{"id":55608,"date":"2019-01-24T09:19:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=55608"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:19:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:19:38","slug":"walk-for-alzheimers-returns-to-brock-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/01\/walk-for-alzheimers-returns-to-brock-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk for Alzheimer\u2019s returns to Brock Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members of the Brock community are invited to make memories matter by participating in Niagara\u2019s annual Walk for Alzheimer\u2019s on Sunday, Jan. 27.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Starting in the University\u2019s Ian Beddis Gymnasium and facilitated by student volunteers from the Brock Leaders Citizenship Society, the one-kilometre indoor walk will raise funds for programs and services offered through the Alzheimer Society of Niagara.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants of all ages and ability levels will visit a series of stations along the route that provide health-related information and product samples for maintaining a healthy brain through diet, social activities and exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There will also be a health fair in the gymnasium to deliver information on brain health while also offering family-friendly activities such as musical entertainment, visits with Fluffy the clown and the new Babysitting Angels Kids Zone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Niagara walk is one of more than 300 being staged across the country in support of the Alzheimer Society of Canada. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Ian Beddis Gymnasium, followed by the indoor walk at 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More information and registration details can be found on the<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alzgiving.ca\/site\/TR?fr_id=2191&amp;pg=entry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walk for Alzheimer\u2019s Niagara Region 2019 website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Brock community are invited to make memories matter by participating in Niagara\u2019s annual Walk for Alzheimer\u2019s on Sunday, Jan. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[308,194,6190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55608"}],"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=55608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55623,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55608\/revisions\/55623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}