At first, finding good child care might seem more daunting than pregnancy and childbirth itself – but it doesn’t have to be. Tobi Horon, manager of the Lethbridge College Daycare and grad of Early Childhood Education ‘99, says there are a few things you can do to make the task easier – and then rest [...]
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 [...]
Members of the International Wind Energy Academy (IWEA) at Lethbridge College stand in front of a group of eager children. Eight college instructors are brimming with enthusiasm as they prepare to share their passion for wind energy with their young pupils. It’s the first year for the IWEA Wind Energy Youth Camp and it’s hard [...]
Students make their way to post-secondary by various routes. Caleb Jones crossed the country to achieve his goals. “I saw javelin for the first time in 2007 and I won the under-17 Canadians in 2008,” says Lethbridge College student Caleb Jones. “I’ve been lucky. I’ve come into it pretty quickly.” That’s an understatement. Jones advanced [...]
One person can make the difference in the lives of our children. Billy Jo Woitte makes her difference to many every school day. The young crowd at St. Francis Junior High wiggles in their seats. There is a lull between performers at the school talent show as the next act sets up. Soon, the captivating [...]
Picture this: You’re at a football game. The lights are blaring overhead, the crowd is chanting and cheering around you. The ball is in play, soaring through the air in a perfect spiral. The wide receiver is in position, ready to seize the ball and run. You watch with bated breath. As the leather of [...]
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. –Khalil Gibran 1115247 Alberta Inc. 1359935 Alberta Ltd. 1410077 Alberta Ltd. 1442150 Alberta Ltd. 4 Seasons Home Comfort 929198 Alberta Ltd. A & B Farms Ltd. A & C Stinnissen Enterprises Ltd. Access to the Future Tom & Deb Ackerman [...]
When asked to describe Lethbridge resident Art Ferrari, friends don’t hesitate to say he was a charismatic and proud north-side Italian Catholic who made you feel like you were the most important person in the world. Ferrari, 63, passed away July 30 at his home in Lethbridge. A principal at Ferrari Westwood Babits Architects, Art [...]
Life has its twists and turns, and for the most part, things come together as they should – if we only put the pieces together. Decked out in Lethbridge College garb, Vicki Charge prepares to board the last connecting flight from Calgary to Lethbridge. After another successful meeting, she’s eager to share news on what’s [...]
The Lethbridge Regional Police Service (LRPS) has made a $6,640 donation to Lethbridge College’s Kodiak House. Chief Tom McKenzie (Criminal Justice ‘76) says the LRPS had started down the road of making a donation some time ago, but after the death of Constable Sheldon Twigg, the monetary gift became a priority – the perfect way [...]
This dessert is simple, yet the Kaiser of Austria Joseph enjoyed it very much. The first time it was served the waiter dropped the plate causing the beautiful one piece pancake to fall into several pieces and become a “schmarren” or mess. The dessert was still served and the Kaiser loved it so it was [...]
Competitors working together seems like a foreign concept, but in this case, everyone wins On April 27, 2011, the Lethbridge and District Auto Dealers Association (LADA) unveiled a donation plan that would generate $1 million in support of the new Trades and Technology Renewal and Innovation Project, a component of Lethbridge College’s campus developmental plan. [...]
Wider Horizons asked alumna Tonya Woolford (Communication Arts – Broadcast Journalism ’06), Executive Director of the Lethbridge Food Bank, to share a word or two on life. What type of food is most needed at the Lethbridge Food Bank at any given time? Any staple food What’s your favourite canned food? French Cut Green Beans!! [...]
The kitchen at the Panhans Hotel in Semmering, Austria, is a flurry of activity. Mitchell D’Agnone’s attention is keenly focused on Chef Alfred as he expertly guides his new pupils through a series of remarkable cooking maneuvers. With his cliché kitchen personality (loud, obnoxious and strangely charming), the seasoned chef has enough stories to entertain [...]
In the early morning hours of May 15, 2011, as the fires raged through the town of Slave Lake, Alberta, no one could have predicted the devastation and destruction those flames would leave behind. Nor could they have foreseen the overwhelming strength of human spirit that would rise up in support during those darkest of [...]
D’Arcy Kavanagh Communication Arts 2011 LCFA/SA Teaching Excellence Award I have an interest in sharing enthusiasm. I’ve never had an individual class that I didn’t want to walk into, was excited to walk into. Every day you go in you owe it to your students to bring the passion. Every instructor should feel excited and [...]
Teresa Warnock Nursing Education in Southwestern Alberta ’00 I have been working at the Claresholm Centre for Mental Health and Addictions since graduating. I work on the Extended Treatment Unit and I love my job. Lani Ledingham Communication Arts-Advertising and Public Relations ’06 I pursued a job at Red Deer College in my final semester [...]
