{"id":307227,"date":"2019-09-04T06:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=307227"},"modified":"2019-09-04T06:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T20:01:49","slug":"lions-club-helps-kes-prep-for-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lions-club-helps-kes-prep-for-school-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Club helps KES prep for school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_307228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307228\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lions-club.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/lions-club.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307228\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saipan Lions Club painted the walls and repaired the tin roofs of Koblerville Elementary School to get it ready for students. (CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Koblerville Elementary School students started classes yesterday with a campus that had just been beautified by the Saipan Lions Club.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions painted the school last Aug. 24-25. The group had 49 volunteers on Saturday and 61 on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome schools are still in a dire situation [and] needing any assistance they can get from the community,\u201d said Lions Club region assistant secretary Bhiya Canadalla. \u201c\u2018We Serve\u2019 is the Lions Club\u2019s motto and this is what we are doing. When there\u2019s a need, there\u2019s a Lion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>School principal Naomi Nishimura reached out to the Lions Clubs International, Region 2 District 204 to ask for help in painting the walls, repairing the tin roofs, and in removing the roof in front of the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing Communication chair Mario Mayuga said the Lions are helping the community, while also being visible to entice others to do the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koblerville Elementary School students started classes yesterday with a campus that had just been beautified&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":307228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1361,7136],"class_list":["post-307227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-kes","tag-lions-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307227","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}