{"id":294896,"date":"2019-03-04T06:06:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=294896"},"modified":"2019-03-04T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T20:06:42","slug":"island-snapshots-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/island-snapshots-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Snapshots \u2013 March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-294896 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\/womens-month-pix-2\/'>Women's-Month-pix<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-294876'>\n\t\t\t\tWOMEN\u2019S MONTH-Surrounded by female representatives of different groups, acting governor Arnold I. Palacios signs the CNMI Women\u2019s Month proclamation at the CNMI Governor\u2019s Office conference room last Thursday. (Jon Perez)\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\/island-snapshots-march-2019\/make-a-wish-pix-5\/'>Make-A-Wish-pix<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-294989'>\n\t\t\t\tWISH NIGHT-Make\u00a0a\u00a0Wish\u00a0Guam and CNMI Chapter executive director Eric Tydingco holds the microphone for 2016\u00a0wish\u00a0recipient Chloe Bernal at the annual \u201cBlack Ties &amp; Zories\u201d Wish Night last Friday, March 1, at the Hyatt Regency Saipan\u2019s ballroom. (Erwin Encinares)\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\/island-snapshots-march-2019\/cope-north-pix1-2\/'>Cope-North-pix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-294988'>\n\t\t\t\tCOPE NORTH-Members from the U.S. Air Force, Japan Air Self-Defense Force, and Royal Australian Air Force prepare for movement during exercise Cope North 19 on Tinian on Feb 28, 2019. COPE North is an annual multilateral U.S. Pacific Air Forces-sponsored field training exercise focused on combat air forces large-force employment and mobility air forces humanitarian assistance and disaster relief training to enhance interoperability among U.S., Australian and Japanese forces. (U.S. AIR FORCE\/MASTER SGT JT MAY III)\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\/island-snapshots-march-2019\/mock-trial-pix-7\/'>Mock-trial-pix<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-295209'>\n\t\t\t\tMOCK TRIAL-Some of the participants in the 21st annual CNMI High School Mock Trial competition have their picture taken yesterday. The contest began yesterday, with five high schools across the CNMI arguing the fictitious case of Justin Pangelinan v. ForensiTech, Inc. The winner will represent the CNMI at the National Mock Trial competition in Athens, Georgia on May 16-18. \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\/veterans-pix-10\/'>Veterans-pix<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-296017'>\n\t\t\t\tWWII VETERANS-World War II veterans who fought in the Battle of Saipan, Battle of Tinian, and the Normandy Invasion 75 years ago return to the Saipan and Tinian to visit battle sites like the Sugar King Dock in celebration of the war\u2019s 75th anniversary this month. (Contributed Photo)\u00a0\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\/mina-pix-23\/'>MINA-pix<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-296193'>\n\t\t\t\tHANDS-ON LEARNING-The Micronesia Islands Nature Alliance held its second workshop for its annual \u201cSchools for Environmental Conservation\u201d program by hosting the participants on Managaha Island last March 9, 2019. Participating in this year\u2019s program are students from Mount Carmel School, Dandan Middle School, Hopwood Middle School, and Tanapag Middle School. This year\u2019s SFEC theme is \u201cLearning About and Actively Addressing Marine Debris in the CNMI.\u201d (MINA)\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\/master-pix-595x315-20\/'>master-pix-595x315<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-296510'>\n\t\t\t\tHOLDING COURT-While in Washington, D.C. to attend the Annual Conference for Chief Judges of United States District Courts, Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands met on Tuesday with the three leading female jurists of the United States Supreme Court, Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan. Joining her were Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood of District of Guam (far left) and Jennifer Romero (far right), a former resident of Guam and currently Democratic Staff Director and Chief Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":294988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294896","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=294896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}