{"id":326222,"date":"2020-08-06T01:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T05:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEOtvkkj1EiXSLbZchTGpTm0qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowqeP_CjDdg_oCMMTh6QU?oc=5"},"modified":"2020-08-06T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T19:32:10","slug":"ethiopian-canadian-community-association-building-in-edmonton-vandalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/326222","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian-Canadian Community Association building in Edmonton vandalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

A member of the Ethiopian-Canadian Community Association in Edmonton says she is upset and concerned after vandals recently targeted the organization\u2019s building for the second time in just weeks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSomething like this has never happened,\u201d Meheret Worku told Global News in front of the building at 10585 115 St. \u201cWe are all peace-loving people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very inclusive, so we\u2019re definitely upset about this.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Worku, the first incident occurred about three weeks ago when someone tampered with the colors on the image of a flag on the building that has been there since 1984.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is very disrespectful, so we contacted the police,\u201d she said. \u201cThe police were looking into it\u2026 [but] we did not then have a security camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second incident occurred this week. Worku said on Monday, one of the association\u2019s members was walking by and found windows smashed and the door to the building broken. […] CONTINUE READING<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A member of the Ethiopian-Canadian Community Association in Edmonton says she is upset and concerned after vandals recently targeted the organization\u2019s building for the second time in just weeks. \u201cSomething like this has never happened,\u201d Meheret Worku told Global News in front of the building at 10585 115 St. \u201cWe are all peace-loving people. \u201cWe\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":326245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Edmonton-Ethiopian-Canadian-Community-Association-building.jpg?fit=720%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1mRE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326222"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326335,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326222\/revisions\/326335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}