{"id":39234,"date":"2014-06-19T04:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=39234"},"modified":"2014-06-19T04:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:00:48","slug":"matua-riders-group-cleans-garapan-st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/matua-riders-group-cleans-garapan-st\/","title":{"rendered":"Matua Riders Group cleans Garapan St."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-39234 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/matua-riders-group-cleans-garapan-st\/matua-1\/'>Matua-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39273'>\n\t\t\t\tMatua Riders Group collects 900 lbs of trash and debris along Garapan St. on June 7, 2014, as part of the \u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d campaign administered by the Marianas Visitors Authority and Saipan Chamber of Commerce. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/matua-riders-group-cleans-garapan-st\/matua-2\/'>Matua-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39271'>\n\t\t\t\tTwenty-one volunteers of Matua Riders Group collect 900 lbs of trash and debris along Garapan St. on June 7, 2014, as part of the \u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d campaign administered by the Marianas Visitors Authority and Saipan Chamber of Commerce. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/matua-riders-group-cleans-garapan-st\/matua-3\/'>Matua-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-39272'>\n\t\t\t\tTwenty-one volunteers of Matua Riders Group collect 900 lbs of trash and debris along Garapan St. on June 7, 2014, as part of the \u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d campaign administered by the Marianas Visitors Authority and Saipan Chamber of Commerce. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not how much money we will receive\u2026it\u2019s all about our island.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what the non-profit Matua Riders Group said following their participation in the \u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d program. The group cleaned Garapan St. from Bank of Guam to Bank of Saipan on June 7, 2014, sweeping up 900 lbs of trash and debris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were amazed how filthy the street was,\u201d said the motorcycle riders\u2019 organization in their post-cleanup report. \u201cThe sad part is, this is supposed to be a tourist attraction.\u00a0 We want [visitors] to come back and to spread the word of how beautiful our island is and how much we take pride in keeping it clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group conducted tree trimming, bush cutting, raking, and leaf blowing. They also collected trash from the drainage and along the road. Twenty-one volunteers of the group worked 3 1\/2 hours on the cleanup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo us, the mission is still not complete,\u201d the group said. \u201cThere is still a lot of work to be done, and we would like to continue this work on our next schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d is an island beautification program providing cash for cleanup projects. It is administered by the Marianas Visitors Authority and the Saipan Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautify My Marianas\u201d aims to keep the Northern Marianas clean and pristine and offers a minimum of $100 to groups to pick up trash in designated areas on Saipan, Tinian, and Rota. Applications are available at www.mymarianas.com and www.saipanchamber.com, the MVA, or SCC, and upon approval of their application, groups will be assigned an area that requires clean up.<em><strong> (MVA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not how much money we will receive\u2026it\u2019s all about our island.\u201d That\u2019s what the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":39271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,43,212,449],"class_list":["post-39234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-marianas-visitors-authority","tag-mva","tag-scc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}