{"id":8875,"date":"2011-03-23T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T20:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2011-03-23T15:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T20:07:19","slug":"fundraising-continues-for-japanese-quake-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/03\/fundraising-continues-for-japanese-quake-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising continues for Japanese quake victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8877\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8877\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8877 \" title=\"Sid Segalowitz and Bill Ralph raise money for Japanese relief efforts at Brock University\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buskingforjapansegalowitzralph2.jpg\" alt=\"Sid Segalowitz and Bill Ralph entertain the lunch crowd at Market Hall.\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Psychology professor Sid Segalowitz, left, and Mathematics professor Bill Ralph entertain the lunch crowd at Market Hall.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Japanese students will sell origami, recipes and other wares in Market Hall Thursday to benefit relief efforts in their native land.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8879\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8879\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8879\" title=\"Don Cyr and Lily Nazar\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buskingforjapancyr-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Business professor Don Cyr, right, and Lily Nazar\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Business professor Don Cyr, right, and Lily Nazar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There will be origami swans, origami lessons, Japanese body painting and family recipes available for a donation from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on March 24.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty cents from every stir-fry sold in the Guernsey Market from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. will go to the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of a campus-wide campaign to raise money for the <a href=\"http:\/\/redcross.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Red Cross<\/a> for its work in Japan. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck the country on March 11 and triggered massive tsunamis. The <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-03-21\/world\/japan.disaster_1_tsunami-quake-ravaged-patients?_s=PM:WORLD\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed death toll<\/a> is 8,928 people, with more than 12,000 still missing.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, professors showed off their musical skills as they busked to raise money for Japanese relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Donations will be accepted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/international-services\" target=\"_blank\">International Services and Programs Abroad<\/a> office at GLN-B 210 in the International Centre. You can also call 905-688-5550 x3163 or email <a href=\"mailto:isa@brocku.ca\">isa@brocku.ca<\/a>. Cheques are preferred and can be earmarked \u201cJapan Earthquake\/Asia-Pacific Tsunami\u201d and sent through inter-office mail.<\/p>\n<p>To donate online, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/redcross.ca\" target=\"_blank\">redcross.ca<\/a> and cite the donation as part of the Brock\/Japan Red Cross fundraising group.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8878\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8878\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8878 \" title=\"The Biorhythms - Joffre Mercier, Fiona Hunter and Michael Bidochka - busk to raise money for Japanese relief efforts at Brock University.\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/buskingforjapanbiorhythms.jpg\" alt=\"The Biorhythms: Joffre Mercier, Fiona Hunter and Michael Bidochka\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Biorhythms: Biological Sciences professors Joffre Mercier, Fiona Hunter and Michael Bidochka<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese students will sell origami, recipes and other wares in Market Hall Thursday to benefit relief efforts in their native land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[49,3327,16,206,91,3328,29,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875"}],"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=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8881,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions\/8881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}