{"id":789171,"date":"2026-07-08T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789171\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:31:11","slug":"community-shows-up-to-paint-mural-for-old-city-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789171\/","title":{"rendered":"Community shows up to paint mural for Old City intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An intersection in Nanaimo\u2019s Old City neighbourhood got a makeover this weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community members came together to paint a new street mural at the intersection of Campbell and Machleary streets. The painting was supported by The City of Nanaimo in collaboration with the Old City Business Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local artist Sebastian Abboud and his team spent the early weekend preparing the mural outline. Then on Sunday July 5, the community was invited to help bring it to life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHLY spoke with Abboud along with members of the community as the mural was underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CHLY also spoke with Madeleine Koch, Active Transportation Project Specialist for the City of Nanaimo , and Jaime-Brett Sine, City cultural services coordinator, about the mural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An intersection in Nanaimo\u2019s Old City neighbourhood got a makeover this weekend.\u00a0 Community members came together to paint&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-789171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}