{"id":10625,"date":"2011-06-21T08:54:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=10625"},"modified":"2015-09-25T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T17:33:20","slug":"alumna-will-swim-across-lake-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/06\/alumna-will-swim-across-lake-ontario\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna will swim across Lake Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10626\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10626\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10626  \" title=\"Melanie Price in Lake Ontario\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/price.jpg\" alt=\"Alumna Melanie Price is swimming across Lake Ontario.\" width=\"461\" height=\"259\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alumna Melanie Price is swimming across Lake Ontario.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Brock alumna will attempt to swim across Lake Ontario this summer to raise money for a charity that works to restore and maintain the ability to swim, drink and fish in the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Melanie Price (BAcc &#8217;96) will swim from Port Dalhousie to Oakville Aug. 11 and 12. Funds raised will go to Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, a charity that helps enforce environmental laws and educate people about water quality challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Price began swimming at Brock as a student in the 1990s, working under coach Herb DeBray. In 1995, she was introduced to open-water racing during a training camp in the Florida Ocean Mile.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is part of the internationally-recognized Waterkeeper Alliance, which identifies threats to water quality and natural habitat.<\/p>\n<p>Charitable donations to Lake Ontario Waterkeeper can be made through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/gp\/11261\" target=\"_blank\">Price\u2019s giving page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More information is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/melaniepriceadventures.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Price&#8217;s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melanie Price is raising money for a charity that aims to protect the lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625"}],"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=10625"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35536,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions\/35536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}