{"id":280055,"date":"2018-07-16T06:06:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=280055"},"modified":"2018-07-16T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T20:06:43","slug":"apatang-celebrates-70th-birthday-with-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/apatang-celebrates-70th-birthday-with-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Apatang celebrates 70th birthday with fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_280065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280065\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Apatang-pix-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Apatang-pix-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-280065\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Republican Party pose for a photo with Saipan Mayor David Apatang during his birthday fundraiser last Saturday. (Kimberly A. Bautista)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang reached a major milestone in his life and celebrated it with the entire community through a campaign fundraiser. <\/p>\n<p>Last Saturday, 700 members of the community gathered to celebrate Apatang\u2019s 70th birthday during his campaign fundraiser event at the Pacific Islands Club Saipan. <\/p>\n<p>The event was grand to say the least with the event completely closing out PIC\u2019s Magellan and Charley\u2019s Cabaret. <\/p>\n<p>According to Apatang, he was amazed by the event\u2019s turnout and could not believe how many people showed up to support him and his candidacy. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very well. There are a lot of people tonight\u2026 I just want to thank all my supporters who showed up tonight and for everyone who contributed to make this event possible,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Apatang\u2019s birthday fundraiser was able to raise over $30,000 that will go to funding his re-election campaign. <\/p>\n<p>According to Apatang\u2019s campaign committee chair Oscar Babauta, Apatang and his crew have worked tirelessly for the Saipan community by constantly cleaning and maintaining the entire island. <\/p>\n<p>During Apatang\u2019s birthday campaign, all of his children and siblings joined him during his brief remarks to sing him Happy Birthday that was the highlight of the celebration. <\/p>\n<p>The event was also participated by CNMI dignitaries from the Republican Party who wanted to show their support for Apatang\u2019s re-election. <\/p>\n<p>Apatang is running under the GOP for Saipan mayor and will be going up against Ramon Blas Camacho who is running for Saipan mayor as an independent. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang reached a major milestone in his life and celebrated it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":280065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21958,6790,67,1319],"class_list":["post-280055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-during-apatang","tag-last-saturday","tag-people","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280055","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=280055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}