June 2009

Provincial Ministers join Women Building Futures and Olds College to launch women-specific Heavy Equipment Operator Program

June 22, 2009

Tess Flewelling, Olds College HEO instructional assistant Key government officials including Iris Evans, Alberta Minister of Finance and Enterprise, and Luke Ouellette, Minister of Transportation, were on hand near Edmonton today to help announce the launch of the very first Heavy Equipment Operator educational program designed specifically for women. Women Building Futures (WBF) and Olds [...]

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UN’s International Year of Natural Fibre celebrated at Olds College

June 19, 2009

2009 has been officially designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Natural Fibre. So it is for good reason that you will find Olds College’s annual Fibre Week, taking place from June 26 through July 3, on the calendar of events at the UN’s official year-of-natural-fibre website. Last summer, this growing event [...]

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New CLC Executive Director appointed

June 18, 2009

After serving the Community Learning Campus project as Marketing Director and Acting Executive Director, Kerry Moynihan has been officially appointed the new Executive Director. Moynihan is well-known in CLC circles, as it was during his tenure as Director of Marketing and Government Relations at Olds College when the project was first launched nearly five years [...]

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CN Visits Olds College to present Farm Safety Award

June 9, 2009

CN has awarded the 2009 CN Safer Alberta Community Award to The Young Farm Workers Safety Training Workshop, developed by Safe Communities Central Alberta (SCCA), for its work promoting agriculture safety and injury prevention. Paul Miller, CN’s chief safety and transportation officer and a judge of the annual awards program, noted that 23 people were [...]

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Fashion Marketing program now available to rural communities via videoconferencing technology

June 8, 2009

Rural Alberta is now accessing education in innovative new ways thanks to videoconferencing technology, and already Olds College is emerging as an early leader in the field.  Beginning this September, both post-secondary and high school students can complete Olds College’s Fashion Marketing program through five different rural engagement sites. This delivery will mark the first [...]

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Rural Alberta’s Development Fund Presents a Special Recognition Certificate at the Cremona Engagement Site

June 4, 2009

Officials from Rural Alberta’s Development Fund today presented a Special Recognition Certificate to representatives from both the South Central Rural Alliance and the Community Learning Campus at the Cremona Engagement Site. Rural Alberta’s Development Fund has provided $2.5 million to support the “Finishing the Dream” project. This project will result in 12 south central Alberta [...]

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