{"id":1709,"date":"2010-03-04T14:14:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2010-03-04T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T19:14:20","slug":"student-services-staff-aid-local-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/student-services-staff-aid-local-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Services staff aid local charities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1710\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1710\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1710\" title=\"brockcares\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/brockcares.jpg\" alt=\"brockcares\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers included Tammy Brown, Jenna Novess, Linda Steele, Jeff Capel, Klara Kross and Karen Turner.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brock staff were out in the community recently for a day of service at local not-for-profit agencies.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 employees from the University\u2019s Student Services division took part in \u201cBrock Cares &#8211; Student Services Community Service Day\u201d on Feb. 25. Volunteer activities included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working in the soup kitchen to prepare and serve lunch at the <strong>Port Cares \u201cReach Out\u201d Centre<\/strong> in Port Colborne. Volunteers also co-ordinated a fun game of BINGO and a cooking circle with clients at the centre.<\/li>\n<li>Designing a display board and hands-on, educational activities for the <strong>Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara<\/strong>. The materials will be used as part of community presentations to promote volunteer opportunities and educate families, businesses and funders.<\/li>\n<li>General cleaning, maintenance and painting of facilities at <strong>Community Living-Grimsby, Lincoln and West Lincoln<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Preparing and serving a meal at the <strong>Hope Centre<\/strong> in Welland. Volunteers also helped sort and organize donated items in the agency\u2019s food bank and developed marketing and promotional materials for the Hope Centre.<\/li>\n<li>Sorting donated food items, stocking the food store with donated items and running a Savoury Samples session (a cooking program for quick and nutritious menu items), at <strong>Project Share<\/strong> in Niagara Falls.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt has become a tradition for Brock Student Services staff to volunteer a \u2018day of service\u2019 at local community-based agencies,\u201d said Kim Meade, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Student Services. \u201cWe all recognize the need to support and give back to our community, and this is a great opportunity for staff to contribute their time and talents at agencies across the Niagara Region. Our community is important to us and we wanted to do something to help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 60 Brock employees volunteered at local not-for-profit agencies during a recent day of service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"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=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}