{"id":15269,"date":"2016-09-14T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2016-09-14T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:30:20","slug":"aurorans-demand-apology-says-resident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurorans-demand-apology-says-resident\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAurorans demand apology,\u201d says resident"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Open Letter to Mayor & Council:<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am fiercely Canadian of proud Italian Heritage living in Aurora.
\nThe proud Italian community feel the betrayal, intolerance, alleged biased from Town of Aurora Council towards Italians.
\nIn particular, we allege that architects of this slight to Italians excluded the Italian community from participating as vendors, food suppliers and entertainment without due diligence and proper notice to Italians in regards the event.
\nTheir poor excuse is that time ran out, and could not find Italians to participate.
\nFurther, once I complained, two days prior to the Festival, they changed the original advertising poster
\nwith cultural country names excluding Italian to an edited poster.
\nWe allege that they included their own worthy cultures on the advertising poster at the expense of the greater number and much more visible majority of Italians
\nin Aurora.
\nThe cultural make up and population numbers in Aurora alone will add to the ill-advised plan to exclude Italians from the party: Italians 2,500. Greeks 500. Koreans 300.
\nOne can come to their own conclusions on this fact alone; let alone the large Italian business
\nand construction presence in Aurora.
\nDid the organizing Councillors act for the greater interest of Aurora or did they act for their own personal agenda?
\nIn view of the above, 2,500 Aurora Italians, along with 600,000 Italians in Canada respectfully demand a public apology from Town of Aurora Council.
\nWhile Councillors have a tendency to blame staff, (who cannot comment) for Council blunders, I hold Town of Aurora Staff in high regard and are the best in York Region.
\nIf any unwilling error was done by staff, it was under the guidance of councillors, not staff.
\nFurther, as Aurora residents and ta payers, we please request an audited Financial Statement from the Town of Aurora, income, expenses, sponsors, donations and loss and gain of the Event.
\nFurthermore, we request an explanation on accountability of who, what, how, when and where of the organizational plans that guided the Festival.
\nAs it is now, Italy is currently suffering from immense earthquakes and loss of life.
\nRespectfully, we do not need the added injury of insult from Aurora Council on top of our anguish and bereavement.
\nItalian Canadians community await Town of Aurora Council\u2019s public apology. We will not rest.
\nThank you in advance of your courtesy.<\/p>\n

Anthony Pullano
\nAurora<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s Note: The Town of Aurora began advertising for local community groups to come forward and apply to participate at the beginning of August with an application deadline of August 23.)<\/em><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Open Letter to Mayor & Council: I am fiercely Canadian of proud Italian Heritage living in Aurora. The proud Italian community feel the betrayal, intolerance, alleged biased from Town of Aurora Council towards Italians. In particular, we allege that architects of this slight to Italians excluded the Italian community from participating as vendors, food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3Yh","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-23 14:41:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","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=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}