{"id":1348,"date":"2014-06-11T19:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2014-06-11T19:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T09:35:31","slug":"life-membership-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=1348","title":{"rendered":"Life Membership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Life membership was presented at the centre\u2019s 2014 AGM in April.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This person first became involved with the running of Cross Country in 2004.\u00a0 He ran the committee streamlining many processes and making it significantly easier for those who followed. During his time as Chair the number of athletes running grew steadily.\u00a0 He handed over the running of CC to become more actively involved at Executive level.<br \/>\nThis recipient set up and got our electronic timing working, a feat many before him had tried to do and failed.\u00a0 We have a system which works and is the envy of most Victorian Centres thanks to his expertise.\u00a0 He also developed the Event Manager system which has stream lined the running of our program and resulted in more athletes completing a greater number of events.\u00a0 Clubs and parents can keep abreast of which events their children are competing in via the app he designed.<\/p>\n<p>This person took over the role of President at a time when the Centre required direction. \u00a0His expertise in leadership and management resulted in many improvements being made to the grounds and processes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Steve Cowburn presented a<br \/>\nLife Membership Award to<br \/>\nRussell Speight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In his acceptance Russell thanked all the Life Members and expressed his appreciation to all those who have helped make the Centre a better place.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1343\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KLAC_2014_AGM_Awards_FranRussell.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1343\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1343\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KLAC_2014_AGM_Awards_FranRussell-239x300.jpg?resize=239%2C300\" alt=\"Life Member recipient Russell Speight. Pictured here with Fran Attard.\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KLAC_2014_AGM_Awards_FranRussell.jpg?resize=239%2C300 239w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KLAC_2014_AGM_Awards_FranRussell.jpg?resize=819%2C1024 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/KLAC_2014_AGM_Awards_FranRussell.jpg?w=935 935w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life Membership awarded to\u00a0Russell Speight. Pictured here with Fran Attard.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life membership was presented at the centre\u2019s 2014 AGM in April. This person first became involved with the running of Cross Country in 2004.\u00a0 He ran the committee streamlining many processes and making it significantly easier for those who followed. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/?p=1348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/News.jpg?fit=400%2C300","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RmIv-lK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klac23.org.au\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}