{"id":16192,"date":"2018-08-08T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=16192"},"modified":"2018-08-07T09:52:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T16:52:56","slug":"news-briefs-august-8-2018-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2018\/08\/08\/news-briefs-august-8-2018-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>News Briefs<\/em>: August 8, 2018 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>College Sheet Metal student wins bronze<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Camosun third-year Sheet Metal apprentice Dean Gustin took home a bronze medal from the 2018 Skills Canada National Competition in Edmonton in June. Gustin won gold at the Skills Canada British Columbia competition in April. He was one of over 550 students at the nationals.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16184\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover-july-2018-for-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16184\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover-july-2018-for-web-1-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover-july-2018-for-web-1-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover-july-2018-for-web-1.jpg 437w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover-july-2018-for-web-1-300x481.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cover-july-2018-for-web-1-180x288.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This story originally appeared in our August 8, 2018 issue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Camosun board of governors gets trio of new faces<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Brenda Lee McBain, Madhuri Parikh, and\u00a0Emily Sarah Rogers have joined the Camosun board of governors. Their terms run until July 31, 2019. McBain is with CitySpaces Consulting; Parikh is the principal consultant of On Governance; Rogers is the tenant legal advocate for Together Against Poverty Society. Board Chair Ron Rice said in a college press release that their perspectives will benefit the board.<\/p>\n<p><b>Saanich wants resident input<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Saanich residents, business owners, and visitors can complete a survey to help Saanich become a 100-percent renewable community and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent. See saanich.ca\/climateplan to complete the survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>College Sheet Metal student wins bronze\u00a0 Camosun third-year Sheet Metal apprentice Dean Gustin took home a bronze medal from the 2018 Skills Canada National Competition in Edmonton in June. Gustin won gold at the Skills Canada British Columbia competition in April. He was one of over 550 students at the nationals.\u00a0 Camosun board of governors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16184,"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":[13,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-august-8-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192","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=16192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16193,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16192\/revisions\/16193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}