{"id":22642,"date":"2013-05-15T13:24:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T18:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=22642"},"modified":"2013-05-15T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T19:36:11","slug":"particpants-wanted-for-brocks-rankin-run-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/05\/particpants-wanted-for-brocks-rankin-run-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Participants wanted for Brock’s Rankin Run team"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Want to run for a good cause? Student Life and Community Experience is putting together a Brock team for the Rankin Cancer Run on May 25 in St. Catharines.<\/p><\/div>\n

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T minus 10 days until the Rankin Cancer Run<\/a> and Cara Eaton is hopeful she’ll see more Brock red this year in the sea of white t-shirts that fill the run course.<\/p>\n

So far, 38 people have joined the Brock team participating in the run on May 25 in St. Catharines, but Eaton, a student co-ordinator of marketing for Student Life and Community Experience<\/a>, would love to see the head count reach at least 60.<\/p>\n

And with it, Eaton hopes the Brock team can bring $3,000 in donations that will go to local cancer treatment and support programs.<\/p>\n

“But we’re not limiting ourselves to that,” said Eaton, who would like to see those participation and donation goals surpassed. “We want to get us out there as a community partner.”<\/p>\n

As extra incentive, the first 50 people who join the Brock team will get a limited edition run t-shirt. Participants can run or walk the five-kilometre route that starts at the Grantham Lions Club on Niagara Street.<\/p>\n

This is the eighth year that Brock has participated in the Rankin Cancer Run, which has raised about $3.2 million for Niagara hospitals, hospices and cancer-related organizations.<\/p>\n

To help reach the $3,000-goal, two pre-run fundraisers will be held on campus, including a golf competition on Wednesday, May 22, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Jubilee Courtyard.<\/p>\n

Participants can buy one ball for $1 or five balls for $3 for the chance to hit one closest to the pin and win a prize. Brock swag will be given to the top three golfers.<\/p>\n

A lunchtime campfire will also be held on Thursday, May 23. Faculty, staff and students are invited to make s’mores, play a song – or listen to one – on a guitar and make a donation to the Rankin Cancer Run.<\/p>\n

The campfire happens, weather-permitting, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the fire pit near Alphie’s Trough.<\/p>\n

Neither Eaton nor co-organizer Bailee Malivoire have participated in the Rankin Cancer Run before but both are looking forward to an event that has drawn more than 10,000 people from throughout the region.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to be in that environment and see that enthusiasm and everyone pumped up,” Malivoire said.<\/p>\n

For more information or to join the team, email slce@brocku.ca<\/a> or visit the Rankin Cancer Run online<\/a> to donate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

T minus 10 days until the Rankin Cancer Run and Cara Eaton is hopeful she’ll see more Brock red this year in the sea of white t-shirts that fill the run course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":22645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[500,1045,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642"}],"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=22642"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22649,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions\/22649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}