{"id":8366,"date":"2010-04-21T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2010-04-21T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T18:12:39","slug":"new-npc-chair-highly-regarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/21\/new-npc-chair-highly-regarded\/","title":{"rendered":"New NPC chair highly regarded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2543196\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Niagara Parks Commission is getting an effective leader who&#8217;s the right person for the times in Fay Booker, even though she&#8217;s not a Niagara resident, according to people in Niagara who have had professional contact with the incoming chairwoman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was very effective, very organized,&#8221; said Janie Palmer, chairwoman of Niagara Peninsula Energy. The city&#8217;s electricity distributor hired Booker, a Burlington management consultant, in 2008 just after the company was created through a merger of Niagara Falls Hydro and Pen West Energy.<\/p>\n<p>Booker runs her own consulting company that helps corporations with issues about how they govern themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that we were all very impressed with her skills and knowledge and we did implement her recommendations,&#8221; Palmer said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission is getting an effective leader who&#8217;s the right person for the times in Fay Booker, even though she&#8217;s not a Niagara resident, according to people in Niagara who have had professional contact with the incoming chairwoman. &#8220;She was very effective, very organized,&#8221; said Janie Palmer, chairwoman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,49],"tags":[3308,3068,3304,3306,99,3305,3307],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-chairwoman","tag-fay-booker","tag-janie-palmer","tag-niagara-falls-hydro","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-niagara-peninsula-energy","tag-pen-west-energy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8367,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions\/8367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}