{"id":21244,"date":"2019-05-15T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=21244"},"modified":"2020-06-19T05:42:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T09:42:25","slug":"wednesday-morning-news-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/15\/wednesday-morning-news-may-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Morning News &#8211; May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weather<\/strong> &#8211; A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 14. UV index 6 or high.<br \/>\nTonight &#8211; A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness near midnight then rain beginning before morning. Low plus 4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits<\/strong> &#8211; It appears as if the plans to amalgamate Public Health Units are true. The two proposed units in Northern Ontario are Region 9 and 10:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Region 9 will be Algoma, Sudbury, Porcupine, Timiskaming, North Bay, Parry Sound, Nipissing (part of Renfew), and Muskoka (part of the Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit).<\/li>\n<li>Region 10 is Thunder Bay and the Northwestern Health Unit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The provincial government is reducing the number of public health units from 35 to 10, and implement public health spending cuts by $200 million by 2020-2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a good chance that if the sky clears tonight and tomorrow that the Northern Nights will be visible. Spaceweather.com says &#8220;NOAA forecasters say there is a 55% to 60% chance of geomagnetic storms on May 15th and 16th when a series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) could hit Earth&#8217;s magnetic field. Storm levels are expected to range between category G1 and G2. This means auroras could be sighted in northern-tier US states such as Montana, Minnesota, and upstate New York.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather &#8211; A mix of sun and cloud. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 14. UV index 6 or high. Tonight &#8211; A few clouds. Increasing cloudiness near midnight then rain beginning before morning. Low plus 4. &nbsp; News Tidbits &#8211; It appears as if the plans to amalgamate Public Health Units are true. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-21244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-wednesday-morning-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 04:04:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21244"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21276,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21244\/revisions\/21276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}