A sweet attempt at breaking a record for the largest Nanaimo bar, a VIU Housing Manager program alum shares his experiences and counting fish on a local river.
Vancouver Island University hopes to set the bar by creating Canada's biggest Nanaimo bar. Students from the university's culinary arts, professional baking and pastry arts programs will team up to try to break the record on campus on May 17 in a fundraising event with the goal to make a Nanaimo bar weighing 1,100 pounds. The Nanaimo News Bulletin writes about the endeavour.
Frank French, housing manager for the Chippewas of Thames First Nation, speaks about how VIU’s Housing Manager Program helped him learn new approaches and strategies in his challenging career. He was interviewed by the Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corporation.
VIU Fisheries and Aquaculture student Tristan Dieleman led a record-breaking fish salmon count on a local Nanaimo river. His experience is helping him define his career path.
VIU’s Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Institute partners with the Regional District of Nanaimo to support World Water Day. Learn more about planned events in the Parksville Qualicum Beach News.
VIU Mariners women's basketball centre Harriette Mackenzie talks to Toronto Star columnist Bruce Arthur about leaving the hatred behind and overcoming a lifetime of being ostracized, picked on and trying to find happiness amid the anti-trans backlash.
The VIU Shq’apthut expansion project is among 49 projects listed as finalists for the 18th annual Commercial Building Awards: Central/North Vancouver Island. Read about it in the Business Examiner.
For the second time in four years the VIU Mariners will host a CCAA basketball national tournament. Find out more in Nanaimo News Now story.
Yale Historic Site is putting the finishing touches to their buildings and exhibitions as they gear up for the upcoming tourist season. One of the featured exhibits is Fighting for Justice – On the Coast| Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Lil̓wat7úl, a travelling exhibition that will be available for the public to view upon opening day. It examines the history of Indigenous people and Asian Canadians and their fight for justice over the past 150 years. It is from Vancouver Island University and shares stories from Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation.
It has been a busy year for VIU Political Studies student Leah Vaisanen as she finishes up her studies while co-running a program with her professor, Lauren Touchant, that tackles food insecurity on campus. The No Hunger at VIU program hosted bi-weekly free hot meals for all students, CHLY reports.
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