{"id":2262,"date":"2012-02-07T02:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2012-02-07T02:39:27","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T02:39:27","slug":"companies-invited-to-join-pics-race-around-the-river-this-sat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/companies-invited-to-join-pics-race-around-the-river-this-sat\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies invited to join PIC&#8217;s Race around the River this Sat."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Pacific Islands Club expects to boost its duck sales days before the 2012 Duck Race for Cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure we will surpass that number this week as it is closer to the race. We always sell a lot as race day approaches,\u201d Sports and Activities manager and race director Glenn Policare told Saipan Tribune yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Duck Race for Cancer is PIC&#8217;s annual event where plastic ducks, sold for $5 each, are raced along the hotel resort&#8217;s Lazy River, for the top prize of $1,000. Proceeds from the event are donated to help fight cancer.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event, slated for Saturday, Feb. 11, at 6:30pm, is estimated yet again to draw hundreds of spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Policare disclosed that they sold nearly 100 ducks at the Garapan Street Market last Thursday. \u201cIt was about as many as I expected to sell,\u201d Policare said, adding that they will have another booth at the same site this week.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s event will also feature the PIC Race Around the River, the corporate duck race that will involve four heats of six swimmers who will make their way around the 800-meter lazy river with their own inflatable duck. All swimming gear will be provided by PIC.<\/p>\n<p>The top two participants from each one-lap heat will get a slot into the final heat of eight. The winning team earns a team building night of Laser Tag plus two cases of drinks for up to 30 persons at PIC&#8217;s Laser Tag Park.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Policare said Island Apparel, Coca-Cola\/Foremost, The Law Offices of Robert Torres, Docomo Pacific, JC Tenorio, Marianas Health Services, Trench Tech, Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa, Ken Corp., G4S, and Saipan Seventh-day Adventist Clinic will be vying for the corporate duck race grand prize.<\/p>\n<p>Policare noted that only 24 companies will be allowed to enter the Race Around the River challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are still 11 slots left,\u201d he said. \u201cI am confident the other slots will fill in by the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To buy ducks or to join the Race Around the River challenge, call 234-7976 or email activitiesmanager@picsaipan.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter Pacific Islands Club expects to boost its duck sales days before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}