{"id":577,"date":"2010-08-12T09:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2010-08-13T07:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T10:42:01","slug":"small-donations-a-big-deal-for-sports-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Small donations a big deal for sports programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lorinc in Thursday&#8217;s Globe and Mail writes:-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The week has seen other acts of sports-related micro-philanthropy: The Royal Bank of Canada, for example, ponied up for cricket gear for kids in low-income communities as part of PFR\u2019s Operation Cricket program, which it sponsors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Earlier in the summer, Joe Pantalone made something of a splash with Greater Toronto cricketers by pledging a BMO Field-style cricket facility if elected.\u00a0Danny Persaud, a spokesperson for the GTA Cricket Council, said the proposal has sparked interest and debate, but noted that what the city\u2019s burgeoning cricket community needs most are more playing fields coupled with a centralized booking service from the city. As for donated bats, stumps and gloves, he said, \u201cPlaying fields would infinitely outweigh the equipment\u201d in terms of priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/small-donations-a-big-deal-for-toronto-sports-programs\/article1669938\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lorinc in Thursday&#8217;s Globe and Mail writes:- &#8220;The week has seen other acts of sports-related micro-philanthropy: The Royal Bank of Canada, for example, ponied up for cricket gear for kids in low-income communities as part of PFR\u2019s Operation Cricket program, which it sponsors.&#8221; &#8220;Earlier in the summer, Joe Pantalone made something of a splash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}