{"id":849,"date":"2012-03-13T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/?p=849"},"modified":"2014-11-07T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:11:37","slug":"reachotc-reunion-sunday-11-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/reachotc-reunion-sunday-11-march-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Reach\/OTC Reunion &#8211; Sunday 11 March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reunion at the Rosella Picnic Area, Nurragingy Reserve, Doonside\u00a0 &#8211; Sunday 11 March 2012<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tom-Barker-Ray-Hookway-Neil-Yakalis.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"853\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/reachotc-reunion-sunday-11-march-2012\/tom-barker-ray-hookway-neil-yakalis\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tom-Barker-Ray-Hookway-Neil-Yakalis.jpg?fit=240%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,180\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tom Barker Ray Hookway Neil Yakalis\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tom-Barker-Ray-Hookway-Neil-Yakalis.jpg?fit=240%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-853\" title=\"Tom Barker Ray Hookway Neil Yakalis\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Tom-Barker-Ray-Hookway-Neil-Yakalis.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6828673652_e40a0dc744_m.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"851\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/reachotc-reunion-sunday-11-march-2012\/6828673652_e40a0dc744_m\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6828673652_e40a0dc744_m.jpg?fit=240%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,180\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"6828673652_e40a0dc744_m\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6828673652_e40a0dc744_m.jpg?fit=240%2C180&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-851 alignleft\" title=\"6828673652_e40a0dc744_m\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/6828673652_e40a0dc744_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>A big \u2018thank you\u2019 goes out to Maree Giddins who organised the day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Maree arrived before 10am to secure the site for us. Had the weather not been<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">favourable we would have been even more grateful to Maree for her choice of venue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0As it was the weather gods were on our side and the day was warm and sunny with a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">slight breeze to keep us cool as we related many stories of our experiences in OTC and\/or<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reach featuring many of the members of those with whom we enjoy fantastic memories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0Many I had not seen for more than 20 years and it was good to see that we have not lost our collective enthusiasm and great personality that helped to make OTC and Reach the great place that we all remember.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Thank to Tim Jenson for taking the photos. The complete set of photos can be viewed at the following web site:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vk2bt\/show\/\">http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vk2bt\/show\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reunion at the Rosella Picnic Area, Nurragingy Reserve, Doonside\u00a0 &#8211; Sunday 11 March 2012 A big \u2018thank you\u2019 goes out to Maree Giddins who organised the day. Maree arrived before 10am to secure the site for us. Had the weather not been favourable we would have been even more grateful to Maree for her choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMOfU-dH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otva.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}