{"id":73,"date":"2023-08-13T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=73"},"modified":"2023-08-13T16:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T15:39:59","slug":"presidents-message-mid-summer-2023","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/news\/presidents-message-mid-summer-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Message:\u00a0\u00a0Mid-Summer 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Things continue to move forward for the Green River National Wildlife Refuge and the Friends of Green River National Wildlife Refuge, group.&nbsp; The Friends held another successful art auction event at the Farmer and Frenchman Winery on September 29, 2022.&nbsp; A great tip of the hat and great thanks goes to Jule McClellan for acting as the Arts Chair for this event for the Friends group; as well as the National Art Exhibit held at the Sullivan Center at Henderson Community College, later in the month.&nbsp; The art works on display at both events were outstanding!&nbsp; We will not be holding an in person Art Auction in the fall of 2023; but, we are working on developing an online Art Auction Event for later in the fall or early winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking into the future; the USFWS has acquired some more lands as you will see in Michael Johnson\u2019s report, (below); and, they are actively working with other willing sellers on other acquisitions to expand the footprint of the Refuge.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things continue to move forward for the Green River National Wildlife Refuge and the Friends of Green River National Wildlife Refuge, group.&nbsp; The Friends held another successful art auction event at the Farmer and Frenchman Winery on September 29, 2022.&nbsp; A great tip of the hat and great thanks goes to Jule McClellan for acting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":""},"categories":[],"newstags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"newstags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsgreenrivernwr.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}