News at Assiniboine
Tonight, in Ebb and Flow First Nation, 15 dogs will rest their heads in their own doghouses, custom-built by 30 Carpentry & Woodworking students at Assiniboine Community College. In summer, a doghouse provides shade. Come winter, these doghouses will provide insulated warmth to help protect dogs from the wind and cold.
Hotel & Restaurant Management graduate Shonah Rathwell earns a living creating memorable experiences for others
Working in a real restaurant at Assiniboine Community College, serving real customers, gave Sherbet Doverte the opportunity to gain the experience she needed to apply to her summer job.
Strawberries, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and other warm-weather crops could be grown in northern Manitoba, thanks to research being carried out at Assiniboine’s Sustainable Greenhouse.
The community of Russell, Man. will be host Assiniboine Community College’s next rural rotating Practical Nursing program delivery site, with classes starting in January 2019.
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) is partnering with Assiniboine Community College to provide a Heavy Equipment Operator program to 10 Indigenous students later this summer.
Twenty-four students from Assiniboine Community College’s Adult Collegiate will receive their high school diplomas at a ceremony tomorrow afternoon. The graduation ceremony takes place at 1:30 p.m. in the gymnasium of the college’s Victoria Avenue East Campus in Brandon.
Assiniboine Community College is excited to announce today – National Indigenous Peoples Day – the generous gift of $250,000 made by the Louis Riel Institute, the educational affiliate of the Manitoba Métis Federation, to establish a bursary endowment fund known as the Louis Riel Bursary.
Most people don’t want weeds in their gardens. But at Assiniboine Community College, there is a whole garden dedicated to nothing but weeds. Homeowners, gardeners, farmers and anyone else having trouble figuring out what weeds are growing where they’re not supposed to can bring them to the weed garden for identification. All the weeds have signs identifying their species.
Today, more than 1,300 students will graduate from Assiniboine Community College, putting the college’s total increase of graduates at more than 50 per cent since 2013. The college saw an eight per cent increase in the number of grads over this past year alone at the annual Brandon ceremony.