{"id":12514,"date":"2007-07-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/07\/28\/ontario-temple-hopes-for-additional-government-help-following-arson-fire\/"},"modified":"2007-07-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T12:00:00","slug":"ontario-temple-hopes-for-additional-government-help-following-arson-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/07\/28\/ontario-temple-hopes-for-additional-government-help-following-arson-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Temple Hopes for Additional Government Help Following Arson Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hamiltonmountainnews.com\/hmn\/news\/news_842071.html\">www.hamiltonmountainnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">ONTARIO, CANADA, July 28, 2007: Representatives of the Hindu Samaj Temple received Can$17,000 from the provincial government, last week, but they are still waiting for further financial help to eliminate their $300,000 debt created when they had to rebuild their new temple was destroyed after a 2001 arson. &#8220;We have not given up (to receive) the capital funding help,&#8221; said Nithy Ananth, who is co-coordinating the temple&#8217;s funding. Stoney Creek Liberal MPP Jennifer Mossop announced last week the provincial government gave $17,000 to the Hindu Samaj Temple to expand its yoga program. The money came from the province&#8217;s Communities In Action Fund. Mr. Ananth said temple officials have also applied for further provincial funding, estimated to be between $20,000 to $40,000 that would be used to expand the facility&#8217;s heritage education program into the Hamilton community. Mr. Ananth said an announcement could be made within six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are confident the funding is available,&#8221; he said. The Liberal government provided the temple in 2005 with $31,000. Temple officials, and Hamilton East NDP MPP Andrea Horwath, this spring criticized the Liberal government for ignoring its capital financial problems after it was revealed the Liberals had distributed about $32 million to various Liberal-friendly faith organizations. They argued the Liberals &#8220;deceived and misled&#8221; them about the availability of government funding which temple officials have been seeking since their $1.8 million Temple was destroyed by arson Sept. 15, 2001. The temple was re-built, but the community still has a $300,000 bank loan to pay back and $50,000 in capital commitments. The community received $400,000 from insurance, $120,000 from the federal government, and $10,000 from the city of Hamilton to rebuild the temple. &#8220;This program is not just for Hindus,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s for people of all faiths. We are trying to include younger people. If you can breathe, you can do yoga.&#8221; Dr. Deonanarian will also be offering a yoga summer camp next month for the fourth time. Last year it attracted about 40 youths from all over Ontario.&#8221; (The temple) is not just about religion,&#8221; said Mr. Ananth. &#8220;It&#8217;s also a cultural community center that is open to other people. This (center) belongs to the entire community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hamiltonmountainnews.com ONTARIO, CANADA, July 28, 2007: Representatives of the Hindu Samaj Temple received Can$17,000 from the provincial government, last week,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}