{"id":4263,"date":"2013-10-16T17:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T21:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2013-10-23T23:42:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T03:42:55","slug":"local-teams-could-eat-their-way-to-20k-prize-for-aurora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/local-teams-could-eat-their-way-to-20k-prize-for-aurora\/","title":{"rendered":"Local teams could eat their way to $20k prize for Aurora"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Jeff Doner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shoeless Joe\u2019s Sports Grill in Aurora launched the 2013 \u201cIf Your Team Wins, Your Community Wins!\u201d competition at their location last week, with the goal of winning the $20,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n

As part of the Shoeless Joe\u2019s Home Team advantage program, the competition rewards local sports teams with points every time they eat at Shoeless Joe\u2019s Sports Grill for a chance to win the first-place prize. The community that comes in second place will receive $10,000 and the third place community will win $5,000, compliments of Shoeless Joe\u2019s Sports Grill. <\/p>\n

Aurora Mayor Geoffrey Dawe said the program could be very beneficial to the community and that there would be no shortage of places to spend the money.
\n\u201cThere definitely wouldn\u2019t be a problem finding things to do, but the problem would be picking,\u201d he said. \u201cThe benefit if the town wins $20,000 to refresh a soccer field or the dugouts at Lambert Willson fields or maybe fix up some of the old grungy dressing rooms at the Aurora Community Centre, it\u2019s a great opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alberto Sayde of the Aurora Shoeless Joe\u2019s restaurant said he believes Aurora has a really good chance to walk away with the top prize simply because they have strong relationships with so many sports teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a great relationship with all our teams that we have been sponsoring for years,\u201d he said. \u201cThe Aurora Tigers have been here for 14 years \u2013 we\u2019ve been involved with them right from the start. Men\u2019s baseball teams as well too. They\u2019re always here year in and year out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over their 14 year history in the community, Sayde said Shoeless Joe\u2019s has made it a priority to sponsor and help out local teams. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lots of sports teams and lots of opportunities for everybody,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s good for everybody. At Shoeless here we\u2019re trying to be the next best thing to being at the game. We try and make it very sports oriented, so one of the most important things if you want to do that is sponsor local teams. To become an athlete you\u2019ve got to start somewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of it is about the young athletes coming up. You\u2019ve got to make sure you treat them well and help give them a chance with sponsorships to help out. It doesn\u2019t just benefit us, it benefits the kids too.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the Shoeless Joe\u2019s location on Orchard Heights Blvd and Yonge St. or visit www.shoelessjoes.ca. <\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shoeless Joe\u2019s Sports Grill in Aurora launched the 2013 \u201cIf Your Team Wins, Your Community Wins!\u201d competition at their location last week, with the goal of winning the $20,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4233,"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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-16-12.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-16L","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 15:58:52","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\/4263","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=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}