{"id":247348,"date":"2017-02-28T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=247348"},"modified":"2017-02-28T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:00:02","slug":"community-briefs-february-28-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-february-28-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Briefs &#8211; February 28, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Puerto Rico Park still closed to public<\/strong><br \/>\nFor safety reasons, the CNMI government is asking the public to refrain from entering the Puerto Rico Park facility. Construction is still at its final phase; therefore, the facility is still considered closed to the public. The park will be officially opened on April 1, 2017. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chamber meeting on Wednesday<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Saipan Chamber of Commerce will hold a general membership meeting on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at Charley\u2019s Cabaret of the Pacific Islands Club.\u00a0\u00a0The buffet luncheon begins at 11:30; the meeting starts promptly at noon.\u00a0 Guest speakers will be from Kagman Community Health Center:\u00a0 executive director Vince Castro and Medical Director Katherine Elstun, MD.  <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>March is \u2018CNMI Women\u2019s Month\u2019<\/strong><br \/>\nA proclamation recognizing March as \u201cWomen\u2019s Month\u201d and March 8 as \u201cInternational Women\u2019s Day\u201d was signed yesterday, Feb. 28, at the Governor\u2019s Office. CNMI Women\u2019s Month is spearheaded by the CNMI Women\u2019s Association and the Office of the Special Assistant for Women\u2019s Affairs. <\/p>\n<p>The CWA, Office of the Special Assistance for Women\u2019s Affairs, and community partners have lined up a series of activities and events for the Women\u2019s Month celebration that will give emphasis on the call to include women\u2019s concerns and issues in leadership platforms and the government\u2019s development agenda. <\/p>\n<p>The International Women\u2019s Day theme is \u201cBe Bold for Change.\u201d The CNMI has adopted \u201cEmpowering Women as Leaders of Change\u201d as its theme for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI Women\u2019s Association is funded by the Community Services block grant. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puerto Rico Park still closed to public For safety reasons, the CNMI government is asking&#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":[15730,2469,159,3779],"class_list":["post-247348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-community-services","tag-international-women","tag-pacific-islands-club","tag-vince-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247348","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=247348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}