{"id":485,"date":"2016-02-08T17:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/news\/?p=261"},"modified":"2017-07-28T20:26:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T20:26:46","slug":"gary-wins-2016-plso-brush-cutter-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/gary-wins-2016-plso-brush-cutter-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Wins 2016 PLSO Brush Cutter Award at the Annual PLSO Conference in Eugene, OR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-189\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-189 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7723-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brush Cutter Award\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gary (center) with his 2016 PLSO Brush Cutter Award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gary is an eager advocate for PLSO and the\u00a0profession of\u00a0land surveying. The 2016 PLSO Brush Cutter Award (given to an individual who keeps pursuing a goal no matter what \u2018brush\u2019 gets in the way) is appropriate recognition for Gary\u2019s dedication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He has served on the PLSO Board as State Membership Chair and Board Chairman, and as PLSO Pioneer Chapter President. Gary has a special interest in promoting PLSO\u2019s Education and Outreach efforts. He has collaborated with the Associated General Contractors, OSBEELS, and the Oregon Utility Notification Center on various survey-related projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He recently helped produce a video filmed at the 2016 PLSO conference which is designed to introduce students to the surveying profession. Gary currently serves on the<br \/>\nOregon Institute of Technology Industry Advisory Committee for Geomatics. In 2008, he was honored as PLSO\u2019s \u2018Surveyor of the Year.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary is an eager advocate for PLSO and the\u00a0profession of\u00a0land surveying. The 2016 PLSO Brush Cutter Award (given to an individual who keeps pursuing a goal no matter what \u2018brush\u2019 gets in the way) is appropriate recognition for Gary\u2019s dedication. He has served on the PLSO Board as State Membership Chair and Board Chairman, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-survey","category-westlake-staff"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/westlakeconsultants.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}