{"id":400638,"date":"2023-10-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=400638"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Saipan-Lions-adopt-Garapan-beach-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Saipan-Lions-adopt-Garapan-beach-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan Lions adopt Garapan beach area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Mayor Ramon Blas \u201cRB\u201d Camacho, members of the Office of the Mayor, and dignitaries joined members of the Saipan\u2019s Lion Club for the ninth Adopt-a-Place ceremony last Friday at the Carolinian Utt in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>Joining club members, the mayor, and his staff were Sens. Jude Hofschieder (R-Tinian) and Corina Magofna (D-Saipan) and Reps. Vicente Castro Camacho (D-Saipan) Roy Ada (R-Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>The adoptees, the Lions Club International Region 2 District 204, adopted the area between the Garapan Fishing Base, up to the Garapan basketball court near the Carolinian Utt.<\/p>\n<p>Lions Club International Region 2 District 204 is composed of all 12 of the Lions Clubs on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Eagles-Lions Club charter president Marie Javier said they are not only thankful to Camacho and other island leaders for giving them this opportunity, but this is also their way of becoming good citizens on Saipan. S<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to know what the community needs so that we lions can also give our service to the community for the benefit of many,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Region 2 chair Anamae Adaza also thanked their partners in this project. \u201cEverything we do with the Lions is done in collaboration and partnership so we can get things done. \u2026The Lions Club is here to stay, are here to do much community service. At the same time we are changing the world in our own little ways,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho is grateful to see community members, including the Lions Club, coming together, taking the responsibility, and stepping up to keep the island clean and beautiful. He feels these efforts bring the community together. \u201cIf we all work together we can accomplish a lot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/514e14362a6cfb1eb7134f032cee9123.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Leading members of the Saipan Lions Club Region 2, District 204, let out a roar at the Carolinian Utt in Garapan with Saipan Mayor Ramon \u201cRB\u201d Blas Camacho and dignitaries from the CNMI 23rd Legislature after the club adopted the beach area from Garapan Fishing Base to the Carolinian Affairs Office last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>-CHRYSTAL MARINO<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saipan Mayor Ramon Blas \u201cRB\u201d Camacho, members of the Office of the Mayor, and dignitaries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400638","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\/400638","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}