{"id":87334,"date":"2026-10-17T07:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87334"},"modified":"2026-10-17T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T12:09:59","slug":"saturday-morning-news-october-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/saturday-morning-news-october-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning News &#8211; October 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weather:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today &#8211; Mainly cloudy. 30% chance of showers early this afternoon. Wind becoming southwest 40 km\/h gusting to 60 this morning. High 8. Wind chill -6 this morning. UV index 2 or low.<\/li>\n<li>Tonight &#8211; Clear. Wind west 20 km\/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Wind becoming southwest 40 gusting to 60 after midnight. Low 6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Sunrise-Oct-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87337\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Sunrise-Oct-17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Sunrise-Oct-17.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Sunrise-Oct-17-300x167.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were a few flakes of snow yesterday, more to come I&#8217;m sure.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/16-Goulais-Bay.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-87340\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/16-Goulais-Bay.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>There were a handful of lake freighters that took shelter on the Canadian side: James Barker (Two Harbours), Paul Tregurtha (Duluth), Lee Tregurtha (Marquette), <span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u\" dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\">the Algoma Innovator and the Joseph L Block<\/span> in Goulais Bay. They had sheltered overnight to avoid the waves (40mph plus NW winds) hitting the south shores of Lake Superior. The Joseph Block is already on its way to the Locks this morning.<\/li>\n<li>Marathon is holding their Fall Market today from 10 &#8211; 2 p.m. in the St. John&#8217;s United Church parking lot.<\/li>\n<li>Chapleau is also holding their Arts &amp; Crafts Fall Fair from 11 &#8211; 3 p.m. in the Recreation Centre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather: Today &#8211; Mainly cloudy. 30% chance of showers early this afternoon. Wind becoming southwest 40 km\/h gusting to 60 this morning. High 8. Wind chill -6 this morning. UV index 2 or low. Tonight &#8211; Clear. Wind west 20 km\/h gusting to 40 becoming light this evening. Wind becoming southwest 40 gusting to 60 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-24 09:54:33","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\/87334","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=87334"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87342,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87334\/revisions\/87342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}