{"id":328125,"date":"2020-08-14T06:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=328125"},"modified":"2020-08-14T06:00:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T20:00:49","slug":"1k-bottled-water-cases-donated-to-covid-19-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/1k-bottled-water-cases-donated-to-covid-19-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"1K bottled water cases donated to COVID-19 task force"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_328126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328126\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bottled-water-pix-scaled.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-328126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young\u2019s Wholesale president Hoon Ahn, left, presents 1,000 bottled water cases donated by Jeju SamDaSoo to Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang. The water is intended for the staff of the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force. (Chevy Alipio)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeju SamDaSoo donated 1,000 bottled water cases to the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office yesterday with the help of Young\u2019s Wholesale. <\/p>\n<p>The bottled water is for the hardworking staff of the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force in the CNMI. According to Mayor David M. Apatang, he would like to thank this generous gesture for the islands\u2019 front-liners. <\/p>\n<p>The 1,000 bottled water cases came from Jeju SamDaSoo with the help of Young\u2019s Wholesale. Young\u2019s Wholesale is the exclusive distributor of Jeju SamDaSoo in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hoon Ahn, president of Young\u2019s Wholesale, Jeju SamDaSoo, a government-owned company in South Korea, has been supplying water in the CNMI for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe hope all of this will help all our workers in the COVID-19 task force. We support all efforts in the CNMI,\u201d Ahn added. <\/p>\n<p>Apatang said that they will be contacting the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp., Department of Public Safety, and Division of Customs to make arrangements to pick up the bottled water cases from Young\u2019s Wholesale as well as from the mayor\u2019s office. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank the Jeju SamDaSoo and Young\u2019s Wholesale for helping us out in the community, and their generous donation to help out our COVID-19 task force,\u201d said Apatang. <strong>(Chevy Alipio)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeju SamDaSoo donated 1,000 bottled water cases to the Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office yesterday with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":328127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328125","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\/328125","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=328125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}