{"id":43488,"date":"2021-12-01T19:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-chamber-of-commerce-presents-mountain-of-thanks-award\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:13:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:13:55","slug":"cortez-chamber-of-commerce-presents-mountain-of-thanks-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-chamber-of-commerce-presents-mountain-of-thanks-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Chamber of Commerce presents Mountain of Thanks Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ute Mountain Casino Director of Securty Willard Light was awarded the Mountain of Thanks Award at the Cortez Chamber of Commerce\u2019s annual Gratitude Gala. The award recognized Light\u2019s efforts in implementing effective safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The award was also presented to The Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Ute Mountain Fire and Rescue, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The Gratitude Gala assists in raising funds for the 100 Club of Montezuma County, which provides assistance to families of first-responders who have died in the line of duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Casino Director of Securty Willard Light was awarded the Mountain of Thanks Award at the Cortez Chamber of Commerce\u2019s annual Gratitude Gala. The award recognized Light\u2019s efforts in implementing effective safety protocols during the COVID-19 pandemic. The award was also presented to The Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Ute Mountain Fire and Rescue, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43488","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=43488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85723,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43488\/revisions\/85723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43488"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}