{"id":101338,"date":"2022-06-17T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=101338"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T17:13:10","slug":"were-extremely-proud-of-them-grade-8-port-elgin-students-get-national-recognition-for-disability-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/were-extremely-proud-of-them-grade-8-port-elgin-students-get-national-recognition-for-disability-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re extremely proud of them\u2019: Grade 8 Port Elgin students get national recognition for disability walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Grade 8 students from Port Elgin Regional School have been honoured with a Rick Hansen Difference Maker Award for their project hosting a disability walk in Port Elgin.<\/p>\n<p>The award is one of five given out each year across the country, and comes with a $500 honorarium. Maizie Carter and Lexie Lewis organized and hosted a walk to give people a glimpse of life with a disability. The exercise was so popular the pair have already repeated it this year.<\/p>\n<p>On Thurdsay, CHMA stopped by the bustling Port Elgin school to meet Maizie Carter and Lexie Lewis, and hear a bit more about their project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHMA started off talking with teacher Beth Weatherbee about how Maizie and Lexie came to take on their award winning project:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Grade 8 students from Port Elgin Regional School have been honoured with a Rick Hansen Difference Maker Award for their project hosting a disability walk in Port Elgin. The award is one of five given out each year across the country, and comes with a $500 honorarium. Maizie Carter and Lexie Lewis organized and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":101349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221],"tags":[15763,15762,8030,15764],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101371,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101338\/revisions\/101371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101338"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=101338"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=101338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}