{"id":23335,"date":"2019-03-21T18:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T22:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=23335"},"modified":"2019-03-21T18:37:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T22:37:02","slug":"town-should-increase-cultural-centre-funding-volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/town-should-increase-cultural-centre-funding-volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Town should increase Cultural Centre funding: volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Re: Council tightens budget reins on community partners, March 14)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As someone who volunteers\npart-time every week at the Aurora Cultural Centre, I am writing to respond to\nthe article in this past Thursday\u2019s Auroran regarding the denial of a request\nfor an increase in funding for the Centre by the Town of Aurora Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cultural Centre serves an\nextremely valuable function for the community of Aurora. Anyone who has\nattended a concert at the Centre, taken one of its classes, or has viewed the\nmany changing exhibitions in its galleries, will attest to this fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What local resident would prefer\nto hike into downtown Toronto on a cold winter\u2019s night to take in a concert\nwhen the same can be had within a few minutes of home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Centre also sponsors day\ncamps for children both during the summer months as well as during March break\nand the professional development days which occur throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my experience working as a\nvolunteer at the Centre, I am struck by the dedication shown by its staff, some\nof whom have been with the Centre since its founding almost a decade\nago. By not funding the salaries of staff at levels comparable to other\nlocal cultural venues, the Centre is in danger of losing highly qualified and loyal\nstaff members (quote by Councillor Wendy Gaertner that \u201cthey are underpaid, she\nsaid, arguing that it was becoming an issue\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would suggest that the Town of\nAurora can ill afford the possibility of doing without the Aurora Cultural\nCentre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I, for one, would encourage the\nCouncil to reconsider its position and grant the Centre its requested increase\nin it core operating grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colin Guenther<\/strong>
Aurora<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Re: Council tightens budget reins on community partners, March 14) As someone who volunteers part-time every week at the Aurora Cultural Centre, I am writing to respond to the article in this past Thursday\u2019s Auroran regarding the denial of a request for an increase in funding for the Centre by the Town of Aurora Council. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23335","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\/p3D2k4-64n","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 08:29:15","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\/23335","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=23335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}