{"id":46854,"date":"2017-09-27T18:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=46854"},"modified":"2017-09-27T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T22:22:58","slug":"badgers-old-and-new-turn-out-to-join-niagaras-biggest-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/09\/badgers-old-and-new-turn-out-to-join-niagaras-biggest-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers old and new join the community for Niagara\u2019s biggest party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Think of September in Niagara and it’s hard not to think of the Grape and Wine Festival, that 10-day ritual of pageantry and social events that is as deeply popular with local residents as with generations of former Niagarans who flock home to meet up with old friends.<\/p>\n

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Brock President Gervan Fearon in the mood on Grade Parade day.<\/p><\/div>\n

Each year, the allure of \u201cGrape and Wine time\u201d also embraces Brock staff, students and alumni. Whether non-local undergrads living in residence, graduates coming back for reunions or international students from around the world who delight in Niagara\u2019s biggest party, they enjoy the opportunity to connect with and be a part of their host communities.<\/p>\n

The 2017 participation levels by Brock people were as high as the temperatures in the record-breaking heatwave. From sold-out alumni events in Montebello Park, to a sea of red-clad trekkers in the Grande Parade, the Brock community was out in force.<\/p>\n

The most visible participation came Saturday, Sept. 23, when more than 200 students, staff and faculty flowed through the streets of downtown St. Catharines, embodying Brock’s outreach to large crowds lining the Grande Parade route. Fresh-faced undergrads sidled alongside senior administrators, even the Chair of the Board, a procession of waving, dancing Badgers adding their fuel to the festive atmosphere.<\/p>\n

President Gervan Fearon, who waved and danced through the parade, said the widespread Brock participation in official Festival events sends an important message to the University\u2019s neighbours and partners.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur students lived up to and surpassed expectations today,\u201d Fearon said following the parade. \u201cThis is an example of what we can achieve when the Brock community turns out like this to be strong role models and contributors.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrock is working with local mayors and regional communities to keep building the relationship, and we respect that they are also taking the steps they consider necessary to ensure all members of the community enjoy the best the region has to offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the Niagara community to be proud of the University, and we have to earn that respect every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brock University Students\u2019 Association President Faisal Hejazi went step for step with Fearon through the parade, and saluted the volunteers and staff who helped coordinate the Brock contingent.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing involved in the parade along with our students, faculty, staff and administration was an outstanding experience,\u201d said Hejazi. \u201cIt was the President’s first time participating in this event, and it was awesome seeing him interacting with families along the route, walking with our students and enjoying his time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s always a pleasure when the various members of our community come together to celebrate and enjoy what Niagara has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lot of the participation could be traced to awareness-raising by Brock\u2019s Office of Student Life, though Tanya Bradley, Manager of Student and Community Experience, said Brock\u2019s parade presence was caused by \u201ca true collaboration across campus, and one that I was very proud to be part of.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSupporting and connecting with our community was very important to the participants who walked alongside the Brock float and demonstrated what the Brock experience means to our students, staff and faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In the mood: Brock alumni had a lot of fun mugging for the camera catching up at the VIP Reunion event.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As thousands os residents celebrated Niagara’s Grape and Wine Festival, many from the Brock community were right in the thick of it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119,4052,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46854"}],"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=46854"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46865,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46854\/revisions\/46865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}