{"id":6784,"date":"2013-04-03T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6784"},"modified":"2013-04-03T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T17:25:50","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/04\/03\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-9\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years ago in Nexus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nexus-3-15-cover-resized\"<\/a>Camosun student takes bank hostages: <\/b>So the headline said on page 2 of our April 5, 1993 issue. But while that seems like an incredibly unlikely and interesting story, it only got a few paragraphs of space. As it turned out, an 18-year-old Camosun student had an eight-hour standoff with police in the Pacific Coast Savings Credit Union in Broadmead Shopping Centre. Witnesses said the gunman \u201cappeared to be depressed or tired,\u201d according to the article, and \u201clater it was discovered he was despondent over his grades at school.\u201d There were no injuries or shots fired.<\/p>\n

Green times: <\/b>Call us lugnuts, but I didn\u2019t realize that even back in the old days of \u201893 there were green initiatives happening. But there, as evidenced by a story in this issue explaining how envirotech and automotive students had participated in an event called the 1993 Fuel Smart Challenge, which took place out at Tillicum Mall. It was all about conserving energy and lowering pollution levels, which weren\u2019t exactly on the top of everyone\u2019s mind back then, proving that Camosun students, like they are now, were ahead of the curve, even in 1993.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Camosun student takes bank hostages: So the headline said on page 2 of our April 5, 1993 issue. But while that seems like an incredibly unlikely and interesting story, it only got a few paragraphs of space. As it turned out, an 18-year-old Camosun student had an eight-hour standoff with police in the Pacific Coast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6785,"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":[14,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-views","category-april-3-2013"],"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