{"id":289394,"date":"2018-11-28T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=289394"},"modified":"2018-11-28T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T20:06:58","slug":"more-work-at-oleai-sports-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/more-work-at-oleai-sports-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"More work at Oleai Sports Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-289394 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/more-work-at-oleai-sports-complex\/nmasapix2-3\/'>nmasapix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-289396'>\n\t\t\t\tThe fence at the Oleai Sports Complex\u2019s parking lot fell down after Saipan was hit by Super Typhoon Yutu last month. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/more-work-at-oleai-sports-complex\/nmasapix1-2\/'>nmasapix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-289395'>\n\t\t\t\tTwo Northern Marianas Sports Association staff members work on the torn roof of the bleachers at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield last Monday. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Clearing and cleanup at the Oleai Sports Complex will take a while even as Northern Marianas Sports Association plans to ask for extra hands to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will take a while,\u201d said NMSA executive director Tony Rogolofoi, who along with his four staff members resumed work last Monday at the facility that was badly hit by Super Typhoon Yutu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re taking it one day at a time and a long work is ahead of us since we have only a few staff,\u201d added Rogolifoi, who returned to the island several days after Yutu slammed Saipan and Tinian and let his staff took care of their own homes first before getting back to the complex.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of this week, Rogolifoi and company focused on the \u201ceye sores\u201d at the facility, as they took down the front fence, the crumpled batting cage, broken nets, and torn roofs of the left bleacher at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re concentrating on the damaged areas at the front, removing the \u2018eye sores,\u2019 like the crooked pipes and broken fence,\u201d the NMSA executive director said.<\/p>\n<p>They will also work at the Miguel \u201cTan Ge\u201d Basa Pangelinan Ballfield and the fence at the track oval in the coming weeks and will request for help from the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office and possibly, the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Rogolifoi added that they will submit an application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week to seek for financial assistance in the rehabilitation and repair of the sports complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already made an initial assessment on the damage sustained by the Oleai Sports Complex and we will include that in our application to FEMA,\u201d Rogolifoi said.<\/p>\n<p>Before the sports complex suffered massive damage from Yutu, it was also hammered by Typhoon Soudelor, three years ago and FEMA approved a substantial amount to fix the facility. NMSA was just waiting for some paperwork from concerned government agencies for the repair project to start when Yutu came and caused more damage to the sports complex and its facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The Gilbert C. Ada Gymnasium lost more roofs, while windows were also smashed. The lighting system at the \u201cTan Ko\u201d field was also broken, while portions of the ground of both the \u201cTan Ge\u201d and \u201cTan Ko\u201d field washed off and need fixing (flattening, reinstallation of bases, and other groundskeeping work). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clearing and cleanup at the Oleai Sports Complex will take a while even as Northern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":289395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[493,1162,490,23107],"class_list":["post-289394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-fema","tag-nmsa","tag-oleai-sports-complex","tag-super-typhoon-yutu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289394","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=289394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}