{"id":222791,"date":"2016-03-11T04:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=222791"},"modified":"2016-03-11T04:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T18:00:39","slug":"222791","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/222791\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Atalig thanks Best Sunshine for support"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_222792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222792\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rota.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-222792\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-222792 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Rota-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"Rota\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rota Mayor Efraim Atalig is joined by Best Sunshine International, Ltd.\u2019s Corporate Social Responsibility team led by director Geri Dela Cruz after receiving its donation in support for this year\u2019s Annual Rota Agricultural Fair which will take place today on the eve of the Feast of San Isidro. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rota will stage today its annual Agricultural Fair that is expected to attract a huge number of the island municipality\u2019s farmers and ranchers.<\/p>\n<p>Best Sunshine International, Ltd. is supporting the event for local livestock growers and farmers, which is going to be held on the eve of the annual feast of San Isidro, the patron saint for farmers.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rota Mayor Efraim Atalig, the support of BSI will allow local farmers and livestock growers the opportunity to showcase their produce and livestock and at the same time participate in friendly competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Rota municipality has reached out to BSI to seek support and assistance, and among others, to finance the cost for prizes for the livestock competition, produce competition, and games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward for a successful Agricultural Fair\u2014and I just want to thank Best Sunshine for their support. This helps a lot,\u201d Atalig said.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cOn behalf of the people of Rota and our local municipal leadership, we extend our sincere appreciation to Best Sunshine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rota Agricultural Fair has been an annual island-wide festivity since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Rota Lands and Natural Resources director David Calvo said they are expecting increased participation in today\u2019s agricultural fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be a lot of farmers that will come out. They will showcase their products. We are fortunate that despite two typhoons, some of our farmers and (livestock growers) survived and are back on their feet,\u201d Calvo separately said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you Best Sunshine for supporting our Rota farmers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rota will stage today its annual Agricultural Fair that is expected to attract a huge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":222792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2496,1707,1311,10221],"class_list":["post-222791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-agricultural-fair","tag-best-sunshine-international","tag-bsi","tag-david-calvo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222791","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=222791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}