{"id":374859,"date":"2022-08-26T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=374859"},"modified":"2022-08-26T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:00:16","slug":"community-briefs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/community-briefs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DPL announces 3rd Annual Scholarship Essay Contest<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Department of Public Lands is holding its 3rd Annual Essay Contest for eligible students taking full-time college or trade school courses. Essays are due on Sept. 15, 2022, by 4pm, CHST.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s essay question is: \u201cShould Article 12 be maintained, abolished or amended and why?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funding for this program is made possible through public benefit contributions from public land leases.<\/p>\n<p>For application and more information, visit DPL\u2019s website at www.dpl.gov.mp. <em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>SHEFA deadline for application, supporting documents Sept. 1<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance office said the deadline for application and supporting documents is Sept. 1, 2022. You must have all the required documents ready to upload in order for your application submission to go through. Thank you for your cooperation. <\/p>\n<p>Apply online at www.saipanshefa.com. <\/p>\n<p>Create your student profile and submit your application! Here you will have instant access to the status of your application once your application package is submitted. <\/p>\n<p>Note: Creating a student account online does not complete the application process. You still need to submit the application and required documents.<em> <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update on the emergency power service interruption<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Commonwealth Utilities Corp. would like to inform the general public that there was an emergency power service interruption for Feeders 1, 2 and Kiya 3, that happened yesterday, Aug. 25, at 3:09pm and we\u2019ve turned the power back online on the following times below:<br \/>\n\u25a0 Feeder 1, at 3:13pm- Northern Part of Sadog Tasi to CHCC<br \/>\n\u25a0 Feeder 2, at 3:28pm- Garapan Beach Road, Chalan Laulau and Northern Part of San Jose<br \/>\n\u25a0 Kiya 3, at 3:28pm- Quarter Master, Gualo Rai, Parts of China Town, Chalan Kiya and Middle Road Chalan Laulau.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the emergency power service interruption was due to a failed connector on the distribution system in Garapan causing an electrical arch tripping multiple feeders resulting in a scheduled emergency power service interruption.<\/p>\n<p>CUC continues to work diligently to minimize any inconvenience to its customers. For more information, contact the CUC Hotline (236-4333) or monitor our Facebook page for the latest updates (https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonwealthUtilitiesCorporation\/). <em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPL announces 3rd Annual Scholarship Essay Contest The Department of Public Lands is holding its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":369105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[175,50,689],"class_list":["post-374859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dpl","tag-power","tag-shefa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374859","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=374859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}