{"id":102191,"date":"2017-12-29T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jack-and-janelle-kays-are-recipients-of-veterans-supporter-of-the-year-award\/"},"modified":"2017-12-29T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T22:04:24","slug":"jack-and-janelle-kays-are-recipients-of-veterans-supporter-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jack-and-janelle-kays-are-recipients-of-veterans-supporter-of-the-year-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack and Janelle Kays are recipients of veterans Supporter of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a9c6d95a-5303-45c1-a5da-3a9fd75dd0fc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a9c6d95a-5303-45c1-a5da-3a9fd75dd0fc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a9c6d95a-5303-45c1-a5da-3a9fd75dd0fc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a9c6d95a-5303-45c1-a5da-3a9fd75dd0fc&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Robert and Sandy Valencia, Jack and Janelle Kays, Bob and Darla Sanders with their dog Dea, Lillian and Rick Torres and Rick Rosner pose after the Kays are awarded for their service to veterans in Montezuma County.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Robert and Sandy Valencia, Jack and Janelle Kays, Bob and Darla Sanders with their dog Dea, Lillian and Rick Torres and Rick Rosner pose after the Kays are awarded for their service to veterans in Montezuma County.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Emily Rice\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p><hardreturn>Members of the American Legion and Cortez Veterans of Foreign Wars gathered at KSJD to award a local couple for their help in aiding veterans for \u201cas long as they have been here.\u201d<\/hardreturn><\/p>\n<p>Jack and Janelle Kays, owners of Jack and Janelle\u2019s Country Kitchen, were awarded a plaque for \u201csupporter of the year\u201d during Robert Valencia\u2019s veterans radio show on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><hardreturn>Valencia has his radio program about veterans affairs on the last Friday morning of the month on KSJD. <\/hardreturn><\/p>\n<p>He said in the past year, he and his team have been discussing an award for someone in the community who has dedicated a lot of time and effort of veterans affairs, and the Kays were the first to come to mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just depends on the veterans and who we see is actually supporting us and what we are doing so this year. It was a no-brainer that Jack and Janelle would be the first recipients,\u201d Valencia said.<\/p>\n<p>Valencia told stories of the Kays\u2019 help when veterans became stranded in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>According to Valencia, the couple has helped provide food, housing and funds to support veterans and VFW events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever is going on, we can always ask for their support,\u201d Valencia said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>awarded for services to veterans in Montezuma County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13,184],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-102191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-veterans-affairs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102191"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=102191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}