{"id":3577,"date":"2014-10-22T15:28:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:28:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:28:07","slug":"sawmill-creek-road-completion-celebration-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3577","title":{"rendered":"Sawmill Creek Road Completion Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3578\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sawmill-Creek2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3578\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3578\" title=\"Sawmill Creek\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sawmill-Creek2-300x241.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sawmill-Creek2-300x241.png 300w, http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Sawmill-Creek2.png 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Stedman and his dog Coho participate in the ribbon cutting at the Sawmill Creek Road Completion Celebration. Pictured from left to right are; ; DOT&amp;PF Southeast Regional Director Al Clough, Gary Paxton, Senator Stedman, Brian Hanson, DOT&amp;PF Commissioner Pat Kemp, Sitka Mayor Mim McConnell, and Deborah Lyons. (Photo courtesy of James Poulson, Daily Sitka Sentinel)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On August 21<sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, I joined about 80 other Sitkans to participate in the Sawmill Creek Road Completion Celebration at Gary Paxton Industrial Park.\u00a0 It was a beautiful day for the celebration and a picnic lunch hosted by the city.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Commissioner Pat Kemp and Sitka Mayor Mim McConnell cut the ribbon.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Sawmill Creek Road upgrade has been a project I and many others have worked on for over a decade.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">My first session in the State Senate was in 2004 and since then we have secured $22.5 million in funding for this road and trail project ($11.7 million federal and $10.8 million state).<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 21st, I joined about 80 other Sitkans to participate in the Sawmill Creek Road Completion Celebration at Gary Paxton Industrial Park.\u00a0 It was a beautiful day for the celebration and a picnic lunch hosted by the city.\u00a0 The Department of Transportation and Public Facilities Commissioner Pat Kemp and Sitka Mayor Mim McConnell cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3580,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions\/3580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}