{"id":11674,"date":"2016-02-17T06:09:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T14:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=11674"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:28:40","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/02\/17\/25-years-ago-in-nexus\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>25 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nexus-1-12-FOR-WEB.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11675\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nexus-1-12-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Nexus-1-12-FOR-WEB\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nexus-1-12-FOR-WEB-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nexus-1-12-FOR-WEB.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Nexus-1-12-FOR-WEB-180x131.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Camosun saves work\/study program:<\/b> The work\/study program was under some budgetary strains 25 years ago; our February 19, 1991 issue detailed the troubles in the cover story \u201cCollege saves work\/study.\u201d The piece explained how the Ministry of Advanced Education wouldn\u2019t spend the surplus money it had left in the program, leaving Camosun scrambling to pick up the pieces. Thanks to the college\u2019s efforts and the Camosun College Student Society rallying for a solution (by way of a \u201ctelephone campaign,\u201d quaintly enough), Camosun found a way to come up with the $50,000 that they weren\u2019t getting from the government.<\/p>\n<p><b>What would ICBC say?: <\/b>Our <i>City Cycling&#8230; Seriously<\/i> column was a great look at cyclist issues, especially considering it was 25 years ago. But looking back on this particular issue, we\u2019re surprised at the lack of shoulder-checking happening in Victoria a quarter-century back: \u201cMotorists aren\u2019t looking to their right, normally, while preparing to turn right,\u201d the column\u2019s writer said. Actually, we know what the drivers are like out there today; maybe it\u2019s not that surprising. Stay safe out there, cyclists.<\/p>\n<p><b>This is the weirdest story ever: <\/b>If you\u2019ve been reading this column the past few issues, you know all about \u201cthe man in the window.\u201d If not: it was a cardboard cut-out of a man, and it went missing from Camosun\u2019s A\/V department. In this issue, we reprinted a ransom letter that his&#8230; uh, <i>its<\/i> captives left in a Fisher building bathroom. Along with a picture of the cardboard cut-out, those holding \u201cCam Olson,\u201d as he was known, said in the letter, \u201cTime is running out! We want better parking or Cam Olson gets towed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun saves work\/study program: The work\/study program was under some budgetary strains 25 years ago; our February 19, 1991 issue detailed the troubles in the cover story \u201cCollege saves work\/study.\u201d The piece explained how the Ministry of Advanced Education wouldn\u2019t spend the surplus money it had left in the program, leaving Camosun scrambling to pick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-february-17-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14264,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions\/14264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}