{"id":369261,"date":"2022-05-27T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=369261"},"modified":"2022-05-27T06:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T20:01:35","slug":"tourists-join-kensington-in-beach-plogging-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tourists-join-kensington-in-beach-plogging-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists join Kensington in beach \u2018plogging\u2019 event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_369263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369263\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Kensington-pixWB.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-369263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kensington Hotel Saipan staff and Korean tourists pose with their banner that says \u201cSaipan Plogging with Kensington Hotel Saipan and cheerleaders\u201d\u00a0after \u201cplogging,\u201d or picking up trash while jogging along Pau Pau Beach and Pau Pau Beach Park.\u00a0(CONTRIBUTED PHOTO)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About 20 Kensington Hotel Saipan employees and 20 guests gathered Wednesday morning in Pau Pau Beach for an activity called \u201cplogging,\u201d where you pick up trash while jogging.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Ahn, the corporate social responsibility manager and executive assistant to the CEO of E-Land Group said that Kensington Hotel Saipan employees are not new to volunteering for beach cleanups, but this was the first time they were joined by some of the hotel\u2019s guests.<\/p>\n<p>Four members of professional cheerleading squads of Korea Baseball Organization league\u2014Kiryang Park, Jihyun An, Umji Lee, and Danbi Lee\u2014joined Wednesday\u2019s event, with the cheerleaders leading the group in stretching exercise at the beach in front of the hotel before going out to pick up trash. <\/p>\n<p>The group cleaned along the shore of Pau Pau Beach and around the Pau Pau Beach Park, covering the total length of the course, which is about 1.5 kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope [to make] this a frequent ritual. Tourists these days don\u2019t just want the simple sightseeing; they want more interactive and meaningful experiences. They also care about the sustainability of the destination they visit. We are glad that we could provide the opportunity for them to truly appreciate the beauty of Saipan\u2019s beach and be part of protecting it,\u201d said Ahn.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Plogging\u2019 is a term invented in Sweden back in 2016 and refers to the act of picking up trash and litter while jogging. It is a combination of the Swedish word \u201cplockka upp,\u201d which means \u201cto pick up\u201d and the English word jogging.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20 Kensington Hotel Saipan employees and 20 guests gathered Wednesday morning in Pau Pau&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":369262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369261","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\/369261","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}