{"id":49074,"date":"2021-01-23T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T04:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-resident-mac-neely-celebrating-100th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:45:50","slug":"mancos-resident-mac-neely-celebrating-100th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mancos-resident-mac-neely-celebrating-100th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Mancos resident Mac Neely celebrating 100th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1962cdf5-c436-444d-a99f-7d8bd82ef998&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"Mancos community leader and colorful personality Athalie \u201cMac\u201d Neely will celebrate her 100th birthday Wednesday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Mancos community leader and colorful personality Athalie \u201cMac\u201d Neely will celebrate her 100th birthday Wednesday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Mancos community leader and colorful personality Athalie \u201cMac\u201d Neely will celebrate her 100th birthday Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mancos Marshal\u2019s Office has arranged for firetrucks from departments throughout the Four Corners region to participate in a car parade at The Valley Inn on Jan. 27, beginning at 1 p.m. Neely, a resident at The Valley Inn, will be seated on the portico outside as a safety measure against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Queenie Barz will officially proclaim Jan. 27 as \u201cMac Neely Day\u201d in Mancos.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Mancos, Neely was a registered nurse and a restaurant owner, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Neely arrived in Mancos in 1995 as a member of AmeriCorps. Her grant-writing abilities resulted in Great Outdoors Colorado funding for the Mancos River Walk.<\/p>\n<p>Neely was president of the Mancos Chamber of Commerce in 2001 and 2003 and was named Mancos Citizen of the Year in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Local art gallery owner Kelly Kilgore is glad she met Neely when she first moved to Mancos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s led an incredible life,\u201d said Kilgore. \u201cShe\u2019s a sweetheart. We all just love her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neely, a lifelong Girl Scout, stays in touch with scouts she has influenced to this day. She also wrote a regular column for <em>The Journal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Valley Inn is in Mancos at 211 E. Third Alley.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">anicotera @the-journal.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community organizing a car parade at the Valley Inn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49074","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=49074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87513,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49074\/revisions\/87513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49074"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}