The weekly mini-festival that is more popularly known as the Thursday Night Market at the Garapan Fishing Base would resume tomorrow after being temporarily sidelined when essential electric components were blown away and damaged by Super Typhoon Yutu in late October 2018.<\/p>\n
CNMI Arts Council executive director Parker Yobei affirmed the resumption of the weekly operation of the night market with Saipan Tribune yesterday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are good to go this week,\u201d he said, adding that his office had already met with regular vendors. <\/p>\n
Yobei had noted in an interview in mid-February that they expect the resumption of the street market in mid-March 2019 at least.<\/p>\n
Do not expect anything fancy to mark the event\u2019s resumption. The re-opening the mini-festival was the main priority, according to Yobei.<\/p>\n
He did not rule out the possibility, though, of having a special celebration in the future to highlight the re-opening of the street market.<\/p>\n
For the moment, the street market would re-open with a total of 35 vendors\u201425 food vendors and 10 non-food vendors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are very eager to open again and they missed the street market on Thursday,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Yobei said his office made sure that vendor permits are up-to-date before allowing them to participate in the weekly event.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are redoing our registration to make sure everybody\u2019s requirements are complete, such as their business licenses, sanitation permits, etc. As long as they are up-to-date, they may participate in the street market,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The weekly street market had not been open since the destruction of Super Typhoon Yutu across southern Saipan and Tinian in late October 2018. Electrical components such as two weather heads, 12 panel boxes with eight outlets each, two meter boxes, and more equipment were blown away during the typhoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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