HUMBER COLLEGE

Heading into October, holiday festivities and the seasonal dishes that accompany them are top of mind. One of the most difficult questions I have to answer during this time of year is apple or pumpkin?

At Humber Lakeshore, we are committed to supporting programs that help our entire community access highquality food.

This year, the GARDENS project in partnership with LAMP Community Health Centre (LAMP CHC) and the GARDENS Advisory Council donated almost 250 pounds of produce to health centre’s Good Food Market, serving people within the South Etobicoke community.

Humber staff and students have worked on the project since 2016, planting vegetables in pods across the Lakeshore community at local businesses and public spaces. GARDENS interns educate the public about gardening, cooking and food security through the project’s website, workshops and recently started a virtual learning library on YouTube.

GARDENS employed five Humber College students this year, including International Development student Maggie Pyke.

“Everyone in my program was looking for placements when I came across the GARDENS project. It really aligned with everything I look for in a non profit or organization. It creates community partnerships while also having sustainability practices rolled into it,” said Pyke.

She and her peers were paid for their internships and Pyke completed the 420 placement hours required for her program. She also discovered a knack for marketing and social media, which opens doors to a career she hadn’t even considered.

Like the GARDENS interns, other Humber College students are innovating to help solve real- world problems, even before they graduate. Another example of their changemaking work could affect the way you see our neighbourhood and the larger Toronto community.

City Hall houses a Tiny Town model that lays out a large swath of Toronto on a huge table surrounded by glass. It was used thirty years ago as a planning

tool and became an attraction for visitors to the city, helping to acquaint them with Toronto.

When city planners wanted to update the model, they called on Humber College student designers. Over 13 weeks, Humber interns produced a sample prototype of a new physical model and incorporated augmented reality (AR) technology.

The use of AR means that eventually, someone using a Tiny Town app could point their device

at the Rogers Centre and be provided with information on where to buy tickets, how to get there by transit and how the Raptors are playing that week.

The paid internship opportunity was made possible by the Centre for Creative Business Innovation, the Faculty of Media & Creative Arts, the Faculty of Applied Sciences & Technology and Toronto’s CivicLabTO program.

Our Lakeshore Grounds Interpretive Centre team has been hard at work creating content and programming you can enjoy virtually during the pandemic.

The newest edition of Shore Stories, the Interpretive Centre’s zine, is now available on their website. This latest issue is an exploration of the senses as experienced through periods of daily life.

The Interpretive Centre also recently launched a virtual Exhibition Archive, so you can revisit the Centre and explore your favourite past exhibitions, or some that you may have missed. You can find it all at lakeshoregrounds.ca.

We continue our Humber Wellness Talks this month with keynote speaker Larissa Crawford on October 21 at 1 p.m.

Larissa is a restorative circle keeper, published Indigenous and anti-racism research, award- winning ribbon skirt artist and proudly passes on Métis and Jamaican ancestry to her daughter, Zyra. She is the Founder of Future Ancestors Services, a youth-led professional services social enterprise that advances equity and climate justice through lenses of ancestral accountability and anti-racism.

Anyone can attend the virtual event and registration is now open. Visit humberwellnesstalks.eventbrite.ca for tickets.

I invite you to take part in these communitybuilding activities and hope you enjoy the next few weeks of brilliant colours and crisp fall weather in good health.

And on a final note, this will be my last article as Principal of the Lakeshore Campus as we have just announced that June MacDonald-Jenkins will be taking on this role October 8 th . You’ll hear from June next month. As for me, I’m jumping with both feet into my new role as Associate Vice-President Academic here at Humber … which means you’ll still find me at the Lakeshore campus and in our beautiful community!

Sincerely, Derek Stockley Principal, Lakeshore Campus Associate Vice President, Academic

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