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5. For Kelsie McCabe, Lakeland College’s first animal assisted wellness graduate, finishing the program is just the beginning of her journey to understanding the human-animal bond. A life-long animal lover, McCabe was interested in exploring more about the ways animals can contribute to wellness after she graduated from Lakeland’s child and youth care program in 2012. When Lakeland announced an animal assisted wellness certificate program in collaboration with the Dreamcatcher Animal Assisted Wellness Academy in 2018, she was quick to enrol. Read McCabe’s feature story: lakelandcollege.ca/feature-stories Cayley Peltzer is putting her passion and education to use. The double graduate wrapped up her four-year Lakeland experience with an agribusiness diploma (2017) and animal health technology diploma (2020). Now, she’s excelling as a full-time registered veterinary technologist at Bow Valley Veterinary Group. “I’m caring for a variety of large and small animals like beef and dairy cattle, and cats and dogs. I'm putting my education to use,” Peltzer shared.
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Kenneth Stoop, Class of 2009 dairy production, and his wife Kaitlyn are celebrating their new arrival – their fourth child. Baby Ethan was born on Feb. 28, 2021.
He joins proud siblings Fletcher (5), Nicole (3) and Jackson (1). The Stoop family operate a 175 cow-calf operation and farm 1,600 acres south of Virden, Man.
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engineering and a diverse and immersive learning environment are what attracted David Milroy, Class of 2020, to Lakeland’s heavy oil power engineering program. Now a turbine plant operator at Heartland Generation, Milroy’s transition from Lakeland to full-time employment was seamless. Read more at lakelandcollege.ca/feature-stories
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Long story short, when a seed is planted, it grows into a plant. For Ryan James, earning his two environmental sciences diplomas from Lakeland – first majoring in conservation and restoration ecology (CARE) and his second in environmental conservation and reclamation (2014) – was the kernel that he cultivated into a bachelor of science in environmental and conservation sciences degree from the University of Alberta in 2019. Today, James works for the Government of Canada at Natural Resources Canada as a silviculture afforestation program technologist. He researches the use of willow and poplar as short rotation woody crops for biomass and bioenergy, and for phytoremediation of sewage, wastewater and soil. SPRING 2021
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