{"id":176551,"date":"2023-09-01T12:36:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=176551"},"modified":"2023-09-05T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T14:39:57","slug":"pec-council-approves-agreement-with-wellington-dukes-but-not-free-ice-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/pec-council-approves-agreement-with-wellington-dukes-but-not-free-ice-time\/","title":{"rendered":"PEC Council approves agreement with Wellington Dukes but not free ice time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday (Aug. 29), Council approved of a new five-year licence and use agreement between the County and the Wellington Dukes Junior Hockey Club for the latter\u2019s use of the Wellington &amp; District Community Centre.<\/p>\n<p>There was some discussion from councillors as to whether they would grant in-kind use of the centre\u2019s ice rink in exchange for an official naming sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>Sophiasburgh Councillor Bill Roberts summarized his concerns about maintaining municipal fiscal responsibility alongside a potential subsidization of a for-profit hockey business. \"We need to be consistent and serious about the cost of our local government...I'm more than a little ambivalent about the idea of subsidizing a for-profit enterprise,\" said Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, Council voted to reject free ice time for the Dukes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the full story below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday (Aug. 29), Council approved of a new five-year licence and use agreement between the County and the Wellington Dukes Junior Hockey Club for the latter\u2019s use of the Wellington &amp; District Community Centre. There was some discussion from councillors as to whether they would grant in-kind use of the centre\u2019s ice rink in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":169125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,225],"tags":[10600,29859,28869,29858,5164,16733,28828,28596],"radio":[13055],"origine":[267,269,13050],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176551"}],"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\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176551"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177089,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176551\/revisions\/177089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176551"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=176551"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=176551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}