{"id":9878,"date":"2019-03-12T14:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=9878"},"modified":"2019-03-12T14:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:18:41","slug":"local-women-celebrated-at-iwd-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=9878","title":{"rendered":"Local women celebrated at IWD event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> On International Women&#8217;s Day March 8, women across the world were recognized and celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>In Lower Sackville, a room full of women&#8211;and some men&#8211;filled in for a two hour lunch at the Sackville Legion.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9881\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9881\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9881 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/126-e1552410723982.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"675\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors Minister Filomena Tassi. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They heard from Trevor Sanipass, who opened by acknowledgingt the event was on Unceded Mi&#8217;kmaq territory, and performed the honour song.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors Minister Filomena Tassi, along with Sackville-Preston-Chezzetcook MP Darrell Samson shook hands with some of the crowd. Tassi also gave a speech.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9880\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9880 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/104-e1552410682108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trevor Sanipass (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jay Aaron Roy, better known as the face of Cape and Cowl Comics to many, also spoke at the event, which was organized by Party Patrol Event&#8217;s Shera-Lee Kerr.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9879\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9879\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9879 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/039-e1552410742119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seniors Minister Filomena Tassi and MP Darrell Samson speak to women at the IWD event in Sackville. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER SACKVILLE: On International Women&#8217;s Day March 8, women across the world were recognized and celebrated. In Lower Sackville, a room full of women&#8211;and some men&#8211;filled in for a two hour lunch at the Sackville Legion. They heard from Trevor Sanipass, who opened by acknowledgingt the event was on Unceded Mi&#8217;kmaq territory, and performed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2,365,366,25,367],"class_list":["post-9878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-fall-river","tag-international-womens-day","tag-iwd","tag-sackville","tag-trevor-sanipass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878","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=9878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9878\/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=9878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}