{"id":24625,"date":"2023-11-15T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=24625"},"modified":"2023-11-09T12:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T20:44:52","slug":"25-years-ago-in-nexus-november-15-2023-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2023\/11\/15\/25-years-ago-in-nexus-november-15-2023-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago in Nexus<\/em>: November 15, 2023 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ll be bock:<\/b> In our November 16, 1998 issue, writer Melisa Devost reported on the seasonal release of\u00a0 <\/span>Vancouver Island Brewery\u2019s Hermannator Ice Bock beer. Devost wrote about how the local brewery made the beer, which involved a three-month-long aging process in subzero temperatures\u2014the cause for the rich flavour and 9.5% alcohol content. The dark and malty beverage has stood the test of time and is still available seasonally in limited quantities.<\/p>\n

Five-dollar fraudster:<\/b> In \u201898 Camosun College\u2019s Interurban campus was hit with a plague of counterfeit money (well, two accounts). Two counterfeit $5 bills found their way into campus cash registers; Carter MacDonald, who was then head of Interurban security and later on the college ombudsman, warned students that even if they had the bills without knowing they were fake, they wouldn\u2019t be reimbursed if the bills were used. This may seem like an unusual concept in today\u2019s climate of debit and credit. Seriously, who has cash anymore? Or, more to the point, what student in Victoria even has money?<\/p>\n

Novel honours survivors:<\/b> On November 4, 1998, the Wilna Thomas Cultural Centre at Lansdowne welcomed Yuen-Fong Woon, who discussed her novel The Excluded Wife<\/i> with Camosun students. Woon\u2019s fictional book was based on lived experiences of wives who were stuck in China while their husbands worked and resided in North America during the time of\u00a0 <\/span>the Exclusion Act\u2014a racist act that was intended to keep Chinese people from successfully immigrating to Canada. Wong\u2019s highly rated novel is still available for purchase today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ll be bock: In our November 16, 1998 issue, writer Melisa Devost reported on the seasonal release of\u00a0 Vancouver Island Brewery\u2019s Hermannator Ice Bock beer. Devost wrote about how the local brewery made the beer, which involved a three-month-long aging process in subzero temperatures\u2014the cause for the rich flavour and 9.5% alcohol content. The dark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24626,"comment_status":"closed","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":[14,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-november-15-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t