Royal Canadian Legion Branches struggling with the pandemic are pleased that federal assistance is starting to flow, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the need to assist veteran\u2019s organizations was obvious, it took a concerted effort to convince the government to act,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cI know my actions were fortified by the work of others in my party as we took every opportunity to remind the government of the important role that Legion Branches perform in our communities and the need to ensure they survive this unique event.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hughes\u2019 remarks relate to news that the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 429, located in Wawa, was awarded$10,000.00 support funding in late December 2020.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis financial support is very important to the Legion,\u201d said President, Mary Anne Pearson. \u201cWith the pandemic enforced lockdowns and regulations all our income has been drastically reduced. Unfortunately, expenses continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hughes notes that Branches who have yet to apply for this funding can do so in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cFundraising opportunities that allow local Branches to support themselves were curtailed since so many events that support them were either unavailable, or severely cut-back,\u201d said Hughes.\u00a0 \u201cThe Legion does so much good work, supporting veterans and their families as well as helping communities across the country, that we had to find a way to help the organization back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Royal Canadian Legion Branches struggling with the pandemic are pleased that federal assistance is starting to flow, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. \u201cWhile the need to assist veteran\u2019s organizations was obvious, it took a concerted effort to convince the government to act,\u201d said Hughes. \u201cI know my actions were fortified by the work of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":38548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[349],"class_list":["post-41263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-carol-hughes"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 09:34:29","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\/41263","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41264,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41263\/revisions\/41264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}