{"id":6370,"date":"2012-03-28T02:26:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2012-03-28T02:26:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T02:26:15","slug":"red-cross-walkathon-raises-45000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/red-cross-walkathon-raises-45000\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross walkathon raises $45,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Despite the slow economy, the American Red Cross NMI Chapter raised some $45,000 from its annual walkathon fundraiser on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director John Hirsh said yesterday that this is only \u201cslightly below\u201d last year&#8217;s take, about $48,000.<\/p>\n<p>Hirsh pointed out, though, that they had \u201ca few more walkers\u201d that turned up for this year&#8217;s walkathon.<\/p>\n<p>From just 1,994 walkers last year, this year&#8217;s walkers totaled 2,077, each one donating $15 or submitting pledge forms.<\/p>\n<p>This year marked the 26th anniversary of the fundraising event and started from 4-H Building in Susupe to Garapan Fishing Base and back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was kind of the telling part of this, that more people participated but we raised a little less money,\u201d Hirsh told Saipan Tribune. \u201cIn a way, it makes sense. People wanted to be out there, wanted to help support the Red Cross but just couldn&#8217;t quite do it at a level that they had done last year. We certainly understand that; everybody understands that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hirsh disclosed that of the $45,000 net proceeds, $4,095 came from Tinian while $4,323 was from Rota.<\/p>\n<p>He also revealed that the most money raised by a student for the event amounted to $1,200.<\/p>\n<p>Hirsh said the Red Cross is \u201cvery happy\u201d with the overall outcome of the event. \u201cWe know that it&#8217;s more of a strain on families to help give away resources to people beyond their own family. But as I said so many times, they do understand Red Cross and how much it has helped people in this community over the years, how it touches everybody&#8217;s lives. They&#8217;re willing to come out and support us. We couldn&#8217;t do it without the generosity of our donors, volunteers, [and] walkers that contribute to the event.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter Despite the slow economy, the American Red Cross NMI Chapter raised&#8230;<\/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-6370","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\/6370","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=6370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}