{"id":251543,"date":"2017-05-04T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=251543"},"modified":"2017-05-04T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T20:00:33","slug":"rabago-leads-winners-magazines-mom-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rabago-leads-winners-magazines-mom-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabago leads winners in magazine\u2019s mom contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-251543 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rabago-leads-winners-magazines-mom-contest\/brm-pix2\/'>BRM-pix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-251597'>\n\t\t\t\tFrom left, mom Grace and Ankiet (second prize), Maxine and mom Melanie (first prize), Lesly and mom Florentina third prize). (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rabago-leads-winners-magazines-mom-contest\/brm-pix3\/'>BRM-pix3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-251598'>\n\t\t\t\tTom Basa, Lannie Salvani, and Minda Castro pose with first place winners Maxine and mom Melanie Rabago. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rabago-leads-winners-magazines-mom-contest\/brm-pix1\/'>BRM'-pix1.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-251599'>\n\t\t\t\tMaxine Rabago reads her essay to her mom, Melanie Rabago.\n(Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Maxine Rabago, a 13-year-old eight grader at Saipan Community School, submitted the essay entry that won her first place in Beach Road magazine\u2019s Best Mom 2017 contest.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her prize, she and her mom, Melanie Rabago, are featured in the magazine\u2019s May edition, just in time for the celebration of Mother\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was launched in mid-April. The deadline was set on April 14 so the winners can be featured in the magazine\u2019s May 2017 issue. <\/p>\n<p>Students aged 12 to 15 years old were challenged to write short essays of 50 words or less, telling us why they think their mom is the best. Poems were also accepted. By doing this, students had the chance to win great prizes for their mothers and make this coming Mother\u2019s Day, May 14, truly special. Although some of the schools were not able to join because they were on Spring break, the magazine still drew 178 entries from the following schools: Dandan Middle School, Tanapag Middle School, Hopwood Junior High School, Saipan Community School, Northern Marianas International School, Marianas High School, and Saipan International School. <\/p>\n<p>A panel of judges trimmed the 178 entries down to 13 finalists, after which the three winning essays were selected by major sponsors. <\/p>\n<p>Second place went to Anhkiet Milad Huynh Jr., 13, 8th Grade, Tanapag Middle School, and his mom, Grace Milad Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>Third place went to Lesly Ibarra, 15, 9th Grade, Marianas High School, and her mom, Florentina Ibarra. <\/p>\n<p>The presentation of prizes to the winners was held at the Transpac Business center conference room in Gualo Rai last April 20. <\/p>\n<p>Prizes include gift baskets from Marpac, bouquets from Island Touch by Philip, dinner and lunch buffet certificates from Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa and Kanoa Resort Saipan, meal vouchers from KFC-Taco Bell, waterpark passes from Pacific Islands Club Saipan, gift bags from Coca-Cola and Foremost, gifts from T-Galleria (DFS and L&amp;M Enterprises), gift certificates from Makeover Beauty Salon and National Office Supply, coupons from Scoops, barbecue grill from Alicia Barbo, and three cases of Mogu-Mogu drinks from Islander Mini-Mart.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe truly appreciate the students\u2019 sincere efforts to \u2018tell\u2019 the community how they feel about mom.  Joining the contest alone proves how much they love their mothers, and you are all winners in our hearts,\u201d said Minda Castro, event coordinator. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maxine Rabago, a 13-year-old eight grader at Saipan Community School, submitted the essay entry that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":251597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1772,5987,1785,16642],"class_list":["post-251543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-marianas-high-school","tag-saipan-community-school","tag-tanapag-middle-school","tag-transpac-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251543","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=251543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}