Lethbridge College’s ESL for Nursing program brings the classroom to students around the world. When Mandana Azar Afshar came to Canada from Iran last July, she was in search of educational opportunities for her 16-year-old daughter. But along the way, the 43-year-old discovered there were opportunities here for her, too. In September, she started taking [...]
Often it takes years to realize what a difference one person can make in someone’s life. But for Derek Georget, a 2011 graduate of Lethbridge College’s Criminal Justice-Policing program, that appreciation came far more quickly. The Saskatoon native came to the college in 2009 straight from high school. By November that year, he was ready [...]
After spending the first 20 years of their lives in Lethbridge, Brent Fikowski (Business Administration – Accounting, 2011) and Andrew Hemmerling (Business Administration, 2011) have started out on a new adventure together – completing their education and pursuing their passion for beach volleyball on the Australian Gold Coast. Fikowski and Hemmerling became friends playing volleyball [...]
Every spring, as Lethbridge College grads prepare to move from the campus to their new careers, they have inspiring examples to emulate. The three people chosen by Lethbridge College and celebrated on these pages are among the many accomplished alumni who credit their time at Lethbridge College as one of the secrets of their success. By [...]
Jinan, China, is called the “City of Springs” and teems with a population of around seven million people. The capital of the eastern province of Shandong is located about 390 kilometers south of Beijing and never shuts down. But the continuous flurry of activity that takes place here each day has become commonplace to Lethbridge [...]
Creating the clouds that the superhero flies through, the crumbling bridge that a car is about to drive off, and the “demon turds” that the science fiction monster leaves behind – that’s how Lethbridge College grad Shaun Roth spends his workdays. “On one hand it’s just another job,” says the Red Deer native, who grew [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
If there was a course Shari Jeffries might have wished Lethbridge College’s Therapeutic Recreation – Gerontology (TRG) curriculum included, it would be drumming. Jeffries, a 2008 graduate and now a recreational assistant at the Bethany Care Centre in Cochrane, is initiating a program for her elderly clients that will have them beating on 18 Native [...]
When Alf Hubbard began collecting specimens of Alberta’s wildlife years ago, it’s doubtful he could have envisioned their transition into a global teaching tool. Hubbard’s goal of sharing his vast collection with southern Alberta was realized in 2007 when his family donated it to Lethbridge College. Today, Lethbridge College is sharing it with the world. [...]
Ty Provost is a bit of an adrenaline junkie. At three, his dad had him – and his four siblings – riding horses on the family ranch near Brocket. In his teens, he knew how to break a horse and was soon competing in rodeos as a bronc rider. So it’s merely an extension of [...]
Claire Parkinson enrolled at Lethbridge College to fulfill her dream of becoming a nurse. Somewhere, she swapped bed pans for oil pans and is now halfway through her apprenticeship as an automotive technician. She still studies in a technologically advanced field, but now knows more about automatic transmissions than most guys on her block. Sometimes, [...]
Dave Daniels is spinning his wheels these days, getting nowhere – and loving every minute of the journey. Daniels, an 11-year veteran instructor in Lethbridge College’s Automotive Systems Technician program, has a new toy to play with: a Mustang dynamometer that moves vehicle diagnostics into the fast lane. “Vehicle technology is changing rapidly and I [...]
The community, they say, has been good to them since they arrived 30 years ago to open the city’s first Canadian Tire store. So when Art and Mary Jane Crooks sought a way in which to give back, they selected Lethbridge College, the place to which they often turned for the skilled trades’ people they [...]
Lethbridge College has been through some substantial changes in the last few months: a new look, a new name, new programs, always placing students at the forefront of these innovations. This fall, that motivation will continue when the campus opens its third student residence. Construction on the residence began last June after several months of [...]
Carpenters, welders, electricians, interior designers, environmental scientists, engineering drafters, business and communications experts, office administrators: you’d wonder what these diverse workers would have in common beyond achieving their education at Lethbridge College. Yet, the new student residence being built at Lethbridge College serves as a microcosm of many of the disciplines taught in classrooms only [...]
Penny Takahashi (Renewable Resource Management ’03) doesn’t speak much “computer.” And at the time she met them, the five students from Lethbridge College’s Computer Information Technology (CIT) program didn’t know a word of “fish.” But Takahashi, fisheries technician at the college’s Aquaculture Centre of Excellence (ACE), and the five second-year students – Gary Schenk, Walter [...]
