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 [...]
With sun, sand and cold beverages, the Mayan Riviera was the perfect spot for Lana Ulbricht-Miller, Richard Miller, David O’Callaghan, Adrien Chartier and Bruce Cole to celebrate two decades of friendship. They soaked up every last ray of sunshine as they reminisced about the 20 plus years that had passed since they left Lethbridge College [...]
Alberta Fish and Wildlife recently donated a unique mount displaying two bears, a grizzly and a black bear, to Lethbridge College. Jim Mitchell (Renewable Resource Management ‘80), superintendent of Fish and Wildlife, Enforcement Field Services, Prairie Area – Lethbridge and Lethbridge College alumnus, explains how the bear mount found its way to the college and [...]
At Lethbridge College, you could say that we are our own self-contained small city. If we count credit and non-credit students, faculty and staff, our little metropolis exceeds 15,000 people. . . to give you a sense of size, we’re pretty much twice as big as Taber! We are not, however, an insular constituency. Although [...]
First, you need the numbers to fully understand the magnitude of what Jonathan (Jonny) Friesen (Renewable Resource Management ‘06) has accomplished since he began cycling from home to Lethbridge College daily, starting Oct. 6, 2008. As of Feb. 1, they look something like this: 478: days cycled 9,560: kilometres ridden (more than a round trip [...]
You can feel the excitement building in Melissa Robdrup as she describes the sport she loves so much: soaring. Bringing the sport to southern Alberta has her flying high, literally. Soaring is motorless flight in a sailplane. The plane rides naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena called thermals to gain altitude and stay aloft. Basically, as Melissa [...]