{"id":5568,"date":"2017-02-24T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/?post_type=tribe_events&amp;p=5568"},"modified":"2017-02-24T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:35:35","slug":"western-new-york-vision-walk","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/event\/western-new-york-vision-walk\/","title":{"rendered":"Western New York Vision Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/VisionWalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5570\" src=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/VisionWalk.jpg\" alt=\"VisionWalk\" width=\"616\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear UB Faculty, Students, and Staff&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 This year, as in the past 5 years, the <strong>Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB)<\/strong> is holding its annual <strong>Western NY<\/strong> <strong>VISIONWALK<\/strong>, to raise money for eye research aimed at finding cures, treatments, and preventions for blinding eye diseases.<\/p>\n[For more information about this, see:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blindness.org\/\">VISIONWALK.org<\/a>]\n<p>The <strong>6<sup>th<\/sup> Annual WESTERN NY VisionWalk<\/strong> event will take place on <strong>SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2016, starting at 9:00am, in downtown Buffalo at CANALSIDE- Great Lawn (see flyer, attached)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEASE JOIN US and HELP US GET THE WORD OUT.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a great opportunity to perform local community service, and for a very good cause.\u00a0 Last year, we were fortunate to have several UB students, faculty, and staff participate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to affiliate with a team, I\u2019d welcome you to join me and my faculty colleagues from the Department of Ophthalmology.<\/p>\n<p>Our team is called the <strong>\u201cRoss Eye Institute Illuminators\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightblindness.org\/site\/TR\/VISIONWALK\/VisionWalktr?pg=entry&amp;fr_id=5819#.WK80wfKtVLH\">http:\/\/www.fightblindness.org\/site\/TR\/VISIONWALK\/VisionWalktr?pg=entry&amp;fr_id=5819#.WK80wfKtVLH<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <u>sign up as a walker<\/u>, <u>and\/or donate to the cause<\/u><\/strong>, <strong>online via the URL above<\/strong>.\u00a0 ANY amount would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your consideration of this request.\u00a0 I hope to see you at the VisionWalk on <strong>May 20th<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vision-Walk-Flyer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5569\" src=\"http:\/\/gsa.buffalo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vision-Walk-Flyer.png\" alt=\"Vision Walk Flyer\" width=\"665\" height=\"866\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear UB Faculty, Students, and Staff&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0 This year, as in the past 5 years, the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB) is holding its annual Western NY VISIONWALK, to raise money for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/event\/western-new-york-vision-walk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Western New York Vision Walk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[29],"class_list":["post-5568","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-university-event","cat_university-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}