{"id":41608,"date":"2016-10-24T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41608"},"modified":"2016-10-24T15:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:18:35","slug":"brock-mourns-the-loss-of-first-year-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/10\/brock-mourns-the-loss-of-first-year-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags to be lowered in honour of first-year student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community is mourning the loss of one of its students.<\/p>\n<p>Corey Mijac, 18, was one of three young men <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/10\/18\/niagaras-plane-crash-victims-remembered\" target=\"_blank\">killed in a tragic plane crash in Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mijac graduated from Governor Simcoe Secondary School in the spring and was a first-year Bachelor of Arts student in Geography here at Brock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The funeral service will be Wednesday, Oct. 26\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">at 11 a.m. at George Darte Funeral Home in St. Catharines. Out of respect for the family, the flags at Brock will be lowered to half mast at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The University would like to express its condolences to the Mijac family, as well as the families of 19-year-old Ben Jeffries and 25-year-old Rifat Tawfig, the two other Niagara men who died in the crash Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>More here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/10\/18\/niagaras-plane-crash-victims-remembered\">www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/10\/18\/niagaras-plane-crash-victims-remembered<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flags to be lowered in honour of first-year student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,4],"tags":[4579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41608"}],"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=41608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41681,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41608\/revisions\/41681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}