{"id":105589,"date":"2016-08-24T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105589"},"modified":"2016-08-24T07:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T12:50:59","slug":"gordie-christianson-retirement-open-house-aug-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=105589","title":{"rendered":"Community celebrates Christianson&#8217;s Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gordie50thparty1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-106219\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gordie50thparty1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Gordie50thparty1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gordie50thparty1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gordie50thparty1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Gordie50thparty1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The public celebrated Jamestown City Fire Fighter, Gordy Christianson\u2019s retirement from the department with a Retirement Open House. \u00a0<strong>Tuesday August 23<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0Jamestown Fire Hall, \u00a0209 2nd Ave NW.<\/p>\n<p>Gordie is the longest serving volunteer firefighter with the Jamestown Fire Department is retiring after 50 years of work.<\/p>\n<p>Christianson began volunteering at the department on Aug. 21, 1966, after being encouraged by some friends. He says the fire house has been his &#8220;second home&#8221; ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Fire Chief Jim Reuther has worked with Christianson for 27 years. He says the department is losing &#8220;a lot of knowledge&#8221; with Christianson&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Christianson says the biggest fire of his career was the one that destroyed the Gladstone Hotel in 1968. He says he plans to relax during retirement and looks forward to not receiving calls at 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives\u00a0 from U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp\u2019s office were also at the celebration\u00a0 and dedicated a flag to Christianson that was flown over the capitol in his honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The public celebrated Jamestown City Fire Fighter, Gordy Christianson\u2019s retirement from the department with a Retirement Open House. \u00a0Tuesday August 23\u00a0at the\u00a0Jamestown Fire Hall, \u00a0209 2nd Ave NW. Gordie is the longest serving volunteer firefighter with the Jamestown Fire Department is retiring after 50 years of work. Christianson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105589"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106243,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105589\/revisions\/106243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}