{"id":78173,"date":"2019-12-02T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=78173"},"modified":"2019-12-02T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:49:47","slug":"our-town-with-grant-nickalls-celebrating-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-town-with-grant-nickalls-celebrating-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town with Grant Nickalls: Celebrating life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<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, remembering Derek Shelly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RnD2rNLUI6U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to check out past videos<\/a><\/span>.<\/em><\/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, remembering Derek Shelly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":78176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[26,355],"class_list":["post-78173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ourtown","tag-breaking","tag-grant-nickalls"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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