Monday, June 28, 2010

YAHOO! THE GAMES ARE COMING TO WINDSOR!

International Children’s Games (ICG) Secured for Windsor Essex in 2013



The  ICG Committee announced that in a unanimous decision Windsor Essex has been awarded the 2013 Summer Games. And this is great news for local businesses in the hospitality industry!

Mayor Eddie Francis traveled to Bahrain to deliver a bid presentation to the 18 member ICG Committee. The Mayor highlighted the merits of Windsor Essex as a viable and preferred sport destination for this much sought after group.

The only youth sporting event officially sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the ICG is an organization that fosters peace and friendship through sport for youth between the ages of 12 to 15 years of age.

Over 2,000 athletes, coaches, family members and dignitaries will converge on Windsor Essex in June of 2013.

"Windsor is honoured to have been selected to host the largest youth sporting event in the world in 2013," said Mayor Eddie Francis. "The world wide exposure of Windsor Essex that will be gained is priceless."

"Windsor Essex has proven that they have the infrastructure and more importantly the passion and desire to host our Games," saysTorsten Rasch, President of the International Children's Games. "We feel confident in the Mayor and the City's ability to deliver a world class sporting event."


by Deborah Jones Publisher Biz X Magazine

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Windsor Gets Spot On Canadian Monopoly board

The wait is over, and the verdict is in: Windsor is "on the board".

Windsor finished in 6th place, which means the most expensive yellow property on the board. This was a jump of two spots over 8th place, where Windsor sat on the leader board at the start of the blacked-out final week of voting in February.

“I was starting to get nervous, but we moved up two spots! Congratulations,” said Mayor Francis. “Thank you for being part of this exciting opportunity. We’re now on the board!”

Windsor competed with 64 other Canadian cities that were short-listed for the competition. Neighbouring Chatham-Kent won the top spot on the board, and Sarnia came in 4th. Mayor Francis congratulates our neighbours and acknowledged the big victory for South-western Ontario.

Hasbro’s MONOPOLY: Canada Edition hits stores June 28th.


by Deborah Jones Publisher Biz X Magazine

Monday, June 7, 2010

Red Bull Weekend

Wow what a great weekend it was..for red bull that is..weather did some major damage to Leamington and all of us at Biz X hope our business friends are all ok there...art in the park, still was a big success too despite having to close on the sunday..
but the Biz X team kept busy as usual with all the red bull action!

check out our photo here with Pete McLeod at the Kickoff Party at the Beach Bar & Grill on Friday the 4th..

well, another great year for Red Bull and we can not wait for the race to come back again in 2011!
Be sure to watch for the July/August issue of Biz X with all the great photos from the entire weekend!

by Deborah Jones Publisher Biz X Magazine