{"id":138,"date":"2018-05-17T19:09:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T19:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/?page_id=138"},"modified":"2018-09-01T08:31:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T02:31:21","slug":"meet-raylene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/meet-raylene\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Raylene"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>RAYLENE LANG-DION: PASSION. PUBLIC SERVICE. HEART.<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_141\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 353px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-141\" src=\"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC_9233-1024x882.jpg\" alt=\"Raylene Lang-Dion\" width=\"353\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC_9233-1024x882.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC_9233-300x258.jpg 300w, http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DSC_9233-768x661.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Raylene Lang-Dion has dedicated her life to public service, both in her career as a federal public servant and in her personal time as a community activist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Originally from St John&#8217;s NL, Raylene learned at a very young age the importance of family and community. This is what has driven her to dedicate her life to public service, both in her career as a federal public servant and in her personal time as a community activist.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it is raising awareness of addiction and recovery in Ottawa as former Chair of Community Addictions Peer Support Association; helping youth-in-need by being a Foundation board member with Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa; or by promoting the election of more women in Canada as the former National Chair of Equal Voice: Electing Women in Canada &#8211; giving back to society is Raylene&#8217;s way of saying thanks for the opportunities she has been given.<\/p>\n<p>Raylene has called Ottawa home for more than 25 years and in 2017 was named one of Catherine Clark\u2019s 150 Great People of Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>\u200eShe holds a master\u2019s degree in Political Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a thesis on Women in Newfoundland Politics and an undergrad in Political Science from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n<p>Raylene lives in Alta Vista with her husband Patrick Dion, her children Claudia and James, and their Scottish terrier Miss D\u2019Arcy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAYLENE LANG-DION: PASSION. PUBLIC SERVICE. HEART. Originally from St John&#8217;s NL, Raylene learned at a very young age the importance of family and community. This is what has driven her to dedicate her life to public service, both in her &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/meet-raylene\/\" aria-label=\"Meet Raylene\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/raylenelangdion.ca\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}