{"id":73138,"date":"2019-08-26T05:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=73138"},"modified":"2019-08-19T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:59:00","slug":"our-town-with-grant-nickalls-wheres-the-summer-rink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-town-with-grant-nickalls-wheres-the-summer-rink\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Where&#8217;s the summer rink?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Each week, Huntsville\u2019s own Grant Nickalls entertains us, inspires us, make us laugh and sometimes makes us cry, but always he reminds us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.<\/p>\n<p>This week in Our Town, Grant wants to know: why can&#8217;t Cann Lake be a skating rink year-round?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0tyI_Lz9g6I\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox three times per week!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in Our Town, Grant wants to know: why can&#8217;t Cann Lake be a skating rink year-round?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":73143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,644],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-73138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-ourtown","tag-breaking"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Where&#039;s the summer rink? 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