{"id":13999,"date":"2016-04-20T21:09:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=13999"},"modified":"2016-05-05T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:48:31","slug":"aurora-teens-looking-to-jumpstart-local-sports-through-charity-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-teens-looking-to-jumpstart-local-sports-through-charity-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora teens looking to Jumpstart local sports through charity sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With dozens upon dozens of sports programs offered in York Region, sports are a way of life for a lot of kids in the Aurora community. It\u2019s where they meet their friends, and it\u2019s where Alexandria Connolly met her friends, too.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why she\u2019s hoping to give back to the sporting community, to help those that don\u2019t get the same chances.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly, along with her best friend, Kennedy Holmes, is hosting a garage sale on April 30 in support of the Canadian Tire Jumpstart program. <\/p>\n<p>According to Jumpstart, one in three Canadian families cannot afford to enroll their kids in organized sports, affecting almost 750,000 kids per year.<br \/>\nSince 2005, Jumpstart has helped get over one-million kids back in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Both Connolly and Holmes became involved with the Jumpstart program last year, with a desire to give back to the community before heading off to university this September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe picked Jumpstart because we both recognized the benefits of extra-curricular activities and wanted to help children in our community,\u201d said the 17-year old Connolly, who added the duo has received \u201clots of donations\u201d from friends and family for the event.<\/p>\n<p>Items up for grabs include everything from toys, movies, d\u00e9cor, clothing, and more.<\/p>\n<p>As well as playing soccer and volleyball growing up, Connolly met Holmes in ballet and said life would be \u201cvery different\u201d without her best friend.<br \/>\nThe address of the sale will be 77 Marsh Harbour, in Aurora.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unable to make it out and still wish to make a donation, donations can be made online at www.ctjumpstart.ca\/makingaurorabetter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With dozens upon dozens of sports programs offered in York Region, sports are a way of life for a lot of kids in the Aurora community. It\u2019s where they meet their friends, and it\u2019s where Alexandria Connolly met her friends, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999","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=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}