{"id":26252,"date":"2025-01-06T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=26252"},"modified":"2024-12-16T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T20:12:34","slug":"news-briefs-january-6-2025-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/01\/06\/news-briefs-january-6-2025-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>News Briefs<\/em>: January 6, 2025 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26243\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NEXUS-35-8-page-1-for-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26243\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NEXUS-35-8-page-1-for-web-1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NEXUS-35-8-page-1-for-web-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NEXUS-35-8-page-1-for-web-1-453x700.jpg 453w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NEXUS-35-8-page-1-for-web-1-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NEXUS-35-8-page-1-for-web-1-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NEXUS-35-8-page-1-for-web-1-1325x2048.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/NEXUS-35-8-page-1-for-web-1.jpg 1618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This story originally appeared in our January 6, 2025 issue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Camosun gets $1-million donation, changes building name<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Camosun\u2019s Centre for Trades Education and Innovation building has been renamed in recognition of a $1-million contribution by the Bhalla Family. The building, located at the Interurban campus, now stands as the Bhalla Centre for Trades Education and Innovation. Camosun alumnus and former Camosun College Foundation chair Jeety Bhalla and siblings Munjeet and Jindy Bhalla made the donation as a continuation of their family\u2019s legacy of philanthropy to the Camosun College Foundation in honour of their parents, Sela and Tara Bhalla. The college said in a press release that the donation \u201cwill be used to support the college and bolster the college\u2019s capital reserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Students showcase tech<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, December 12, Camosun College students showed off their capstone projects to the public, and to potential employees. Graduating Information and Computer Systems Technology students presented their projects\u2014which included proprietary software for a CNC router, a dance studio management system, and much more\u2014at Fort Tectoria downtown during the annual event.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Launch of new live music venue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new live music venue, The Coda, will open at 751 View Street in early 2025. Owners AL Smith and Christina Morrison say the new venue, opening in the former location of Hermann\u2019s Upstairs, comes as a reaction to disappearing music venues, such as the loss of the Victoria Event Centre last October. The Coda is already planned as a venue for the Victoria Jazz Society\u2019s 2025 TD Victoria International JazzFest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camosun gets $1-million donation, changes building name\u00a0 Camosun\u2019s Centre for Trades Education and Innovation building has been renamed in recognition of a $1-million contribution by the Bhalla Family. The building, located at the Interurban campus, now stands as the Bhalla Centre for Trades Education and Innovation. Camosun alumnus and former Camosun College Foundation chair Jeety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26243,"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":[13,324],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-january-6-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252","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=26252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26253,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26252\/revisions\/26253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}