{"id":34198,"date":"2024-02-08T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=34198"},"modified":"2024-02-08T17:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:15:26","slug":"february-1-proclaimed-optimist-day-by-mayor-at-town-park-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/february-1-proclaimed-optimist-day-by-mayor-at-town-park-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"February 1 proclaimed \u201cOptimist Day\u201d by Mayor at Town Park ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mayor Tom Mrakas declared Thursday, February 1 to be \u201cOptimist Day\u201d in Aurora in a flag-raising ceremony in Town Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Mrakas read the proclamation that declared that \u201csix million young people are helped worldwide by the Optimist Club annually\u201d and thanked the members of the dynamic local Club for \u201ctruly making a difference in peoples\u2019 lives in the Town of Aurora.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Mayor Mrakas extolled the virtues of the service club, Optimist President Georgia Pottage initiated the flag-raising ceremony and spoke about the synergy between the Town and the Optimist Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe love working side-by-side with the Town. We coordinate so many events together for the benefit of the community.  Their support enables us to give so much back to the Town and its youth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Pottage noted that \u201cIt was great seeing so many members of the Optimist Club out on a damp, soggy afternoon and how much support this group gives the young people of Aurora throughout the year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Mrakas echoed the sentiments of the Optimist Club\u2019s President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the Mayor, I always talk about the importance of volunteers as the backbone of the community.  The Optimists exude the spirit of volunteerism and show their support of youth through so many events.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Optimist Club\u2019s motto is \u201cFriend of Youth\u201d and one of the prime purposes of the service club is \u201cto aid and encourage the development of youth, in the belief that the giving of one\u2019s self in service to others will advance the well-being of humankind, community life, and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That spirit of helpfulness and all of its manifestations, as demonstrated by the Optimist Club\u2019s annual Marshalling of the Aurora Christmas Parade to its yearly Essay Contest and Chess Tournament for high school and elementary students to its care packages for indigent youth to its scholarships for local student-athletes to its sponsorship of local hockey teams to its famous Kitchen on Wheels featured at so many fundraising events during all four seasons of the year, were recognized at Town Park on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Jim Stewart<\/strong><\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mayor Tom Mrakas declared Thursday, February 1 to be \u201cOptimist Day\u201d in Aurora in a flag-raising ceremony in Town Park. Mayor Mrakas read the proclamation that declared that \u201csix million young people are helped worldwide by the Optimist Club annually\u201d and thanked the members of the dynamic local Club for \u201ctruly making a difference in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34199,"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":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34198","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\/2024\/02\/2024-02-08-05.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-8TA","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 14:21:55","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\/34198","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=34198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}