{"id":790524,"date":"2026-07-09T12:49:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790524\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:49:19","slug":"announcement-marking-major-milestone-taking-place-on-bell-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/790524\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement Marking \u2018Major Milestone\u2019 Taking Place on Bell Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/bell-island-from-ferry-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Announcement Marking 'Major Milestone' Taking Place on Bell Island\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A news conference is happening this morning that officials say will mark a \u201cmajor milestone\u201d in the future of Bell Island. <\/p>\n<p>A little over a week ago the island marked an important milestone in its history \u2013 the closure of the mines. <\/p>\n<p>Today, what\u2019s being called a \u201cseries of initial strategic investments\u201d  will be unveiled which will support young people, education, workforce development, and community resilience. <\/p>\n<p>Representatives say the announcement will have \u201clasting implications\u201d for the island and \u201cmay serve as a model for rural revitalization across Newfoundland and Labrador.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event is taking place at 11 a.m. at St. Michael\u2019s Hall. VOCM News will be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A news conference is happening this morning that officials say will mark a \u201cmajor milestone\u201d in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-790524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}