{"id":10821,"date":"2022-07-18T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/?p=10821"},"modified":"2022-07-20T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:44:48","slug":"dana-honoured-to-be-bridgnorth-baton-bearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/dana-honoured-to-be-bridgnorth-baton-bearer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Set to be Bridgnorth Batonbearer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dana-power-main.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dana-power-main.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dana-power-main-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Dana with the baton he&#8217;ll be carrying in the Queen&#8217;s Baton Relay through Bridgnorth <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Local hero and Bridgnorth Endowed minibus driver, Dana Power, is preparing to be a batonbearer in the Queen&#8217;s Baton Relay ahead of this summer\u2019s Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nominated for his incredible fundraising efforts, which have seen him raise more than \u00a370,000 for various charities in the past decade, Dana is due to carry the baton in Bridgnorth on Saturday 23rd July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, thousands of people have taken it along its entire 294-day route, and the journey is now nearing its end with the finish in the host city of Birmingham on 28th July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana commented: \u201cI was chuffed to bits just to be nominated as a batonbearer, but to be accepted was unbelievable. I\u2019m so grateful to everyone who voted for me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLots of family and friends have said they\u2019ll be coming to cheer me on this Saturday and the fact that it\u2019s in my hometown will make it an experience I\u2019ll never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A well-known character in Bridgnorth, especially as Puff the Dragon, Dana has faced a few personal challenges in recent years. Now fully recovered from the heart attack he had back in 2020, he has a couple of minor health issues to deal with before he can get back to the business of running marathons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana went on to explain: \u201cAlthough my heart condition appears to be under control with the medication I&#8217;m on, two other minor problems have put a halt to my training for this year. But rest assured, I will be back running around the streets of Bridgnorth with Puff the Dragon as soon as these are sorted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dana is expecting to receive the baton somewhere between New Road and Underhill Street at approximately 11.20am on Saturday 23rd July.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"blue\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.shropshire.gov.uk\/2022\/06\/route-revealed-queens-baton-relay-bridgnorth\/\" target=\"_blank\">See Bridgnorth baton relay route here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local hero and Bridgnorth Endowed minibus driver, Dana Power, is preparing to be a batonbearer in the Queen&#8217;s Baton Relay ahead of this summer\u2019s Commonwealth Games. Nominated for his incredible fundraising efforts, which have seen him raise more than \u00a370,000 for various charities in the past decade, Dana is due to carry the baton in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/dana-honoured-to-be-bridgnorth-baton-bearer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dana Set to be Bridgnorth Batonbearer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,52,160],"class_list":["post-10821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-school-news","tag-bridgnorth-endowed-school","tag-dana-power","tag-puff-the-dragon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgnorthendowed.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}