{"id":9009,"date":"2011-12-17T02:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T02:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2011-12-17T02:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T02:38:29","slug":"all-set-for-paskong-pinoy-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/all-set-for-paskong-pinoy-today\/","title":{"rendered":"All set for Paskong Pinoy today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Individuals and groups are encouraged to join the various competitions during the Paskong Pinoy 2011 event.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Christmas event organized by the United Filipino Organization will be held today at the Paseo de Marianas from 4pm to 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>Olive Yana, UFO adviser and event committee co-chair, said yesterday that slots are still open for the individual singing contest for children 6 to 12 years old and for adults, the choral group contest, and the lantern making contest.<\/p>\n<p>Yana said cash prizes await the contest winners. Individual singing winners will take home $100 first prize, $75 for second prize, and $50 for third prize. Group winners will take home $200 for the first place, $100 second place, and $50 third place.<\/p>\n<p>For the lantern making contest, prizes are $250 for first place, $150 second place, and $75 third place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe invite everyone to join the contests for a chance to win our cash prizes,\u201d Yana told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s event, Yana said, will also feature several performing artists and about 40 food and non-food vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Yana added that they have invited a number of dignitary at the event.<\/p>\n<p>UFO president Bong Malasarte, for his part, encouraged the entire community, especially Filipinos, to take part in the Christmas celebration.<\/p>\n<p>While he noted that times have been challenging for the whole CNMI community, Malasarte said the public should still think about the many blessings they received, a good enough reason to be thankful this holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter how simple our celebration will be, we should put in mind the real meaning of Christmas and the lessons it teaches us,\u201d added Malasarte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter Individuals and groups are encouraged to join the various competitions during&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maharlika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","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=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}