{"id":210826,"date":"2015-09-22T06:06:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T20:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=210826"},"modified":"2015-09-22T06:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T20:06:56","slug":"news-briefs-sept-22-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/news-briefs-sept-22-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS BRIEFS &#8211; Sept. 22, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lightning strikes Rota; IT&amp;E services in Songsong intermittent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at around 2pm, lightning struck the island of Rota causing a power outage. As a result, landline, Internet, and cellphone services on Rota were affected. IT&amp;E personnel were immediately deployed to the site to assess the situation.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday, 9pm, all services in Sinapalo were restored. However, some affected services in Songsong village are still being resolved.<\/p>\n<p>As of 4pm, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015, 4G Voice and Data, DSL (Internet) services are working islandwide. IT&amp;E personnel are still working on CDMA, GSM wireless service and landline service in Songsong. <em>(IT&amp;E)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Family Respite: Worthwhile Giving\u2019 workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Respite Service Program, under the Ayuda Network, Inc. is inviting family caregivers, private clinics, service providers and all interested individuals for a one-day workshop on \u201cFamily Respite: Worthwhile Giving\u201d on Oct. 2, 2015, at the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa from 7:30am to 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the workshop is to provide information for respite services from private and government agencies and availability of services for families with children and adults with developmental disabilities, primary caregivers of aging parents\/ relatives, and medically fragile individuals.<\/p>\n<p>To register for the workshop, call Ayuda Network, Inc. at 322-7469 from 7:30am to 4:30pm. Registration deadline for this workshop is Sept. 30, 2015, at 3:30pm.   For special accommodations, call 322-7469 by Sept. 25, 2015. <em>(PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightning strikes Rota; IT&amp;E services in Songsong intermittent On Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1368,6003,3291,50],"class_list":["post-210826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ayuda-network","tag-cdma","tag-gsm","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210826","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=210826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}