{"id":24182,"date":"2019-07-04T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24182"},"modified":"2019-07-04T18:15:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T22:15:31","slug":"getting-things-done-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/getting-things-done-16\/","title":{"rendered":"GETTING THINGS DONE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Mayor Tom Mrakas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this week\u2019s Council\nmeeting, members considered a motion put forward by Councillor Kim to have the\nAurora Food & Culture Festival be declared as an \u201cevent of Town\nsignificance and to provide funding to an upset limit of $5,000.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The motion was approved (the\nfirst part of the motion was approved unanimously and the second part for the\nfunding was approved 5-2 with Councillor Gallo and Gaertner opposed). This new\nevent will form part of a weekend of multi-cultural events.  It will be held on Friday, September 6, the\nevening before the Town\u2019s Multicultural Festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past four months,\nCouncillor Kim and I have been working with and meeting government officials\nfrom Barbados. We talked about enhancing the multicultural festival that would\nshowcase culinary arts, rum, and entertainment from the island of Barbados. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are all excited that\nTourism Barbados has secured – and is committed to bringing – Chef Creig\nGreenidge, also known as Chef Creig, who is the Executive Chef and Owner of CM\nCatering which is based in Barbados.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are also committed to\nbringing mixologist Jamal Bowen to be the mixologist for the event. Jamal Bowen\nhas a stellar track record in competitions\nboth locally and globally, winning multiple awards including: several awards at\nNIFCA, Barbados Bartender of the Year 2006, three-time Angostura Mixmaster\nChampion in Barbados, Silver and Gold Medalist at Taste of the Caribbean,\nRegional Angostura Mixmaster Champion, 3rd Place Angostura Global Cocktail\nChallenge Finalist and Bartender of the Year at Taste of the Caribbean and Hall\nof Fame Inductee in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in terms of\nentertainment?  Elan Trotman (Saxophone)\nand Red Plastic Bag (Calypso) will provide fantastic entertainment for the\nweekend! Sax-Man Elan Trotman has quickly become one of the fastest rising\nstars in jazz with over 15 Billboard topping radio singles and Red Plastic Bag\n(Calypso) have thrilled audiences throughout the Caribbean, USA, Canada, United\nKingdom, China, Brazil, Australia, Germany and South Africa. He has performed\nat The Apollo Theatre NY, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Beacon\nTheatre NY, Lincoln Centre NY, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bailey Music Hall\nFlorida, Hammersmith Palais, London and Club Coconuts in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to think that this is all\ncoming to our Town!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does the Town need to do?\nWell, this event will be in the Town Park and will work in partnership with\nNiagara College in the newly renovated Armoury to deliver the event as well as\n$5000 dollars for mostly marketing material. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, of course, as a Town will\nhave a full accounting and financials of the event to ensure where every dollar\nis spent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an incredible\nopportunity for our Town to create an event that will encourage and engage our\nresidents and celebrate the diversity within our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will have people from all\nover York Region coming to this event and visiting our Town. This means more\nbusiness for our local businesses. The fact that we have the country of\nBarbados committed to investing both their financial and cultural resources in\nour community is an opportunity we don\u2019t want to miss!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am looking forward to this\nevent and for the strong relationship that will continue to grow between the\nbeautiful country of Barbados and the Town of Aurora.<\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Mayor Tom Mrakas At this week\u2019s Council meeting, members considered a motion put forward by Councillor Kim to have the Aurora Food & Culture Festival be declared as an \u201cevent of Town significance and to provide funding to an upset limit of $5,000.\u201d The motion was approved (the first part of the motion was […]<\/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":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns","category-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-6i2","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 05:08:52","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\/24182","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=24182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}