{"id":5270,"date":"2020-09-02T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/?p=5270"},"modified":"2020-09-04T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:18:38","slug":"retirement-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/?p=5270","title":{"rendered":"Retirement announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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My first connection with Habitat for Humanity was with the Global Village program, starting in 2007. I was fortunate to travel to 5 very different countries, including Mongolia and Jordan, working alongside families who were going to move into the houses we were building, and learning about their cultures and their daily life. I hope to do that again someday.<\/p>\n

When I moved from Kelowna over to the Westside, I decided to volunteer with Habitat Okanagan at the ReStore, starting in February 2017. Soon I moved from the store up to the office, and was hired on staff that October, working in the Homeowner Services department.<\/p>\n

It has been such a pleasure working with, and getting to know, all our Habitat families; those that are homeowners, and those that are working toward becoming homeowners. I am definitely going to miss the connection I have with them, but will still be involved in the office and at the committee level, so I will definitely be following their progress, and look forward to seeing each family at their own Key Ceremony, and other events.<\/p>\n

I \u2018retire\u2019 at the end of September, knowing that Homeowner Services is in the capable hands of its new director, Alison McCormick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first connection with Habitat for Humanity was with the Global Village program, starting in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[69,67],"class_list":["post-5270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-homeowner-services","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5272,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5270\/revisions\/5272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.habitatforhumanityokanagan.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}