An estimated 17,500 people turned out over three days at last weekend\u2019s 22nd Annual Taste of the Marianas International Food Festival & Beer Garden at Garapan Fishing Base on Saipan. The annual signature event of the Marianas Visitors Authority featured 20 food and drink vendors and live entertainment under COVID-19 safety protocols, including mandatory temperature checks and masks. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis year\u2019s Taste of the Marianas was incredible,\u201d said MVA managing priscilla M. Iakopo. \u201cThis would not have been a huge success without the support [of] our executive leaders, public health officials, government agencies, sponsors, food and drink vendors, arts council, entertainers, and most especially our community for cooperating with the safety measures. Let us continue to stay vigilant in practicing our three Ws and getting vaccinated so we can continue to get together.\u201d <\/p>\n
This year\u2019s festival was sponsored by Bank of Guam, IT&E, Bridge Capital, AA Construction, and Dave\u2019s Electronics Center. At the opening ceremony, MVA vice chair Gloria Cavanagh acknowledged partner agencies who helped make the festival possible: Commonwealth Healthcare Corp., CNMI COVID-19 Task Force, Bureau of Environmental Health, Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Control, Bureau of Environmental & Coastal Quality, Department of Public Lands, Department of Lands & Natural Resources, Saipan Mayor\u2019s Office, Saipan Zoning Office, Department of Public Safety, Rota Mayor\u2019s Office, Commonwealth Utilities Corp., and Department of Fire & Emergency Medical Services. (PR)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An estimated 17,500 people turned out over three days at last weekend\u2019s 22nd Annual Taste…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":351027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351001","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=351001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}