{"id":87283,"date":"2026-10-16T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T11:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87283"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:06:06","slug":"friday-morning-news-october-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/friday-morning-news-october-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning News &#8211; October 16th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weather:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today &#8211; Periods of rain ending this morning then cloudy with 40% chance of rain showers or flurries. Periods of snow over higher terrain early this morning. Wind north 20 km\/h gusting to 40 increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High +3. UV index 2 or low.<\/li>\n<li>Tonight &#8211; Clearing this evening. Wind northwest 20 km\/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Low -3. Wind chill -7 overnight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a very interesting and well attended Candidates Night. Wawa-news will have a report this afternoon<\/li>\n<li>The Wawa Goose has lost his leash. The keychain loop was removed earlier this week restoring the Goose. Kinda glad to see it back&#8230; but was so happy that it played an important part in the fundraising campaign.<\/li>\n<li>It was disappointing to hear that the new recycling program is not available for Hillcrest Heights, or multiple residence buildings (2030 is the anticipated start date), by provincial regulation.<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Conseil scolaire catholique Nouvelon has announced the appointment of M\u00e9lanie Vaillancourt as Superintendent of Education. An experienced leader, she stands out for her extensive background and experience in education. Ms. Vaillancourt will assume her new role starting on November 2, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather: Today &#8211; Periods of rain ending this morning then cloudy with 40% chance of rain showers or flurries. Periods of snow over higher terrain early this morning. Wind north 20 km\/h gusting to 40 increasing to 40 gusting to 60 this morning. High +3. UV index 2 or low. Tonight &#8211; Clearing this evening. &#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":[],"class_list":["post-87283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-23 09:43:07","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\/87283","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=87283"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87290,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87283\/revisions\/87290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}