As the “May long” approaches, campers are again preparing to besiege the Castle. Brett Jensen urges them to do so responsibly. In the Castle River area, hard against the B.C. border, lies an area of Alberta rich in recreational possibilities. From the “May long” to winter’s first bite, hikers, campers, fishing fanatics, quad riders and [...]
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 [...]
Web Master Calin Yablonski finally has a career with top-drawer clients; his socks can rest easy at home. Calin Yablonski figured once he left Lethbridge College with a Communication Arts diploma to wrap around his considerable talents, the advertising world would drop dead at his feet. At 22, the young alumnus had earned top grades [...]
If any employers know the value of hiring Lethbridge College students, it’s the grads who came before them. Three alumni explain why they look to the college first when it’s time to hire. When the Lethbridge Regional Police Service goes on the hunt for recruits, it doesn’t require Sherlock Holmes to find them. When Ward [...]
When the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns go on the road to competitions, where do they look for massage therapists to keep their athletes at their prime? Lethbridge College. So when the school’s swim team headed to a Canada West competition in Vancouver this past winter, Alex Plett, second-year Massage Therapy program student from Rosemary, was [...]
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 [...]
Wider Horizons asked Kirby Maronda (Interior Design and Merchandising ’02), sales consultant, Daytona Homes Lethbridge, to share a word or two on housing trends. What interior colours are the hottest in homes this year? Metallics and opalescents, purples, greys and teals. Big landscaped yard or low maintenance? Big yard with a lawn boy. First song [...]
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 [...]
Your backswing is still in mid-February, your short irons have never met a bunker they didn’t like and don’t even get you started on your putting. OK, because Dave English, program chair of Lethbridge College’s Professional Golf Management program, isn’t here to fix your broken-down game. He’s here to tell you where to take your [...]
A group of Lethbridge College students went to Ecuador to learn its culture, meet its people, sample its cuisine and do a little jail time. Up until last year, Lisa Barnett was not what you’d call a world traveller. “I had never been outside of Alberta or on a plane before,” says Barnett now. How [...]
Amber Willis has a four-month-old and wants to work with seniors. She may well become a woman of the ages. I grew up on a farm just south of Lloydminster. After high school, I went to Edmonton for five years, part of which I spent at NAIT studying graphic communications. What I really wanted to [...]
Author, activist, educator, elder, Beverly Hungry Wolf is a lifelong southern Albertan who has dedicated herself to learning and restoring her Blackfoot culture for future generations. At its convocation ceremonies this month, Lethbridge College will proudly bestow an honorary bachelor of applied arts on Hungry Wolf, one of its former students. Wider Horizons: In Daughters [...]
In this issue, our 13th, you’ll find the longest story we’ve printed since we initially published Wider Horizons in the fall of 2007. At more than 3,000 words, it’s about three times the length of most of our pieces, but we felt such a moving, human story as that of our Veronica Turcotte, alumna and [...]
Basketball has taken her around the world. Now, Dawn Keith is taking basketball to a world of new players. Waiting for the photographer to set up for his best shot, Dawn Keith takes a few of her own, dropping them in effortlessly with a motion that comes automatically from years on the hardwood. The Lethbridge [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Red Beet and Onion Potage Soup Yield: 8 portions / 200ml each Ingredients 700 gram (1 1/2 lbs) red beets ( fresh) 40 ml (3 TBS) butter 150 gram (medium sized) onion medium dice 1500 ml (6 1/2 cups) chicken stock 150 gram (medium sized) potatoes, small dice To taste salt To taste pepper 500 [...]
Your last soufflé resembled something from the kids’ menu at IHOP? Chef Heng Ng (Culinary Careers ’94), now a Culinary Careers instructor and dessert soufflé maestro, is here to dry your tears. Beaten egg whites cause soufflés to rise like cakes, but they are far less stable and fall soon after removed from the oven. [...]
LCI principal Bill Bartlett’s teaching evolution began on Lethbridge College’s campus Bill Bartlett stood in front of the class, a newly minted, government-certified teacher, ready to begin his career imparting knowledge to young, inquiring minds. Slightly older at 24 than most rookies, the result of taking, as he calls it, “the scenic route” through the [...]
Sean vividly recalls the night, about two years ago, he was hoping to make a drug buy when the suspect with whom he was negotiating suddenly asked him if he was an undercover cop. The target, from Regina, had cocaine to sell, and Sean, sporting a long beard and wearing earrings, was close to making [...]
