{"id":8990,"date":"2025-07-24T13:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8990"},"modified":"2025-07-24T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:26:38","slug":"thomas-raddall-provincial-park-to-get-100k-in-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/07\/24\/thomas-raddall-provincial-park-to-get-100k-in-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Raddall Provincial Park to get $100k in improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8991\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8991\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/87288572_1446945408813027_7019748763954577408_n-1024x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/87288572_1446945408813027_7019748763954577408_n-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/87288572_1446945408813027_7019748763954577408_n-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/87288572_1446945408813027_7019748763954577408_n-1536x985.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/87288572_1446945408813027_7019748763954577408_n.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thomas Raddall Provincial Park near Port Joli, Queens County, is one of 16 provincial parks getting upgrades. (Nova Scotia Provincial Parks)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Nova Scotia government is committing $100,000 for upgrades to Thomas Raddall Provincial Park in Port Joli.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The money will help improve the park&#8217;s entrance building and water system, according to a news release from the governing Progressive Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We&#8217;re making smart upgrades that protect these beautiful spaces and make them easier and more enjoyable to access,&#8221; Queens MLA Kim Masland said in the release.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The work at Thomas Raddall is part of the province&#8217;s $13.8-million capital plan to improve infrastructure at <a href=\"http:\/\/parks.novascotia.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16 provincial parks<\/a>, including\u00a0water and sewer system upgrades at camping parks, washroom improvements, trail enhancements and parking lot redevelopments, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">More than 1 million people visited provincial parks in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nova Scotia government is committing $100,000 for upgrades to Thomas Raddall Provincial Park in Port Joli. The money will help improve the park&#8217;s entrance building and water system, according to a news release from the governing Progressive Conservatives. &#8220;We&#8217;re making smart upgrades that protect these beautiful spaces and make them easier and more enjoyable [&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":[31,241,3298,1355,923,49,595],"class_list":["post-8990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-kim-masland","tag-nova-scotia","tag-parks","tag-port-joli","tag-provincial-parks","tag-queens-county","tag-thomas-raddall-provincial-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990","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=8990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8992,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}