{"id":277024,"date":"2018-05-29T06:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T20:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=277024"},"modified":"2018-05-29T06:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T20:06:52","slug":"hanmi-donates-1k-to-nmti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hanmi-donates-1k-to-nmti\/","title":{"rendered":"HANMI donates $1K to NMTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_277025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277025\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/HANMI-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/HANMI-pix-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-277025\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-277025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representatives of the Hotel Association of the Northern Marianas Islands hands a check of $1,000 to Northern Marianas Trades Institute president Agnes McPhetres (middle) during the 20th Annual Taste of the Marianas. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands donated $1,000 to the Northern Marianas Trades Institute in support of its programs. <\/p>\n<p>During the 20th Annual Taste of the Marianas, HANMI chair Gloria Cavanagh announced that HANMI would like to support programs offered by NMTI such as the culinary program. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is something the hotel association really supports and others should support as well because the people that come out of this institution is actually our future,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Cavanagh, it is important to support NMTI for their efforts to train locals in critically needed professions. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to train our local people to take over positions especially when it comes to culinary,\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n<p>Cavanagh mentioned that due to the current issues the CNMI is facing with the CNMI-Only Transitional Workers visa, the CNMI is in need of local chefs to fill the need. <\/p>\n<p>NMTI president Agnes McPhetres said that NMTI is always grateful when they receive donations from their partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis $1,000 will take us a long way. Every donation, every penny that we receive from our partners help our students to continue with what they\u2019re aspiring to be,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands donated $1,000 to the Northern Marianas Trades&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":277025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[26,301,479,67],"class_list":["post-277024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-hanmi","tag-nmti","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277024","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}