{"id":3936,"date":"2017-11-02T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T20:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloghostdev.spcollege.edu\/president\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2024-07-29T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T20:42:26","slug":"williams-honored-weekly-challenger-pinellas-opportunity-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/2017\/11\/02\/williams-honored-weekly-challenger-pinellas-opportunity-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams honored by The Weekly Challenger and Pinellas Opportunity Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"790\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2017\/12\/challenger-award-790x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4033\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;width:218px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2017\/12\/challenger-award.jpg 790w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2017\/12\/challenger-award-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2017\/12\/challenger-award-768x995.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 790px) 100vw, 790px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/about-the-president\/\">President Tonjua Williams<\/a> has been honored by both The Weekly Challenger and Pinellas Opportunity Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, Oct. 27, Dr. Williams received the inaugural Impact Award from <a href=\"https:\/\/theweeklychallenger.com\/\">The Weekly Challenger<\/a> at their 50<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary celebration. Dr. Williams was recognized for her contributions to the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Nov. 1, the <a href=\"https:\/\/poc-inc.org\/\">Pinellas Opportunity Council, Inc.<\/a> (POC) awarded Dr. Williams the inaugural President\u2019s Award for Community Leadership at its fourth annual Community Awareness Breakfast. Dr. Williams was honored for her outstanding leadership and impact on the community. The President\u2019s Award recognizes an individual whose accomplishments exemplify the values and principles inherent in the vision embodied in the mission of POC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Williams thanked everyone for the honor in a Facebook post stating, &#8220;Thank you\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheWeeklyChallengerNewspaper?__tn__=-]K\">The Weekly Challenger Newspaper<\/a>\u00a0for honoring me with one of your first Impact Awards! I&#8217;m\u00a0so humbled by this recognition! I wish I could have been there with you all last night. Happy 50th anniversary and thank you for everything you do for our community!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pinellas Opportunity Council, Inc. is a not-for-profit \u201cCommunity Action Agency\u201d, that identifies and addresses the many and varied material, emotional, social, vocational and educational needs of people \u2013 particularly the economically disadvantaged \u2013 throughout Pinellas County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Tonjua Williams has been honored by both The Weekly Challenger and Pinellas Opportunity Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spc-inspires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}