{"id":13770,"date":"2018-07-05T08:41:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=13770"},"modified":"2018-07-05T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:41:11","slug":"alan-spacek-appointed-to-the-board-of-directors-of-contact-north-contact-nord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/05\/alan-spacek-appointed-to-the-board-of-directors-of-contact-north-contact-nord\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Spacek, Appointed to the Board of Directors of Contact North | Contact Nord"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ContactNorth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13771 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ContactNorth-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ContactNorth-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ContactNorth.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Contact North\u00a0| Contact <span class=\"xn-person\">Nord Board<\/span> of Directors and staff welcome new board member, <span class=\"xn-person\">Alan Spacek<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p>&#8220;Alan&#8217;s extensive knowledge and experience in community development, post-secondary education and governance are very valuable as Contact North\u00a0| Contact Nord plans its next major phase of development,&#8221; said Board Chair, <span class=\"xn-person\">Paul Taillefer<\/span>.\u00a0 &#8220;Contact North | Contact Nord is preparing for double-digit growth in the more than 525,000 requests for services it responds to annually from underserved Ontarians in 600 small, rural, remote, Indigenous and Francophone communities working towards a diploma, degree or a certificate or upgrading their skills via online learning in their community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our staff in 116 online learning centres across <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario<\/span> actively recruit students and support more than 62,000 student registrations in online learning programs and courses from <span class=\"xn-location\">Ontario&#8217;s<\/span> 24 public colleges, 22 public universities, 9 Indigenous institutes, 76 district school boards, 200 literacy and basic skills providers and 50 skills development training providers,&#8221; commented <span class=\"xn-person\">Maxim Jean-Louis<\/span>, President &#8211; Chief Executive Officer, Contact North | Contact Nord.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Alan Spacek<\/span> is Mayor of <span class=\"xn-location\">Kapuskasing<\/span>, President of the Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) and a member and Chair of the Board of Governors of Northern College. He is Chair of the Kapuskasing Economic Development Corporation and Police Services Board. He also serves as President of \u00c9nergie Kapuskasing Energy, and was formerly Vice-Chair and board member of the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE &#8211; Contact North<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact North\u00a0| Contact Nord Board of Directors and staff welcome new board member, Alan Spacek. &#8220;Alan&#8217;s extensive knowledge and experience in community development, post-secondary education and governance are very valuable as Contact North\u00a0| Contact Nord plans its next major phase of development,&#8221; said Board Chair, Paul Taillefer.\u00a0 &#8220;Contact North | Contact Nord is preparing for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1563,1376],"class_list":["post-13770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial","tag-contact-north","tag-federation-of-northern-ontario-municipalities-fonom"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 14:07:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13772,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13770\/revisions\/13772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}