{"id":283900,"date":"2018-09-06T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=283900"},"modified":"2018-09-06T06:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T20:00:57","slug":"media-group-sponsors-minas-green-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/media-group-sponsors-minas-green-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Media group sponsors MINA\u2019s Green Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_283901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-283901\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Younis-pix-300x225.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-283901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marianas Variety sales and graphic team Riana Capalad, Loida Martinez, Noemi Borromeo and Jeanette Sarabia join MINA executive director Roberta Guerrero, Daniel Kaipat, and Michelle Kautz in presenting the company\u2019s sponsorship for this year\u2019s Green Gala. (MINA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Younis Art Studio, Inc., which runs the newspaper Marianas Variety, has agreed to be a sponsor of this year\u2019s Green Gala.<\/p>\n<p>Laila Younis-Boyer, Younis Art Studio president, expressed their company\u2019s support of the Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance, which hosts the Green Gala.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our company\u2019s continual vision to be responsible stewards of our community and we gladly support the efforts of MINA and its programs that have lasting positive effects on our environment and encourage active social engagement from all our stakeholders.\u00a0 Thank you, MINA, we appreciate all that you do,\u201d said Boyer.<\/p>\n<p>MINA continues to be the \u201ceyes and ears\u201d of the ocean with its Tasi Watch program, and their rangers are out every week doing surveillance of the crucial watershed areas, as well as the maintenance and upkeep of the recycling bins in MINA\u2019s Adopt-a-Bin program.  <\/p>\n<p>MINA strives to build on the culture of recycling, and stages outreach and education programs throughout the year at various public events to spread the word about the need to keep our land and sea litter free.  <\/p>\n<p>MINA also develops programs that focuses on school-aged children, and has implemented the Schools for Environmental Conservation, wherein students and their advisors learn about and initiate their own conservation action plans on their school campuses.  <\/p>\n<p>The annual Green Gala, which is critical in raising much needed funds to keep these programs viable, will happen on Friday, Sept. 14, at the Hibiscus Hall of the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan. Parking is available to guests at the American Memorial Park.  Call 233-7333 for more information. <strong>(MINA)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Younis Art Studio, Inc., which runs the newspaper Marianas Variety, has agreed to be a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":283901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4402,554,22579,15913],"class_list":["post-283900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-green-gala","tag-mina","tag-riana-capalad","tag-younis-art-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283900","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=283900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}