{"id":359757,"date":"2022-01-14T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=359757"},"modified":"2022-01-14T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:00:48","slug":"community-briefs-january-14-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-january-14-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMUNITY BRIEFS &#8211; January 14, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BECQ suspends monthly beach cleanups<\/strong><br \/>\nCiting the increasing number of positive cases in the CNMI arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality is temporarily suspending this year its monthly beach cleanups.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement yesterday, it said the monthly beach cleanup for 2022 will be temporarily suspended until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>The beach cleanup is a monthly volunteer activity of the BECQ that is held on the first Saturday of every month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn announcement will be made when beach cleanups will resume,\u201d the BECQ statement said. <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Free online sessions to provide COVID information specific to older adults   <\/strong><br \/>\nMan\u00e5mko\u2019 and their families will have an opportunity to learn about the latest information regarding COVID-19 as it relates to older adults in two Zoom sessions hosted by the Guam\/Micronesia Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program under the University of Guam School of Health. <\/p>\n<p>The presentation, titled \u201cCOVID-19 and Life,\u201d will provide the latest updates on the different types of COVID-19 variants as well as information on the different vaccines, boosters, and how to keep oneself and one\u2019s family safe during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The sessions will be led by Dr. Delores J. Lee, a family medicine physician at Evergreen Health Center.  <\/p>\n<p>The sessions are free to members of the public in Guam and throughout Micronesia.  <\/p>\n<p>To register, visit the following links:  <\/p>\n<p>\u2022 9am on Saturday, Jan. 15: https:\/\/bit.ly\/COVID-19andLife<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 6pm on Thursday, Jan. 27: https:\/\/bit.ly\/COVID19andLife2<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call (671) 735-0109\/0128 or email uog.gwep@triton.uog.edu. <strong>(UOG)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BECQ suspends monthly beach cleanups Citing the increasing number of positive cases in the CNMI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":358905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[880],"class_list":["post-359757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-becq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359757","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=359757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}