{"id":84803,"date":"2017-01-11T23:02:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=84803"},"modified":"2017-01-11T23:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T04:02:42","slug":"kenora-street-could-be-named-after-winnipeg-jets-superfan-who-died-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/11\/kenora-street-could-be-named-after-winnipeg-jets-superfan-who-died-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenora street could be named after Winnipeg Jets superfan who died in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_84805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84805\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13692528_1127251500631547_1488219189213106789_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84805\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13692528_1127251500631547_1488219189213106789_n.jpg\" alt=\"Len (Kroppy) Kropioski (Pictured) died in October at the age of 98. (Photo: Tourism Kenora\/ Facebook)\" width=\"750\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13692528_1127251500631547_1488219189213106789_n.jpg 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13692528_1127251500631547_1488219189213106789_n-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Len (Kroppy) Kropioski (Pictured) died in October at the age of 98. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TourismKenora\">Tourism Kenora\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KENORA, Ont.\u2014A \u00a0street in Kenora, Ont., could be renamed in honour of a longtime, passionate fan of the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n<p>Len (Kroppy) Kropioski died in October at the age of 98.<\/p>\n<p>The Second World War veteran attended every game, saluting the flag as the national anthem was sung before the puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>Kenora city council is looking at renaming McQuillan Street to Kroppy&#8217;s Lane in honour of Kropioski.<\/p>\n<p>According to the recommendation to be adopted at a meeting next week, Kropioski spent countless hours volunteering and coaching youth hockey.<\/p>\n<p>McQuillan is the street that Kropioski used to get to his house.<\/p>\n<p>If passed, the street would be renamed on Hockey Day in Canada in February.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same day the community will hold the first \u201cKroppy Cup\u201d pond hockey tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KENORA, Ont.\u2014A \u00a0street in Kenora, Ont., could be renamed in honour of a longtime, passionate fan of the Winnipeg Jets. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":84805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9094,16],"tags":[13475,13474,13476],"class_list":["post-84803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-human-interest","category-news","tag-fan","tag-kenora-ontario","tag-kroppy-cup","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}