{"id":219510,"date":"2016-01-27T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=219510"},"modified":"2016-01-27T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T18:00:39","slug":"typhoon-soudelor-cleanup-set-until-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/typhoon-soudelor-cleanup-set-until-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Soudelor cleanup set until May"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219524\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219524\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/care-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers from the Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts and the CSR staff of Best Sunshine International, Ldt. get their gloves as they prepare for their cleanup last Saturday. (Jon Perez)\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers from the Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts and the CSR staff of Best Sunshine International, Ldt. get their gloves as they prepare for their cleanup last Saturday. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts director Jenny Hegland said the ongoing cleanup and debris clearing of Typhoon Soudelor-related debris will run through May to follow the removal schedule set by the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office and the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality.<\/p>\n<p>CARE volunteers and the Corporate Social Responsibility of Best Sunshine International, Ld. teamed up in another cleanup, the 24th since October last year, last Saturday covering certain areas in Koblerville and Chalan Piao.<\/p>\n<p>Hegland said CARE\u2019s focus is taking referrals from the public who need any assistance in clearing up debris left by Typhoon Soudelor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCARE can take referrals for residents needing assistance as this is our focus, helping sort and move to the curbside for families unable to do this themselves,\u201d said Hegland. \u201cThe Mayor\u2019s Office and BECQ do the actual removal with the heavy equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added the respective staff of Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang and BECQ had been a big help with the clearing up operations and making sure they covered all areas in each villages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill there is a lot of debris left by Typhoon Soudelor. Good thing we have the Mayor\u2019s Office and BECQ to help us. The Mayor\u2019s Office literally checked every street in the villages and marked the finished areas,\u201d said Hegland.<\/p>\n<p>Discerning where to clean-up and if the debris they are going to pick up are related to the typhoon or not has also been challenging, according to Hegland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere [also] tends to be a misunderstanding among the public as to what constitutes typhoon-related debris. However, the monitors are trained and know what they are looking for so they are the people who make those discernments,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers could not also just enter a yard of a house to avoid confusion and being labeled as trespassers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s debris left on the yard of a house. We always check if the homeowner is at home and always ask their permission before we go in to pick up the debris. We don\u2019t get it if the homeowners are not home,\u201d Hegland said.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers are also welcome to join in another clean-up scheduled on Saturday, Jan. 30, from 8:30am to 12noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Advocates for Recovery Efforts director Jenny Hegland said the ongoing cleanup and debris clearing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":219524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[880,1707,7056,8953],"class_list":["post-219510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-becq","tag-best-sunshine-international","tag-care","tag-typhoon-soudelor-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219510","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=219510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}