{"id":6869,"date":"2024-03-06T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2024-03-06T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:09:01","slug":"sarah-mitton-special-olympics-athletes-to-be-honoured-at-queens-place-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/03\/06\/sarah-mitton-special-olympics-athletes-to-be-honoured-at-queens-place-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Mitton, Special Olympics athletes to be honoured at Queens Place on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6870\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6870\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MDB_20210730_1447-1024x742.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MDB_20210730_1447-1024x742.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MDB_20210730_1447-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MDB_20210730_1447-1536x1113.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/MDB_20210730_1447-2048x1484.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brooklyn&#8217;s Sarah Mitton throws during a qualification round at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. (Photo by Mark Blinch\/COC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you want to congratulate some Queens County athletes on their recent success, you\u2019ll get your chance on Thursday at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liveprool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Region of Queens is hosting a homecoming meet and greet for athletes with Special Olympics Lunenburg\/Queens and Brooklyn\u2019s Sarah Mitton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Special Olympics Winter Games just wrapped in Calgary and Team Nova Scotia won 30 medals, with many of those won by local athletes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/03\/01\/sarah-mitton-wins-shot-put-gold-at-world-athletics-indoor-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mitton won the gold medal<\/a> in the shot put on Friday at the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Glasgow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The event begins at 1 p.m. Seating is limited, but it will also be livestreamed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/QueensPlaceEmeraCentre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queens Place Facebook page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to congratulate some Queens County athletes on their recent success, you\u2019ll get your chance on Thursday at Queens Place Emera Centre in Liveprool. The Region of Queens is hosting a homecoming meet and greet for athletes with Special Olympics Lunenburg\/Queens and Brooklyn\u2019s Sarah Mitton. The Special Olympics Winter Games just wrapped in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[351,24,267,1845,1713],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-queens-place-emera-centre","tag-region-of-queens","tag-sarah-mitton","tag-special-olympics-canada-winter-games","tag-special-olympics-lunenburg-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}