{"id":31608,"date":"2017-12-11T18:59:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=31608"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:18:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:18:19","slug":"road-to-ski-hill-dedicated-in-honour-of-john-cotton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2017\/12\/11\/road-to-ski-hill-dedicated-in-honour-of-john-cotton\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to Ski Hill Dedicated in Honour of John Cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0099048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0099048-475x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S0099048\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-31609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0099048-475x356.jpg 475w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0099048-228x170.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0099048-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0099048.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>ValleyBiz Story | On December 9, 2017 the Municipality of Swan Valley West (SVW) held a ceremony at the Thunderhill Ski Club turn off to dedicate a Commemorative Road Sign in honour of the many contributions made by  Mr. John Cotton, long time member and founder of the Thunderhill Ski Club and Thunderhill Ski Facility.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased that so many of you have come out today to help dedicate this road to a man who stood out above many others.&#8221; said SVW Reeve Bill Galloway.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Cotton spoke on behalf of the family, thanking the Municipality and all those involved for their efforts. He commented that they felt the name, &#8220;John Cotton Drive&#8221; was more fitting than Lane or Way, stating, &#8220;I think it was his drive that kept the place going.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0988472.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0988472-475x356.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S0988472\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-31610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0988472-475x356.jpg 475w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0988472-228x170.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0988472-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/S0988472.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ValleyBiz Story | On December 9, 2017 the Municipality of Swan Valley West (SVW) held a ceremony at the Thunderhill Ski Club turn off to dedicate a Commemorative Road Sign in honour of the many contributions made by Mr. John Cotton, long time member and founder of the Thunderhill Ski Club and Thunderhill Ski Facility. [&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":[13,16],"class_list":["post-31608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31608","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=31608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}