{"id":24515,"date":"2013-10-02T15:28:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T20:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=24515"},"modified":"2013-10-02T15:28:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T20:28:25","slug":"brock-custodial-staff-recognized-for-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2013\/10\/brock-custodial-staff-recognized-for-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock custodial staff recognized for efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24517\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/national-custodian-day-bn.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24517\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24517\" title=\"national-custodian-day-bn\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/national-custodian-day-bn-1024x798.jpg\" alt=\"Brock's custodial staff was recognized Wednesday as part of National Custodian Day celebrations.\" width=\"504\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brock&#39;s custodial staff was recognized Wednesday as part of National Custodian Day celebrations.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The men and women who keep Brock looking its best were honoured for their efforts Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of Brock&#8217;s 93 custodians were recognized for keeping the campus in top form during the second annual National Custodian Day celebrations. Maintenance and cleaning staff took a time out from their afternoon to be thanked publicly for the important work they do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our university depends on our custodians,&#8221; said Dominic Maniccia, director of custodial services. &#8220;They work behind the scenes and it&#8217;s for the cleanliness and health of occupants. To me, that&#8217;s extremely important. You just can&#8217;t put a price on a healthy building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked those on hand again for helping the university receive the Green Housekeeping Site gold certification earlier this year for keeping Brock clean with planet-friendly cleaners.<\/p>\n<p>But Maniccia noted his staff do more than keep the campus clean. They also take care of recycling, moving and setting up furniture, and event setup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And at night, they&#8217;re the eyes and ears of the University because our night staff are here by themselves, save for campus security,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Saint-Ivany, Vice-President of Facilities Management, and Brian Hutchings, Vice-President of Finance and Administration, also thanked the University&#8217;s custodial staff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really appreciate what you do, how you do it safely and how it benefits the University,&#8221; Saint-Ivany said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men and women who keep Brock looking its best were honoured for their efforts Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[444,1336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515"}],"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=24515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24518,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24515\/revisions\/24518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}