{"id":19788,"date":"2016-09-05T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=19788"},"modified":"2016-09-04T23:11:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T03:11:13","slug":"our-town-with-grant-nickalls-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-town-with-grant-nickalls-back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Back to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, Huntsville&#8217;s own Grant Nickalls will inspire us, entertain us, make us laugh or perhaps cry, but always he will remind us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This week in Our Town, Grant remembers the teachers who had the most impact on his young life. (Plus a quick update on Ray Porter.) 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