{"id":253302,"date":"2017-05-30T06:06:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=253302"},"modified":"2017-05-30T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:06:18","slug":"evmf-host-2017-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/evmf-host-2017-summer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"EVMF to host 2017 summer program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Empty Vessel Ministry Foundation will be hosting its 2017 Summer Program starting June 5 and is inviting parents to sign their children up.  The theme for this year\u2019s program is Thankfulness, Empowerment, Respect, and Giving Back.<\/p>\n<p>The summer program will include presentations from local speakers, instructional teachings, various activities such as golf lessons at Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort, beach cleaning, educational field trips to places like the Commonwealth Health Center, cultural lessons in crafts and history, and appreciation of Saipan&#8217;s underwater beauty and environment on a submarine trip. <\/p>\n<p>EVMF\u2019s 2017 Summer Program is a six-week program starting on June 5 and ending on July 14. <\/p>\n<p>There will be three groups of 30 students. The first group will consist of children from the northern part of the Commonwealth. The program for this batch starts on June 5 to June 15.  <\/p>\n<p>The second group will consist of children from the central part of the island and will be from June 19 to June 29. <\/p>\n<p>The third group will consist of children from the southern area of Saipan and will start on July 3 and end on July 13. <\/p>\n<p>Orientation for the north batch of students will be on June 2, for the central batch on June 16, and for the southern batch on June 30.  <\/p>\n<p>The program is free, courtesy of proceeds from the 2017 Hyatt Classic Golf Tournament. The foundation would also like to thank Hertz Rent-a-Car for its support with transportation.<\/p>\n<p>EVMF is located in Gualo Rai, across from Bali Fashion, above Kylie\u2019s Bakery. For inquiries, EVMF can be reached at 253-2340 or 483-0162.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Empty Vessel Ministry Foundation will be hosting its 2017 Summer Program starting June 5&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[695,16979,197,16980],"class_list":["post-253302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-evmf","tag-giving-back","tag-gualo-rai","tag-summer-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253302","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}