{"id":33698,"date":"2014-04-30T08:40:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T00:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=33698"},"modified":"2014-04-30T08:40:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T00:40:22","slug":"three-sign-2014-mmac-sponsors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/three-sign-2014-mmac-sponsors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Three more sign up as 2014 MMAC sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-33698 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/155307ID26312.jpg'>155307ID26312<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-33705'>\n\t\t\t\t2014 Marianas March Against Cancer committee members, along with Commonwealth Cancer Association board members, pose at the Marianas Variety office after the newspaper company donated advertising space for the group. (Jayson Camacho)\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/155307ID26313.jpg'>155307ID26313<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-33706'>\n\t\t\t\tMembers of the 2014 Marianas March Against Cancer Committee and Commonwealth Cancer Association board members receive a $1,000 check from Marpac?s operations manager Phil Mendiola, center, along with in-kind donations of beverages from Marpac?s resident manager, Guy Pudney, standing fifth from left. (Jayson Camacho)\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Three more sponsors have joined the 2014 Marianas March Against Cancer, the signature fund drive of the Commonwealth Cancer Association.<br \/>\nSorensen Media Group and Marianas Variety signed up as title sponsors of this year\u2019s edition of the MMAC, each donating more than $3,000 in cash or in-kind donations. Marianas Pacific Distributors signed up as a major sponsor, donating $1,000 in cash and in-kind donations of beverages and other amenities for the MMAC.<\/p>\n<p>Sorensen, which runs Power 99 and ABC7 on Saipan, donated over $5,000 worth of promotions such as radio advertisements and studio interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Sorensen manager Tina Palacios said they have been a supporter of MMAC since it was still called Relay for Life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower 99 has always been a supporter and continue to do that every year and it\u2019s one cause that we want to be a part of,\u201d Palacios said.<\/p>\n<p>She said that as long as there is hope they will always be part of MMAC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year I lost two brothers to cancer, my mom\u2019s sister passed away, two of my cousins are battling breast cancer, and my good friend is battling stomach cancer\u2026so it is personal and we will continue to be part of this cause,\u201d Palacios said.<\/p>\n<p>Marianas Variety donated $3,000 worth of advertising space. The newspaper\u2019s publisher Laila Boyer said, \u201cWe have been supporting the MMAC and Relay for Life. \u2026We are planning on moving forward with them,\u201d Boyer said.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that Marianas Variety has had booths and a team as well in the past and encourages community members to support the fight against cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Marianas Pacific Distributors resident manager Guy Pudney said that they are happy to partner with MMAC. \u201cWe have been supporting for many years and this is the first year that I\u2019ve been here that we actually made monetary contributions,\u201d Pudney said.<\/p>\n<p>Pudney also noted that they support the MMAC on behalf of Marpac\u2019s operations manager, Phil Mendiola, who is a cancer survivor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin the past four to five years we\u2019ve actually lost two family members from my wife\u2019s side of the family. Cancer is a disease that affects everyone either directly or indirectly, and in one way or another we will support this cause,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Manny Borja, 2014 MMAC overall committee chairman, was grateful for the three companies\u2019 contributions. \u201cWe are thankful that they have donated to the MMAC and they have been sponsors for awhile, and we are happy to be working together for the cause,\u201d Borja said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 MMAC will be held on May 2 and May 3, 2014, from 6pm to 6am at the Hopwood Junior High School field in Chalan Piao.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Borja at 989-1987, email him at emanuel.borja@gmail.com, or visit the CCA website at www.ccamarianas.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three more sponsors have joined the 2014 Marianas March Against Cancer, the signature fund drive&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":33705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-33698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fotogalleria","tag-mmac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33698","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}