Author: katewoods
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Living with celiac disease
The Sheridan Sun’s Kate Woods has posted her feature article on living with celiac disease on her blog. Read about those living with celiac, how they stay safe and healthy by avoiding foods that contain gluten and how they discovered they had the disease. Check it out here: http://kwarticles.blogspot.ca/
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Hung up on finding the right hangover cure
STORY BY KATE WOODS You remember hanging out at the bar and drinking the night away, never once thinking about the dizziness and headache you will experience in the morning. “A hangover is an indication of over consumption of alcohol,” said Mary Anne Vanos, a coordinator and instructor in the Practical Nursing program at Davis…
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Cutting the nerve on carpal tunnel syndrome
STORY BY KATE WOODS You’re sitting at your computer, playing a game or typing several essays due at the end of the weekend, when your hand and wrist suddenly feel painful. That is just one cause and one symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome, which occurs when a nerve in the carpal tunnel, a long narrow…
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St. John Ambulance hosts CPR training event
VIDEO BY KATE WOODS On Oct. 30th, St. John Ambulance held a CPR training event at Celebration Square in Mississauga. The event was to teach families and students the importance and how to perform CPR in an emergency.
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Can one little word help stop campus sex assaults?
BY ROBERT MOODIE AND KATE WOODS The new ‘Yes means Yes’ law that was passed in California in August is about young adults giving verbal or very clear non-verbal consent to sexual activity. Universities in California are now required to teach students why an affirmative ‘Yes’ is important and what non-verbal consent looks like. Students…
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Photo Gallery of DogFest at Riverwood Conservancy
PHOTOS BY KATE WOODS On Sunday, September 28, 2014, the Riverwood Conservancy hosted DogFest, an event to raise money and awareness for shelter animals in Mississauga.
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Student Union offers jobs for students
STORY AND PHOTO BY KATE WOODS Students who need a job with time flexibility so they can do schoolwork don’t need to look far from campus. The Student Union offers part-time jobs for students looking to work on campus, as well as looking to add work experience to their resume and portfolios. “We hire graphic…
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LIVE EVENT – Dog Festival at Riverwood Conservancy
COVERAGE BY KATE WOODS AND PADDINGTON On Sunday, September 28, the Sheridan Sun will be covering the Dog Festival at Riverwood Conservancy in Mississauga. We will be posting live coverage, so be sure to come back and join the Sun’s Kate Woods and her K9 companion, Paddington, as they bring you live coverage of this…
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Accommodation Letter helps Students with Disabilities
STORY AND PHOTO BY KATE WOODS Students with disabilities can be accommodated with a letter from Sheridan’s Accessibility Learning Services. “Any student with a documented disability is eligible for this,” said Janice Galloway, a learning strategist at Trafalgar’s Accessible Learning Centre. “A student with a learning disability would need a psycho-educational assessment done before they…
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Hey Bruins, here is the Trafalgar Campus Gym
VIDEO/AUDIO BY KATE WOODS The Sheridan Sun visits the Trafalgar campus gym to see what it has to offer students who want to get fit. Hours of operation are: Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday – Sunday: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. For more information, please visit the Sheridan Bruins website.
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Shuttle Bus to run through the Summer
STORY AND PHOTO BY KATE WOODS The Sheridan shuttle bus will continue to run to all four campuses over the summer. The school and Student Union decided the free bus would be helpful to students taking classes over the summer and staff and faculty travelling among the campuses “Some students choose to take classes over…
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Oakville bids adieu to Skills Training Centre
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID & KATE WOODS Sheridan College’s Skills Training Centre in Oakville will close its doors at the end of 2015, but will reopen in a new state-of-the-art building at the Brampton Campus in 2016. “We plan on having the tender out by fall this year and ground breaking by 2015, so we…