{"id":412943,"date":"2024-08-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=412943"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"PARS-general-membership-meeting-this-Saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/PARS-general-membership-meeting-this-Saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"PARS general membership meeting this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>TAMUNING, Guam\u2014<\/strong>The Pacific Association for Radiation Survivors will host its annual general membership meeting on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2024 at the Tamuning Senior Citizen Center from 9am to 1pm. The meeting is open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>PARS is a 20-year-old non-profit organization that has been advocating since its inception for the inclusion of Guam as a downwinder area under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act presently in accordance with Senator Josh Hawyley RECA Bill.<\/p>\n<p>PARS president Robert N. Celestial discovered the unclassified documents and pursued the affidavit from Lt. Schreiber. After a congressionally mandated investigation, the National Academies of Science concluded in a 2002 published report that Guam should be deemed qualified for RECA as \u201cdownwinders\u201d radiation exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Please join PARS if you would like to learn about PARS recent advocacy efforts toward RECA compensation for Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the PARS general membership meeting for members and nonmembers can be done on-site at the Tamuning Senior Citizens Center or online with the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/vDqK1jWdFohcaFgt7\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/forms.gle\/vDqK1jWdFohcaFgt7<\/a>. <strong><em>(PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/aabda9a36e1c732d3daa643ee6f30647.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>PARS logo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMUNING, Guam\u2014The Pacific Association for Radiation Survivors will host its annual general membership meeting on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412943","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\/412943","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}