{"id":3192,"date":"2013-07-17T16:50:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2013-07-17T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T20:50:51","slug":"strawberries-in-bloom-at-market-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/strawberries-in-bloom-at-market-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Strawberries in bloom at Market festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite the spattering of rain, the strawberries were in full bloom on Saturday June 22 at the Aurora Farmers\u2019 Market\u2019s Strawberry Festival!
\nWe ate cake and fresh strawberry skewers; we danced to the music of the \u201cStrawberry Jam\u201d courtesy of the Manatee Band- Aaron, Paul & guest bassist, Steve-O.
\nThank you to our sponsors who made the special event and band-shell use a reality. Also, thank you to the \u201cFriends of the Greenbelt Foundation\u201d for their generous support towards the success of our event!
\nThank you to our brilliant and generous farmers \u2013 19th Avenue, Coopers & Willowtree \u2013 who donated 80 quarts of strawberries so that we were able to give out a total of 572 skewers!
\nAnd, as you know, berries don\u2019t skewer themselves – so three cheers to our volunteers: Issie, Amanda, Bailey and Paniz, who tirelessly washed and skewered berries all day! Thanks as well to Ilia \u2013 our volunteer who graciously served trays of berries to our customers.
\nIn keeping with the strawberry theme, many of our vendors offered strawberry-themed products for the day \u2013 from fudge to jewellery, to jam and treats. I\u2019d like to especially thank a few of our vendors who kindly put in some extra hours in the kitchen to provide complimentary sweets for the Strawberry Fest \u2013 Nicolle (Nicolle\u2019s Cookies) for crafting the three dozen beautiful cupcakes, and Cathy (Catarina\u2019s Kitchen) and Joe (Toscana Bakery) for their delicious strawberry cakes.
\nIt was great to see all of our \u201cregulars\u201d, and we loved welcoming new people who came out for the first time to experience the extra features offered by the Aurora Public Library and the Optimist Club that day.
\nWe hope that the three winners of the Market Bag raffle are enjoying their lovely treats, and special thanks to our Market Manager who donated five free passes to Pioneer Village for a lucky raffle winner!
\nThank you for helping us celebrate fun, sun and STRAWBERRIES!
\nWe look forward to seeing you at the Market any Saturday!<\/p>\n

Sarah Sparks-Pallett
\nDirector, Special Events<\/strong><\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the spattering of rain, the strawberries were in full bloom on Saturday June 22 at the Aurora Farmers\u2019 Market\u2019s Strawberry Festival! We ate cake and fresh strawberry skewers; we danced to the music of the \u201cStrawberry Jam\u201d courtesy of the Manatee Band- Aaron, Paul & guest bassist, Steve-O. Thank you to our sponsors who […]<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-3192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-opinion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-Pu","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 01:16:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","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=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}