{"id":418392,"date":"2026-05-08T19:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:28:19","slug":"boyer-cottrell-honored-with-friend-awards-by-sbps-shs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/418392\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyer, Cottrell honored with Friend Awards by SBPS, SHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Scottsbluff market manager for the Rural Radio Network was honored this week for his contributions to the Scottsbluff School District.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent Dr. Andrew Dick announced that Bill Boyer was the recipient of the 2025-26 Friend of the District award for his personal and professional commitment to SBPS.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighted among Boyer\u2019s many activities were his support and active participation in Special Olympics, public address announcer for home basketball games, membership on the State Golf Committee and support of the streaming of various school events and graduation.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Chris-Cottrell-SHS-Friend-of-Education-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-891896\"\/>Nate Rock (left), with SHS Friend of Education Chris Cottrell (right)<br \/>(courtesy photo)<\/p>\n<p>Also honored during the event Wednesday was KNEB Sports Director Chris Cottrell as a Scottsbluff Education Association Friend of Education for Scottsbluff High School.<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; The Scottsbluff market manager for the Rural Radio Network was honored this week for his contributions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-418392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}