Tag Archive for 'My Life'

My Life: Pointed in the Right Direction

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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 [...]

My Life: Making a life for Logan

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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 [...]

From parks to Parliament

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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 [...]

Justin in Kandahar

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It was in my final year of high school in Prince George, B.C. that I made up my mind to attend Lethbridge College and, in 1976, I was admitted into the Law Enforcement [now Justice Studies] program. During the next two years, I met some great people at the college, had some amazing instructors, and [...]

Surveying her future

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Lydia Penner (Geomatics Engineering Technology 2008) heads a survey crew for Altus Geomatics in Grande Prairie. Within a year of graduation, she had already volunteered for a project in Ethiopia with Engineering Ministries International, on a project to build an orphanage. I grew up on a farm in the Goodwin area, one-half hour east of [...]

My Life: Journalist Under Fire

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Abhishek (Abhi) Choudhari (Print Journalism 2002) is the editor at ITN, a fledgling news channel in Mumbai, India. For three days last November, Choudhari directed a staff of some 20 journalists in covering the terrorist attacks in Mumba, which killed or injured nearly 500. He was stationed for several days in a hotel near the [...]