{"id":10257,"date":"2011-05-26T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10257"},"modified":"2011-05-26T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T20:25:26","slug":"niagara-youth-to-compete-in-jumpstart-games-at-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/05\/niagara-youth-to-compete-in-jumpstart-games-at-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara youth to compete in Jumpstart Games at Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Tire Financial Services (CTFS) and Brock will team up on Saturday to host Jumpstart Day and the first-ever Canadian Tire Jumpstart Games at the University.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred youth from three Niagara-area not-for-profit agencies will compete in 10 activities to celebrate Jumpstart Day and put the Canadian Tire Jumpstart Kids Activity Kit to the test. Participating local agencies include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> YMCA of Niagara \u2014 Leader Corps<\/li>\n<li> Niagara Peninsula Children\u2019s Centre<\/li>\n<li> the Resource Association for Teens\u2019 (RAFT) after school programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Canadian Tire Jumpstart Kids Activity Kit is a new program developed by Canadian Tire Jumpstart that provides an innovative solution for communities and non-profit partners that lack proper sporting equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The kit is packed with equipment that can be used for indoor and outdoor activities \u2014 none of which require specialized facilities. It can also be customized based on a community\u2019s needs and include items that a wide range of ages and skills can use, such as basketballs, yoga mats, soccer balls, footballs, rugby balls, compasses and flags for orienteering, ultimate Frisbees and volleyballs.<\/p>\n<p>CTFS is also hosting its sixth Canadian Tire Jumpstart Gala in the evening. CTFS\u2019s goal is to help more than 10,000 kids in 485 communities across Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Tire Financial Services and Brock will team up to host Jumpstart Day and the first-ever Canadian Tire Jumpstart Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10258,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10257\/revisions\/10258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}