{"id":2984,"date":"2021-06-18T19:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2021-06-18T19:51:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:51:13","slug":"white-pine-church-pastor-celebrates-water-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/06\/18\/white-pine-church-pastor-celebrates-water-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"White Pine Church pastor celebrates water grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don Judy, pastor of White Pine Church of the Brethren in Romney, W.Va.,\u00a0is celebrating a major success in his campaign to bring public water to dozens of homes in Purgitsville. A $2 million block grant for the project was announced earlier this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It \u201cputs the icing on the cake\u2026. I think it\u2019s amazing,\u201d he said in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hampshirereview.com\/news\/article_5b996838-c927-11eb-a75c-533818335b2d.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article in the\u00a0<em>Hampshire Review<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judy began working on the issue several years ago. In 2019, water tests revealed <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.localdvm.com\/news\/west-virginia\/tested-purgitsville-water-shows-traces-of-methane-and-ethane\/\" target=\"_blank\">methane and ethane in well water<\/a> in the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/white-pine.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/white-pine.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/white-pine-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/white-pine-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/06\/white-pine-560x368.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>White Pine Church of the Brethren<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Judy, pastor of White Pine Church of the Brethren, has been working for several years to bring public water to Purgitsville, WV. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[92,87,91,88,90,86,89],"class_list":["post-2984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-west-marva","tag-46-290","tag-don-judy","tag-grant","tag-purgitsville","tag-water","tag-white-pine-church-of-the-brethren","tag-wv"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}