{"id":8524,"date":"2014-02-05T08:50:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=8524"},"modified":"2014-02-03T14:59:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T22:59:35","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-february-5-2014-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/02\/05\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-february-5-2014-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Ago in<\/em> Nexus: February 5, 2014 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Needles and veins:<\/b> Our February 21, 1994 issue had a doozy of a cover photo: a stark black and white image of someone shooting up. The story was about Victoria\u2019s heroin problem, which was starting to get some attention around that time. As part of the feature story, we interviewed a drug user (who didn\u2019t give his real name, but went by \u201cRobert\u201d). He was in his early twenties and used LSD weekly and assured us that it\u2019s \u201cjust a phase\u201d and he\u2019ll \u201cgrow out of it.\u201d Our door is open for a follow-up interview now, 20 years later, if he\u2019s out there reading…<\/p>\n

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Yup, a hot pink headband: <\/b>An article titled \u201cTheft at Interurban\u201d detailed how a man held up the Interurban bookstore on a Friday afternoon. The suspect, who was apparently, and inexplicably, wearing a \u201chot pink headband,\u201d indicated that he had a gun and took the store\u2019s cash.<\/p>\n

Haunted by the ghost of Rocktoria:<\/i> <\/b>Local radio station 100.3 The Q used to run a contest every year where local bands would compete to be placed on their annual Rocktoria<\/i> compilation CD. That\u2019s all fair and good, but, man, over time \u201cRocktoria\u201d became a dirty word. I once wrote a story about the \u201ccurse of Rocktoria<\/i>\u201d that ended with me being confronted by a Rocktoria<\/i> winner in a stairwell in the Fisher Building… but that\u2019s a story for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Needles and veins: Our February 21, 1994 issue had a doozy of a cover photo: a stark black and white image of someone shooting up. The story was about Victoria\u2019s heroin problem, which was starting to get some attention around that time. As part of the feature story, we interviewed a drug user (who didn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8525,"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":[5,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-february-5-2014"],"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