{"id":3252,"date":"2014-07-03T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:21:31","slug":"doonside-festival-is-set-for-saturday-july-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"Doonside Festival is set for Saturday, July 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so far 3 confirmed sponsors: Jason Luu of <strong>MediAdvise Pharmacy<\/strong>; <strong>Hayward Real Estate<\/strong>; and <strong>John Robertson MP<\/strong>. So the rides are for free! There are 2 other sponsors being worked on which will allow a prize pool.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There will be Special Guest appearances by the <strong>Penrith Panthers<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Western Sydney Wanderers<\/strong>. They will be presenting some of their players to attend during the day.<\/p>\n<p>Stage performances<\/p>\n<p>Most of the line up is locked in.\u00a0The committee is just waiting for some final confirmations.<\/p>\n<p>The latest confirmed signing is the <strong>African Performing Arts Group<\/strong>, some of whom were part of the winners of Tropfest Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>There is a great front page on the Blacktown City Sun advertising the Festival.\u00a0In the past, there was a Filipino <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong> impersonator and complimentary karaoke equipment.\u00a0We are confident that he will be performing again this month. Setting up of stalls are in progress.<\/p>\n<p>There are plans to have lucky door prizes at specific times (at 12 noon and 2pm).\u00a0 Anyone who is there can pick up a ticket. Winning tickets will be drawn from a barrel for some exciting prizes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Philippine Sentinel,<\/strong> which is the largest Filipino newspaper in circulation in New South Wales has committed to donate two <strong>FREE <\/strong>subscriptions for 12 months. Flyers about the festival will be distributed at the Doonside railway station on Friday 4<sup>th<\/sup> July &amp; Wednesday 9<sup>th<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so far 3 confirmed sponsors: Jason Luu of MediAdvise Pharmacy; Hayward Real Estate; and John Robertson MP. So the rides are for free! There are 2 other sponsors being worked on which will allow a prize pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}