{"id":53586,"date":"2000-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/963af666-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"963af677-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/963af677-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator donates to local scholarship funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tinian &#8211; Sen. David M. Cing (D-Tinian) has donated $1,442.80 to the Tinian Municipal Scholarship (TMS).<\/p>\n<p>The TMS administers scholarships to eligible residents of the Municipality of Tinian and Aguiguan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am happy to donate to this very worthwhile cause\u2014scholarship\u2014on behalf of my business, the Black Spur Arena,\u201d said Sen. Cing in a press release.  \u201cMy contribution will help many students of Tinian who are seeking college education, and I hope to donate more in the future,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe existence of the Tinian Municipal Scholarship program is indicative of our community\u2019s commitment to education,\u201d said Joseph M. Mendiola, treasurer of the Board.<br \/>\n\u201cThis contribution is an example of the community of Tinian getting involved to empower our young people with the right tools: education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tinian Municipal Scholarship processes awards under Tinian Local Laws 5-2 and 6-5, which receive funding from local cattle slaughter fees and donations.  Recipients of the local scholarship extend to residents of Tinian seeking college degrees, and are required to return to Tinian to work immediately after graduation as part of its \u201cpay back\u201d policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinian &#8211; Sen. David M. Cing (D-Tinian) has donated $1,442.80 to the Tinian Municipal Scholarship (TMS).<\/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-53586","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\/53586","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=53586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}