{"id":6568,"date":"2011-05-20T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2025-01-31T11:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:26:29","slug":"center-is-honored-for-service-to-public-works-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/05\/center-is-honored-for-service-to-public-works-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Center is Honored for Service to Public Works Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6569\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SW-award-small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6569 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/SW-award-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 250px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 250\/188;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R Mary McCarthy (T2), Karl Reichle (Town of South Windsor), Donna Shea (T2), Shelly Desjardin (T2), Mike Gantick (town of South Windsor), Stephanie Merrall (T2)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by Mary C. McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>The Connecticut Technology Transfer Center (T2 Center) was honored this week for their service to Connecticut&#8217;s Public Works Community.\u00a0\u00a0Representatives from the\u00a0Town of South Windsor presented\u00a0 Director Donna Shea and her staff with a 2011 Business Partnership Public Works Award for their efforts on behalf of the public works community.<\/p>\n<p>The award is meant to recognize individuals or groups that, through their activities, help South Windsor deliver quality services to their residents.\u00a0 The T2 Center was recognized for facilitating relationships among state and local agencies and the professional public works associations in Connecticut and for providing high quality training programs and technical assistance that assist the Town in how they view and approach their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The Business Partnership Public Works Award is one of the ways that the Town of South Windsor recognizes National Public Works Week, a\u00a0public education campaign\u00a0that calls attention to the importance of public works in community life. The Week seeks to enhance the prestige of the often-unsung heroes of our society-the professionals who serve the public good every day with quiet dedication.\u00a0 This year, National Public Works Week falls on May 15-21 and the theme is \u201cPublic Works: Serving You and Your Community&#8221;.\u00a0 To learn more about National Public Works Week, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apwa.net\">www.apwa.net<\/a> and to learn more about the Connecticut Technology Transfer Center, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t2center.uconn.edu\">www.t2center.uconn.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Technology Transfer Center (T2 Center) was honored this week for their service to Connecticut&#8217;s Public Works Community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":224924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 13:29:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225039,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions\/225039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/224924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}