{"id":795316,"date":"2026-07-11T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795316\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:07:12","slug":"tributes-pour-in-for-young-hockey-player-after-tragic-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/795316\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes Pour In for Young Hockey Player After Tragic Drowning"},"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\/alex-dawe-clarenville-area-minor-hockey-association-facebook.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Tributes Pour In for Young Hockey Player After Tragic Drowning\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Dawe (via Clarenville Area Minor Hockey Association Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>Central Newfoundland is awash in grief after a teenager lost his life at a popular swimming hole Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>RCMP say the Exploits Valley Search and Rescue were able to locate the young man, and bring him to shore. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes are pouring in for Alex Dawe, a player with the Bishops Falls Minor Hockey Association. The association says no words can ease this unimaginable loss.<\/p>\n<p>Saying that number 3 will always be remembered on and off the ice, they\u2019re asking people to put a hockey stick out in support of his family.<\/p>\n<p>Central Newfoundland has seen a series of tragic events over the past while, including a fatal car crash near Bull Arm and deadly shootings.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Alex Dawe (via Clarenville Area Minor Hockey Association Facebook) Central Newfoundland is awash in grief after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795317,"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-795316","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\/795316","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=795316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}