{"id":289423,"date":"2018-11-29T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=289423"},"modified":"2018-11-29T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:06:19","slug":"lions-club-hands-out-rice-on-tinian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lions-club-hands-out-rice-on-tinian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Club hands out rice on Tinian"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_289424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289424\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lions-pixFIX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Lions-pixFIX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-289424\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-289424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the Filipino-American Lions club pose for a photo during their rice distribution on Tinian during Thanksgiving. (Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Saipan Filipino American Lions Club ventured to Tinian to provide post-Super Typhoon Yutu relief to Tinian residents.<\/p>\n<p>On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, members of the Saipan Filipino American Lions Club from Saipan visited Tinian to distribute 10-lb sacks of rice.<\/p>\n<p>The club reported that 515 individuals benefited from the relief goods. <\/p>\n<p>The Lions Clubs International District 204 Region 1 from Guam provided the financial assistance to make the distribution happen, in collaboration with the United Filipinos Association headed by president Rodney Cabarles and Tinian volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Fil-Am Lions club president Lucy Buensalido, club president Flor Miranda, club secretary Ladyvir Canape, and club secretary Yho Villavicencio were present for the distribution. <\/p>\n<p>According to Saipan Lions Club Region 2 chair Annamae Adaza, the club is sworn to offer help to those in dire need, especially in times of calamity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny help that we can extend is really a big thing. Knowing there are a lot of entities trying to help\u2026just helping our neighbor would mean a lot. \u2026[this is] another reason to be thankful that we are all alive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Lions Club District governor Daniel Cruz said the goal is to give back to the community even in a small way. \u201cWe stand by our motto, \u2018We serve,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about Lions Clubs International, check the website:www.lionsclubs.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Filipino American Lions Club ventured to Tinian to provide post-Super Typhoon Yutu relief&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":289424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23378,1511,23207,23379],"class_list":["post-289423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-daniel-cruz","tag-lions-clubs-international","tag-rodney-cabarles","tag-united-filipinos-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289423","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=289423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}