{"id":350037,"date":"2021-08-17T06:04:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=350037"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:04:21","slug":"about-50-60-families-take-part-in-family-fun-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/about-50-60-families-take-part-in-family-fun-night\/","title":{"rendered":"About 50-60 families take part in Family Fun Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_350043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350043\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350043 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Family-Fun-Night-pix1.jpg\" alt=\"OYA Family Fun Night 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Families line up to register with CNMI Office of Youth Affairs staff before enjoying OYA\u2019s Family Fun Night at the San Vicente Youth Center last Friday. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the heavy rain last Friday that cut the event short, the CNMI Office of Youth Affairs successfully staged a Family Fun Night at the San Vicente Youth Center that drew an estimated 50 to 60 families.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured treats for sale, live entertainment, game prizes throughout the evening, and special prizes for children who completed an \u201cevent passport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to special assistant for Youth Affairs Ali Ogo, he said the event was \u201cbumping and jumping for a little bit\u201d until OYA made the call to cut short the event due to heavy rain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_350044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350044\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-350044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Family-Fun-Night-pix2.jpg\" alt=\"OYA Family Fun Night 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Special assistant for Youth Affairs Ali Ogo, leftmost, and OYA staff share a photo during its Family Fun Night at the San Vicente Youth Center last Friday. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe had about nine agencies come out and four vendors, it was bumping and jumping for a little bit. The rain came in and we made the call to [cut it short] it for the safety of the kids. &#8230;We were hitting about 50 to 60 families [before the rain hit],\u201d said Ogo.<\/p>\n<p>He said he and OYA did not want to see children running out in the rain to claim their event prizes. They ended up handing out prizes to all of the event\u2019s attendees.<\/p>\n<p>Ogo said the office will \u201chave a repeat\u201d of a Family Fun Night at the San Vicente Youth Center, a \u201cMovie Night\u201d in September, and a Family Fun Night in Koblerville. OYA will also be offering its after-school tutoring program beginning Aug. 18, but how OYA will run its program will depend on how the CNMI Public School System will conduct classes this school year.<\/p>\n<p>Ogo said his goal is to hold Family Fun Nights at every community center on Saipan, saying it is important that OYA\u2019s events are spread out throughout Saipan. \u201cI [want] to cater to the community in general. We understand that San Vicente is a distant drive from the north side so we do want to bounce around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the heavy rain last Friday that cut the event short, the CNMI Office of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":350045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11386],"class_list":["post-350037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-family-fun-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350037","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=350037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}