{"id":264876,"date":"2017-11-21T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=264876"},"modified":"2017-11-21T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T20:00:20","slug":"community-briefs-november-21-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-november-21-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Briefs &#8211; November 21, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free seminar on record keeping for farmers <\/strong><br \/>\nThe CNMI Small Business Development Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Farm Service Agency will be offering a free business seminar called \u201cThe Benefits of Record Keeping for Farmers with USDA Farm Service Agency\u201d at the Northern Marianas Technical Institute on Dec. 4, 2017, from 5pm to 6:30pm. To register, contact the CNMI SBDC office at 664-3018 or visit http:\/\/pisbden.ecenterdirect.comievents. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free seminar on micro loan with USDA-FSA <\/strong><br \/>\nThe CNMI Small Business Development Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s Farm Service Agency will be offering a free business seminar called \u201cThe ABC\u2019s of Applying for a Microloan with USDA Farm Service Agency\u201d at the Northern Marianas Technical Institute on Dec. 5, 2017, from 8 am to 9:30pm. To register, contact the CNMI SBDC office at 664-3018 or visit http:\/\/pisbdcn.ecenterdirect.comievents. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VA benefits counselor to visit Saipan in Dec.<\/strong><br \/>\nA U.S. Department of Veterans Benefits Administration benefits counselor will be at the Saipan VA Outreach Clinic on Dec. 15, 2017, from 9:30am to 3:30pm. The benefits counselor will be available to answer benefits questions, and assist with the claim process. The Saipan VA Outreach Clinic is located at the MH II Bldg. Suite 206, Marina Heights Business Park in Garapan. To request an appointment, contact Ruth Coleman at 322-0035. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free seminar on record keeping for farmers The CNMI Small Business Development Center and the&#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":[56,3069,4163,9861],"class_list":["post-264876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-business-3","tag-farm-service-agency","tag-ruth-coleman","tag-veterans-benefits-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264876","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=264876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}