{"id":349256,"date":"2021-08-04T06:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=349256"},"modified":"2021-08-04T06:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:01:12","slug":"community-briefs-august-4-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-august-4-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS &#8211; August 4, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NMC offices closed today, tomorrow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northern Marianas College employees will be participating in professional development activities today, Aug. 4, and tomorrow, Aug. 5, 2021. To maximize employee participation, NMC offices will be closed on these days. <\/p>\n<p>The college will resume normal business hours on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Individuals who are seeking assistance in applying for NMC&#8217;s fall 2021 semester can email oar@marianas.edu\u00a0or visit\u00a0www.marianas.edu\u00a0for more information. (PR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Public training on drone operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Districts Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands is offering a training opportunity for the Guam and CNMI community, with the goal to educate the public on the applicable Federal Aviation Administration requirements to lawfully operate a drone. An FAA expert will be leading this discussion. <\/p>\n<p>There will also be a panel presentation by Department of Defense partners from AFOSI, CGIS, and NCIS to discuss drone activity surrounding the respective military installations and restricted areas for drone usage.<\/p>\n<p>Training:\u00a0 Community-Basic Understanding and Concepts of Drone Operations<\/p>\n<p>Date: Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Time: 8am \u2013 10am Chamorro Standard Time<\/p>\n<p>Audience: Community<\/p>\n<p>Prerequisites: None<\/p>\n<p>Registration Link:\u00a0https:\/\/usao.webex.com\/usao\/onstage\/g.php?MTID=e0c65a9f380ad17bdb019bc11ff054dde<\/p>\n<p>Platform: WEBEX by CISCO<\/p>\n<p>Join Meeting: https:\/\/signin.webex.com\/join\u00a0or<br \/>\nDownload option: https:\/\/www.webex.com\/downloads.html\u00a0(Available in Apple Store or Google Play) (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NMC offices closed today, tomorrow Northern Marianas College employees will be participating in professional development&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":343384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-349256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-nmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349256","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=349256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}