{"id":10374,"date":"2015-04-16T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=10374"},"modified":"2015-04-16T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:00:53","slug":"local-cadets-hit-the-mark-at-provincials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/local-cadets-hit-the-mark-at-provincials\/","title":{"rendered":"Local cadets hit the mark at Provincials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Coach Roger Romses stands with his team Nicholas Ertl, Maya Neuman, Emily Woodhouse, Tyler McKechnie, &#038; Ethan Hoyes grinning widely after accepting their Silver Medals at last weekend\u2019s Cadet Provincial Marksmanship Competition. Photo by Sergeant Kev Parle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Five local cadets hit the mark in Trenton last week, facing fierce competition at the Regional &#038; National Marksman Championships. <\/p>\n<p>Representing the 2799 Queen\u2019s York Rangers Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps, the team came second out of 291 teams from across the Province. Cadet Tyler McKechnie achieved a second Silver Medal for being ranked #2 out of all individual competitors and was consequently selected as a member of Team Ontario for the National Air Rifle Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The cadet marksmanship program is based upon Olympic-style competition, with the focus on teaching cadets the proper use and safe handling of firearms.  Air rifle training is an activity that builds confidence, self-discipline and respect through a progressively challenging, gender-neutral recreational sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five local cadets hit the mark in Trenton last week, facing fierce competition at the Regional &#038; National Marksman Championships. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2015-04-16-14.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}