{"id":288015,"date":"2018-11-05T06:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=288015"},"modified":"2018-11-05T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T20:04:22","slug":"double-whammy-for-oleai-sports-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/double-whammy-for-oleai-sports-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Double whammy for Oleai Sports Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_288016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288016\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nmsapix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-288016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fence at the entrance of the Oleai Sports Complex is damaged after Super Typhoon Yutu slammed Saipan last month. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Battered, not once, but twice, the Oleai Sports Complex may have to go a reassessment before repair work starts.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Rogolifoi, executive director of Northern Marianas Sports Association, which oversees the management and operation of the complex, saw the facility for the first time last Friday or a little over a week after Saipan was struck by Super Typhoon Yutu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was disastrous. The damage was big, both inside and outside,\u201d said Rogolifoi, who was off-island when the Category 5 typhoon hit the island. \u201cFor now our main focus is to clear the area of the debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NMSA official added that he needs to check with the CNMI public assistance office, under the Office of the Governor, to find out how the process of seeking help for the repair will work.  <\/p>\n<p>The Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium was supposed to undergo repair (with the funding coming from the Federal Emergency Management Agency) after Saipan was hit by Typhoon Soudelor in 2015. Assessment on the damage was made, bidding was done, and contructor was chosen, while some paper work was just being finalized when Yutu came. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t started with the repair of the damage caused by Soudelor and then now it\u2019s Yutu. It\u2019s a double whammy,\u201d Rogolifoi said.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the already leaking roof at the Ada Gym was blown away, glass windows were shattered, and the fence around the complex and at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios and Miguel \u201cTan Ge\u201d Pangelinan ballfields were destroyed. The administrative office was spared a bit from Yutu\u2019s havoc, as only some glass windows broke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have additional damage we don\u2019t know how will that affect the funding approved from the earlier FEMA assistance. They may do another assessment or we may apply for a new request for the recent damage. We have to find the best way possible and it will take a while for activities to resume here,\u201d the CNMI Sports Hall of Famer added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a long work ahead of us,\u201d Rogolifoi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battered, not once, but twice, the Oleai Sports Complex may have to go a reassessment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":288016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[490,23107,1258,6333],"class_list":["post-288015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-oleai-sports-complex","tag-super-typhoon-yutu","tag-tony-rogolifoi","tag-typhoon-soudelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288015","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}