{"id":970,"date":"2010-02-23T22:15:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2010\/02\/23\/swifts-creek-p-12-college\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:15:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T22:15:29","slug":"swifts-creek-p-12-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/swifts-creek-p-12-college\/","title":{"rendered":"SWIFTS CREEK P-12 COLLEGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHESTER SPEAKS WITH SWIFTS CREEK P-12 LEADERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>February 23, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The newly appointed junior and senior leadership teams at Swifts Creek P-12 College received some advice from their local Federal Member of Parliament Darren Chester last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester dropped into the school and gave an impromptu speech on the importance of being a leader and contributing to a small regional community such as Swifts Creek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing to remember as a leader is that you owe it to yourself to make the most of your abilities and work hard to follow your dreams,\u201d Mr Chester told the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccessful people come from all different backgrounds and there are no limits to the things you can achieve if you are persistent and determined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester also encouraged the leadership teams to set the example for other young people to get involved in local activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs young leaders, it\u2019s important to get involved at the ground level and show a commitment to worthwhile activities in your community,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShowing initiative and leading by example helps to encourage others to make a contribution to local causes and improves community spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHESTER SPEAKS WITH SWIFTS CREEK P-12 LEADERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>February 23, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The newly appointed junior and senior leadership teams at Swifts Creek P-12 College received some advice from their local Federal Member of Parliament Darren Chester last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester dropped into the school and gave an impromptu speech on the importance of being a leader and contributing to a small regional community such as Swifts Creek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing to remember as a leader is that you owe it to yourself to make the most of your abilities and work hard to follow your dreams,\u201d Mr Chester told the students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}