{"id":13916,"date":"2013-06-12T21:42:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T04:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=13916"},"modified":"2013-06-12T21:42:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T04:42:35","slug":"mama-pete-named-honorary-hometown-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=13916","title":{"rendered":"Mama Pete Named Honorary Hometown Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9753\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC01192.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9753\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9753\" title=\"DSC01192\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC01192-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC01192-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC01192-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC01192-700x525.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSC01192.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Pete - celebrating her 68th year of Mama Pete&#39;s Nursery School<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Press Release posted 6\/12\/13 &#8211;<\/em> The Sierra Madre 4<sup>th<\/sup> of July Committee announced\u00a0 this week that it will honor the memory of\u00a0 Marjorie \u201cMama Pete\u201d Peterson\u00a0 with a \u201cHometown Hero\u201d\u00a0 recognition in the upcoming 2013 parade and festivities.<\/p>\n<p>The posthumous honor comes as the community collectively<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=13889\" target=\"_blank\">mourns Peterson\u2019s passing<\/a><\/strong> this week, and the Committee is proud to celebrate her memory during this time of year that she loved so much. In addition to successfully operating Mama Pete\u2019s Nursery School, she was at the forefront of Sierra Madre volunteerism for 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Mama Pete is the exact definition of a hometown hero,\u201d said Committee Member Meredith Keith. \u201cIn her lifetime of service, she has guided the children of our city into being kind, courteous, intelligent, giving and expressive individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Sierra Madre\u2019s 4<sup>th<\/sup> July celebration, contact Committee Chair James Annes at <strong><a href=\"mailto:sierramadre4thofjuly@gmail.com\">sierramadre4thofjuly@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>, or the Community Services Department at 626-355-5278.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Release posted 6\/12\/13 &#8211; The Sierra Madre 4th of July Committee announced\u00a0 this week that it will honor the memory of\u00a0 Marjorie \u201cMama Pete\u201d Peterson\u00a0 with a \u201cHometown Hero\u201d\u00a0 recognition in the upcoming 2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[168,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}