Tamara Hariz and Jennifer Bourk are tracking cougars. Although they can see a broad swath of cougar terrain from the west-facing, fourth-floor windows of their lab in the Cousins Science Centre at Lethbridge College, they seldom get a chance to enjoy the view. Instead, the two research students are hunting their prey with the tools [...]
Innovation and research are taking Lethbridge College to interesting places of late, realms of fang and fin, of DNA, of computer wizardry and the world’s oldest profession. We’ve got cougars in the Cousins Science Centre, fish in computer labs and all manner of growth in agriculture technology. Teaching is a phenomenal experience, knowing you’re helping [...]
Dave Haight doesn’t much mind being surrounded by 22 cougars in an enclosed space at Lethbridge College. After all, they’re frozen solid at -20C and, to be fair, Dave doesn’t appear all that appetizing anyway. Haight, Cousins Science Centre lab coordinator, is in the process of giving the deceased predators new leases on life: their [...]
Did you eat today? If so, thank the growing industry of agriculture. From the Fertile Crescent in 10,000 BC to the Palliser Triangle AD 2009, someone, somewhere, somehow has been tilling the soil or tending the herd, practising the science of producing food to feed themselves and others. That industry is alive and well. It [...]
Barrie Broughton has seen it happen more than once. An Alberta farmer, about to harvest his retirement years, decides to leave his farm to a child. After all, what could be more natural: the son or daughter inherits a business the father has grown diligently all his life, and keeps the family line intact. It’s [...]
Anyone who has ever driven through, flown over or lived more than six hours in Lethbridge has either seen or heard about the railroad bridge spanning the Oldman River Valley. And while debate still occurs on just what world record(s) it holds, two facts are indisputable: the High Level Bridge is an engineering and construction [...]
Rick Lewchuk graduated from Lethbridge College in 1979 with a diploma in Communication Arts. The North Battleford, Sask., native is now senior vice-president of Creative Agency and Brand Strategy for CTV. Wider Horizons tuned in with him about his success in branding the network. WH: Nice title; what does it mean? RL: We have upwards [...]
There were days during the 2008-09 Kodiaks basketball season on which Nadine Adams admits she questioned her sanity. As co-captain of the women’s basketball team, ranked number one in Canada for almost the entire year and winner of the national bronze medal, Adams could have pretty much filled her time attending classes and practices, with [...]
The bodies are pressed against one another, a mass of form and texture, scarcely a breath of air between them. They are every hue and shape and size, but united in common purpose, arms outstretched to embrace the sun. The scene may give the impression of a crowded beach or a peace march, but this [...]
After more than 50 years of serving as southern Alberta’s centre for technological education, Lethbridge College is heading back to the drawing board to recast itself for the next 50. A campus development plan, a broad-brush guide to the future approved by the college’s board of governors in September, sets the tone for the finer [...]
At 609 Sunridge Crescent on the outer edge of West Lethbridge, construction and science have allied to build a 1,300-square-foot laboratory known as The Living Home. When the exterior was completed recently, neighbours likely noticed a few oddities, distinctive features that set it apart from their own domiciles. First of all, no one lives at [...]
Clay Boyes recalls the incident like it was yesterday: just a typical day on the farm stacking hay bales with a friend and his eight-year-old son, Nathan. Suddenly, the steady pace is broken by Nathan’s bloodcurdling screams; his leg is stuck in the rotary chain of the bale machine, and he’s slowly being pulled in. [...]
From the IRA to Black September; from The Jackal to Osama bin Laden; from Munich to Lockerbie to New York City, on Pan Am, Air India and American Airlines; in English subways, Afghani markets and U.S. office buildings: terrorism, especially since 2001, has changed the globe. Its effects may be as dramatic and tragic as [...]
Blood oozes from the deep gash in Sheldon Bohachyk’s forehead. The ugly looking wound sends little droplets of red splattering to the ground around him. A rip in the leg of his pants reveals a shattered bone sticking out through flesh with more blood spurting in a thin stream that soaks his clothes in dark, [...]
You’re a fighter, a heavyweight champ, once again ready to answer the bell for another round against a familiar adversary. You’ve studied his footwork, know enough to stay away from the jab and you figure he’ll tire if you can get him on the ropes. You trained hard for this, planned a solid strategy and [...]
Her designs have swirled across the stage at the Juno Awards. She is the reigning world champion in women’s native fancy dancing. She stands on the verge of a marketing initiative that could spread native couture across the continent. It’s hardly surprising Carol Melting Tallow’s aboriginal name is Eagle Woman: the Lethbridge College grad (Fashion [...]
