{"id":53023,"date":"2018-09-10T09:56:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T13:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=53023"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:27:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:27:41","slug":"volunteerfest-to-highlight-local-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/09\/volunteerfest-to-highlight-local-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"VolunteerFEST to highlight local opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the Brock community who are looking to lend a helping hand in Niagara but are unsure of where to start should plan to visit Market Hall Thursday, Sept. 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The University will host its annual VolunteerFEST, bringing together more than 30 community organizations from across the region to raise awareness of their respective missions and actively recruit assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vendor fair-style event, presented by Student Life and Community Experience in collaboration with Career Education, takes place between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A full list of participating organizations is available on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/81395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ExperienceBU<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VolunteerFEST comes just days after the annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/09\/student-volunteers-to-head-out-across-niagara-for-milestone-brock-cares-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brock Cares Day of Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Sunday, Sept. 9, which saw hundreds of Brock students and employees pitching in with events and organizations around the region.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Brock community who are looking to lend a helping hand in Niagara but are unsure of where to start should plan to visit Market Hall Thursday, Sept. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54,39,40,7,55,37,41,38],"tags":[5052,5050,194,1273],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53023"}],"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=53023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53024,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53023\/revisions\/53024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}