{"id":32637,"date":"2016-03-07T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/nominate-someone-for-first-ladys-volunteer-of-the-year-awards\/"},"modified":"2016-03-07T09:01:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:01:17","slug":"nominate-someone-for-first-ladys-volunteer-of-the-year-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/nominate-someone-for-first-ladys-volunteer-of-the-year-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nominate someone for First Lady&#8217;s Volunteer of the Year awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska\u2019s First Lady Donna Walker is still accepting applications for the annual First Lady Volunteer of the Year awards.<\/p>\n<p>Nominations for the awards, which honor Alaskans who make a difference in their communities and make the state are better place, are due March 8.<\/p>\n<p>Donna Walker said in an prior statement that the volunteer work Alaskans do \u201cday in and day out often goes unheralded.\u201d These awards are for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not the kind of people who wait for things to change, wish for conditions to be different, or get involved simply seeking recognition,\u201d Walker wrote in a statement. \u201cSo many Alaskans are change agents with the highest motivation \u2014 rolling up their sleeves because they are determined to improve the lives of people in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The nomination forms are available on the governor\u2019s website, www.volunteerawards.alaska.gov, and also in-person at the governor\u2019s offices in Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska\u2019s First Lady Donna Walker is still accepting applications for the annual First Lady Volunteer of the Year awards. Nominations for the awards, which honor Alaskans who make a difference in their communities and make the state are better place, are due March 8. Donna Walker said in an prior statement that the volunteer work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-32637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32637"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=32637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}