{"id":17030,"date":"2012-10-12T08:48:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=17030"},"modified":"2012-10-13T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T02:56:36","slug":"fred-sigurdson-recognized-for-contribution-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2012\/10\/12\/fred-sigurdson-recognized-for-contribution-to-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Sigurdson Recognized for Contribution to Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VB-DSCF1838.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VB-DSCF1838-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"VB-DSCF1838\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-17031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VB-DSCF1838-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VB-DSCF1838-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VB-DSCF1838-228x170.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/VB-DSCF1838.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ValleyBiz Story |<br \/>\nSwan Valley resident Fred Sigurdson was recently awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.  <\/p>\n<p>The medal was presented October 10, 2012 in Swan River by Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette MP Robert Sopuck.<\/br><\/p>\n<p><em>Click picture for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal honours significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.  To be eligible for this honour, a person must have made a significant contribution to a particular province, territory, region or community within Canada. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sigurdson-Fred.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sigurdson-Fred-228x303.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sigurdson, Fred\" width=\"228\" height=\"303\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sigurdson-Fred-228x303.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sigurdson-Fred-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sigurdson-Fred.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/br><\/br><br \/>\nIn addition to his many contributions to the Swan Valley Community,<br \/>\nFred Sigurdson is a World War II Veteran and has been a Legion Member for 67 years.<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><em>Picture courtesy: Leone Sigurdson<br \/>\nClick for a larger version.<\/em><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ValleyBiz Story | Swan Valley resident Fred Sigurdson was recently awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The medal was presented October 10, 2012 in Swan River by Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette MP Robert Sopuck. Click picture for a larger version. The Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal honours significant contributions and achievements by Canadians. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-17030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}