{"id":591,"date":"2025-12-23T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/?page_id=591"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:33:21","slug":"symposium2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/meetings-events\/meetings\/symposium2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Region IX Symposium 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2024\/12\/NARFE-Region-09-Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2024\/12\/NARFE-Region-09-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1307\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2024\/12\/NARFE-Region-09-Map.jpg 1307w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2024\/12\/NARFE-Region-09-Map-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2024\/12\/NARFE-Region-09-Map-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2024\/12\/NARFE-Region-09-Map-768x555.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1307px) 100vw, 1307px\" \/><\/a><strong>Region IX Symposium 2026<\/strong> will be held October 1-3, 2026 in Ellensburg, WA, at the Best Western Plus (on Thursday afternoon) and on Friday and Saturday at Central Washington University\u2019s Student Union and Recreation Center (SURC).<\/p>\n<p>The Symposium will provide fellowship, information, and training for all five Federations in the Region. Federations will have in-person meetings on Thursday afternoon as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/03\/surc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-713 alignright img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/03\/surc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/03\/surc.png 389w, https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/03\/surc-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/meetings-events\/meetings\/symposium2026\/symposium-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Registration is open now!<\/strong><\/a> The registration fee of $150 per member will include Friday meals and snacks.\u00a0 \u00a0If you are interested contact your NARFE leaders to see if support is available. Many NARFE Federations and Chapters are supporting meeting expenses for members.<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"pe-button text-left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=noopener target=_blank\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/meetings-events\/meetings\/symposium2026\/symposium-registration\/\"\n\t\t\t\trole=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-content  btn-primary btn-sm\">\n\t\t\t\t<span>Register Now<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/05\/2026-05-04-Region-IX-Symposium-Agenda.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meeting agenda<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 feedback appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region IX Symposium 2026 will be held October 1-3, 2026 in Ellensburg, WA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":798,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-591","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions\/803"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}