{"id":15205,"date":"2018-01-08T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=15205"},"modified":"2018-01-05T10:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T18:34:51","slug":"news-briefs-january-10-2018-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/01\/08\/news-briefs-january-10-2018-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>News Briefs<\/em>: January 10, 2018 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Camosun part of local education initiative<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Camosun College, Royal Roads University, and UVic, along with three high-school districts, recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together as Education Victoria, a partnership that highlights academic cooperation and educational growth on the island. The long-term vision of the partnership is to make Victoria and Vancouver Island domestic and international education hubs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15187\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NEXUS-28-8-COVER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15187\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NEXUS-28-8-COVER-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NEXUS-28-8-COVER-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NEXUS-28-8-COVER.jpg 452w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NEXUS-28-8-COVER-300x465.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/NEXUS-28-8-COVER-180x279.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This story originally appeared in our January 10, 2018 issue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>New chair elected to Camosun board of governors<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ron Rice is the new Camosun College board of governors chair. Rice has been a member of the board since 2013 and was elected chair on December 4, 2017. He started his term on January 1, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fisher building in late stages of construction<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Camosun president Sherri Bell said in a video posted on YouTube in December detailing Camosun\u2019s year in review that the Fisher Building construction is nearing completion; Bell thanked students and staff for their patience throughout the process.<\/p>\n<p><b>City of Victoria wants input on how to spend<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The City of Victoria is launching its first participatory budgeting process, in which residents can vote on how they would like to see the City spend $50,000 on community projects. The options include an art and music program for seniors with dementia and an employment-training program that puts vulnerable adults in touch with potential employers, among many others. The deadline for voting is Saturday, January 20. See <a href=\"http:\/\/victoria.ca\/pbvic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">victoria.ca\/pbvic<\/a> or head down to City Hall to vote.<b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun part of local education initiative Camosun College, Royal Roads University, and UVic, along with three high-school districts, recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work together as Education Victoria, a partnership that highlights academic cooperation and educational growth on the island. The long-term vision of the partnership is to make Victoria and Vancouver Island [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15187,"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":[13,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-january-10-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205","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=15205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15206,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15205\/revisions\/15206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}