Stuntman Steve
Steve-O, of Jackass fame, brings stand-up comedy act to Nanaimo’s Port Theatre.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014
Freshmen add energy at university
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BY CHRIS BUSH ThE NEwS BULLETiN
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VOL. 26, NO. 32
Nanaimo’s first lady
ROCK THE VIU brings new students into the fold on campus.
Vancouver Island University’s first-year students were welcomed to ‘the rock’ at Rock the VIU last week. About 600 new students turned up Thursday for the university’s annual orientation day, which featured adventure-type activities designed to familiarize new arrivals with the campus, introduce them to the faculty and staff they’ll be dealing with in coming years and get them acquainted with fellow students. Activities included campus tours guided by second-year students, a self-guided Instagram tour – in which students toured the campus, took pictures and then met up with other students to share images and observations – live music in the amphitheatre, a barbecue and even a flash mob. There were also open houses hosted by on-campus trades, academic, First Nations, arts and humanities, recreation, tourism and business and social sciences programs and facilities. Minami Nakatani came from Osaka, Japan, to study culture and communications at VIU. Nakatani said benefits of attending university in Nanaimo include Vancouver Island’s mild weather and VIU’s hospitality and business programs.
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Joy Leach, 1941-2014
NaNaimo CommuNity arChives
Joy Leach took over as mayor of Nanaimo in December 1990 following her election victory two weeks earlier. The city’s first female mayor, died last week at age 72.
Former mayor remembered for leadership BY TaMaRa CUNNINgHaM ThE NEwS BULLETiN
Joy Leach, Nanaimo’s first and only female mayor and a longtime school trustee, died last week at the age of 72. Leach, who helped the community envision the city it could become, died of Alzheimer’s at Nanaimo Travellers Lodge on Aug. 25. The former mayor, considered to be a gifted and accomplished political leader, was a seven-year Nanaimo school trustee and chairwoman and fundraiser for Malaspina College and Simon Fraser University. By 1990, she had thrown her hat into the mayoral race and defeated Frank Ney to become the first female mayor. Her political reign only lasted one three-year term and wasn’t without controversy, but Leach laid the foundation for major and long-lasting changes in the Harbour City. Under her leadership, Nanaimo city council introduced a new watermetering system as a source of revenue for infrastructure projects and she championed Imagine Nanaimo, a process that led to the city’s first official community plan. See ‘LEACH’ /3
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