{"id":5570,"date":"2015-09-21T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/?post_type=post&#038;p=5570"},"modified":"2022-08-15T15:02:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T20:02:02","slug":"free-family-fun-festival-bigger-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/free-family-fun-festival-bigger-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Family Fun Festival Bigger Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come celebrate St.Amant\u2019s fundraising efforts with free admission at our signature event at 440 River Road.<br \/>\n\u201cYou don\u2019t have to know someone with a disability to know that everyone needs friendship, a connection to our community and a chance to give of themselves,\u201d said Festival co-chair Patrick Cloutier, who is supported by St.Amant\u2019s Supported Independent Living Program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stamant.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/admission-is-free-2015.png?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5572\" alt=\"admission is free 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stamant.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/admission-is-free-2015.png?resize=432%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"432\" height=\"243\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Families are invited to enjoy an inclusive environment filled with a petting zoo, games, live music, pony rides, bouncers and face painting. New for this year are an Artisans\u2019 Market with 25 vendors and a 50\/50 Draw. Plus there\u2019s a BBQ lunch to indulge in after working up an appetite participating in the Walkathon.<br \/>\nProceeds go towards four funding priorities for individuals with developmental disabilities and autism, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recreational opportunities (e.g. attend sporting and cultural event)<\/li>\n<li>Personal items (e.g. prescription glasses or communication devices)<\/li>\n<li>Education (e.g. literacy and computer classes)<\/li>\n<li>St.Amant Leisure Guide, which offers free activities modified for the people St.Amant supports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I want to showcase how St.Amant focuses on the abilities of the people we support,&#8221; said Juliette Mucha, Director, St.Amant Foundation. \u201cThe Foundation\u2019s objective is making goals a reality and the money we raise supports those goals. Last year we raised over $175,000 with this event and this year we\u2019re aiming to beat that!\u201d<br \/>\nStaff, friends, families and individuals we support have been collecting pledges and will walk down River Road to St. Mary\u2019s Avenue and back to kick off the event. Slurpees from 7-Eleven will be waiting at the halfway point of the Walkathon and then everyone will enjoy an afternoon of live music, activities and the 50\/50 draw back at St.Amant. <strong>The St.Amant Free the Spirit Festival is Saturday, September 26 from 10 AM to 2 PM in the Buhler Gardens behind St.Amant (440 River Road).<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stamant.ca\/festival\"><strong>www.stamant.ca\/festival<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come celebrate St.Amant\u2019s fundraising efforts with free admission at our signature event at 440 River Road. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to know someone with a disability to know that everyone needs friendship, a connection to our community and a chance to give of themselves,\u201d said Festival co-chair Patrick Cloutier, who is supported by St.Amant\u2019s Supported Independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18,16,14],"tags":[],"post-topic":[345],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":5570},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26017,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/26017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stamant.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-topic?post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}