
{"id":781,"date":"2007-08-23T05:09:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/08\/23\/smith-named-y-director\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T05:09:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:09:29","slug":"smith-named-y-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/08\/23\/smith-named-y-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith named Y director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Susan Dickson<br \/>\n<\/strong>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Former WTVD sports anchor Drew Smith has been named as the new development director for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA.<\/p>\n<p>Smith recently returned to Chapel Hill from Sarasota, Fla., where he worked as a news anchor and a reporter for about a year. Before moving to Sarasota, Smith had spent 15 years in Chapel Hill working for WTVD.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He came back to Chapel Hill when the position with the YMCA became available.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nice to be a part of an organization that really wants to benefit the community as a whole,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, adding that he hopes to help the YMCA continue to make improvements and serve more people in the community.<br \/>\nPlus, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This area is home for us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith will help the YMCA raise money to build an 18,000-square-foot youth teen center, which is projected to cost about $4 million. The center will be located behind the YMCA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, Smith said, he is learning as much as he can about the organization and its partnerships and collaborations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just sort of in that sponge mode where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m taking everything in,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Dickson Staff Writer Former WTVD sports anchor Drew Smith has been named as the new development director for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro YMCA. Smith recently returned to Chapel Hill from Sarasota, Fla., where he worked as a news anchor and a reporter for about a year. Before moving to Sarasota, Smith had spent 15&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}