{"id":42509,"date":"2016-12-07T15:10:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T19:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=42509"},"modified":"2016-12-07T16:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T20:35:03","slug":"distinguished-alumna-mary-ann-edwards-honoured-by-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/12\/distinguished-alumna-mary-ann-edwards-honoured-by-province\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished alumna Mary Ann Edwards honoured by province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteering is just a way of life for Mary Ann Edwards.<\/p>\n<p>Well known in Niagara for her volunteer work and dedication to the community, Edwards, a Brock alumna (BPhed \u201976, BEd \u201977) and founder of the Rankin Cancer Run, was recently awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship for her local contributions.<\/p>\n<p>The Rankin Cancer Run draws thousands of participants each year. The 2016 edition drew 13,200 community members, raising a record-setting $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/09\/mary-ann-edwards-recognized-as-distinguished-alumni-award-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Edwards was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award<\/a> by the Brock University Alumni Association. She is also an alumni board member.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/12\/05\/rankin-run-creator-honoured-by-province\" target=\"_blank\">stcatharinesstandard.ca\/2016\/12\/05\/rankin-run-creator-honoured-by-province<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well known in Niagara for her volunteer work and dedication to the community, Edwards, a Brock alumna (BPhed \u201976, BEd \u201977) and founder of the Rankin Cancer Run, was recently awarded the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship for her local contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":42511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,1,4],"tags":[1981,4722,2365,1045],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42509"}],"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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42510,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42509\/revisions\/42510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}