ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē professors pen in-depth book on history of Canadian corrections
October 22, 2021
Discourse about the lived experiences of those behind bars is about to break free across the country, with a special virtual book launch event next week. ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Sociology Professor Melissa Munn and History Professor Chris Clarkson joined forces to co-author Disruptive Prisoners: Resistance, Reform and the New Deal, published this fall by University of Toronto Press. The book is a collective biography that reconstitutes the histories of Canadaās federal prison system in the mid-20th century ā constructed after years of e...
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ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Coyotes win the Canadian College Baseball Conference
October 15, 2021
The ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Coyotes baseball team pulled out all the stops this past weekend, taking home first place in the Fall Championship of the 2021 Canadian College Baseball Conference (CCBC) league. All eight teams in the CCBC came to play for the first time since May 2019. āIt was really nice to see all the eight teams competing again after such a tough time due to COVID,ā says Head Coach Geoff White. āI applaud all the student athletes from all the programs for sticking with it to get back to this point.ā The Coyotesā weekend ...
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ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē student wins completion grant as part of inaugural Tourism Management Diploma program
October 14, 2021
For one ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē student, embracing Tourism Management Diploma (TMD) studies at the Revelstoke Centre has truly paid off. Stephanie Sonsona has been named the recipient of the Revelstoke Accommodation Associationās completion grant for 2021, receiving $1,000 to support her education. She first began exploring post-secondary study options while in her home country of the Philippines, and was introduced to the TMD program through ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ēās International Education department. She was drawn to the new tourism-focused...
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ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Culinary Arts students serve Thanksgiving meals to students in need
October 8, 2021
ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Culinary students and instructors helped to spread Thanksgiving gratitude to students on Friday with a holiday inspired meal. Students pulled out all the stops to prepare a Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings for students in need as part of the innovative ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Serves Up program. The program was launched in the middle of the pandemic last year to combat food insecurity and has just relaunched this past week for the new academic year. āĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Culinary Arts students serve 50 meals a day to students in need as part o...
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B.C. students have more opportunities to train for in-demand health-care jobs
October 1, 2021
The following news release has been shared on behalf of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training and ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē. KELOWNA - British Columbians looking for rewarding health-care careers now have access to a state-of-the-art learning environment with ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē's new Health Sciences Centre, which opened to students this semester. "If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it's how essential health-care workers are to our province," said Adrian Dix, Minister of Health. "We know B.C. needs more health-care professio...
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kinSHIFT: a powerfulāand localāway to learn about Truth and Reconciliation
September 27, 2021
Kelly Terbasket of IndigenEYEZ has created a new sister organization for alliesākinSHIFT. Launched this spring, kinSHIFT is a tailored set of workshops for non-Indigenous allies who want to take the next step. Designed in response to increasing requests from people who want to be genuine allies, kinSHIFT is a safer space to do the work. &n...
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FortisBC powers up support for women and Indigenous students
September 24, 2021
New awards and opportunities for mentorship with FortisBC are making it easier for female and female Indigenous students to be successful with their trades education. FortisBC recently set up three scholarships for women in trades with a focus on supporting female students who are at the mid-point in their education. The scholarship comes with the potential for the student to meet with FortisBC representatives and connect with someone working in a role they may be interested in pursuing in the future. "We wanted to support student...
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New LPN Orthopaedic Program at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē Set to Start in January 2022
September 22, 2021
Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) will have a learning option for advanced orthopaedic knowledge and skills that keeps them closer to home. The new LPN Orthopaedic Certificate offered at ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē (ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē) is the first of its kind in British Columbia. Launching in January 2022, the online certificate program is set to increase access to advanced orthopaedic education for nurses throughout the province and minimize travel requirements. āThis program will meet the provincial need for a local solution for training opportunities...
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Volunteers needed for a sweet cause: Enactus ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē students invite community to join them in picking apples
September 17, 2021
A group of ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē business students are once again putting the call out for volunteers from ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē and the community to help them harvest fruit that will be used to make healthy snacks for children and others in need. Launched in the fall of 2018, Fruit Snaps is a Vernon- and Penticton-based project co-ordinated by Enactus ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē students in partnership with the North Okanagan Valley Gleaners Society facility. Itās focused on taking unused apples from local orchards and dehydrating them into snacks for local schools. The Fruit S...
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Why We Write: Poets of Vernon
September 10, 2021
The writing community of Vernon is taking centre stage in a new film produced by ĀŅĀ×ŗ£½Ē English Professor and self-proclaimed budding filmmaker Hannah Calder. For the last four years, Calder has been collaborating with Curtis and Silmara Emde on Why We Write: Poets of Vernon, a film project originally sparked in 2017. Curtis, an OUC alumnus, has stayed in touch with his first-year English professor, Tom Wayman, since completing his studies. When Wayman released his collection ...
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