{"id":461652,"date":"2025-12-21T06:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461652\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T06:23:11","slug":"prominent-barrie-businessman-paul-sadlon-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/461652\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Barrie businessman Paul Sadlon has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadlon was a longtime successful business owner in Barrie, and founded Paul Sadlon Motors on Bayfield Street, his automotive dealership, in 1971<\/p>\n<p>Prominent Barrie businessman and philanthropist Paul Sadlon Sr. has died. He was 93.<\/p>\n<p>His passing was announced prior to tonight\u2019s Ontario Hockey League game between the Barrie Colts and the London Knights.<\/p>\n<p>According to people in attendance at Sadlon Arena, the sports facility which bears his name, Sadlon\u2019s death was announced on the scoreboard and to the crowd, followed by a moment of silence.<\/p>\n<p>Sadlon, a longtime successful business owner in Barrie, founded Paul Sadlon Motors on Bayfield Street, his automotive dealership, in 1971.<\/p>\n<p>The former Barrie Molson Centre was renamed Sadlon Arena after city council approved a 10-year naming rights agreement worth over $1.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Sadlon and his family were \u201can integral part\u201d of bringing the Sadlon Centre for Health, Wellness and Sciences to fruition at Georgian College, through their $2-million donation in 2011, according to the school at the time.<\/p>\n<p>He was also known for supporting many community causes and events through his dealership, and has given to the Simcoe County Newcomer Recognition Awards, Barrie Pride, the Bradford Lion&#8217;s Club and the Bradford West Gwillimbury Library and Cultural Centre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sadlon was a longtime successful business owner in Barrie, and founded Paul Sadlon Motors on Bayfield Street, his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,50,210609],"class_list":{"0":"post-461652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-paul-sadlonpaul-sadlon-death"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115756125753852986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}