{"id":847670,"date":"2026-08-06T02:16:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847670\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T02:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:16:29","slug":"public-vigil-being-held-in-calgary-wednesday-evening-to-honour-parker-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847670\/","title":{"rendered":"Public vigil being held in Calgary Wednesday evening to honour Parker &#8211; Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgarians will gather Wednesday evening to honour <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/parker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Parker<\/a>, the little boy who touched so many, including thousands he\u2019d never met.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Parker is the 11-year-old neurodivergent boy who walked away from his Calgary dayhome on July 16th, prompting an <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/alberta-amber-alert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alberta Amber Alert<\/a> and a massive search involving hundreds of police, search and rescue experts and thousands of ordinary Calgarians.<\/p>\n<p>His body was found deep inside a pipe system under Deerfoot Trail, 13 days after he vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s vigil, which is being held at Calgary\u2019s municipal plaza, outside city hall, is taking place one week after the little boy\u2019s body was found.<\/p>\n<p>It begins at 7 p.m. and those in attendance will have the opportunity to write messages, or share memories, \u00a0that will be delivered to Parker\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Parker\u2019s grieving parents thank public for search after son\u2019s body found'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260730-HEATHER.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:47<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tParker\u2019s grieving parents thank public for search after son\u2019s body found\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgarians will gather Wednesday evening to honour Parker, the little boy who touched so many, including thousands he\u2019d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[295116,49,2798,48,2169,24163,295117,295118],"class_list":["post-847670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-alberta-amber-alert","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-parker","tag-parker-memorial","tag-parker-webb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847670","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=847670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}