{"id":87568,"date":"2026-10-26T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87568"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T10:41:55","slug":"wawa-sno-riders-receive-funds-from-wawa-mat-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/wawa-sno-riders-receive-funds-from-wawa-mat-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa Sno-Riders receive funds from Wawa MAT Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_87569\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-26-at-06.38.41.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87569\" class=\"size-large wp-image-87569\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-26-at-06.38.41-600x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-26-at-06.38.41-600x251.png 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-26-at-06.38.41-300x126.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-26-at-06.38.41-768x322.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-10-26-at-06.38.41.png 888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Left to right: Alex Patterson \u2013 Wawa MAT Fund Committee member, John Cannon \u2013 Wawa Sno-Rider director, Scott Propert &#8211; Vice-President Wawa Sno-Riders, Kirk Brassard &#8211; President Wawa Sno-Riders, Tanya Case \u2013 Wawa MAT Fund Committee member, Tom Zawdzki \u2013 Wawa MAT Fund committee member, Cathy Cannon \u2013 Wawa Sno-Riders director, Ray Vaillant \u2013 Chairperson Wawa MAT Fund committee, Jennifer McLaughlin \u2013 Wawa Sno-Riders director. Missing: Jeff Smith Wawa MAT Fund committee member, Sandy Oliver Wawa Sno-Riders director.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Wawa Sno-Riders have received $39,000 from the Wawa Municipal Accommodation Tax (MAT) Fund to purchase a side-by-side vehicle and brush saw for trail maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Wawa MAT Fund Committee presented the cheque during the Sno-Riders\u2019 recent open house. The new equipment will help club volunteers maintain approximately 250 kilometres of snowmobile trails in the Wawa area.<\/p>\n<p>The Wawa MAT Fund provides non-repayable contributions to eligible individuals, businesses and community organizations for projects that support tourism growth and development in the Municipality of Wawa.<\/p>\n<p>Funding comes from the Municipal Accommodation Tax collected by local hotels, motels and short-term rentals. Half of the revenue collected goes to the Municipality of Wawa, while the remaining half is directed to the Wawa MAT Fund for tourism development.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are reviewed by the Wawa MAT Fund Committee, which meets on the second Thursday of each month. Funding is awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, subject to available funds.<\/p>\n<p>Application forms are available at www.superioreastcfdc.ca. For more information, contact Heidi Trudeau at trudeau@superioreastcfdc.ca or 705-856-1105, ext. 223.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Wawa Sno-Riders have received $39,000 from the Wawa Municipal Accommodation Tax (MAT) Fund to purchase a side-by-side vehicle and brush saw for trail maintenance. Members of the Wawa MAT Fund Committee presented the cheque during the Sno-Riders\u2019 recent open house. The new equipment will help club volunteers maintain approximately 250 kilometres of snowmobile &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87570,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87568\/revisions\/87570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}