{"id":3617,"date":"2012-02-20T08:41:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T08:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2012-02-20T08:41:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T08:41:17","slug":"umang-glee-club-raises-10k-readies-for-guam-music-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/umang-glee-club-raises-10k-readies-for-guam-music-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"Umang Glee Club raises $10K, readies for Guam music fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Koblerville Elementary School&#8217;s Umang Glee Club is all set for next month&#8217;s Tumon Bay Music Festival in Guam after the group successfully raised needed funding to send its delegates.<\/p>\n<p>Koblerville Elementary School principal Rizalina Purunganan said the school was able to raise $10,000 for the group&#8217;s travel expenses to the event.<\/p>\n<p>This year, 23 members of the music organization will compete in the competition&#8217;s various categories and the group hopes to bring home the Sweepstakes Trophy-the prestigious title awarded to the overall winner of the entire festival. The honor was last bagged by Saipan Southern High School&#8217;s Manta Ray Band, which will skip this year&#8217;s festival.<\/p>\n<p>Purunganan said this year marks the Umang Glee Club&#8217;s second participation in the festival. Last year it bagged the second overall award.<\/p>\n<p>Of the amount, the principal said the Public School System allocated $7,000 for the group&#8217;s travel, while the rest came from proceeds of the group&#8217;s fundraising activities as well as prizes it bagged in on-island competitions like the Christmas in the Marianas festival where they bagged the top award.<\/p>\n<p>For the food allowance of the group, the principal is optimistic that they can raise an additional $2,000 before they fly to the competition scheduled from March 2 through March 11.<\/p>\n<p>The Umang Glee Club is an exclusive music organization established in Koblerville Elementary School which aims to hone and enhance the musical talents of its students.<\/p>\n<p>Purunganan said that every year, the school opens recruitment to deserving students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moneth Deposa Reporter Koblerville Elementary School&#8217;s Umang Glee Club is all set for next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}