{"id":246179,"date":"2017-02-10T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246179"},"modified":"2017-02-10T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T20:00:08","slug":"red-cross-thanks-ite-support-fiber-optic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/red-cross-thanks-ite-support-fiber-optic\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross thanks IT&#038;E for its support, fiber optic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_246188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246188\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Red-Cross-pix-1-300x185.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-246188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, IT&amp;E chief operating officer John Compton; American Red Cross-NMI Chapter board chair Tanya Belyeu-Camacho; ARC executive director John Hirsh; IT&amp;E sales manager Hans Mickelson; and ARC disaster program manager Juan Tenorio. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CNMI chapter of the American Red Cross recently recognized IT&amp;E for its continued long-term support and thanked it for the new fiber optic connection it provided the Red Cross office near the airport. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIT&amp;E\u2019s fiber installation is tangibly improving our ability to access training and communicate better with our regional and national offices,\u201d said John Hirsh, executive director of the American Red Cross-NMI Chapter.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have the internet infrastructure to support a large number of volunteers during disasters like Typhoon Soudelor,\u201d said Red Cross board chair Tayna Belyeu-Camacho.<\/p>\n<p>IT&amp;E has provided financial support, cellular and internet services to the American Red Cross for many years.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an honor to be associated with an outstanding international organization like the Red Cross.  They provide critical services to our community every day and especially during disasters,\u201d said John Compton, IT&amp;E\u2019s chief operating officer. \u201cWe are glad to be in a position to support such a fine organization and we look forward to continuing our support for many years to come. We are actively working on other joint projects with the Red Cross and we will announce them at the appropriate time.\u201d (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI chapter of the American Red Cross recently recognized IT&amp;E for its continued long-term&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":246188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2459,3781,7147,6333],"class_list":["post-246179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-red-cross","tag-hans-mickelson","tag-john-compton","tag-typhoon-soudelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246179","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=246179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}