{"id":167,"date":"2024-06-03T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/?p=167"},"modified":"2024-09-18T18:30:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T18:30:17","slug":"volunteer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/2024\/06\/03\/volunteer-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"770\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"171\" src=\"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Spenard1-1-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Spenard1-1-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Spenard1-1-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Spenard1-1-768x1021.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Spenard1-1-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Spenard1-1.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meet the LaVESTA 2023\/24 Volunteer of the Year! Richard Spenard led ALL the organized trail maintenance days on the North Trails. When not doing trail maintenance in El Sargento, Richard bikes with his dog Gypsie early in the morning, and kites for long sessions in the bay. Richard also has a full trail system named after him in Quebec. There he built mountain bike trails on land he owned and kept open to the public. He since sold the land, but the trail system was named after him, and you can find it on Trailforks here\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trailforks.com\/region\/sentiers-du-lac-quevillon-15468\/\">https:\/\/www.trailforks.com\/region\/sentiers-du-lac-quevillon-15468\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his previous life Richard was a successful race car driver \u2013 he still has a taste for speed, but nowadays with different mediums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the LaVESTA 2023\/24 Volunteer of the Year! Richard Spenard led ALL the organized trail maintenance days on the North Trails. When not doing trail maintenance in El Sargento, Richard bikes with his dog Gypsie early in the morning, and kites for long sessions in the bay. Richard also has a full trail system named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profiles","tag-trail-maintenance","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavesta.org\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}