{"id":342779,"date":"2021-04-23T06:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=342779"},"modified":"2021-04-23T06:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:05:06","slug":"amp-staff-volunteers-clean-up-smiling-cove-on-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/amp-staff-volunteers-clean-up-smiling-cove-on-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"AMP staff, volunteers clean up Smiling Cove on Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_342780\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342780\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cleanup-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-342780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cleanup-pix-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342780\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Memorial Park lead ranger Brooke Nevitt directs volunteers to their cleanup spots at the Smiling Cove Marina of the American Memorial Park for the Earth Day cleanup yesterday. (JOSHUA SANTOS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>American Memorial Park rangers and employees were joined by about 12 volunteers yesterday for a cleanup at the park\u2019s Smiling Cove Marina from 4:30pm to 6pm as part of the celebration of Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p>American Memorial Park lead ranger Brooke Nevitt said this cleanup is one of a series of monthly cleanups that will happen over the course of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The cleanups] will be in different areas of the park and also outside of the park at historical sites that are connected to the history that the park aims to tell,\u201d said Nevitt.<\/p>\n<p>Such cleanups outside the park may include Micro Beach and in other historical sites around the island.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday\u2019s cleanup, along with all future AMP cleanup events, is being organized by former Miss Marianas Shannon Sasamoto, who is now the park\u2019s Community Volunteer Ambassador. Sasamoto said she became the park\u2019s Community Volunteer Ambassador toward the end of her reign as Miss Marianas in February this year. \u201cI decided that during that time it was a great opportunity to start on a different journey, and I\u2019m very grateful that I am able to be a CVA here at American Memorial Park,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>As the park\u2019s CVA, she is working on arranging more cleanups and other events to create more volunteering opportunities at the park. \u201cWe are celebrating Earth Day with the cleanup, but essentially we celebrate Earth Day every day. One of our main things this year is to really push for monthly cleanups, so look out for monthly cleanups with us,\u201d said Sasamoto.<\/p>\n<p>Nevitt thanked all volunteers who came out to help clean and the many others that support the park\u2019s numerous programs. She also recognized Sasamoto\u2019s hard work in putting together more volunteering opportunities at the park.<\/p>\n<p>All future AMP events will be posted and promoted on American Memorial Park\u2019s Instagram and Facebook pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Memorial Park rangers and employees were joined by about 12 volunteers yesterday for a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":342780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[602,4009,6707],"class_list":["post-342779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-amp","tag-earth-day","tag-smiling-cove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342779","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\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}