{"id":20142,"date":"2020-10-30T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20142"},"modified":"2020-10-29T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T18:04:58","slug":"news-briefs-october-30-2020-web-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/10\/30\/news-briefs-october-30-2020-web-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>News Briefs<\/em>: October 30, 2020 web exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Camosun collaborates with other institutions in career fair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Camosun College is working with Royal Roads University, North Island College, and Vancouver Island College to hold the Beyond 2020: Vancouver Island Career &amp; Connections Fair this month. The virtual career fair, being held from 10 am to 4 pm on Thursday, November 19, will feature over 100 employers and will include discussions on post-COVID-19 careers, co-op work experience and internship opportunities, and job options. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.brazenconnect.com\/a\/camosun\/e\/NBBDy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here for registration information<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20143\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201026_104003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20143 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201026_104003-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201026_104003-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/20201026_104003.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gym at the Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (photo by Greg Pratt\/<em>Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>PISE expands training area<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence (PISE), located on Camosun College\u2019s Interurban campus, recently opened its new, expanded outdoor training area. The rubberized-surface area is 5,000 square feet and supplements the field and track areas of PISE; it cost $65,000 and was funded partially by Tire Stewardship BC and the federal government\u2019s Enabling Accessibility Fund. As well, the PISE gym recently got an $860,000 upgrade, including 1,000 new permanent seats for Chargers games. The upgrade was funded by the college, 94 Forward\u2014which is the 1994 Commonwealth Games legacy fund\u2014and a federal government accessibility grant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>College gives out Access awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Camosun recently awarded $21,000 to 37 students in its 2020 Access Student Awards Celebration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camosun.ca\/learn\/school\/access\/awards\/awards-recipients.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See the complete list of students who won here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>City of Victoria city councillor nomination period open<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ever wanted to be a city councillor at the City of Victoria? Now\u2019s your chance: the nomination period for prospective candidates closes at 4 pm on Friday, November 6. Voters will be electing one city councillor on Saturday, December 12. The by-election was originally scheduled for April 4 but postponed due to COVID-19. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.victoria.ca\/election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">victoria.ca\/election<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun collaborates with other institutions in career fair Camosun College is working with Royal Roads University, North Island College, and Vancouver Island College to hold the Beyond 2020: Vancouver Island Career &amp; Connections Fair this month. The virtual career fair, being held from 10 am to 4 pm on Thursday, November 19, will feature over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20143,"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":[9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142","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=20142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20146,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20142\/revisions\/20146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}