Georgian College students Brad Bowden and Adam Dixon will play out their boyhood dreams when they take to the ice at the 2010 Paralympic Games in Vancouver this March. Both are members of the 2010 Canadian Sledge Hockey Team.
Bowden, a third-year Art and Design Fundamentals student, has taken the semester off to moonlight as a [...]
Textbooks from the Summer Semester will be returned to the publishers beginning Monday, May 25th, 2009 at the Orillia Campus Bookstore. Books for courses with a later start date will not be returned at this time.
Reinhart Weber, President and Founder, Weber Manufacturing Ltd., and a great friend of Georgian College, has been awarded the Skills Canada – Ontario Klaus Woerner Skilled Trades Hall of Fame Award. Skills Canada – Ontario presents the award annually to recognize significant contributions to the advancement of skilled trades and technologies. Weber, described as an [...]
For the second consecutive year, Georgian College Collingwood Campus staff members and students took part in the Annual Collingwood Santa Claus Parade on Sunday, Dec. 6. This year’s theme was the 2010 Winter Olympics, and they transformed an 18-wheeler into a downhill ski slope.
Reinhart Weber, President and Founder, Weber Manufacturing Ltd., and a great friend of Georgian College, has been awarded the Skills Canada – Ontario Klaus Woerner Skilled Trades Hall of Fame Award. Skills Canada – Ontario presents the award annually to recognize significant contributions to the advancement of skilled trades and technologies. Weber, described as an [...]
Staff members and students from Georgian’s Muskoka Campus participated in the Bracebridge Santa Claus parade on Sunday, Dec. 6. They brought Santa’s workshop to the downtown core. They put fake snow around the tree, even though the region had snow accumulation throughout the day.
David Tilson, Member of Parliament for Dufferin-Caledon, on behalf of Minister Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, announced more than $250,000 in Youth Skills Link funding to the Step Up Program at Georgian’s Orangeville Campus on May 22.
Funding for the Step Up Program will help 45 Dufferin County youth facing employment barriers [...]
When dozens of brave (some would say crazy) souls hit the water in Lake Couchiching last weekend, the Dean of Georgian’s Orillia Campus was the first to take the plunge.
Mary O’Farrell-Bowers represented the Campus and its students as the “celebrity dipper” for this year’s Polar Bear Dip.
She has also worked hard to fundraise, because [...]
Gwen Gilbert, mayor of Wiarton, Ontario, visited Georgian’s Owen Sound Campus March 10 to present students in the Police Foundations program with certificates of appreciation for their assistance during the town’s Groundhog Day Week.
Pictured: Gilbert, Police Foundations student Andrew Hopkins and “Wiarton Willy.”
