{"id":55870,"date":"2014-10-03T10:38:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T15:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55870"},"modified":"2014-10-07T10:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T15:50:41","slug":"chamber-has-new-exec-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55870","title":{"rendered":"Chamber has new Exec Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Becky_Thatcher_Keller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-55909\" alt=\"Becky_Thatcher_Keller\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Becky_Thatcher_Keller-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Becky_Thatcher_Keller-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Becky_Thatcher_Keller-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Becky_Thatcher_Keller.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce has its new Executive Director on board.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Becky Thatcher-Keller said she started her position with the Chamber on September 16, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Becky said her previous professional experience before coming to the Chamber has been in community economic development as an economic developer, in the region, for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the Chamber, she was with the South Central Dakota Regional Council office in Jamestown, with the Small Business Development Center Office for the past two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>She was also a SCDRC board member for several years.<\/p>\n<p>She was also the economic developer for Cooperstown, and the economic developer for McIntosh County.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Becky has also done consulting work with the Heartland Rural Assistance Program and as executive director of Dakota Heartland Champion Community.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">She is a board member of the ND Community Foundation, a member of the ND Economic Development Association and the ND Rural Leadership Association.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In 2007 Becky was awarded with the ND Governor&#8217;s Professional Developer of the Year for Economic Development honor and in 2012 she was the ND SBA Woman of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Thatcher-Keller succeeds Lisa Hicks, who has taken a medical leave of absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Area Chamber of Commerce has its new Executive Director on board. On Friday\u2019s Wayne Byers Show on CSi Cable 2 Becky Thatcher-Keller said she started her position with the Chamber on September 16, 2014. Becky said her previous professional experience before coming to the Chamber has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55870"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56170,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55870\/revisions\/56170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}