{"id":289437,"date":"2018-11-29T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=289437"},"modified":"2018-11-29T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:00:55","slug":"community-briefs-november-28-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-november-28-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Briefs &#8211; November 28, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOG Tinian re-opens<\/strong><br \/>\nEffective yesterday, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, Bank of Guam\u2019s Tinian branch re-opened for business, with the following schedule: Monday through Friday:\u00a0 9am-4pm; Friday:\u00a0 9am-6pm; Saturdays:\u00a0Closed. The Bank of Guam\u2019s Chalan Piao Branch on Saipan remains closed. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Military to conduct live-fire exercise<\/strong><br \/>\nASAN, Guam\u2014The U.S. military will conduct a live-fire gunnery exercise today, Nov. 29, from 8am to 5pm. The exercise will take place within a 10-nautical mile radius of the following coordinates: 13\u00b0 21\u201dN\/144\u00b0 20\u201dE. It is recommended the public, commercial pilots, fishermen and marine tour operators stay clear from this area during the date and time indicated. These types of trainings are designed to enhance the readiness of military personnel. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Red Cross service center at Marianas Business Plaza <\/strong><br \/>\nThe American Red Cross continues to meet with families at the Marianas Business Plaza in Susupe. In an effort to reduce lines and wait times, Red Cross is issuing color-coded tickets with time blocks for a specific day. Once an individual receives a ticket they will need to return to the service center at the assigned day\/time to meet with a Red Cross caseworker. Red Cross is planning to be at this location until at least Wednesday, Nov. 28; however, the needs of the community will drive how long this site is open. Service center hours are from 9am to 6pm. (PR)<br \/>\nChamber seeks BPOY nominees<\/p>\n<p>The Saipan Chamber of Commerce is now accepting nominees for its \u201cBusiness Person of the Year\u201d award for 2018.  The winner will be announced on Jan.19, 2019, during the Installation Dinner, when new Chamber officers will be installed. Nomination forms can be downloaded from the Saipan Chamber of Commerce website and completed nomination forms should be sent to email executive@saipanchamber.com not later than Jan. 7, 2018.  <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOG Tinian re-opens Effective yesterday, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018, Bank of Guam\u2019s Tinian branch re-opened&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[51,1712,200,559],"class_list":["post-289437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-guam","tag-marianas-business-plaza","tag-military","tag-red-cross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289437","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=289437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}