{"id":12441,"date":"2019-09-19T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12441"},"modified":"2019-09-19T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T15:00:10","slug":"recognizing-retiring-volunteer-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12441","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing retiring volunteer firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> A retirement celebration was recently held for Station 45 volunteer  firefighter Norm Lavoie at the department in Fall River. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lavoie was  retiring after 33 years as a volunteer firefighter. He is remaining  in his employment role with HRM Fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire Chief Ken Steubing along  with Gord West, District Chief for Division 4, were among those on hand  to recognize the occasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here they pose with Lavoie, and Station 45  volunteer Pam Wolodka and Station Chief Nick Yeomans, to cut the cake.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/file-375-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12443\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeomans presented Lavoie a parting gift. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Healey photos) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: A retirement celebration was recently held for Station 45 volunteer firefighter Norm Lavoie at the department in Fall River. Lavoie was retiring after 33 years as a volunteer firefighter. He is remaining in his employment role with HRM Fire. Fire Chief Ken Steubing along with Gord West, District Chief for Division 4, were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[61,156,759,760],"class_list":["post-12441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-firefighter","tag-hrm-fire","tag-norm-lavoie","tag-station-45-fall-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}