{"id":45863,"date":"2024-06-06T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=45863"},"modified":"2024-06-06T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T22:23:00","slug":"wong-to-seek-re-election-in-waverley-fall-river-beaver-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=45863","title":{"rendered":"Wong to seek re-election in Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;93&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Brian Wong will be the Progressive Conservative candidate for Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank<strong> <\/strong>in the next provincial election, a release from the N.S. PC Caucus on June 6 said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since being elected in 2021, Wong has worked hard to fix the things the Liberals broke and has delivered concrete results, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$97,026 to renovate recreation facilities at Cheema Aquatic Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$164,000 to support building a sports field at Lockview High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>$124,229 for the revitalization of Laurie Provincial Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new long term care facility, slated to be open next year, is under construction in Fall River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s gratifying to be part of a team focused on building up communities and making important progress,\u201d Wong said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m excited to see how much more we can accomplish for Nova Scotians in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A<strong>DVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;7&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wong is currently the Minister of Advanced Education and Minister responsible for L\u2019nu Affairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before serving as MLA, he had worked as both a teacher and principal and has also operated several businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe people of Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank could not ask for a more energetic and enthusiastic representative,\u201d said Premier Tim Houston in the release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe works tirelessly for the people who elected him and is an important part of our PC team.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A provincial election is not expected until the third Tuesday in July 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;169&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;93&#8243;] FALL RIVER: Brian Wong will be the Progressive Conservative candidate for Waverley-Fall River-Beaver Bank in the next provincial election, a release from the N.S. PC Caucus on June 6 said. Since being elected in 2021, Wong has worked hard to fix the things the Liberals broke and has delivered concrete results, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[957],"tags":[10,2245,2,6859,48,6860,1695,16],"class_list":["post-45863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-beaver-bank","tag-brian-wong","tag-fall-river","tag-july-2025","tag-n-s","tag-pc-caucus","tag-provincial-election","tag-waverley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45863","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=45863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}