{"id":18719,"date":"2017-06-06T22:13:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T21:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18719"},"modified":"2017-06-06T22:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T21:13:41","slug":"de-veres-move-from-abingdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18719","title":{"rendered":"De Veres move from Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060603.jpg\" alt=\"De Veres move\" \/><br \/>\nTony and Mary de Vere moved from Abingdon today. They had a big impact on Abingdon life over the last forty years. They originally lived in Peachcroft and Tony has remained active in supporting the Community Association as its President. He was also a governor at John Mason School for over 12 years, and Leader of the District Council from 2008 to 2011.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060602.jpg\" alt=\"De Veres move\" \/><br \/>\nLast Tuesday Mary was awarded with a gift after serving on the committee at Preston Road Community Centre for 22 years. She also served as a school governor at Thameside for nearly as long, and also served as an executive member of the District Council. During their time they oversaw the introduction of wheelie bins, and helped start up the Foyer for young people.<\/p>\n<p>They will also be missed at All Saints Church where they did a lot, and the Drayton Road allotment association.<\/p>\n<p>They are moving to Wakefield to make it easier to care for an elderly parent. Mary said the recycling rate is not that high in Wakefield so she will see what can be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony and Mary de Vere moved from Abingdon today. They had a big impact on Abingdon life over the last forty years. They originally lived in Peachcroft and Tony has remained active in supporting the Community Association as its President. He was also a governor at John Mason School for over 12 years, and Leader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}