{"id":330966,"date":"2020-10-05T06:02:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=330966"},"modified":"2020-10-05T06:02:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T20:02:04","slug":"community-briefs-october-5-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-october-5-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS &#8211; October 5, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jury selection today is cancelled<\/p>\n<p>This is to inform all prospective jurors on panel \u201c17GS\u201d that the jury selection scheduled for today, Oct. 5, 2020, at 8:30am and 12:30pm is hereby cancelled until further notice.  For further information, contact Clerk of Court Patrick Diaz at Superior Court at 235-4258. (PR)<\/p>\n<p>OVR Counseling Office temporary hours<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation would like to inform the public of the Counseling Office\u2019s temporary hours. Beginning today, Oct. 5, 2020, to Friday, Oct. 16, 2020, operational hours will be from 7:30am to 11:30am. The afternoon will be dedicated to back-logging all active consumer cases. Additionally, beginning Monday, Oct. 19, 2020, to Friday, Oct. 23, 2020, the Counseling Office will be closed to complete all back-logging and updating of cases. Normal operations will resume on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020.\u00a0For concerns or matters that require immediate attention, please call (670) 287-6609. (PR)<\/p>\n<p>5.2-magnitude earthquake on Pagan<\/p>\n<p>At 9:3am on Oct. 3, 2020, a report of a 5.2-magnitude earthquake occurred at\u00a018.770\u00b0N 145.943\u00b0E in the Pagan region, Northern Mariana Islands. Currently, there are no tsunami warnings or advisories issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.\u00a0For more information, contact the CNMI EOC State Warning Point at 670-237-8000. (PR)<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled power interruption on Wednesday <\/p>\n<p>There will be a scheduled power interruption on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, from 9am to 1pm for portions of Gualo Rai. This will affect Pacific Air &amp; Tan Ji Chinese Restaurant Building, Grand Laundry &amp; National Collection Agency Building, and Lihn Store.<br \/>\nThe outage is intended to de-energize utility lines so that Commonwealth Utilities Corp. linemen can safely replace a rotted primary power pole along with three transformers on Chalan Pale Arnold Road in front of Grand Laundry in Gualo Rai.<br \/>\nBecause of the scale of work that will be performed, CUC asks travelers to take alternate routes or to exercise caution when driving through the working area.<br \/>\nFor more information, contact the CUC hotline (236-4333) or monitor our Facebook page for the latest updates (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonwealthUtilitiesCorporation\/). (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jury selection today is cancelled This is to inform all prospective jurors on panel \u201c17GS\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":330352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330966","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=330966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}