{"id":48158,"date":"1999-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9501c3e7-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-09-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-09-24T00:00:00","slug":"9501c3fa-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9501c3fa-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Saipan Fitness Center donates to\nNMC&#039;s physical education class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Fitness Center, through Jim Rys, co-owner and president, donated the use of its facility to the Northern Marianas College (NMC) for weight training class.<\/p>\n<p>Jerome Ierome, the CNMI&#8217;s body building champion, is the instructor for the weight training class (PE-146).  The 13 students in the class meet every Monday and Wednesday from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan Fitness Center normally charges a membership fee of $25 per month per person.  A four-month membership for 13 people is $1,300.00.<\/p>\n<p>NMC welcomed the donation, particularly by the PE faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p>The college&#8217;s vice president, Jack Sablan; director of Development and Relations Tony Guerrero; Rep. Karl Reyes, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee; PE Department head Kurt Barnes, the weight lifting class and other NMC officials witnessed the presentation of donation from Rys.<\/p>\n<p>After donating the services of Saipan Fitness Center, Rys instructed that the $250.00 fee that NMC usually pays for renting athletic facilities every semester be donated to KRNM public radio station managed and operated by NMC.<\/p>\n<p>The NMC&#8217;s PE 146 Weight Lifting class expressed their appreciation to Rys for the generous contribution and for the opportunity to use such a fine and convenient facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Fitness Center, through Jim Rys, co-owner and president, donated the use of its facility to the Northern Marianas College (NMC) for weight training class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48158","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\/48158","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=48158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}