{"id":243061,"date":"2016-12-22T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=243061"},"modified":"2016-12-22T06:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T20:00:34","slug":"community-briefs-december-22-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-december-22-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Briefs &#8211; December 22, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Transfer station, landfill schedule<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Lower Base transfer station and the Marpi landfill will be closed on Monday, Dec. 26, 2016, and on the following Monday, Jan. 2, 2017.  Both Christmas Day (Dec. 25, 2016), and New Year\u2019s Day (Jan. 1, 2017) fall on a Sunday. When a CNMI legal holiday falls on a Sunday, the following Monday is designated as the day of observance. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Marianas-chan&#8217; auditions<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Marianas Visitors Authority will hold open auditions on Jan. 7, 2017, on Saipan for \u201cMarianas-chan\u201d (Marianas child) to help promote the Northern Mariana Islands in Japan. The contest is open to U.S. citizen children ages 4-6 who reside in the CNMI.  Additional details and applications are available at www.mymarianas.com, and the deadline to apply is Dec. 30, 2016.  Interested contestants from Tinian and Rota are invited to submit an application with a 1-2 minute video of the contestant to info@mymarianas.com for call back to the audition. For more information, contact the MVA at 1.670.664.3200\/01. <strong>(MVA)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Survivors, caregivers support meeting<\/strong><br \/>\nAll people facing cancer, their family members, and caregivers are invited to the next Commonwealth Cancer Association monthly support meeting on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, starting at 5:30pm at the Hyatt Regency Saipan\u2019s Chamolinian Room. To RSVP or for more information, call CCA at 682-0050 or email at ccamarianas@gmail.com or cca@ccamarianas.org. (PR) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Air force training at Warning Area 517 <\/strong><br \/>\nASAN, Guam\u2014The U.S. Air Force will conduct training at Warning Area 517 on Dec. 22, from 8:30am to 10pm. The public, especially fishermen, commercial pilots and marine tour operators are advised to stay clear of the areas during the date and times indicated. W-517 is activated south of latitude 12\u00b0 40\u2019 00\u00bbN. All vessels are advised to remain clear of W-517 south of latitude 12\u00b0 40\u2019 00\u201dN. Santa Rosa Reef and Galvez Bank are open for public use. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transfer station, landfill schedule The Lower Base transfer station and the Marpi landfill will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[26,600,4471,612],"class_list":["post-243061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-cnmi","tag-day-jan","tag-new-year","tag-warning-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243061","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=243061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}