{"id":1728,"date":"2013-08-23T17:14:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2013-08-23T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:15:09","slug":"alan-atherton-resigns-post-on-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=1728","title":{"rendered":"Alan Atherton Resigns Post on Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Councilman will Remain on Duty Until Successful November Candidate is Elected<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_1729\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1729\" alt=\"Los Fresnos resident Donald Shipley shakes Commissioner Alan Atherton\u2019s hand in congratulations for his service to the community as Commissioner Gary Minton looks on. LFN Photo by MBWright\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0214.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0214.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0214-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0214-405x267.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSC_0214-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Fresnos resident Donald Shipley shakes Commissioner Alan Atherton\u2019s hand in congratulations for his service to the community as Commissioner Gary Minton looks on. LFN Photo by MBWright<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Los Fresnos City Council reluctantly accepted the resignation of Commissioner Alan Atherton after eight years of service to the community at their recent meeting held Tuesday, August 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank everyone for letting me serve the city and I respectfully submit my resignation in order to take an opportunity with Coldwell Banker Real Estate on the island. I am so honored to work with all the staff and everyone on the council through the years. I would like to continue to serve until the election,\u201d commented Atherton.<\/p>\n<p>Atherton will continue to reside in Los Fresnos and the council approved his request to hold his position until a replacement is elected.<br \/>\nAll the commissioners expressed their appreciation of Atherton\u2019s work and Mayor Polo Narvaez said, \u201cThank you for all you have done for our community, hopefully we can find someone to fill your shoes and thank you for serving until the election\u201d. The General Election will be held November 5, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Yolanda Cruz volunteered to serve in Atherton\u2019s place on the Brownsville MPO Commitee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councilman will Remain on Duty Until Successful November Candidate is Elected The Los Fresnos City Council reluctantly accepted the resignation of Commissioner Alan Atherton after eight years of service to the community at their recent meeting held Tuesday, August 13. \u201cI want to thank everyone for letting me serve the city and I respectfully submit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}