{"id":10424,"date":"2019-06-04T22:49:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=10424"},"modified":"2019-06-04T22:49:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:49:17","slug":"driveway-oddity-wjcc-purchases-its-own-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=10424","title":{"rendered":"Driveway oddity: WJCC purchases its own entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WINDSOR JUNCTION: <\/strong>Until recently, the Windsor Junction Community Centre (WJCC) didn\u2019t own it\u2019s driveway entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It  seems that the Estate of Sydney Stephen owned a small parcel of land  that included the driveway and to the right side of Community Centre  Lane, where four or five neighbours live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colleen Menard, president of the WJCC volunteer board, explained that she and the facility\u2019s lawyer Paul  Miller attended the estate sale where they bought the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt \ncame up for auction,\u201d said Menard. \u201cIt was posted in the newspaper. We \ndiscovered that was available, we got a hold of Paul to see what our \noptions were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe land is between the homes and the railway tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patsy\n Tench is one of those neighbours who lives on the lane that is part of \nthe sale and now ownership of the WJCC. They are finalizing the \npaperwork, and then will be meeting with the neighbours to discuss \noptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will be speaking with all of the neighbours that live there to figure out the next steps,\u201d said Menard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tench\n said residents were going to go to the auction and bid on it as well, \nbut when they found out the WJCC lane was they stepped back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe \nresidents had been interested in purchasing it, but when the WJCC found \nout about it we agreed to not attend and backed down to not purchase the\n land so the community centre could have the driveway,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They hope that discussions will continue in subdividing the land so the residents own their driveway and the WJCC own theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Menard concurred that talks will continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe\n best way to move forward is going to depend on what works best for each\n individual neighbour,\u201d she said. \u201cI think it\u2019s really workable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINDSOR JUNCTION: Until recently, the Windsor Junction Community Centre (WJCC) didn\u2019t own it\u2019s driveway entrance. It seems that the Estate of Sydney Stephen owned a small parcel of land that included the driveway and to the right side of Community Centre Lane, where four or five neighbours live. Colleen Menard, president of the WJCC volunteer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[541,2,40,178],"class_list":["post-10424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-driveway","tag-fall-river","tag-windsor-junction","tag-wjcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}