{"id":30677,"date":"2014-11-07T15:06:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=30677"},"modified":"2014-11-10T09:39:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T14:39:15","slug":"programs-help-niagara-children-during-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/11\/programs-help-niagara-children-during-holiday-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Programs help Niagara children during holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/angeltree.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-30678\" title=\"angeltree\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/angeltree-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"angeltree\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to help children in the community during the holiday season, the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycarestca.ca\/page\/christmas\" target=\"_blank\">Community Care Adopt an Angel<\/a> tree and Presents for Kids programs are coming back to Brock University.<\/p>\n<p>The tree will be going up Nov. 12 in the Campus Store and has names of Niagara children in need of some cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Brock students, faculty and staff pick a name from the tree and buy a gift for that boy or girl and drop it off, unwrapped, at the Campus Store by Dec. 10.<\/p>\n<p>If time is an issue, the Campus Store will also have pre-purchased, age appropriate gifts to match to a child.<\/p>\n<p>The response from the Brock community was tremendous in 2013, when 767 children were reached. It easily surpassed the goal of 500.<\/p>\n<p>The goal this year is 625 children.<\/p>\n<p>Brock faculty, staff and students will be given the option to add $1 to their purchase until Dec. 10 as part of the Presents for Kids initiative.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds will be used to buy additional presents for Niagara children this year. Everyone donating will be able to sign a paper cutout to be displayed on the Campus Store&#8217;s front window.<\/p>\n<p>Please remember that Community Care is also in desperate need of new warm winter accessories, such as mitts, gloves, hats, scarves, boots, coats, snowsuits, long underwear, PJs, slippers and socks.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact <a href=\"http:\/\/tacey.atkinson@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Tacey Atkinson<\/a> at Brock&#8217;s Campus Store at x3095 or <a href=\"http:\/\/nmcintosh@communitycarestca.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy MacIntosh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycarestca.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Community Care St. Catharines and Thorold<\/a> community development co-ordinator, at 905-685-1349 x245.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to help children in the community during the holiday season, the annual Community Care Adopt an Angel tree and Presents for Kids programs are coming back to Brock University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[2541,60,2149,1468,564,2539,2540,2538],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677"}],"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=30677"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30684,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30677\/revisions\/30684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}