{"id":27027,"date":"2025-07-02T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=27027"},"modified":"2025-06-30T09:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T16:50:09","slug":"news-briefs-july-2-2025-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/07\/02\/news-briefs-july-2-2025-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"News Briefs<\/em>: July 2, 2025 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Construction company chosen for student housing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kinetic has been chosen to construct the student housing project at Camosun\u2019s Lansdowne campus. The project will feature over 400 beds in a six-storey building; its approved total cost is $154.7 million and construction is expected to start next year.<\/p>\n

Students show off fine chair-making skills<\/strong><\/p>\n

Camosun\u2019s Fine Furniture students are again showing off their work at a year-end showcase. Until Sunday, July 20, Kick Back! Seating In Western Maple will be open for the public to view; the showcase features chairs made by graduating students in the 10-month program, with, among others, rocking chairs, loungers, a chair for making music, and a \u201cpraying mantis chair\u201d on display. The showcase is at the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, located at 3220 Cedar Hill Road.<\/p>\n

Technology and Engineering students awarded<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over 30 Camosun students studying Computer Science, Civil Engineering, Electronics and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering were recently honoured at the college\u2019s annual Technology and Engineering awards. The awards, which were given at a ceremony on Tuesday, June 10, are given to high-achieving students in STEM-related programs. Visit camosun.ca\/news\/2025-technology-and-engineering-awards<\/a> for the full list of students who got the nod.<\/p>\n

Chargers athletes recognized by Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) has honoured two Camosun Chargers athletes as Academic All-Canadians for their achievements in sport and academics. Third-year Athletic and Exercise Therapy student Erica Bolink achieved an 8.25 GPA and through the Chargers women\u2019s volleyball team has received two PACWEST Athlete of the Week awards and two CCAA Athlete of the Week awards, and has been named PACWEST First Team All-Star, PACWEST Championship All-Star, and CCAA All-Canadian, as well as Accent Inn Player of the Year. Fourth-year Sports Management student David Finch achieved a 9.0 grade point average last year and through his work with the Chargers men\u2019s basketball team earned two PACWEST Athlete of the Week awards and a CCAA Athlete of the Week award, and was named PACWEST First Team All-Star and CCAA All-Canadian, as well as Accent Inn Player of the Year, and received the CCAA Torchbearer Scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Construction company chosen for student housing Kinetic has been chosen to construct the student housing project at Camosun\u2019s Lansdowne campus. The project will feature over 400 beds in a six-storey building; its approved total cost is $154.7 million and construction is expected to start next year. Students show off fine chair-making skills Camosun\u2019s Fine Furniture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27012,"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":[13,334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-july-2-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027","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=27027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27028,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27027\/revisions\/27028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}