{"id":75956,"date":"2025-08-05T07:40:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T11:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=75956"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T00:14:26","slug":"on-to-the-next-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/on-to-the-next-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"On to the Next Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-19.53.16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-76040\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-19.53.16-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-19.53.16-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-07-at-19.53.16.png 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Dad arrived in Wawa on January 5 1952 when he was 18 years old and one week later, he was working at Algoma Ore Division.<\/p>\n<p>He came with Bill Dereski who was returning to work at AOD after being in Whitemouth for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>In September 1957, he joined the Michipicoten Fire Department and spent 40 years volunteering as a firefighter and as Deputy Chief.<\/p>\n<p>He never wanted to leave Wawa, but we\u2019ve moved him to the Soo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-05-at-07.37.28.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75957 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-05-at-07.37.28-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-05-at-07.37.28-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-05-at-07.37.28-600x393.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-05-at-07.37.28.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>Hard moving on, but it\u2019s time for the next chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs to Louanne for her labour of love helping us make Dad\u2019s new home special with a blue dresser.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Judy &amp; Mario<\/p>\n<p>*jls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad arrived in Wawa on January 5 1952 when he was 18 years old and one week later, he was working at Algoma Ore Division. He came with Bill Dereski who was returning to work at AOD after being in Whitemouth for Christmas. In September 1957, he joined the Michipicoten Fire Department and spent 40 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thanks"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 17:55:08","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\/75956","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76043,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75956\/revisions\/76043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}