{"id":33115,"date":"2014-04-23T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=33115"},"modified":"2014-04-23T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T00:38:11","slug":"800-lbs-trash-collected-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/800-lbs-trash-collected-cleanup\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 800 lbs of trash collected in cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33121\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/issx9999ns155156.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33121\" alt=\"PDM Promoters volunteers that included Kinpachi Restaurant staff and the Saipan Awaodori Team cleaned up Garapan?s tourist district as part of their April cleanup on Monday April 21. (Contributed photo)\" src=\"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/issx9999ns155156-300x144.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PDM Promoters volunteers that included Kinpachi Restaurant staff and the Saipan Awaodori Team cleaned up Garapan?s tourist district as part of their April cleanup on Monday April 21. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">PDM Promoters, Inc. Saipan collected about 820 lbs of trash in the tourist district of Garapan last April 21.<\/span><br \/>\nAbout 35 volunteers\u2014including Awaodori Team members and Kinpachi Restaurant staff\u2014took part in the monthly cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous years when the non-profit group would hold its cleanup on a weekend, PDM Promoters held the April event on a Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided to do the cleanup with the kids this Monday since they don\u2019t have school yet,\u201d PDM Promoters coordinator Sonia Siwa said.<\/p>\n<p>Trash was collected from the sides of the American Memorial Park and along the Paseo de Marianas.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, 15 members of the Saipan Awaodori Team volunteered during the Saipan Marathon last Saturday, April 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe set up a tent at the Garapan Fishing Base for the team members to cheer the [runners], together with one of our volunteer dressed as a Saipanda mascot,\u201d Siwa said.<\/p>\n<p>The Saipanda was a courtesy of the Marianas Visitors Authority.<\/p>\n<p>Members were also given a certificate courtesy of Saipan Marathon organizers for helping out in the race.\u00a0<strong><em>(Jayson Camacho)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDM Promoters, Inc. Saipan collected about 820 lbs of trash in the tourist district of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":33121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[268,163,43],"class_list":["post-33115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-memorial-park","tag-kids","tag-marianas-visitors-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}