Cash will help multicultural event grow
Monday, January 14, 2013 by: SooToday.com Staff
A $75,000 Ontario Trillium Foundation grant was announced today for the Passport to Unity Multicultural Festival (file photo from 2012 event shown).
Established in 2006, the festival has grown annually and now attracts over 4,000 people, many from outside the city.
The Sault Community Career Centre organizes the event and is using the money to support further growth.
“This Trillium grant will help to support making the vision of Passport To Unity, the Sault’s largest multicultural festival, become a self-sustaining week-long festival welcoming people from all over Northern Ontario and beyond,” said Karol Rains, executive director of the Sault Community Career Centre. "I am excited to expand this international festival and am grateful that the Ontario Trillium Foundation sees it as a valuable and worthwhile initiative.”
Added Sault MPP David Orazietti in a news release: “The province is providing support for the Passport to Unity Multicultural Event because it provides an opportunity for local residents to learn about and celebrate cultural diversity. The multicultural festival is becoming a premier tourism destination in the region, which continues to attract thousands of people to our community and is a welcome boost to the economy.”
An agency of the provincial government, the Ontario Trillium Foundation strengthens the voluntary sector through investments in community-based initiatives.
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ThinkAgain 1/14/2013 3:23:58 PM ReportAnother cash drain...
has become a self-sustaining week-long festival?? Then why ask for the money.
Give the money to something like our soup kitchen that can use money wisely.
Snowdon 1/14/2013 4:49:36 PM ReportOr maybe we could use the money to get you some reading comprehension classes.
'“This Trillium grant will help to support making the vision of Passport To Unity, the Sault’s largest multicultural festival, become a self-sustaining week-long festival'
WILL HELP TO SUPPORT MAKING; BECOMING - there are your key words and phrases. In other words, the grant will help support the festival BECOMING self-sustaining.
Although I guess when you're dead-set on harping over something, a close reading of the facts is not important.
madmaymax 1/14/2013 6:39:53 PM ReportHI:)I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THINKAGAIN:):) THAT MONEY WOULD FEED ALOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE IN NEED BECAUSE OF ALL THE CUTBACKS THE GOVERNMENT MADE!! WE DO N0T NEED ANOTHER FESTIVAL IN THE SAULT LETS HELP THE LESS FORTUNATE FIRST!!
madmaymax 1/14/2013 6:45:23 PM ReportONE MORE THING GLASSES WOULD BE GREAT AS WOULD DENTURES, SHOES ETC!:):) I CAN READ GREAT BUT I ALSO READ BETWEEN THE LINES, HOW MANY OTHER GIMMICKS ,FESTIVALS ETC, DO IT ALL ON THIER OWN MERRIT?? BON SOO?? I AM NOT SHOUTING BECAUSE SOMEONE SOMEWHERE IN PC SCHOOL SAID IN CAPS YOU ARE SHOUTING!!I JUST RATHER TYPE WITH MY CAPS ON! HAVE A GREAT NIGHT ONE AND ALL:)
whooligun 1/14/2013 9:58:12 PM ReportWow...all those CAPS are hard to look at.
For all you whiners, do you think the government puts a bag of money on the festival floor and it magically disappears?
The money goes to the people and businesses who actually help put the festival on. People in our local economy. It also draws lots of other people to the community, with the intent that they spend even more money into the economy.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for the day.
Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
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