{"id":19665,"date":"2017-05-04T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19665"},"modified":"2017-05-04T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:18:16","slug":"niagara-parks-unveils-canada-150-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/niagara-parks-unveils-canada-150-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Parks unveils Canada 150 projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/05\/02\/niagara-parks-unveils-canada-150-projects\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Canada\u2019s 150th birthday will have Niagara Parks Commission gardeners busy this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Interactive gardens, a revitalized Niagara Glen and 30,000 red and white tulips will greet tourists this summer for the NPC\u2019s commemorative programming for the country\u2019s year-long celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Backed with $563,000 from the province\u2019s Ontario150 Funding Program, the NPC has undertaken five legacy projects with the theme of Rooted.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>During a media conference Tuesday, parks commission chairwoman Janice Thomson said the projects \u201cspeak to our mission and the \u2018roots\u2019 we have established over our rich 132-year history.\u201d They also touch upon NPC\u2019s anniversary campaign theme of Begin Here, \u201csignifying Niagara Parks\u2019 importance as a natural, cultural and heritage gateway.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Niagara This Week &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagarathisweek.com\/news-story\/7285614-parks-stays-true-to-its-roots-in-canada-150th-plans\/\">Parks stays true to its roots in Canada 150th plans<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Canada\u2019s 150th birthday will have Niagara Parks Commission gardeners busy this spring. Interactive gardens, a revitalized Niagara Glen and 30,000 red and white tulips will greet tourists this summer for the NPC\u2019s commemorative programming for the country\u2019s year-long celebration. Backed with $563,000 from the province\u2019s Ontario150 Funding Program, the NPC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[2646,3827,41,1139,340,132,99,255,12304,12336],"class_list":["post-19665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-anniversary","tag-janice-thomson","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-glen","tag-niagara-parks","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-ontario-150","tag-tulips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19684,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19665\/revisions\/19684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}