{"id":35824,"date":"2015-10-08T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=35824"},"modified":"2015-10-08T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:52:14","slug":"brocks-united-way-campaign-sets-140000-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2015\/10\/brocks-united-way-campaign-sets-140000-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock&#8217;s United Way campaign sets $140,000 goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s annual United Way campaign kicked off Wednesday with the Souper Star lunch and a flag raising ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this year&#8217;s campaign is to raise $140,000 for the United Way of St. Catharines and District. Last year, Brock raised more than\u00a0$137,000. The United Way funds 72 social service programs in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Hichem Ben-El-Mechaiekh and Allan Castle, of the Faculty of Mathematics and Sciences, earned\u00a0the Souper Bowl during the annual Souper Star lunch. 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The Portuguese bean and sausage soup they served earned the most votes.\">\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li class='gallery-item'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/souperstarserving-1600x1067.jpg\" title=\"David Siegel, interim Dean of the Faculty of Education, serves borscht during the annual Souper Star lunch to benefit the United Way.\" data-featherlight=\"image\" class=\"gallery-1160822776\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/souperstarserving-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"David Siegel, interim Dean of the Faculty of Education, serves borscht during the annual Souper Star lunch to benefit the United Way.\">\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li class='gallery-item'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/souperlunchflag-1600x900.jpg\" title=\"Brock University's annual United Way campaign kicked off Wednesday with a flag raising and the Souper Star lunch. From left are: Kevin Jong, Campaign Manager, United Way of St. Catharines &amp; District, Brian Hutchings, Vice-President Finance and Administration, Brock University, Anita Robertson, 2015 Campaign Chair, United Way of St. Catharines &amp; District, Frances Hallworth, Executive Director, United Way of St. Catharines &amp; District, Jack Lightstone, President and Vice-Chancellor, Brock University, Grant Armstrong, Associate Vice-President Human Resources, Brock University and Kevin Lawr, Brock University United Way Campaign Staff Co-Chair.\nLucy Thibeault, Brock University United Way Campaign Faculty Co-Chair\nGary Libben, Vice-President Research, Brock University\nAnna Lathrop, Vice-Provost Teaching and Learning, Brock University\" data-featherlight=\"image\" class=\"gallery-1160822776\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/souperlunchflag-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" alt=\"A group of people hold a United Way flag outdoors.\">\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr style='visibility: hidden; clear: both; margin: 0;'>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University&#8217;s annual United Way campaign kicked off Wednesday with the Souper Star lunch and a flag raising ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":35828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,4],"tags":[1348,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35824"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35829,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35824\/revisions\/35829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}