{"id":9766,"date":"2019-02-23T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9766"},"modified":"2019-02-23T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T13:00:41","slug":"canal-commission-sweps-working-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9766","title":{"rendered":"Canal Commission, SWEPS working together"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"StoryBody\" class=\"rtEditor\" title=\"(double-click to edit)\" data-role=\"none\">\n<p><strong>FLETCHERS LAKE:<\/strong> Two non-profit community organizations are teaming up for the betterment of the community.<\/p>\n<p>In late January, a newly designed and installed park sign was stolen from Lock 4 of the Shubenacadie Canal Waterway on Fletcher Drive in Fall River. The sign and lock are located in Fall River, between Lake Thomas and Fletchers Lake, on Fletcher Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The $5,000 sign was installed in mid-December and was stolen less than six weeks later. The interpretive signs are a promotional aspect of the Shubenacadie Canal Commission and one of the communications tools used to connect with trail and waterway patrons.<\/p>\n<p>In early February, the Shubenacadie Canal Commission was approached by the Shubenacadie Watershed Environmental Protection Society (SWEPS) trails committee about funding a replacement sign.<\/p>\n<p>On Feb. 6, the funding was approved, and the replacement sign will be installed by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The Shubenacadie Canal Commission is thrilled by the financial support of a local community based non-profit organization. The financial donation demonstrates the community support and the importance of providing interpretation of historical sites of significance to residents and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The Canal Commission and SWEPS have a history of working in collaboration. These types of partnerships are essential for improving community outreach, pursuing a heritage river designation, and enhancing and developing trail networks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLETCHERS LAKE: Two non-profit community organizations are teaming up for the betterment of the community. In late January, a newly designed and installed park sign was stolen from Lock 4 of the Shubenacadie Canal Waterway on Fletcher Drive in Fall River. The sign and lock are located in Fall River, between Lake Thomas and Fletchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2,319,320,321],"class_list":["post-9766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-fall-river","tag-lock-4","tag-shubenacadie-canal-commission","tag-sweps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}