{"id":75829,"date":"2016-12-06T17:33:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T22:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=75829"},"modified":"2016-12-05T18:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T23:21:37","slug":"city-seeking-donations-for-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=75829","title":{"rendered":"City seeking donations for fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"m_-1358053831021363124ArticleHeadline\" align=\"left\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_75830\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75830\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=75830\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75830\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-75830\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dad2-208x300.jpg?resize=208%2C300\" alt=\"Mayor Leo Matzke\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dad2.jpg?resize=208%2C300&amp;ssl=1 208w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dad2.jpg?resize=104%2C150&amp;ssl=1 104w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dad2.jpg?w=304&amp;ssl=1 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Leo Matzke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dear local business owner,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"m_-1358053831021363124ArticleHeadline\"><span class=\"m_-1358053831021363124MainText\">Coming soon is New Year&#8217;s Eve. A number of years ago, here in the City, we had fireworks on what is known as First Night to celebrate the coming of the New Year. As a City, we&#8217;d like to hold this event again. Since taking over as mayor, I&#8217;ve had a number of residents asking if we could start this tradition once again. I would like to hold them around <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1253101750\"><span class=\"aQJ\">6pm<\/span><\/span>, early enough in the evening, so the whole family can watch.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"m_-1358053831021363124ArticleHeadline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"m_-1358053831021363124ArticleHeadline\"><span class=\"m_-1358053831021363124MainText\"> It just plain adds fun and excitement to begin 2017.<\/span><span class=\"m_-1358053831021363124MainText\">It is with this intention that I am writing this letter, sending it out to individuals and businesses asking for a donation of $50 dollars or more. Our goal is to raise $3,500. If you can help with this, it would be greatly appreciated. We need to have funds collected to secure our fireworks vendor by <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1253101751\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Dec. 19<\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_-1358053831021363124MainText\">Please send your donation to: Oneida City Central Committee, 155 Madison St., Oneida, N.Y. 13421. The Oneida City Central Committee is a 501-C3 committee so all donations are tax deductible. If you have any questions, please don&#8217;t hesitate to call me at 315.363.1921.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_-1358053831021363124MainText\">Sincerely, <\/span><span class=\"m_-1358053831021363124MainText\">Leo Matzke<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear local business owner, Coming soon is New Year&#8217;s Eve. A number of years ago, here in the City, we had fireworks on what is known as First Night to celebrate the coming of the New Year. As a City, we&#8217;d like to hold this event again. Since taking over as mayor, I&#8217;ve had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75830,"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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-jJ3","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/dad2.jpg?fit=304%2C439&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}