{"id":11514,"date":"2023-04-05T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11514"},"modified":"2023-05-24T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:03:15","slug":"shaw-87-named-rushville-parks-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2023\/04\/05\/shaw-87-named-rushville-parks-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaw \u201987 named Rushville parks director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/04\/City-Updates-23.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/04\/City-Updates-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11515\" width=\"263\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/04\/City-Updates-23.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/04\/City-Updates-23-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rushville Mayor Mike Pavey has announced that Mike Shaw \u201987 has been selected as the new parks director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are very excited for Mike to be joining our team,\u201d Pavey said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensburgdailynews.com\/news\/local_news\/rushville-has-new-parks-director\/article_5a88833c-a325-11ed-b549-8b5a8407693a.html\">Daily News report<\/a>. \u201cThe hiring committee had an impressive lineup of people to choose from, but in the end, we knew that Mike was the perfect fit. We are not only excited to see a bright and talented Rushville native return, but overjoyed at his willingness to serve our community through this capacity.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaw\u2019s family originally moved to Rushville in 1977 when he was a child. He was an active student, participating in drama, speech, history club, student government, football, soccer, and tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his college years, Shaw coached youth baseball in Rushville. He was also involved in Slabtown workshops as a participant and counselor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am so excited to return to Rushville and to give back to a community that blessed me with a wonderful childhood,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cI am overjoyed to join a team that has done tremendous work in transforming Rushville into a vibrant community. The parks play a large role in that, and I look forward to the challenge of keeping our parks beautiful and growing programming to reach even more people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shaw\u00a0is a 1987 graduate of Wabash College and a 2002 graduate of Life Chiropractic College West. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rushville Mayor Mike Pavey has announced that Mike Shaw \u201987 has been selected as the new parks director. \u201cWe are very excited for Mike to be joining our team,\u201d Pavey said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2023\/04\/City-Updates-23.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11527,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions\/11527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}