{"id":29136,"date":"2021-04-16T00:34:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T04:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=29136"},"modified":"2021-04-16T00:34:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T04:34:58","slug":"flags-lowered-across-aurora-in-memory-of-prince-philip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/flags-lowered-across-aurora-in-memory-of-prince-philip\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags lowered across Aurora in memory of Prince Philip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Flags on public buildings across Aurora \u2013 and the country \u2013 have been lowered in memory of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prince Philip, the long-serving consort of Queen Elizabeth II, died at Windsor Castle last Friday at the age of 99. Flags will fly at half-mast until following his funeral this Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, this morning,\u201d said Mayor Tom Mrakas in a statement. \u201cOn behalf of Council and the Town of Aurora, I want to express my deepest sympathies to The Queen and to the entire Royal Family as they mourn the loss of a loved one. [He] served the public faithfully for over 70 years \u2013 a lifetime by any measure \u2013 and his legacy will live on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the days following his death, tributes continued to pour in from across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs royal consort, His Royal Highness was an invaluable support to Her Majesty the Queen who has referred to him as her \u2018constant strength and guide,\u2019\u201d said Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario. \u201cThe death of His Royal Highness will be mourned across the Commonwealth and throughout the world, especially by those whose lives he profoundly affected through the award scheme he founded in 1956 to support the personal development of young people. Since its inception, more than seven million people in 130 countries have taken part in The Duke of Edinburgh\u2019s Award. Here in Canada\u2014where the award was launched in 1963 and has since challenged almost 40,000 participants\u2014it offers initiatives aimed at youth at risk, young offenders, young people with disabilities, and Northern and Indigenous young people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere at Queen\u2019s Park, Premier Doug Ford praised the Duke\u2019s role not only as a \u201cdevoted husband, father, and grandfather\u201d but also as a \u201cwar hero and public servant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrince Philip will be missed by many people across Ontario and around the world,\u201d said Premier Ford. \u201cDuring a global pandemic, we cannot gather to pay tribute to his life, but we will always remember the extraordinary impact he had in his nearly 100 years on this earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong>
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flags on public buildings across Aurora \u2013 and the country \u2013 have been lowered in memory of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Prince Philip, the long-serving consort of Queen Elizabeth II, died at Windsor Castle last Friday at the age of 99. Flags will fly at half-mast until following his funeral this Saturday. \u201cIt is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29137,"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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2021-04-15-06.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-7zW","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-20 14:06:32","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\/29136","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=29136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}