{"id":50452,"date":"2013-12-17T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/50452\/spca-manager-gets-awards\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T07:18:22","slug":"spca-manager-gets-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2013\/12\/17\/spca-manager-gets-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"SPCA manager gets awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Kingston, the manager of the Germiston SPCA, has been rewarded for his dedication to the community.<\/p>\n<p>He received two community service awards from The Chinese Association (TCA), at a gala function held at the Hellenic Hall, in Primrose, recently.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The event also celebrated the 110th birthday of the founding of the TCA in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The inscriptions on the awards read: &#8220;In recognition of your outstanding contribution to the Chinese community.&#8221;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The first award was for the contribution Laurence made as former chairman of the Chinese Hong Ning Aged Home, situated in Belgravia, Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>He served 12 years on the committee and then as chairman and part-time administration manager during the last two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>The second award was for Laurence&#8217;s personal contribution and commitment to the Chinese community for more than 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very proud and humbled by these awards, as I never ever considered or thought of myself as anything special, or required to be recognised and acknowledged, as I have always committed myself to do social work for the community,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I, without doubt, dedicate these awards to all community members, my family, relatives and friends and the loyal benefactors and supporters gathered along my journey, at various organisations with which I have had the greatest privilege to be associated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d1d79fdf836b28e5501b47c903d434bc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston SPCA manager Laurence Kingston receives two awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":50453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1257,987,979,983,2476,982],"class_list":["post-50452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-donate","tag-driehoek","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-spca","tag-laurence-kingston","tag-spca"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["donate","driehoek","germiston","Germiston SPCA","laurence kingston","SPCA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}