{"id":690,"date":"2013-09-26T00:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westcoastrfu.wordpress.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2013-09-26T00:11:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T12:11:07","slug":"crusaders-visit-coast-for-big-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/2013\/09\/26\/crusaders-visit-coast-for-big-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Crusaders visit Coast for &#8220;Big Give&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#990000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;\">28th January 2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#990000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rabweb.co.nz\/westcoast\/news2013\/bigive3_1.jpg\" width=\"328\" height=\"260\" align=\"left\" \/><span style=\"color:#800000;\">Each year as a part of the Crusaders \u201cBig Give\u201d programme, members of the Crusaders squad visit charities, clubs or community groups in one of the provinces it represents, to give them a helping hand with a project they are doing, whether it&#8217;s painting a building, gardening, or just help with heavy lifting etc.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;\"><strong>Photo &#8211; Crusaders Dan Carter and co pose after their hard graft.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000;\">This week the Hokitika Lions Club were chosen as recipients for the \u201cBig Give\u201d, to help with a project they are working on for Children&#8217;s Day, which is a National day held on the first Sunday of March each year. The Hokitika Lions Club organises a family festival on Cass Square each year to celebrate Children\u2019s Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rabweb.co.nz\/westcoast\/news2013\/bigive3_2.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"318\" align=\"left\" \/>Hokitika Lions spokeswoman Dr Anna Dyzel said these events can only succeed with the help of numerous other organisations and volunteers such as the West Coast Primary Health Organisation and West Coast Rugby Football Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000;\">The organisers of the Children\u2019s Day have secured a merry-go-round to refurbish for the Sunday March 3rd event, and this was a great opportunity for a number of organisations, including the Crusaders, to be involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><span style=\"color:#990000;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:small;\">The Crusaders donned painting gear and painted the safety fence that surrounds the merry-go-round and to top it off, autographed the decking of the carousel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000;\"><strong>Photo &#8211; West Coast RFU President Karen Burrows and Dan Carter take time out from painting, to share some tea and scones.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28th January 2013 Each year as a part of the Crusaders \u201cBig Give\u201d programme, members of the Crusaders squad visit charities, clubs or community&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westcoast.retrorugby.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}