{"id":24039,"date":"2016-12-05T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T13:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=24039"},"modified":"2016-12-04T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T16:35:08","slug":"our-town-with-grant-nickalls-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-town-with-grant-nickalls-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Have a compassionate Christmas"},"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, Christmas can be cause for celebration or cause for stress and unhappiness. Grant will be following in his father&#8217;s footsteps for a compassionate holiday season. How about you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Brought to you by:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"47729\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZxmIhWgpL8?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Want more of Our Town with Grant Nickalls? <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/category\/ourtown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to check out past videos<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss out on Doppler! 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