{"id":8107,"date":"2010-02-23T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2010-02-23T14:03:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T19:03:05","slug":"cash-tight-festival-needs-help-from-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/cash-tight-festival-needs-help-from-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash-tight festival needs help from city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2461339\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With its own finances at the brink, the Winter Festival of Lights has turned to city hall to back up its bid to get a line of credit it needs to pay the bills on the new Rink at the Brink skating attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Festival manager Dino Fazio said his organization needs a $500,000 line of credit from its bank to start paying some of the bills associated with the new rink&#8217;s construction across from the Niagara Parks Commission&#8217;s Table Rock Complex last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Without the city acting as a guarantor, the bank won&#8217;t give the festival the loan, Fazio said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t need a dollar from the city. I do need a guarantee,&#8221; Fazio told members of the corporate services committee, which considers council&#8217;s financial matters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Will they give it to you without us?&#8221; Coun. Carolynn Ioannoni asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; Fazio replied.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: With its own finances at the brink, the Winter Festival of Lights has turned to city hall to back up its bid to get a line of credit it needs to pay the bills on the new Rink at the Brink skating attraction. Festival manager Dino Fazio said his organization&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,503],"tags":[2990,1109,2989,671,2992,1941,2991,2114,46,2993],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-winter-festival-of-lights","tag-bank","tag-carolynn-ioannoni","tag-corporate-services-committee","tag-dino-fazio","tag-guarantor","tag-ice-rink","tag-loan","tag-rink-at-the-brink","tag-wfol","tag-winterf-festival-of-lights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}