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Brigitte Benning: Visiting Scholar and Community Builder
Posted June 9, 2017
One of many things that makes GPRC unique is the on-campus Friendship Centre, a space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students to gather and participate in social and cultural programs. Although there are many Friendship Centres across the country, GPRC is the first college in Canada to host a Friendship Centre on-campus. GPRC alum... Read Article 禄
Dr. Bart Lardner Discovered a Love for Learning
Posted June 1, 2017
It is hard to believe Dr. H.A. (Bart) Lardner once struggled with his high school education before finding his love of learning at GPRC’s Fairview Campus. Lardner is a research scientist and adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Lardner shares his research online,... Read Article 禄
Tammy Coulter's Dream Came Unexpectedly True
Posted May 26, 2017
When Tammy Coulter enrolled at GPRC in 1990 she planned to become a teacher, but she achieved that goal in an unexpected way. For her first two years in the secondary education program, Coulter went to GPRC. She recalls fondly the time she and her friends, including her late husband, used ... Read Article 禄
Sisters Graduate Together
Posted May 8, 2017
Although neither Jordan Molson nor Laurel Ysebaert originally planned to become Veterinary Technologists, both sisters from Courtright, Ontario found their way to GPRC’s Animal Health Technology (AHT) program. Ysebaert moved West four years ago with her husband, first to Calgary, then to Grande Prairie where she dec... Read Article 禄
GPRC Looks Forward to the Future
Posted April 6, 2017
Twenty-five years ago Carol-Lee Eckhardt—a part-time GPRC Foundation Officer at the time—dreamed up an idea for a fundraiser. They built a time capsule, shaped like a rocket ship, and sold letters to the future. People put in letters addressed to whoever they wanted, photos, lines to be printed in the Tapestry, the ... Read Article 禄