{"id":13698,"date":"2025-05-05T19:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/?p=13698"},"modified":"2025-05-06T07:43:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:43:50","slug":"2024-volunteer-of-the-year-simone-latham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/?p=13698","title":{"rendered":"2025 Volunteer of the Year \u2013 Simone Latham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Simone.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13704 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Simone.jpg 428w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Simone-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>We are highly appreciative of the contributions Simone Latham has made to the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association Inc. as our Treasurer since 2018, a valued member of our GHTA Executive, as a Certified Hike Leader for the Midland club, and as a great friend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simone joined the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association Inc. in 2011, and in 2012 soon after encouraged a team of 4 GHTA members to walk the 100 km Oxfam event in 48 hours. It was a very hot weekend, but we all made it in 42 hours, and only lost several toe nails in the process. However, she really enjoyed hiking and became a great hike leader.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a member of the GHTA Executive, her skills and past experience with other not for profit and charitable boards, as well as with procedures and policies, helped us streamline &amp; automate our GHTA processing for payments, bookkeeping, expense reimbursements, etransfers and many other administrative changes.&nbsp;We also thank her for the amount of time she gave us to find a suitable replacement, and get our processes documented and streamlined to pass on to our new Treasurer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13701\" style=\"width:257px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image.png 597w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-281x300.png 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Simone Latham receiving 2025 Volunteer of the Year<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>We wish her all the best in her retirement as treasurer from the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association Inc, and will miss her as a great team player and friend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are highly appreciative of the contributions Simone Latham has made to the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association Inc. as our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,55,8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-association-news","category-club-news","category-midland-club","category-ghta","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13713,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13698\/revisions\/13713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}