{"id":12842,"date":"2019-11-19T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12842"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T14:30:09","slug":"waverley-legion-celebrates-going-mortgage-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12842","title":{"rendered":"Waverley Legion celebrates going mortgage free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WAVERLEY: <\/strong>There was reason to celebrate at the Waverley Legion on Nov. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Legion announced they had officially paid off their mortgage of approximately $330,000 \u2014one they started to pay on some 20-plus years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At  an event where members of the community were welcomed to come see what  the Legion is all about and how they can join to keep it thriving for  years to come, President Ken Mallett spoke briefly to the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_4316-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12844\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At  the end of his speech it was time to burn the mortgage and he did just  that lighting it on fire to much applause from the crowd of about 35  people. That included former NDP MP Peter Stoffer, and many other Legion  members, Veterans and community residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_4331-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12845\"\/><figcaption>Peter Stoffer was in attendance at the mortgage burning for the Legion. Here he is pictured with Steve Sinnott, vice president of the Waverley Legion, sharing a chuckle. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAVERLEY: There was reason to celebrate at the Waverley Legion on Nov. 9. The Legion announced they had officially paid off their mortgage of approximately $330,000 \u2014one they started to pay on some 20-plus years ago. At an event where members of the community were welcomed to come see what the Legion is all about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[894,895,159],"class_list":["post-12842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-mortgage-burning","tag-steve-sinnott","tag-waverley-legion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842","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=12842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12842\/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=12842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}