{"id":103237,"date":"2025-07-14T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=103237"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:43:38","slug":"celebrating-community-impact-with-niagara-councils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2025\/07\/celebrating-community-impact-with-niagara-councils\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating community impact with Niagara councils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock President and Vice-Chancellor Lesley Rigg met with local municipal councils last week to celebrate successful community collaborations and highlight the ways research expertise and student talent at the University benefit Niagara residents.<\/p>\n<p>These presentations to Port Colborne City Council and the Niagara Region Planning and Economic Development Committee are part of Brock&#8217;s ongoing dialogue, engagement and collaboration with Niagara\u2019s municipalities. Rigg previously presented at <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/in-focus\/connecting-with-the-thorold-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thorold City Council on June 17.<\/a> During these presentations, she provided an update on the University&#8217;s recent community activity and its new <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/strategic-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strategic Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_103247\" style=\"width: 1060px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lesley-Rigg-Port-Colborne-council-scaled.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103247\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-103247 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Lesley-Rigg-Port-Colborne-council-1050x574.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands at a podium in Port Colborne council chambers with people seated in the crowd and councillors seated around a large desk that spans the front of the room.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"574\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock University President and Vice-Chancellor Lesley Rigg addresses Port Colborne Council on Tuesday, July 8.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock President and Vice-Chancellor Lesley Rigg met with local municipal councils last week to celebrate successful community collaborations and highlight the ways research expertise and student talent at the University benefit Niagara residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9794,1],"tags":[703],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103237"}],"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=103237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103253,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103237\/revisions\/103253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}