Richard Dale Huculiak Criminal Justice-Policing ’78 I was employed with Alberta Correctional Services from 1982 to 1989 at the Lethbridge Correctional Centre (security) and Lethbridge Community Corrections (probation/parole officer) before joining the RCMP. I recently completed 21 years of police service (general duty, traffic, crime prevention, gang suppression) in British Columbia and Alberta. I am [...]
College recruiters enlist social media to attract students. As a new Lethbridge College employee, Susan Roberts (left) is spending a lot of her time on Facebook. As the institution’s first e-recruiter, she’s paid to. Like any other business, Lethbridge College realizes it must cast its hook where the customers – potential students – are biting. [...]
Athletics Manager Bill Dean sees sports as an education. The clock shows 38 seconds left and the Kodiaks on the short end of a 71-68 score. The coach has called time out to discuss strategy in these final few seconds that will either send the Kodiaks to the podium or packing for home. The game [...]
Lethbridge College’s online applied degree program allows Canada’s correctional service personnel to keep working while they enhance their careers. Dana O’Dell has never visited Lethbridge College or even been in the city. Yet O’Dell, a Nova Scotia native who lives in B.C.’s Lower Mainland, is a one of the school’s proud alumni and a vocal promoter [...]
Since taking the reins at Lethbridge College more than five years ago, I’ve become a bit of a braggart. Whether I’m out chatting up the community or negotiating with government, I find myself slipping easily into that mode of talking up the sense of excitement infusing our campus, the programs, research, innovation and, of course [...]
Thomas Kuperus (Corrections ’10) wanted to see Africa, glean a greater cultural awareness and do some good along the way. The third-year Correctional Studies applied-degree student from Coaldale spent four months in Tanzania last summer teaching, building and nurturing. He can’t wait to get back. Wider Horizons: Where, exactly, were you in Tanzania? Thomas Kuperus: [...]
Scott Lehbauer is a one-man team. He has perhaps the largest collection of name tags on campus. Since beginning his career at Lethbridge College as a science lab assistant in 2001, Scott has served as a science lab technician, science lab co-ordinator, part- and full-time instructor, and member of the college’s board of governors, serving [...]
Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins, Lethbridge College alumnus, finds his Conservation Enforcement diploma comes in handy in his new life in Ottawa. It’s a bit of a distance from working on fisheries experiments in Alberta to sitting in the House of Commons in Ottawa. I guess, however, both encapsulate my lifelong passion for the outdoors and [...]
Elsewhere, it’s a typical Monday night in Lethbridge: by 11 p.m. most residents are ending their day to the dying murmur of traffic outside. But across the city inside a quaint little pub, a boisterous crowd is far from sleep in a separate world entirely. Three present and former Lethbridge College instructors are filling the [...]
Phil Harttrup can’t seem to keep his feet on the ground these days. As director of Lethbridge College’s English Language Centre, his passport bears customs stamps from a host of countries Lethbridge College has targeted as potential recruitment hot spots. Students from South America to Asia are looking for overseas educational experiences, and Harttrup is [...]
Students often encounter overwhelming pressure to succeed. When the questions come, Lethbridge College counsellors listen. They should number their days on campus among the happiest of their lives, a time to slough the restrictions of childhood and prepare for the adult world and careers that wait beyond. For many post-secondary learners campus life entails a [...]
With presence in three more communities, Lethbridge College is making its programs more accessible Something is taking place between the fall rye and the spring wheat out in the rural areas of southern Alberta: adult learning. Long a presence in Fort Macleod, Lethbridge College acquired campuses in Claresholm, Crowsnest Pass and Pincher Creek from the [...]
Southern Albertans are a deprived bunch when it comes to choices in potato varieties. They have for years been eating the equivalent of plonk wine slurped from a plastic cup. As it turns out, potato connoisseurs consider the ubiquitous Russet Norkotah, served baked in finer restaurants throughout the region, to be on a par with [...]
Wider Horizons asked alumnus Jordan Brown (Hotel and Resort Management ’04), general manager of The Movie Mill, to share a word or two on movies. If you see only one movie from the last 12 months, it should be: Inception. When I watch a movie, my snack of choice is: M&M Peanuts. In the last [...]
Facebook branding requires a little common sense Employers are sneaky. You present them with professional cover letters, resumes and references to show off your skills; they resort to surfing Facebook and other social media to get a more robust picture of your character. And there are likely other tools they will use to research job [...]
Mark Dieser is a smart shopper. He buys fresh, he buys local and he buys in bulk. When was the last time you met someone who bought enough cucumbers in four months to reach from goal line to goal line of a football field? Canadian field, no less. That’s Chef Mark. As an instructor in [...]
