Wildlife CSI: Canada

A theme song by The Who blasts through the hallways. Are we in Las Vegas, Miami or New York? Lethbridge College actually, and there really isn’t a theme song, but this wildlife crime scene investigation seminar is certainly worthy of one. For the first time in Canada, 25 fish and wildlife enforcement officers received training [...]

Future Worth

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Students have several options for financing their educations without entering debtor’s prison upon graduation. Bills, loans, tuition, jobs: frightening words for young people who know little about the complex world of financial planning. Dealing with banks, the government and employers, and the labyrinth of any post-secondary institution, is a daunting task. It’s hard to know [...]

Celebrating our stars

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Distinguished Alumni Award Terry Vogt Radio Arts ‘72 His voice has long been the sound of news in Lethbridge and throughout southern Alberta. He is a mainstay of reporting integrity and community connectivity. For his dedication to his craft and achieving a high level of career excellence, Terry Vogt is Lethbridge College’s Distinguished Alumnus for [...]

A Doctor in the House

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More Lethbridge College instructors are completing their PhDs, seasoning their teaching with the knowledge gained. But the journey requires sacrifice from those around them. Leigh Kowalchuk and Ron Solinski will soon be pondering long-awaited vacations. For five-year-old Leigh, world travel is a definite possibility, while Solinski, an instructor in Lethbridge College’s Child and Youth Care [...]

A breath of life

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For two decades, cystic fibrosis placed a time limit on the Turcotte family. A lung transplant has allowed them to contemplate a future. Veronica Turcotte asked her son Eugene only once if he was prepared to die. She posed the question in 2010, during a particularly dark skirmish in his long battle with cystic fibrosis, [...]