{"id":3602,"date":"2014-10-22T15:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T23:48:23","slug":"southeast-conference-annual-meeting-in-wrangell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Conference Annual Meeting in Wrangell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wrangell was the host city for the Southeast Conference annual meeting on September 16-18.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I always enjoy attending the Southeast Conference meetings.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s a great opportunity to discuss local issues with community leaders and hear presentations on topics relevant to our region.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The dates of the Energy Council\u2019s annual meeting overlapped with the last day of the conference so I regret that I had to leave early.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting with everyone and I want to thank the Southeast Conference staff and the Board of Directors for organizing another productive and informative conference.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Also, special thanks to the residents of the City and Borough of Wrangell for your hospitality and all your efforts to make the conference a success. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This year, the conferees received updates on energy and economic development projects throughout the Southeast region such as hydro, mining, timber, mariculture, fisheries and the maritime industry.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We also heard about the status of various transportation infrastructure projects in Southeast from state officials with the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other interesting presentations covered the topics of local business, food sustainability, and the arts. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I appreciate the contributions from all the public and private sector presenters.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrangell was the host city for the Southeast Conference annual meeting on September 16-18.\u00a0 I always enjoy attending the Southeast Conference meetings.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great opportunity to discuss local issues with community leaders and hear presentations on topics relevant to our region.\u00a0 The dates of the Energy Council\u2019s annual meeting overlapped with the last day [&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-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3604,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}