{"id":111346,"date":"2021-09-03T08:58:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=111346"},"modified":"2021-09-03T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T12:58:03","slug":"community-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/09\/03\/community-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Community connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual Laker Lawn Party highlighted the beginning of Fall Semester at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wright.edu\/request-info\/right-here-right-now-wright-state-lake?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=ring_branded_lake&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw7MGJBhD-ARIsAMZ0eetRlaZ-osojfVarbLM51piNeMccS7Vp3CaznAfGTOy9Txvs9mDTgpAaAuc_EALw_wcB\">Wright State University\u2019s Lake Campus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Sept. 1 event was\u00a0an opportunity to promote campus and community involvement, including full, or part-time employment and volunteering, social, networking and business opportunities to Lake Campus students.<\/p>\n<p>The free two-hour event took place on the front lawn near Andrews Hall. The party also included some fun activities like, cornhole, inflatables, giveaways and refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year due to COVID, we weren\u2019t able to host this,\u201d said Tiffany Hamilton, community director at Lake Campus. \u201cIt\u2019s really good to see students out talking to each other and getting involved in organizations again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event attracted over a dozen Lake Campus organizations and several area businesses that recruited student employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of companies in the area are hiring right now so it works out that they\u2019ve an event like this to attract young workers,\u201d said Ashley Dues, a freshman majoring in business and administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual Laker Lawn Party highlighted the beginning of Fall Semester at Lake Campus. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/09\/03\/community-connections\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":111350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,727,731,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-lake-campus","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111346"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111367,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111346\/revisions\/111367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}