{"id":311229,"date":"2019-11-01T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=311229"},"modified":"2019-11-01T06:06:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:06:57","slug":"community-briefs-november-1-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-november-1-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Briefs &#8211; November 1, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MBP agrees to host Christmas-themed event<\/p>\n<p>Christmas in the Marianas is limiting itself to 18 competitors. Children from other schools were directed to delay their tree decorating skills until next year. But, since learning delayed may actually be learning denied, the Marianas Business Plaza offers its itself to as many schools as possible as a venue to help children learn tree decoration, caroling, and Yule-time costume making. This is a time to be joyous. Come to an organizational meeting on Monday, Nov. 4, 4pm, at the Marianas Business Plaza (former Nauru building). Contact Levi, John or Mary at 234-6647 or 789-7614. (PR)<\/p>\n<p>FOA auditions for Christmas production<\/p>\n<p>There will be auditions this Sunday\u00a0at 2pm\u00a0at Marianas High School, Room C203 for the Friends of the Arts&#8217; upcoming Christmas show &#8220;The Miracle on 34th Street.&#8221; Both adults and young actors are needed for this Dec. 26-29 production.\u00a0Rehearsals will start soon after the cast is selected.\u00a0Come in and try out for a role. (PR)<\/p>\n<p>CHamoru commission meeting set<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Kumisi\u00f3n i Fino\u2019 CHamoru yan i Fina\u2019n\u00e5\u2019guen i Historia yan i Lina\u2019la\u2019 i\u00a0Taotao T\u00e5no\u2019\u00a0(Commission on CHamoru Language and the Teaching of the History and Culture of the Indigenous People of Guam) will hold its first November monthly meeting on Nov. 7, 2019, Thursday, from 12:30pm to 3pm at the Guam Museum conference room, in H\u00e5gat\u00f1a. Call Roland Blas, Kumisi\u00f3n secretary, for special accommodations and agenda at 480-4047 or email at\u00a0rolandblas1973@gmail.com. (PR)<\/p>\n<p>Golf tournament fundraiser for JKPL<\/p>\n<p>The 4th Annual Friends of the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library Golf Tournament Fundraiser will take place on Sunday, Nov. 10, at Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort\u2019s west course. Game format is Low Gross and Double Peoria, 2-Person Scramble (Men and Women). Cost to participate is $200 entry per team. All proceeds will help support the Joeten-Kiyu Public Library and its resource and collection development, circulation materials, and library programs. Last day to register is Thursday, Nov. 7, at 5pm.\u00a0(PR)<\/p>\n<p>Saipan to host terrestrial conservation conference<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd Annual Marianas Terrestrial Conservation Conference &amp; Workshop will be held on Nov. 18-20, at the Hibiscus Hall of Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan in Garapan. Registration is free and open to the public, and will include presentations on terrestrial conservation, field trips and activities such as pre-conference proa rides and Mariana swiftlet field trip, and a lizard identification trip at American Memorial Park. To register, visit marianasterrestrialconservation.org. It also includes a birding trip, tree planting for Yutu recovery, Jeffrey\u2019s Beach tour, and native limestone forest hike. For more information about the conference, or for donations (financial or in-kind) to help with organizational costs as well as to raise funds to enable students to travel to the conference to present their research, email Jill Liske-Clark at liskeclark.cnmidfw@gmail.com.\u00a0(PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBP agrees to host Christmas-themed event Christmas in the Marianas is limiting itself to 18&#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":[],"class_list":["post-311229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311229","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=311229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}