{"id":992,"date":"2010-01-20T15:57:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=992"},"modified":"2010-03-16T09:08:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:08:21","slug":"fundraising-continues-for-haiti-earthquake-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/01\/fundraising-continues-for-haiti-earthquake-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraising continues for Haiti earthquake relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_993\" style=\"width: 498px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-993\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-993\" title=\"haitimusic\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/haitimusic.jpg\" alt=\"haitimusic\" width=\"488\" height=\"288\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Bidochka, Fiona Hunter and Joffre Mercier perform Irish music to raise money for the Haiti relief effort.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s only the first week of the campaign, and Brock people are already opening their hearts and wallets for the relief effort in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>A Red Cross online donation portal for Brock opened Monday. As of Wednesday morning, more than $2,000 had been donated to help the earthquake-ravaged country, said John Kaethler, director of International Services. International Services spearheaded Brock\u2019s Haiti fundraising efforts, which includes staff and student groups around campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been good. It\u2019s been very good,\u201d Kaethler said of the response. \u201cBut the need is so great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The portal is located at <a href=\"www.redcross.ca\/brocku\" target=\"_blank\">www.redcross.ca\/brocku<\/a>. About 20 coin boxes are located around campus. Other fundraising efforts include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bake sale Jan. 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in MacKenzie Chown A block. The sale is organized by the Ontario Public Interest Research Group. There will be a second bake sale on Jan. 26 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., as well as a silent auction with a chance to win personal training sessions at The Zone, Brock memorabilia and more.<\/li>\n<li>A Yuk Yuk\u2019s Comedy Night Jan. 20 at Isaac\u2019s Pub featuring Bobby Mair and John Ki. Doors open at 9 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>A samosa sale. International Services is taking orders until Jan. 29, followed by a general sale Feb. 3 in MacKenzie Chown A block. The cost is $1 per samosa or $10 per dozen (which includes two sauces per dozen). There will be an automatic delivery charge of $2 per order. Send completed order forms, with money, to the Office of International Services (DeCew 209). Click <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/4525\">here<\/a> to download the order form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Wednesday, professors Joffre Mercier, Fiona Hunter and Michael Bidochka \u2013 all from Biological Sciences &#8211; played Irish music in the Schmon Tower lobby at noon. The performance raised more than $400.<\/p>\n<p>The Campus Store is also participating, offering customers the ability to add a donation to the price of their purchase. The Brock University Students\u2019 Union is also holding a euchre tournament on Friday at 1 p.m. (Players can pre-register <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\/euchre\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick links:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.ca\/brocku\" target=\"_blank\">Red Cross donation portal<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/webfm_send\/4525\" target=\"_blank\">Samosa order form<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\/euchre\" target=\"_blank\">BUSU euchre registration form<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock people are opening their hearts and wallets for the relief effort in Haiti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[49,133,16,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}