{"id":40710,"date":"2024-08-20T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40710"},"modified":"2024-08-20T16:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T15:16:38","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-global-doorstep-bulldozing-our-history-alberta-man-working-to-restore-towns-grain-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40710","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the Global doorstep\u2019: \u2018Bulldozing our history\u2019: Alberta man working to restore town\u2019s grain elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Nanton_Grain_Elevator_by_Ken_Eckhert_Commmons_Wiki.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Nanton_Grain_Elevator_by_Ken_Eckhert_Commmons_Wiki.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-40711\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<h6><em>image for illustration:<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/e\/ef\/Nanton_Grain_Elevator.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nanton Grain Elevator<\/a> by\u00a0Ken Eckert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/h6>\n<h3>Leo Wieser, President of the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre Nanton, is working to preserve two 21-metre icons of the Prairies \u2013 twin grain elevators in Nanton, Alta.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Halifax City News<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 Leo Wieser worked in the movie biz&#8230; Now he\u2019s fighting\u2026 to preserve two 21-metre icons of the Prairies \u2013 twin grain elevators in Nanton, Alta. \u2018These were the beacons. These were the things from the 1910s and 1920s that were actually landmarks,\u2019 said Wieser.<\/p>\n<p>Wieser is president of the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre in Nanton, 80 kilometres south of Calgary. He grew up in Calgary next door to Heritage Park\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is preserving a small reminder of the towering sentinels that were linked by railways and defined hamlets, villages and towns\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2024\/06\/23\/bulldozing-our-history-alberta-man-working-to-restore-towns-grain-elevators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>image for illustration:\u00a0Nanton Grain Elevator by\u00a0Ken Eckert, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Leo Wieser, President of the Canadian Grain Elevator Discovery Centre Nanton, is working to preserve two 21-metre icons of the Prairies \u2013 twin grain elevators in Nanton, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=40710\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40714,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40710\/revisions\/40714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}