{"id":53639,"date":"2020-06-01T14:33:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/karen-sheek-elected-president-of-state-league-of-women-voters\/"},"modified":"2020-06-01T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:33:10","slug":"karen-sheek-elected-president-of-state-league-of-women-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/karen-sheek-elected-president-of-state-league-of-women-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Sheek elected president of state League of Women Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Cortez Mayor Karen Sheek has been elected president of the Colorado State League of Women Voters.<\/p>\n<p>Sheek, a longtime resident of Cortez, is a retired teacher\/media specialist who taught at the Cortez Middle School for over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>For almost 20 years, she and her business partner operated Seas\u2019nings Catering, providing off-site catering services. Chosen to fill a vacated City Council seat in 2011, Sheek served on the Cortez council for 8\u00bd years, six of them as mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Sheek has been a member of the League of Women Voters of Montezuma County for over five years, and served on leadership team for three years. The election took place during a Zoom webinar of the League of Women Voters of Colorado Council 2020 Saturday. The meeting, originally scheduled for Grand Junction, was held online because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Eleanor Kuhl at 564-0708.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cortez Mayor Karen Sheek has been elected president of the Colorado State League of Women Voters. Sheek, a longtime resident of Cortez, is a retired teacher\/media specialist who taught at the Cortez Middle School for over 30 years. For almost 20 years, she and her business partner operated Seas\u2019nings Catering, providing off-site catering services. [&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-53639","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\/53639","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=53639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53639"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}