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There is still time to join the UFV staff & faculty community in our Across Canada Challenge<\/strong>. We encourage you to participate in this collective virtual trek across Canada via the Trans Canada Highway, which is 7,821 km long, equaling approximately 10,000,000 steps. Our goal is to cover the distance between Victoria and St. John’s as a collective community, to reach a total of 10,000,000 steps over the month of June. With the help of the ParticipACTION app we will be tracking our steps and converted activity minutes. Since we can’t stray too far from home right now, throughout the month we will be providing “scenic” views and Canadiana inspired tips and activities to motivate you to see how far we get before its time to celebrate Canada Day.<\/p>\n Here is how you can participate! <\/strong><\/p>\n During the first week of our challenge we walked over 1,271,765 steps, which is all the way to Lake Louise! The second week step count, from Medicine Hat, AB to Kenora, ON will be announced soon! Way to go everyone!<\/p>\n This week, from June 15 — 21 we will be working on our third leg of our journey and walking from Kenora, ON to Grand Falls, NB which is a long leg — 3,688,976 steps = 2,811 km. And don’t forget, if you haven’t joined us yet, you can start anytime. We can use all the help we can get! We have a lot to celebrate this week, National Indigenous Peoples Day, Pride Month and Summer Solstice and Father\u2019s Day! No better way to get out and about in the sun (or rain) to explore and honour those around you. Also, on Wednesday, June 17 join us for a Bluejeans Coffeebreak from 10:00 am –10:15 am for a little Show and Tell. Add it into your calendar here<\/a>!<\/p>\n Submitted by guest blogger Stacie Dixon, Facilities Operations Coordinator, Athletics & Camp<\/strong><\/em>u<\/strong><\/em>s Recreation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is still time to join the UFV staff & faculty community in our Across Canada Challenge. We encourage you to participate in this collective virtual trek across Canada via the Trans Canada Highway, which is 7,821 km long, equaling approximately 10,000,000 steps. Our goal is to cover the distance between Victoria and St. John’s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-employee-stories","category-events","category-resources","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/ufv-at-work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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