{"id":17650,"date":"2023-03-03T13:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=17650"},"modified":"2023-03-03T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T18:44:09","slug":"sen-ossoff-commends-meriwether-chamber-executive-director-carolyn-mckinley","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-commends-meriwether-chamber-executive-director-carolyn-mckinley\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Sen. Ossoff Commends Meriwether Chamber Executive Director Carolyn McKinley<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Warm Springs, Ga.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is recognizing Meriwether County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Carolyn McKinley for her service to the community with an Official U.S. Senate Commendation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Chamber Executive Director, Ms. McKinley was instrumental in working with the Flint River Trail, Meriwether County, and representatives from 18 riverfront counties to create more outdoor recreation opportunities, which will lead to economic development opportunities in southwest Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As President of the Chamber McKinley has been working to attract economic investment to the community and improve quality of life for citizens in Meriwether County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/crec\/2023\/02\/28\/169\/38\/CREC-2023-02-28-pt1-PgS525-2.pdf\"><strong>Please find Sen. Ossoff\u2019s Official U.S. Senate Commendation to Carolyn McKinley below<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. President, I rise today to commend Ms. Carolyn McKinley for her leadership as Executive Director of the Meriwether County Chamber of Commerce.<strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs Chamber Executive Director, Ms. McKinley was instrumental in working with the Flint River Trail, Meriwether County, and representatives from 18 riverfront counties to create more outdoor recreation opportunities, which will lead to economic development opportunities in Southwest Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring last year\u2019s Georgia Governor\u2019s Tourism Conference in Athens, McKinley accepted the Georgia River Network\u2019s 2022 Water Trail Hero Award on behalf of the Flint River Water Trail group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis award honors the partnership between the Flint River Water Trail and Meriwether County leaders to boost tourism and economic development along Georgia\u2019s more than 2,500 river miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMr. President, as Georgia\u2019s U.S. Senator, I recognize and commend Carolyn McKinley\u2019s leadership as Executive Director of the Meriwether County Chamber of Commerce and for her commitment to economic development in Southwest Georgia.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warm Springs, Ga.&nbsp;\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is recognizing Meriwether County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Carolyn McKinley for her service to the community with an Official U.S. Senate Commendation. As Chamber Executive Director, Ms. McKinley was instrumental in working with the Flint River Trail, Meriwether County, and representatives from 18 riverfront counties to create [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17650","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17652,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17650\/revisions\/17652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}