{"id":1656,"date":"2021-01-22T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2021-02-12T10:40:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:40:02","slug":"we-mourn-the-loss-of-wayne-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/we-mourn-the-loss-of-wayne-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"We Mourn the Loss of Wayne Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The members of the board<\/a> of Montgomery’s INNovators join the staff and volunteers at Montgomery’s Inn in mourning the passing, on January 20, of our dear friend Wayne Roberts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Wayne was a tireless advocate for local food systems. During his time as manager of the Toronto Food Policy Council, Wayne’s vision was that city-owned buildings (even unconventional ones such as museums) should be used as sites for strengthening local food networks, connecting food producers directly to food consumers, and increasing urban food security.<\/p>

That vision was shared by our past curator Mike Lipowski.<\/p>

Out of that shared vision, our Farmers’ Market was born!<\/p>

Wayne was also instrumental in the INNovators’ fundraising efforts which paid for the construction of the Inn’s bread oven. He loved the idea of a community gathering to bake & break bread together.<\/p>

As soon as Covid-19 restrictions allow, we will be sure to bake a batch in Wayne’s honour. <\/p>Kate Hill, Museum Program Officer, Montgomery’s Inn<\/em><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Wayne Roberts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

You can learn more here<\/a> about the life of this extraordinary man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Credits: <\/strong>the featured photo is from Wayne’s twitter feed<\/a> and the second photo is from Foodtank: The Thinktank for Food.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The members of the board of Montgomery’s INNovators join the staff and volunteers at Montgomery’s Inn in mourning the passing, on January 20, of our dear friend Wayne Roberts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Wayne-Roberts-2017.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montgomerysinnovators.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}