Camosun looks into Interurban food hub
Camosun College is exploring the idea of potentially opening a food hub—a shared-use food and beverage processing facility—at its Interurban campus. Based on a study conducted by Greenchain Consulting, the facility could include Indigenous cooking and culinary programming, food business incubation, business education and training, food innovation services, a commercial kitchen and processing facility, and Indigenous gardens. The same study also suggests the facility would need roughly $7.2 million to establish, with an additional $1 million in startup costs. Look for our full story next issue.
Students present Capstone projects
Camosun College’s Computer Science department’s annual Capstone Symposium took place on Friday, August 11 at the Interurban campus. The event featured projects from graduating Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering Technology students. The projects on display were meant to offer solutions to real-world challenges; some examples of this included a Wheelchair Access Innovation that helps wheelchair users access residential stairs, and work on the VR Witness Blanket Project, which uses virtual reality to showcase the horrors of residential schools.
Camosun and BCGEU reach agreement
An agreement has been reached between Camosun College and the BC General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) Local 701 and a collective agreement fully ratified. Roughly 128 vocational instructors at the college will be covered by this agreement from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025.
Benefit concert honours late Chargers coach
Former Camosun College coach Gordon Inglis passed away on May 27. Inglis worked at Camosun for 10 years as both a technical assistant coach for the Chargers men’s volleyball team and as the chair of the Bachelor of Sports and Fitness program. A benefit concert was held in Red Deer in his honour on Thursday, August 10, with all of the benefits going toward the Red Deer Tennis Club Junior Tennis program.
Sidewalk (un)safe
A sad-looking sidewalk across from Camosun’s Lansdowne campus has taken first place in this year’s #JankyJune photo competition, which showcases the region’s worst sidewalks. The sidewalk is on Lansdowne Road between Richmond Road and Foul Bay Road and is so thin that one person can barely stand on it. The contest is put on by pedestrian advocacy group Walk On and aims to draw attention to poorly planned municipal infrastructure.