{"id":43431,"date":"2017-02-07T15:40:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=43431"},"modified":"2017-02-07T17:43:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:43:18","slug":"tickets-still-available-for-fundraising-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/02\/tickets-still-available-for-fundraising-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Gala to support DSBN Academy bursaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leave your cocktail dresses and formal wear in the closet this weekend and let your favourite jeans take the spotlight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Staff, faculty and alumni are invited to attend the Denim, Diamonds and Diplomas gala on Feb. 11 in support of DSBN Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Brock Leaders Citizenship Society (BLCS), the second annual event funds bursaries for students who are the first in their family to gain a post-secondary education.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany of these students may not have the means or resources to continue their education past high school, so we wanted to set up a bursary program to help them achieve their goals wherever they decide to study,\u201d said Aynsley Maves, BLCS member and Chair of the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year\u2019s Denim, Diamonds and Diplomas raised $22,000, enough money to provide bursaries to 14 Grade 12 students set to graduate from DSBN Academy this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event, sponsored by Brock University and the District School Board of Niagara, begins with cocktails at 6 p.m. followed by dinner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The night will also include live music and a silent auction featuring Toronto Raptors tickets, shoes worn by Canadian country artist Shania Twain and a custom diamond necklace valued at $3,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tickets are $65 each or $600 per table and can be purchased\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbee.com\/v\/ddd2017#\/tickets\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For more information, e-mail <a href=\"mailto:denimdiplomas@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">denimdiplomas@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff, faculty and alumni are invited to attend the Denim, Diamonds and Diplomas gala on Feb. 11 in support of DSBN Academy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":43437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[308,4892,367,2961],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43431"}],"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=43431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43438,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43431\/revisions\/43438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}