","slug":"hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years\/","title":{"rendered":"HANMI: Serving the community through the years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 30 years, the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands has helped the community through various charity works and donations with different organizations.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-204926 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years\/hanmi1\/'>HANMI1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204932'>\n\t\t\t\tAlex Tudela, right, receives a bottle of 12-year-old Chivas Regal as a special prize for placing 30th in last Saturday\u2019s HANMI Golf Classic. He also won a certificate for one night stay at Hyatt Regency Saipan\u2019s suite and a brunch at Aqua Resort Club, which were given away in celebration of HANMI\u2019s 30th anniversary\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years\/hanmi2\/'>HANMI2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204933'>\n\t\t\t\tLorraine Babauta, center, smiles after finishing fifth overall and becoming the top female golfer with her 71.80 net score.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years\/hanmi3\/'>HANMI3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204934'>\n\t\t\t\tJack Diaz, right, celebrates after receiving his cash prize from HANMI chair Gloria Cavanagh, center, and tournament director Das Krishnan. Diaz placed third with a 71.40 score.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years\/hanmi4\/'>HANMI4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204935'>\n\t\t\t\tHANMI chair Gloria Cavanagh, left, congratulates Kim Gap Soo, who finished second with a 70.20 score.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years\/hanmi5\/'>HANMI5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204936'>\n\t\t\t\tTom Tebuteb, right, receives the prize from HANMI chair Gloria Cavanagh on behalf of Blackjack double peoria champion Manny Mangarero. \n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years\/hanmi6\/'>HANMI6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204937'>\n\t\t\t\tJoe \u201cKamikaze\u201d Camacho, right,  gets his in third place prize in the championship course.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-serving-the-community-through-the-years\/hanmi7\/'>HANMI7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-204938'>\n\t\t\t\tJin Feng Chun, right, displays the $500 cash prize he received from HANMI chair Gloria Cavanagh after placing second in the championship event with a 75.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Quite a number of organizations, schools, and other cause-oriented groups have been the recipients of assistance from HANMI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are too many to mention. We\u2019ve helped different organizations fund their projects,\u201d said HANMI chair Gloria Cavanagh in an interview with Saipan Tribune during last Saturday\u2019s awards banquet of the 14th Annual HANMI Charity Golf Classic at Saipan World Resort\u2019s Royal Taga Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHANMI has been doing this every year and we will continue to do it in the coming years,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor\u2019s Office, the Northern Marianas Technical Institute, the Marianas Visitors Authority, the Man\u2019amko Center, and the Taste of the Marianas are some of the recipients of HANMI\u2019s donations this year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, tournament director Das Krishnan said he still needs two more days to finish closing the books and determine the total money raised during the annual golf event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe HANMI board meets and it decides which organizations and activities would receive assistance,\u201d said Krishnan in a separate interview.<\/p>\n<p>Club Lao president and golf instructor Jun Park ruled the championship course of the HANMI Golf Classic, while Manny Mangarero, with his 69.80 score, topped the Blackjack double Peoria event.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 140 golfers joined last weekend\u2019s tournament and cash and other prizes were given to the first to 10th finishers, as well as the individuals who placed 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th, 80th, 90th, 100th, and 110th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 30 years, the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands has helped the community&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":204932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5384,4699,301,5561],"class_list":["post-204926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-club-lao","tag-das-krishnan","tag-hanmi","tag-jun-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204926","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}