{"id":246943,"date":"2017-02-21T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246943"},"modified":"2017-02-21T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T20:01:07","slug":"pdm-promoters-hauls-540-lbs-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pdm-promoters-hauls-540-lbs-trash\/","title":{"rendered":"PDM Promoters hauls 540 lbs of trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_246944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246944\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PDM-pix-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-246944\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/PDM-pix-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kinpachi Restaurant staff and Saipan Awaodori Team members pose after collecting 540 lbs of trash during PDM Promoters, Inc.\u2019s February cleanup. (Contributed Photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-246944\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-246944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kinpachi Restaurant staff and Saipan Awaodori Team members pose after collecting 540 lbs of trash during PDM Promoters, Inc.\u2019s February cleanup. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PDM Promoters, Inc. held its monthly cleanup of the environs surrounding Paseo de Marianas in Garapan last Saturday, its effort yielding 540 lbs of trash.<\/p>\n<p>The non-profit\u2019s spokesperson, Sonia Siwa, said a total of 26 volunteers helped with the cleanup\u2014eight staff from Kinpachi Restaurant and 18 members of the Saipan Awaodori Team.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour cleanup happened from 9am to 11am and covered the Paseo de Marianas, Coral Tree Avenue, part of Beach Road, and the inside alleys of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Siwa said a Good Samaritan helped the volunteers by providing free drinks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to thank the American gentleman for his generosity in providing the kids drinks during the cleanup,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Siwa also thanked the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality for once again helping PDM Promoters by waiving the fee for trash disposal.<\/p>\n<p>PDM Promoters\u2019 monthly cleanups are held every Saturday and are supported by BECQ and the non-profit\u2019s major sponsors, T-Galleria and TSL Foundation.  <\/p>\n<p>Siwa said T-Galleria and TSL Foundation\u2019s support enables them to have the cleaning materials needed for their monthly cleanups. Kinpachi Restaurant provides the meal and snacks of the volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers of PDM Promoters will be at it again in March when they conduct their third monthly cleanup of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDM Promoters, Inc. held its monthly cleanup of the environs surrounding Paseo de Marianas in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8427,2581,1358,3166],"class_list":["post-246943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-good-samaritan","tag-kinpachi-restaurant","tag-saipan-awaodori-team","tag-sonia-siwa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246943","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}