{"id":85288,"date":"2022-03-07T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=85288"},"modified":"2022-03-07T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T20:16:26","slug":"mrc-launches-contest-asking-residents-why-they-chose-pontiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mrc-launches-contest-asking-residents-why-they-chose-pontiac\/","title":{"rendered":"MRC launches contest asking residents why they chose Pontiac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MRC Pontiac launched a contest at the start of the month asking residents of the region why they chose to come to the area. The contest is part of the MRC\u2019s territorial marketing strategy,\u00a0<a class=\"spip_site\" href=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/MRC-Pontiac-launches-new-regional-brand\">launched back in Februrary<\/a>, which centers around \u201c14,000 reasons to choose the Pontiac\u201d, a reference to the MRC\u2019s 14,000 residents and 14,000 square kilometres of territory.<\/p>\n<p>MRC communications advisor Colleen Jones explained that all would-be participants have to do is comment on the contest post on the MRC\u2019s Facebook and Instagram pages with their reasons for choosing the region.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-85288-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Clip-Colleen-Jones-contest.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Clip-Colleen-Jones-contest.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Clip-Colleen-Jones-contest.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>On April 1, two names will be selected at random to win either $500 worth of goods or experiences offered by Pontiac businesses.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-85288-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Clip-Colleen-Jones-prizes.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Clip-Colleen-Jones-prizes.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Clip-Colleen-Jones-prizes.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The full contest rules can be\u00a0<a class=\"spip_out\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visagesregionaux.com\/reglements-du-concours-mrc-pontiac\/?fbclid=IwAR2zO9jXxozy0OeV0AmX48ux5eMBzjOC4FPCMf7TUD_C3gd0dvunJs--7UU\" rel=\"external\">found here<\/a>. The full interview with Jones is available below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MRC Pontiac launched a contest at the start of the month asking residents of the region why they chose to come to the area. The contest is part of the MRC\u2019s territorial marketing strategy,\u00a0launched back in Februrary, which centers around \u201c14,000 reasons to choose the Pontiac\u201d, a reference to the MRC\u2019s 14,000 residents and 14,000&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":85296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[13022,3778,956],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85288"}],"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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85288"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=85288"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=85288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}