{"id":40909,"date":"2016-09-12T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=40909"},"modified":"2016-09-12T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T15:40:34","slug":"wellness-award-recipients-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/09\/wellness-award-recipients-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellness Award recipients announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Brock University students received the non-endowed Wellness Awards for the 2016 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds of the 17<sup>th<\/sup> annual Employee Wellness Day Penny Sale totalled $ 2,445. The success of the Penny Sale can be attributed to the generous donations made by community members, Senior Administrative Council, Brock staff and faculty and the participants of Wellness Day who\u00a0showed their support by purchasing Penny Sale Tickets.<\/p>\n<p>The winning students are:<\/p>\n<p>Jessica She-Ting Wong<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40910\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40910\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-40910\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-12-at-11.32.59-AM-300x225.png\" alt=\"Jessica She-Ting Wong\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jessica She-Ting Wong<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jessica is entering her fourth year in Child Studies in the 2016 academic year and has plans to enter in to the field of Pediatric Occupational Therapy. Her\u00a0many academic achievements include the Brock Scholar\u2019s Award and the Dean\u2019s Honour List. She contributes to wellness by volunteering with the following organizations; Big Brother Big Sisters of St.Catharines-Thorold &amp; District, Go Girls! Mentor, Brock Health Magazine Author and Communications Director, Spring Sprint for Brain Tumour Research, Med Plus Upper Year Mentor, Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research Member, Brock Cares Day of Service, Special Needs Activity Program Volunteer, Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara \u2013 Reading Rocks! Tutor, and Niagara Children\u2019s Centre Volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Lepore<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas is entering in to his third year of studies in the Bachelor of Accounting Co-op Program in the Goodman School of Business. His many academic achievements\u00a0include\u00a0the Brock Scholar\u2019s Award and the Dean\u2019s Honour List. While striving to maintain high academic marks, he has demonstrated a passion for giving back to his community in the name of wellness. His\u00a0wide variety of community service includes\u00a0Pennies for Food Fundraising Program, Spring Sprint for Brain Tumour Research, Autism Speaks Canada Walk, Terry Fox Run f<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40911\" style=\"width: 207px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40911\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-40911\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Screen-Shot-2016-09-12-at-11.33.15-AM-300x225.png\" alt=\"Nicholas Lepore\" width=\"197\" height=\"147\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicholas Lepore<\/p><\/div>\n<p>or Cancer Research, Coldest Night of the Year Homelessness Prevention Fundraiser, Brock University Trick or Eat for Local Food Banks, Alzheimer\u2019s Society \u2013 Play for Memories Fundraiser, Brock Cares Day of Service, West Park Health Centre Seniors Prom, Council for Exceptional Children Awards Dinner and the Corpus Christi Children\u2019s Liturgy.<\/p>\n<p>The students&#8217;\u00a0extensive volunteer service\u00a0and\u00a0passion for promoting wellness and giving back to the\u00a0community, make them the epitome of what the Wellness Award stands for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Brock University students received the non-endowed Wellness Awards for the 2016 academic year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[4458,4459,4457,1141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909"}],"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=40909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40913,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40909\/revisions\/40913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}