{"id":342138,"date":"2021-04-14T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=342138"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T20:00:39","slug":"highway-express-donates-sacks-of-rice-to-the-ohala-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/highway-express-donates-sacks-of-rice-to-the-ohala-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway Express donates sacks  of rice to the Ohala Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_342141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342141\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Ohala-Foundation.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highway Express employees pose with former Tinian mayor and lawyer Joey \u201cJP\u201d San Nicolas, third from right, during the turnover of 50 sacks of rice that will be donated to the Ohala Foundation\u2019s food bank on Tinian.\u00a0(Contributed Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>D&amp;W Saipan Inc., which does business as Highway Express, recently donated 50 40-pound sacks of rice to the Ohala Foundation\u2019s food bank on Tinian.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to D&amp;W general manager Mr. Sung Soo Lim for their donation. We\u2019re extremely happy as this large donation of rice will go toward feeding hundreds of people,\u201d said Ohala Foundation chair Phillip Mendiola-Long. \u201cWe\u2019ve been able to distribute food boxes to over 300 unique families over the course of 11 distribution events. That comes out to over 10,000 meals given to families in need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The donation was coordinated by former Tinian mayor and lawyer Joey \u201cJP\u201d San Nicolas. \u201cThis is a fine example of our friends and families in Saipan helping our friends and families on Tinian,\u201d said San Nicolas, who added that Tinian Shipping shipped the sacks of rice to Tinian.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohala Foundation will launch a new \u201cIt\u2019s Only .33 Cents Per Day Donation Drive,\u201d which is equal to a commitment of just $10 per month to help feed families in need. \u201cWe need 200 people to sign up and commit to just .33 cents per day to help these families on Tinian. We\u2019re also in the planning stages to expand to Rota by May and Saipan by October,\u201d Long said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donors may reach out to the foundation by visiting\u00a0ohalafoundation.org\u00a0or by calling (670) 433-2664. To donate, visit ohalafoundation.org\/donate. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&amp;W Saipan Inc., which does business as Highway Express, recently donated 50 40-pound sacks of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":342142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6390],"class_list":["post-342138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-highway-express"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342138","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=342138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}