{"id":2189,"date":"2020-04-10T02:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2020-04-10T02:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T06:27:10","slug":"sad-news-from-the-ganaraska-hiking-trail-association-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Sad news from the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> It is with extreme sadness that I have to share the  news that our membership director, Lois Kowal, passed away on February 7 of  congestive heart failure.\u00a0 <br> Lois volunteered for some 20  years as membership director of the Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association Inc. She  was extremely dedicated to her role, which included recording renewals and new  memberships, and liaising with members as needed. Her  input into our new on-line registration for memberships was instrumental. She  also managed the End-to-End hiker program, and was in contact with them on their  journey along the Ganaraska Hiking Trail. She also was in charge of the badge  inventory, including our name badges.\u00a0 <br> Lois was a kind loving person, very professional in everything she did  for our organization, and her record keeping was impeccable.\u00a0 <br> She will be dearly missed by the members of the Wasaga Beach club to  which\u00a0 she belonged , and to the many of  us who have interacted with her over the past 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kowal0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kowal0001.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/kowal0001-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption><br> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collingwoodtoday.ca\/obituaries\/kowal-lois-eleanor-nee-cooper-2238992\" target=\"_blank\"> KOWAL, Lois  Eleanor (nee Cooper)<br> Died  suddenly on Tuesday April 7, 2020 at her home in her 78th  year<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> Frieda  Baldwin President, Ganaraska Hiking Trail Association Inc.\u00a0<br>705-245-1005<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is with extreme sadness that I have to share the news that our membership director, Lois Kowal, passed away&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghta","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}