{"id":110881,"date":"2022-08-15T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T20:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=110881"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:17:43","slug":"fundraiser-to-support-new-ukrainian-families-to-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/fundraiser-to-support-new-ukrainian-families-to-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"Perogies and paintings to support new Ukrainian families in Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Saturday, St. Michael The Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church is hosting a fundraiser with all proceeds supporting local families who have immigrated from Ukraine within the last three months.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Artist, poet and church member Judith Popiel is donating her sunflower paintings to the cause. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI don\u2019t have a million dollars, but I have my paintings,\u201d Popiel says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fundraiser will provide families with grocery cards through KEYS Employment and Newcomer Services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s many women with young children here who have arrived in the last three months\u2026the government gives each family $3,000, and that\u2019s all the money they will receive. Some organizations are giving housing for 6 months\u2026most of them don\u2019t speak English so they\u2019re learning English\u2026Imagine someone saying to you \u2018Pack a suitcase and off you go because that\u2019s what you have to do,'\" says Popiel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Michael The Archangel is playing a very important in welcoming the new families, Popiel adds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"The church is the place where people gather and create community, it\u2019s a support structure\u2026they receive help from the various parishioners,\u201d says Popiel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Popiel\u2019s Sunflower paintings are available for $20 each, while a dozen frozen perogies are $10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fundraiser runs Saturday, Aug. 20 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CFRC story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday, St. Michael The Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church is hosting a fundraiser with all proceeds supporting local families who have immigrated from Ukraine within the last three months.\u00a0Artist, poet and church member Judith Popiel is donating her sunflower paintings to the cause. \u201cI don\u2019t have a million dollars, but I have my paintings,\u201d Popiel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":110887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[5246,1579,6733,12765],"radio":[13056],"origine":[267,13051,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111044,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110881\/revisions\/111044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110881"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=110881"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=110881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}