{"id":18690,"date":"2013-02-07T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=18690"},"modified":"2013-02-07T22:39:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T03:39:38","slug":"who-will-be-the-new-honorary-mayor-of-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/02\/who-will-be-the-new-honorary-mayor-of-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Be The New <br>Honorary Mayor of Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/who-will-be-the-new-honorary-mayor-of-lehigh-acres\/mayor\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18691\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18691\" title=\"Mayor\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mayor-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mayor-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Mayor.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Currently there are two Lehigh Acres citizens who have signed up run in the race for honorary Ahmed El-Gendy and Denise McLothlin.<\/p>\n<p>The honorary mayor represents the Lehigh Acres community at ribbon cuttings and at ground breakings and at the same time help their favorite charity and the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the honorary mayor contest is announced usually on the last Friday night of the Lehigh Spring Festival. Up until that time, nobody knows how much a candidate has collected. A big ceremony is held with a giant check presentation at the outside stage of the Spring Festival, which is scheduled usually during the third week of March. By announcing the winner on Friday night prior to the Saturday parade, it gives contestants time to raise money.<\/p>\n<p>List of Former Lehigh Acres Honorary Mayors<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>1986 Bingo Bill<\/p>\n<p>1987 Bingo Bill<\/p>\n<p>1988 Bob McKenna<\/p>\n<p>1989 Liz Eilf<\/p>\n<p>1990 Vicki Culver<\/p>\n<p>1991 Charlie Hodde<\/p>\n<p>1992 John Sweatlock<\/p>\n<p>1993 Pat Olivero<\/p>\n<p>1994 Kristy Lamphere<\/p>\n<p>1995 Brenda Logan<\/p>\n<p>1996 Brenda Logan<\/p>\n<p>1997 Amanda Pursel<\/p>\n<p>1998 Albert DelVecchio<\/p>\n<p>1999 Mindy Clark<\/p>\n<p>2000 Mindy Clark<\/p>\n<p>2001 Ann Noack<\/p>\n<p>2002 Jim Phebus<\/p>\n<p>2003 Robin McClellan\/Robert Anderson<\/p>\n<p>2004 Jim Phebus<\/p>\n<p>2005 Laurie Jerriey<\/p>\n<p>2006 Laurie Jerriey<\/p>\n<p>2007 Julie Camp<\/p>\n<p>2008 Anthony Vocaturo<\/p>\n<p>2009 Mary Lou Land<\/p>\n<p>2010 Oscar Gamble<\/p>\n<p>2011 Oscar Gamble<\/p>\n<p>2012 Ahmed El-Gendy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently there are two Lehigh Acres citizens who have signed up run in the race for honorary Ahmed El-Gendy and Denise McLothlin. The honorary mayor represents the Lehigh Acres community&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}