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+   <newsitem author="ztseguin" date="2018-07-18">
+     <p>The Systems Committee has been informed of a planned power outage
+       in the Math &amp; Computer Building (MC) Tuesday, August 21 to
+       Friday, August 24.</p>
+     <p>We expect most Computer Science Club systems and services to be
+       unavailable starting Monday, August 20. Planning is currently underway
+       to maintain limited services
+       (<a href="http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca">mirror.csclub</a>,
+       CSC website and outage notification for member/club sites, and email)
+       during the power outage.</p>
+     <p>More information will provided in the next few weeks.</p>
+     <p>Please contact the
+       <a href="mailto:systems-committee@csclub.uwaterloo.ca">
+         Systems Committee
+       </a>
+       if you have any questions.</p>
+   </newsitem>
    <newsitem author="mnmailho" date="2018-05-14">
      <p>Here are the results from this term's elections:</p>
       <ul>