{"id":325491,"date":"2020-06-26T06:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=325491"},"modified":"2020-06-26T06:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T20:03:54","slug":"rotary-club-donates-5k-to-nmti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rotary-club-donates-5k-to-nmti\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotary Club donates $5K to NMTI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_325492\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-325492\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rotary-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-325492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rotary-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-325492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rotary Club of Saipan donated $5,000 to the Northern Mariana Technical Institute. (KRIZEL TUAZON)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Rotary Club of Saipan last Wednesday donated $5,000 to the Northern Mariana Technical Institute that was used to purchase two welding equipment, a plasma cutter, and two welding tables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is very important for the students [since], instead of sending them off-island to learn, they are able to do it here. We always want to try and help because it is important to keep them here due to the cost and financial support going off-island to learn,\u201d said Rotary Club president Maria Ayuyu. \u201cWe are very happy that we are able to donate for the students. I want to thank you for what you do and when you are working, please always be safe. Safety first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NMTI chief executive officer Agnes McPhetres said that NMTI students will surely look forward to using the new equipment. \u201cI know students will be smiling to be working with new equipment on hand,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>NMITI student Kaito Ynai said the Rotary Club donation means that they will be able \u201cto do more projects in the future and to enhance our skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Ayuyu\u2019s term will be ending this month as club president, she assures \u201cthat upcoming president Sonya Dancoe will continue and maintain their relationship with the trade school and any other activities within the community.\u201d (Chevy Alipio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rotary Club of Saipan last Wednesday donated $5,000 to the Northern Mariana Technical Institute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":325492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[479,261],"class_list":["post-325491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-nmti","tag-rotary-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325491","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}