{"id":226194,"date":"2016-04-25T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=226194"},"modified":"2016-04-25T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T20:00:08","slug":"mcdonalds-renews-commitment-cnmi-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mcdonalds-renews-commitment-cnmi-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s renews commitment to CNMI athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_226211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226211\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/nma-BW-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Marianas Athletics officials receive the ceremonial check donation for the 2016 PSS\/McDonald\u2019s All Schools Athletics Championships from McDonald\u2019s during a turnover ceremony at McDonald\u2019s Middle Road last Friday. (Jon Perez)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s Saipan renewed its commitment to one of the longest-running grassroots sports programs in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald\u2019s turned in $3,000 donation to Northern Marianas Athletics for the 2016 PSS\/McDonad\u2019s All Schools Athletics Championships, which will feature the future of the sport in the Commonwealth as hundreds of student-athletes compete in running, throwing, and jumping events from May 4 to 7 at the Hopwood Junior High School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our 12th year of supporting the All Schools competition and we are always happy to help and provide some worthwhile and healthy activities for our kids,\u201d McDonald\u2019s Saipan general manager Marcia Ayuyu said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to help in whatever way we can as this is our way of giving back to the community who has been very good to us,\u201d Ayuyu added.<\/p>\n<p>NMA, through its president Ray Tebuteb, expressed their gratitude to McDonald\u2019s for the continued partnership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to thank McDonald\u2019s for their continued commitment to our program. It\u2019s always great and fun to see our student-athletes enjoy competing. It gives us satisfaction knowing that we are able to discover and train young athletes through the help of McDonald\u2019s and our other supporters,\u201d said Tebuteb, who was joined in the donation turnover ceremony by NMA secretary general Robin Sapong and head coach Elias Rangamar. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s Saipan renewed its commitment to one of the longest-running grassroots sports programs in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":226211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,4219,11125,4540],"class_list":["post-226194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ceremony","tag-nma","tag-ray-tebuteb","tag-robin-sapong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226194","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=226194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}