{"id":18241,"date":"2012-09-13T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=18241"},"modified":"2012-09-12T14:22:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:22:26","slug":"18241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/09\/18241\/","title":{"rendered":"Toss Across Uganda takes to field Sept. 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-18242\" title=\"toss-across-uganda\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/toss-across-uganda-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"toss-across-uganda\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>A team of Brock students are throwing their energy into improving the lives of children in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Five students are organizing <a title=\"Toss Across Uganda\" href=\"http:\/\/righttoplay.akaraisin.com\/RacingForRightToPlay\/thetossacrossuganda\" target=\"_blank\">Toss Across Uganda, a fundraiser for the Right to Play organization<\/a>, in which participants will spend an afternoon throwing a ball 500 kilometres during a marathon game of catch. That&#8217;s roughly the distance across the African country of Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers, students Aaron Murray, Melissa Austin, Anne-Marie Hay, Sam Brandow and Kurt Singer, hope to raise $2,000 by the time they take to <a title=\"Community Park\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharines.ca\/en\/playin\/CommunityPark.asp\" target=\"_blank\">George Taylor Field at Community Park<\/a> on Saturday, Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re encouraging others to participate in the event and request a minimum of $25 in pledges from each participant.<\/p>\n<p>The Toss Across Uganda runs from noon until 4 p.m. or whenever participants have covered 500 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>To donate, <a title=\"Toss Across Uganda\" href=\"http:\/\/righttoplay.akaraisin.com\/RacingForRightToPlay\/thetossacrossuganda\" target=\"_blank\">visit Toss Across Uganda.<\/a> For more information or to participate, email <a href=\"mailto:tossacrossuganda@hotmail.com\">tossacrossuganda@hotmail.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Brock students are throwing their energy into improving the lives of children in Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[543,542,544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241"}],"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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18244,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241\/revisions\/18244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}