{"id":30154,"date":"2014-10-09T07:56:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T12:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30154"},"modified":"2014-10-09T07:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T12:56:56","slug":"brocks-big-thanksgiving-regatta-turns-into-a-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/10\/brocks-big-thanksgiving-regatta-turns-into-a-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock&#8217;s big Thanksgiving regatta turns into a food drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Racing won&#8217;t be the only business at hand this Saturday (Oct 11) when more than 650 rowers from a dozen universities compete at the 50<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"> annual Brock Invitational Rowing Regatta at Henley Island.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Brock&#8217;s head coach Peter Somerwil has challenged all coaches and athletes to fill a pickup truck, provided by local Ed Learn Ford dealership, with canned goods that will be donated to the local non-profit organization, Community Care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">&#8220;Most people will eat more at this regatta than some families will eat over the entire Thanksgiving weekend,&#8221; said Somerwil. &#8220;Although we&#8217;re all fierce competitors on the water, it&#8217;s great to see the university rowing community come together for such a worthwhile cause&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Spectators can also take part by bringing a non-perishable food item in lieu of an admission charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">The Brock Invitational is a seeding regatta for programs participating in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) circuit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Then on Oct. 25, Ontario&#8217;s best university rowers return to the St. Catharines course when Brock hosts the 2014 OUA Rowing Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What:\u00a0 Brock Invitational Regatta \/ Food Drive<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>When:\u00a0 Saturday 11 Oct &#8211; races start at 8 am<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Where:\u00a0 Henley Island Drive, Port Dalhousie, St. Catharines<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racing won&#8217;t be the only business at hand this Saturday (Oct 11) when more than 650 rowers from a dozen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30160,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30154\/revisions\/30160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}