{"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":"2026-04-14T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:44:19","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 in downtown Ellensburg.<\/p>\n<p>The Symposium will provide fellowship, information, and training for all five Federations in the Region. All Federations will have in-person meetings on Thursday afternoon as well.<\/p>\n<p>The registration fee of $150 per member will include Friday meals and snacks. More details to come soon.\u00a0 If you are interested contact your NARFE leaders to see if support is available. Many NARFE Federations and Chapters have helped cover meeting expenses for members.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is not available yet, but you can sign up to let us know you are interested.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2026\/04\/2026-04-14-Region-IX-Symposium-Agenda-DRAFT06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preliminary meeting schedule<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 feedback appreciated!<\/p>\n<p><em>Save the dates, sign up, and check back here for more information!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Curtis Price, Symposium Committee Chair<\/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":0,"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","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":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/591\/revisions\/739"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"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}]}}