In a now-forgotten time (say, five years ago) the art of storytelling was honed around a hearth, at a grandparent’s knee, or while marshmallows toasted over a campfire. Provided the tale had a degree of relevance or resonance for the listener, the teller needed little else to create the appropriate atmosphere to enchant a small [...]
Interior Design student Lindsay Gergel might never have thought she’d make her first real-world mark in the lingerie business. But the Turin-area farm girl and 2008 Lethbridge College graduate stepped off campus for some downtown design work at Intrigue Lingerie Boutique on Seventh Street South, helping owners Colleen Armstrong and Rita McArthur create the look [...]
Kodiaks Athletics hopes to corner the bear market in pride when its new logo lights up merchandise this September. “We know Kodiaks history runs deep in this institution, throughout our alumni and within the community,” says Mark Kosak, Lethbridge College athletics director. “We wanted a logo that reflects that pride, while depicting the power and [...]
Campus pushing its sphere of influence Lethbridge College has been recognized at an international summit for its efforts to forge world partnerships. In February, representatives from the college, including president Tracy Edwards and Rick Buis, vice-president of corporate and international services, presented at the 2008 World Congress and International Association of Colleges Conference in New [...]
Life is a highway, and the college is going to let Lethbridge ride it all night long with Tom Cochrane as part of its Homecoming ’08 weekend in May. The Canadian Music Hall of Fame member, famous for songs such as Big League, will be headlining a concert May 18 at the Enmax Centre in [...]
For John Vidalin, whether it’s football season or not, most days in sunny Texas are “first-and-goal.” And while the Houston Texans’ seasons tend to end sooner than most in the NFL, the team is flourishing at the gate, making Vidalin’s job as their vice-president of sales slightly easier than that of, say, head coach Gary Kubiak. In [...]
They don’t send back breathless news reports while dodging bullets in war torn countries as khaki-clad foreign correspondents. But the more than 20- plus Lethbridge College graduates who work on the front lines of the city’s media are serving their audiences with similar purpose: they want to make a difference in people’s lives. Working in [...]
Half a century later, our first grads prove the kids were alright. It’s been half a century since they were among the first students at Lethbridge Junior College, but Barbara, Betty, Dick, Fiori, Jim, Julian, Leonard, Les, Wayne and Yvonne still answer “present” to the roll call. A month after classes began that storied autumn, [...]
Randall L. Jespersen was appointed President of Terasen Gas in 2002, having previously held the positions of Senior Vice-President, Energy Delivery Services and Senior Vice-President, Gas Supply. He is past chair of the Western Energy Institute and is a board member of the Canadian Gas Association. That’s the official entry in the online guidebook of [...]
Students who enrol in Lethbridge College’s wind turbine technician program may soon be required to apply for one additional piece of documentation when they graduate: a passport. The non-credit program, firmly established in the industry since the College created it in 2005, will soon benefit from years of European know-how, providing students with credentials accepted [...]
Construction ruckus at all hours of the day, a funky new fountain in the front yard, loud parties on the lawn: what must our neighbours be thinking about the new tenants at 3000 College Drive. Get used to it, people. We’re Lethbridge College and once we get all the boxes unpacked and the attitude uncrated, [...]
Students’ Progress Pleases Sanitation Project Partners Katrina Kellner knows better now. After six weeks in rural South Africa – rural and perishingly poor South Africa – the Lethbridge College student understands how good intentions and North American zeal can be blunted by bureaucratic red tape and dismal resources. Yet, despite the frustration caused by a [...]
The Senator Issues a Call to Students: The Third World Needs Your Talent It’s several thousand miles and 13 years from the mist-covered mountains of Rwanda to this sun-soaked October afternoon on the campus of Lethbridge College, farther still if one considers the emotional mileage Romeo Dallaire has logged since he left that African nation [...]
New Athletic Director Sets Goals for Change As he sits in his new office with the lights out, Mark Kosak allows himself a moment of dream time: in the ideal world, his office would overlook the coulees west of the campus instead of Gym B in the Val Matteotti Gymnasium. Given that fulfillment of his [...]
Lethbridge College has long been aware of the possibilities it presents for aboriginal learners seeking post-secondary education. It also understands the cultural differences that create opportunities for celebration to support and enhance their academic successes. With many initiatives already implemented, the college has recently partnered with RBC to enhance the campus experience through the Aboriginal [...]
