{"id":119784,"date":"2022-10-10T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=119784"},"modified":"2022-10-14T19:44:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T23:44:45","slug":"the-valley-roundup-patricia-driessen-campaigns-for-council-seat-this-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-valley-roundup-patricia-driessen-campaigns-for-council-seat-this-october\/","title":{"rendered":"The Valley Roundup: Patricia Driessen campaigns for council seat this October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Patricia Driessen hopes to be Abbotsford's newest council member, with local residents heading to the polls this weekend to vote in their municipal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Driessen established her business Perfect Sense Events in 2011, after having spent time at The University of The Fraser Valley and receiving a diploma at Thompson Rivers University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Driessen has worked alongside a number of non-profits in Abbotsford and says she is confident that her direct experience with the community will help with the transition to council. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent interview, Drissen spoke with CIVL about the main issue she sees in Abbotsford, the November floods, social issues affecting Abbotsford and the city's culture. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Find out more about Patricia Driessen at patriciadriessen.com before the election on Oct.15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen below for the full CIVL story:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Driessen hopes to be Abbotsford&#8217;s newest council member, with local residents heading to the polls this weekend to vote in their municipal government. &nbsp; Driessen established her business Perfect Sense Events in 2011, after having spent time at The University of The Fraser Valley and receiving a diploma at Thompson Rivers University. Driessen has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":121124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,225],"tags":[2761,14843,18369,9308,4611,3681],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119784"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121691,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119784\/revisions\/121691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119784"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=119784"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=119784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}