{"id":9983,"date":"2015-03-04T21:18:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T02:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=9983"},"modified":"2015-03-25T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T21:38:11","slug":"york-region-gears-up-for-annual-southlake-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/york-region-gears-up-for-annual-southlake-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"York Region gears up for annual Southlake fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Area mayors gathered at the York Region headquarters in Newmarket on Thursday to kick off the annual Municipal Challenge, a wager between municipalities in support of the 2015 Run or Walk for Southlake.<\/p>\n<p>The friendly competition challenges municipalities to raise the most in pledges for the largest annual fundraiser for the Southlake Foundation, with the winner taking home the coveted Mayor\u2019s Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a friendly way of getting everyone involved,\u201d said Dionne Malcolm, communications manager at the Southlake Foundation. \u201cIt gets the ball rolling early.\u201d<br \/>\nMayor Virginia Hackson of East Gwillimbury took home the trophy last year, as her team raised just shy of $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place in late April at the Stronach Recreation Complex in Aurora, this family-friendly event raises funds for new and replacement hospital equipment that is not covered by the Government of Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s fundraising goal is $175,000.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is currently open for both individuals and teams at www.runforsouthlake.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Area mayors gathered at the York Region headquarters in Newmarket on Thursday to kick off the annual Municipal Challenge, a wager between municipalities in support of the 2015 Run or Walk for Southlake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/2015-03-05-08.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983","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=9983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}