{"id":44626,"date":"2017-04-28T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44626"},"modified":"2017-04-28T16:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T20:23:38","slug":"register-to-be-part-of-brocks-rankin-cancer-run-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/04\/register-to-be-part-of-brocks-rankin-cancer-run-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Register to be part of Brock\u2019s Rankin Cancer Run team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When participants strapped on their sneakers in the inaugural Rankin Cancer Run\u00a0twelve years ago, the Brock community was there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University has had a presence annually at the popular St. Catharines event \u2014 and this year will be no different.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students, staff and faculty are invited to join the Brock team that will be participating in the run on Saturday, May 27 at the Grantham Lions Club, 732 Niagara St.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration begins at 9 a.m. followed by the run at 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2016 event brought in record donations, with $1 million raised to support cancer care in Niagara. \u00a0In its history, the run has raised more than $6.5 million for the worthy cause.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants can choose to walk or run the available one- or three-kilometre routes that go through Port Weller along the Welland Canal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To register to be a part of Brock\u2019s team at the 12th annual event, visit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rankincancerrun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rankin Cancer Run website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and search for the team name Brock University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration, which includes an event T-shirt and barbecue lunch, is $10 for students and $20 for all other participants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyone unable to participate who would like to make a donation on behalf of the Brock team can do so by visiting the Student Life Involvement Commons in Mackenzie Chown A-Block 204.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, e-mail <\/span><a href=\"mailto:studentlife@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">studentlife@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or call 905-688-5550, ext. 6321.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Story by fourth-year Business Communications student Ja\u2019miil Millar)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When participants strapped on their sneakers in the inaugural Rankin Cancer Run twelve years ago, the Brock community was there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1045,194,5276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44626"}],"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=44626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}