{"id":31248,"date":"2014-12-12T16:23:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=31248"},"modified":"2014-12-15T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T14:18:16","slug":"brock-campus-store-exceeds-toy-drive-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/12\/brock-campus-store-exceeds-toy-drive-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Campus Store exceeds toy drive goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31249\" style=\"width: 514px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31249\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-31249\" title=\"angel-tree\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/angel-tree-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"angel-tree\" width=\"504\" height=\"283\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Through an enormous amount of caring and generosity the Campus Store has exceeded this year&#39;s Community Care Angel Tree goal of collecting 625 toys for children in Niagara.                           Pictured above:  (from left to right) Betty- Lou Souter ( Community Care, Chief Executive Officer); Tacey Atkinson (Brock University, Campus Store) ;  Nancy McIntosh (Community Care, Community and Development Coordinator) <\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The Brock University community has risen to the challenge again. \u00a0Through an enormous amount of caring and generosity the <a href=\"https:\/\/brock.bookware3000.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Campus Store<\/a> has exceeded this year&#8217;s Community Care Angel Tree goal of collecting 625 toys for children in Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>With toys still trickling in, the number of gifts has grown to more than 750. Tacey Atkinson, Campus Store employee and Angel Tree champion is &#8220;over the moon with excitement thinking about all the children that will wake up Christmas morning and have toys to open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Community Care Angel Tree is an annual campaign that the Brock University Campus Store champions during the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>With the need for toys and food at elevated levels of demand in our local community the Angel Tree provides an opportunity for employees at Brock University to give back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A heartfelt thank you to all who participated and helped get the word out across campus this year,&#8221; added Atkinson. \u00a0&#8220;I knew together we could do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those who still have an unwrapped toy to drop off the final trip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitycarestca.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Community Care <\/a>will be Tuesday, Dec. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock University community has risen to the challenge again.  Through an enormous amount of caring and generosity the Campus Store has exceeded this year&#8217;s Community Care Angel Tree goal of collecting 625 toys for children in Niagara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":31249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[60,2639,564,610,2687],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31248"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31248"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31252,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31248\/revisions\/31252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}