{"id":1114,"date":"2018-10-01T13:21:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2018-10-01T14:35:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T13:35:22","slug":"make-a-difference-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Make a Difference Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1135 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42611780_1928722907191487_1295634020788338688_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42611780_1928722907191487_1295634020788338688_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/42611780_1928722907191487_1295634020788338688_n.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/>WOW members were joined by 16 students and their teachers for the annual Brighton College Make a Difference Day where students go out into the community to help with various projects.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1121 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2896-e1538396436427-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2896-e1538396436427-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2896-e1538396436427.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>We have had the pleasure of a group of wonderful, strong , hard working girls helping to control invasive species at Widewater for the last eight years.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1115 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2887-e1538396319455-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2887-e1538396319455-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2887-e1538396319455.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>This job certainly does make a difference as by controlling invasive species, the native species have room to flourish here.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1117 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2874-e1538396353620-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"379\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2874-e1538396353620-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2874-e1538396353620.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>This year we removed a large area of invasive Ivy and Brambles that are spreading out from the bank on to the vegetated shingle.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1116 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2900-e1538396335751-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2900-e1538396335751-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_2900-e1538396335751.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The sun was shining on us and we had a very enjoyable day. Lunch in a garden on the lagoon was fun with the resident Swan family visiting along with various Ducks and Gulls.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1120 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FullSizeRender-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FullSizeRender-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/FullSizeRender.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/b><\/p>\n<div><b>Thanks to all who helped on the day, Marion, Gill and Paula. Also to LPC for their generous funding for gardening equipment for WOW.<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WOW members were joined by 16 students and their teachers for the annual Brighton College Make a Difference Day where&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lancingwidewater.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}