{"id":19310,"date":"2019-07-19T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19310"},"modified":"2019-07-19T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T16:54:55","slug":"conservationists-recognized-in-williamsport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=19310","title":{"rendered":"Conservationists Recognized in Williamsport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Oberlandercropped-1024x523.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19311\" width=\"386\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Oberlandercropped-1024x523.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Oberlandercropped-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Oberlandercropped-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Oberlandercropped.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><figcaption> <em>Representative Donna Oberlander receives the 2019 Legislator Leadership Award. Left to right are: Dr. Robert Shannon, PACD North Central Region Director; Greg Hostetter, Deputy Secretary of the PA Department of Agriculture; Charles Duritsa, PACD President; Representative Donna Oberlander; Aneca Atkinson, Deputy Secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection, and Brenda Shambaugh, PACD Executive Director. <\/em> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Representatives from across the Commonwealth\ntraveled to the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport for the PACD\/State Conservation\nCommission\u2019s 72<sup>nd<\/sup> Joint Annual Conference. Several conservationists\nwere recognized at an awards luncheon on July 17, 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2019 PACD honorees are as follows:&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Legislator\nLeadership Award: Representative Donna Oberlander (PA 63rd District)<\/li><li>President\u2019s Award:\nDenise Coleman, State Conservationist, Pennsylvania USDA Natural Resources\nConservation Service (NRCS)<\/li><li>Ann Rudd Saxman\nConservation District Director Excellence Award: Pownall Jones (Chester County)<\/li><li>Conservation\nDistrict Employee Excellence Award: Carl Goshorn (Cumberland County)<\/li><li>Conservation\nDistrict Employee Service Recognition Program Awards<br>\n30 Years of Service<\/li><li>Martie Hetherington, Chesapeake Bay Program\nCoordinator, Schuylkill County<\/li><li>Rob Fetter, Resource Conservationist\/Network\nAdministrator, York County<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0Click <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Awards-Press-Release-2019-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the entire press release.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives from across the Commonwealth traveled to the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport for the PACD\/State Conservation Commission\u2019s 72nd Joint Annual Conference. Several conservationists were recognized at an awards luncheon on July 17, 2019. The 2019 PACD honorees are as follows:&nbsp; Legislator Leadership Award: Representative Donna Oberlander (PA 63rd District)President\u2019s Award: Denise Coleman, State Conservationist, Pennsylvania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}