{"id":32044,"date":"2018-02-19T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T22:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=32044"},"modified":"2018-02-19T14:04:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T22:04:14","slug":"presenting-sponsor-announced-for-2018-u19-world-softball-championship-prince-albert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=32044","title":{"rendered":"Presenting sponsor announced for 2018 U19 World Softball Championship &#8211; Prince Albert"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_32045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32045\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/panow.com\/article\/742067\/presenting-sponsor-announced-2018-world-softball-championship\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32045\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PA2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PA2018.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PA2018-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/PA2018-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for original article.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panow.com\/article\/742067\/presenting-sponsor-announced-2018-world-softball-championship\">From PA Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the countdown on to what is expected to be one of the largest sporting events ever held in Prince Albert, community organizations are lining up behind the 2018 Junior Men\u2019s World Softball Championships.<\/p>\n<p>In the Johnny Bower Lobby Friday, the host committee announced the Northern Lights Community Development Corporation (NLCDC) will act as the presenting sponsor for the WBSC event.<\/p>\n<p>Blake Charles is the general manager of the NLCDC and said the organization was drawn to support the event in part due to the youth involvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever we see an event that comprises of youth, be it sports, arts, music, whatever it is, we try to contribute in terms of funding a portion of the project,\u201d Charles said.<\/p>\n<p>The NLCDC encompasses a wide swath of the North \u2014 from Meadow Lake to the eastern sector \u2014 and Charles hopes the event has a positive influence on youth development all across the North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many opportunities and that leads to other positives within the youth&#8217;s development,\u201d he said. \u201dAnytime we can partner and assist, we see that the youth have an opportunity to live to their potential whatever that is, be it sport to other things in life. That is one of the key reasons why we try to support these types of events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panow.com\/article\/742067\/presenting-sponsor-announced-2018-world-softball-championship\">Click here to continue reading at PA Now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From PA Now With the countdown on to what is expected to be one of the largest sporting events ever held in Prince Albert, community organizations are lining up behind the 2018 Junior Men\u2019s World Softball Championships. In the Johnny Bower Lobby Friday, the host committee announced the Northern Lights Community Development Corporation (NLCDC) will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,28,82,27],"tags":[869,691,870],"class_list":{"0":"post-32044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-featured","9":"category-wbsc","10":"category-youth","11":"tag-pa2018","12":"tag-wbsc2018","13":"tag-wbscu19","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32046,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32044\/revisions\/32046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}