{"id":36653,"date":"2014-05-23T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=36653"},"modified":"2014-05-23T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:00:18","slug":"flores-kicks-fundraiser-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/flores-kicks-fundraiser-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Flores kicks off fundraiser tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Mayor Donald Flores will kick off his first fundraiser tonight at the Pacific Island Club\u2019s Magellan Restaurant at 6pm. <\/p>\n<p>Re-election for Flores committee chair James Cabrera is inviting the public to attend tonight\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $50 per person and the dinner will be prime rib and seafood buffet. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic will be provided so please come down and join us for a fun, nice evening,\u201d said Cabrera.<\/p>\n<p>Flores is seeking re-election in this November\u2019s general polls. He is running as an independent candidate. <\/p>\n<p>Flores said that he would like to extend his appreciation and gratitude to his friends, family and most of all his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have stood by me over the years and have given me the encouragement and motivation to continue serving our community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Flores cites as one of his accomplishments the $413,000 grant he secured from the Office of Insular Affairs to purchase heavy equipment.<\/p>\n<p>With the grant money, Flores said he intends to immediately procure the much-needed equipment that will enable his office to address various village concerns and serve the community effectively and efficiently. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Mayor Donald Flores will kick off his first fundraiser tonight at the Pacific Island&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36653","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\/36653","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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}