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Friends of the Arena (FOTA<\/strong>), an Advisory Committee of Westport, Ontario Municipal Council, was recently created to assist the Village in upgrading the aging infrastructure of the arena.\u00a0 The Committee has compiled a \u201cWish List\u201d which totals approximately $320,500. To date, we have raised over $94,000 in donations, including a $50,000 prize from AVIVA. We are able to issue tax receipts for income tax purposes. <\/p>\n Date : <\/p>\n Event location : <\/p>\n Contact : Friends of the Arena (FOTA), an Advisory Committee of Westport, Ontario Municipal Council, was recently created to assist the Village in upgrading the aging infrastructure of the arena.\u00a0 The Committee has compiled a \u201cWish List\u201d which totals approximately $320,500. To date, we have raised over $94,000 in donations, including a $50,000 prize from AVIVA. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,67,70],"tags":[651,1235,1543,1701,1725],"class_list":["post-4297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-to-do","category-westport-on","category-westport-ontario-events","tag-fota-skate-a-thon","tag-rideau-lakes-entertainement","tag-things-to-do","tag-westport-community-arena","tag-westport-fundraising"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFriends of the Arena (FOTA) is hosFriends of the Arena (FOTA), an Advisory Committee of Westport, Ontario Municipal Council, was recently created to assist the Village in upgrading the aging infrastructure of the arena.\u00a0 The Committee has compiled a \u201cWish List\u201d which totals approximately $320,500. To date, we have raised over $94,000 in donations, including a $50,000 prize from AVIVA. We are able to issue tax receipts for income tax purposes.
\nFriends of the Arena (FOTA) is hosting a fundraising skate-a-thon at the Westport Arena on Sunday, February 19th and is seeking participants.\u00a0 Skating will be from 2:00 \u2013 3:00 with refreshments to follow.\u00a0 All ages are welcome.\u00a0 Participants are asked to seek sponsors to pledge a donation and the Village of Westport will issue tax receipts for donations of $20.00 and over.\u00a0 All proceeds from the event will be put towards further arena upgrades.
\nKudrinkos has kindly offered to provide hot dogs and drinks to the skaters while Cottage Coffee House is providing hot chocolate and coffee.\u00a0 Volunteers will be baking cookies. All participants will need to register and submit their pledge sheet along with donations prior to the 2:00 pm start time at the arena.<\/p>\n
\nSunday, Feb 19<\/strong><\/span>, 2017 from 2 to 4 pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWestport Community Arena, 37 Spring Street, Westport, ON, Canada<\/p>\n
\nWestport Community Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"