{"id":2310,"date":"2011-03-16T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/goodbye-brad-lofton-vlcia-15-mar-2011.html"},"modified":"2011-03-16T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T22:00:00","slug":"goodbye-brad-lofton-vlcia-15-mar-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/goodbye-brad-lofton-vlcia-15-mar-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye &#8211;Brad Lofton @ VLCIA 15 Mar 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aiPxA9xasKU\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/aiPxA9xasKU\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nAnd now the moment<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/vdt-on-lofton-leaving.html\"><br \/>\nthat&#8217;s been discussed<\/a><br \/>\nsince<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/movin-on-up.html\"><br \/>\nThursday,<\/a><br \/>\nBrad Lofton&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aiPxA9xasKU\"><br \/>\ngoodbye:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLike Mr. Minchew I&#8217;m not good at goodbyes either.<br \/>\nI wanted to say I&#8217;ll be brief&#8230;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not articulate enough to begin to thank y&#8217;all<br \/>\nfor the unbelievable privilege I&#8217;ve had for the last five years.<br \/>\n&#8230;unbelievable board of directors,<br \/>\nthe most talented staff I&#8217;ve ever worked with.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMy wife was going to be here but she would have been too emotional.<br \/>\nThank you all for your trust and confidence in me.<br \/>\nIt really has been the best five years of my life.<br \/>\nI just want you to know your leadership&#8230;.<br \/>\nWish you the best of luck.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all Mr. Chairman.<br \/>\nThank you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aiPxA9xasKU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nBrad Lofton saying goodbye at the<br \/>\n<br \/>\nregular monthly meeting, Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNorman Bennett, Roy Copeland, Tom Call, Mary Gooding, Jerry Jennett chairman,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nJ. Stephen Gupton attorney, Brad Lofton Executive Director, Allan Ricketts Program Manager,<br \/>\n<br \/>\n15 March 2011.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nHe didn&#8217;t mention the community.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now the moment that&#8217;s been discussed since Thursday, Brad Lofton&#8217;s goodbye: Like Mr. Minchew I&#8217;m not good at goodbyes either. I wanted to say I&#8217;ll be brief&#8230; I&#8217;m not articulate enough to begin to thank y&#8217;all for the unbelievable privilege I&#8217;ve had for the last five years. &#8230;unbelievable board of directors, the most talented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,14,2,178,3112],"tags":[193,1747,300,969,8701,793,189,186,847,548,8702,12,7,1169,185,181,183,182,6,180,8749],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biomass","category-economy","category-government","category-vlcia","category-vlcia-15-march-2011","tag-allan-ricketts","tag-brad-lofton","tag-development","tag-economics","tag-georgia","tag-industry","tag-j-stephen-gupton","tag-jerry-jennett","tag-jobs","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-marketing","tag-mary-gooding","tag-norman-bennett","tag-roy-copeland","tag-tom-call","tag-valdosta","tag-valdosta-lowndes-county-industrial-authority","tag-vlcia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}