{"id":257937,"date":"2020-06-13T02:15:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T06:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=257937"},"modified":"2020-06-13T02:15:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T06:15:55","slug":"city-of-surrey-proclaimed-june-2020-as-filipino-heritage-month-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/06\/13\/city-of-surrey-proclaimed-june-2020-as-filipino-heritage-month-in-surrey\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Surrey proclaimed June 2020 as Filipino Heritage Month in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257938\" style=\"width: 458px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-195-e1592028921179.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-257938 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-195-e1592028921179.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-195-e1592028921179.png 458w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot-195-e1592028921179-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Supplied photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The City of Surrey proclaimed today, June 12, 2020, on the occasion of the 122<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Philippine Independence Day, that June 2020 is Filipino Heritage Month in Surrey.\u00a0 The Proclamation, signed by Mayor Doug McCallum, was emailed this morning to Narima Dela Cruz, President of Surrey Philippine Independence Day Society (SPIDS), the long-time organization of Filipinos in Surrey.\u00a0 It was also mentioned on the posted public hearing agenda at the City of Surrey website on this cache: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/bylawsandcouncillibrary\/AGN_RCPH_CURRENT.pdf\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/bylawsandcouncillibrary\/AGN_RCPH_CURRENT.pdf&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1592101581555000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH9Yh1LLgN94Vk7RouYLXdSUTFzLQ\">https:\/\/www.surrey.ca\/bylawsandcouncillibrary\/AGN_RCPH_CURRENT.pdf<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Proclamation will be read at the virtual City Council meeting on Monday, June 15<sup>th<\/sup>, which happen to be the only Council meeting date for this month.<\/p>\n<p>The official request for Proclamation was submitted by Dela Cruz through the support of Councillor Linda Annis.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Surrey is home to more than 33, 000 Filipinos, according to the 2016 census data of Statistics Canada.\u00a0 Many members of the community work in the healthcare, manufacturing, \u00a0food, retail, \u00a0and hospitality industry &#8211; the essential and frontline workers of these pandemic times.\u00a0 SPIDS is honouring the Filipino Heritage Month by doing a month-long blood donation drive for Canadian Blood Services.\u00a0 IIn his daily briefing to Canadians this morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau highlighted some of the great works of Filipino-Canadians during these trying times, including the blood donation drive of the Filipino Community in Surrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Surrey proclaimed today, June 12, 2020, on the occasion of the 122nd\u00a0Philippine Independence Day, that June 2020 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":257938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1481,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-comm","category-events","mauthors-spids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257939,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257937\/revisions\/257939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}