{"id":13227,"date":"2020-03-03T00:27:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T04:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=13227"},"modified":"2020-03-03T00:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T04:27:18","slug":"test-2-dairy-queen-opens-in-fall-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=13227","title":{"rendered":"Dairy Queen opens in Fall River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> It might have been a cold, late January day, but that didn\u2019t stop the Alford family of Beaver Bank from being among the first through the doors at the new Dairy Queen in Fall River as it opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The store wasn\u2019t opening until 10 a.m., but 90 minutes earlier the family of three parked outside the store awaiting the opening. They wanted to be the first ones to be served and receive the first Blizzard made by one of the over 20 staff that were on hand to deal with the expected busy opening day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the doors officially opened, the ribbon was cut by manager\/franchisee Peggy Rust to mark it\u2019s opening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/7265D0FE-384E-42FF-87E1-69A60FD5D622-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13229\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A DQ Blizzard\nmascot was also on hand to greet customers and even went down by Highway 2\nwhere it danced for some motorists showing them the new facility&#8211;built by\nLindsay Construction\u2014was officially opened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first few days\nof the business being open saw a steady stream of customers coming and go\nthrough the doors, keeping the employees cooking and making people\u2019s favourite\ntreats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rust said a grand opening celebration is being planned for March 14. More details will be released as the day gets closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/AC88D7DC-72E7-4885-88BA-341BEDDCE585.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13230\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fall River\nDairy Queen employs upwards of 45 people\u2014including many youth\u2014from the Fall\nRiver and area community. The store is open Monday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10\np.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> [adrotate banner=&#8221;9&#8243;] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Logos_Ads\/BannerAds\/images-e1583200572122.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13223\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: It might have been a cold, late January day, but that didn\u2019t stop the Alford family of Beaver Bank from being among the first through the doors at the new Dairy Queen in Fall River as it opened. The store wasn\u2019t opening until 10 a.m., but 90 minutes earlier the family of three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,957],"tags":[534,2],"class_list":["post-13227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-dairy-queen","tag-fall-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227","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=13227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13227\/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=13227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}