Category: Community
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Pie for Pi Day
STORY BY PALWASHA TEMOR Apple, pumpkin and lemon, oh my! These are just a few types of pies that Sheridan’s Davis Campus served last Friday to commemorate Pi Day. Pi Day is a day celebrated around the world to honour the mathematical equation, and is held on the third month and 14th day. It is…
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Terra Greenhouse Farmer’s Market
STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON Terra Greenhouses has been holding a weekly farmer’s market every Saturday, allowing local businesses the chance to reach out to new customers. One business benefitting from the market is Milton’s own Kettle Corn Boss, run by Herb Sickinger, a Sheridan Business grad. “It’s a family business,” said Sickinger as his son…
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Photographer follows silver lining upwards
STORY BY ERIN QUEENAN With chocolate brown hair, and eyes that light up like the same LED bulbs used in her photography series Portals, Christa Giula shines authenticity. It’s an attribute which is sure to get her far as things start to happen for the third year Bachelor of Photography student. Last month her work,…
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Students sought to foster friendly felines
[wzslider lightbox=”true”] STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS The Oakville and Milton Humane Society has the purr-fect solution for students seeking companionship, responsibility or endless cuddling: fostering cats. Brenda Dushko considers students to be ideal foster parents for animals as pets can be great source of companionship without a long-time commitment. “College life is a…
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Author Ann Birch speaks to American Woman’s Club of Oakville
STORY BY SAMANTHA MAICH Are you thinking about writing a historical or political novel? Do you think this will be easy? Think again. Canadian author Ann Birch says it is hard to keep bias out of writing historical novels, because they need to be as accurate as possible. Birch has published several historical works, including…
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And they said money can’t buy you happiness…
STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS The Oakville and Milton Humane Society is holding a half-price “adopt-a-thon” until the end of January for cats that are more than six months old. The shelter has been so overrun with cats that they’ve had to rent a trailer to house them all after the Humane Society rescued…
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Halton and the Salvation Army give out grocery cards after ice storm
STORY BY SAMANTHA MAICH The Municipality of Halton gave out $27,000 worth in grocery store cards to residents on financial aid through Salvation Army locations from Jan. 8 to Jan. 10 in response to the ice storm. “About $450,000 in grocery cards were made available to communities that were the hardest hit,” and, “the remaining…
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Enactus pitches in to help local community
STORY BY SAM TASKIE Sheridan students who join Enactus are helping build a better community and gaining skills at the same time. Enactus, a club based at the Hazel McCallion Campus, focuses on helping entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations become sustainable both economically and ecologically. Enactus stands for “entrepreneurship,” “action” and “us.” Many schools around the…
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Capturing the “Icepocalypse” in story and image
STORY BY ERIN QUEENAN Gauthier photographs the ice storm in Caledon, ON While lights flickered and faded in homes across the GTA this holiday season, students’ camera’s flashed, capturing stills of a frozen world. Downed wires, chilled houses, cold water, the crack and quake of ice and tree limb all characterize an end to 2013.…
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Student photography of the “Icepocalypse”
STORY BY ERIN QUEENAN PHOTOS BY CHANDLER GAUTHIER, DAVE FINK, KYLE TOTH, MEAGHAN JOHNSON, KEVIN BRYAN, SAHIL GHAI While lights flickered and faded in homes across the GTA this holiday season, students’ cameras flashed, capturing stills of a frozen ice world. Downed wires, chilled houses, cold water, the crack and quake of ice and tree…
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Decking the halls at Dundurn Castle
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MATTHEW LOWE Visitors flocked to the lavish house of Sir Allan Napier MacNab on Saturday as Dundurn Castle held its annual Christmas tour. MacNab, premier of Canada before Confederation, died in 1862 at Dundurn. Built of brick and stone in 1835, the house has been preserved and is open to visitors…
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Writers get opportunity to study in France
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN Aspiring writers are being offered an opportunity to get their work recognized by a colony of artists in France. This spring, from May 15 to 24, Mosaic Press publisher Howard Aster and his wife Jeannette will be holding their annual writer’s workshop retreat at La Roche D’Hys in Burgundy, France. “The…