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WINNIPEG — Red River College has purchased a campus it had been leasing near James Richardson International Airport, allowing it to now grow its aviation and aeronautics programs.
RRC’s Stevenson Aviation Campus comes as the college borrowed $8 million from the province to make the purchase, saving nearly $1 million over the term of the mortgage from its landlord, Hubert Kleysen.
By Peggy Revell, Medicine Hat News, The Canadian Press
MEDICINE HAT, Alta. – A former Winnipeg television news director accused of robbing banks in Alberta has been granted bail.
But Stephen Vogelsang remains in custody in Medicine Hat, Alta., because he faces the same charges in Saskatchewan.
WINNIPEG — Creative Communications students from Red River College are giving back through the airwaves today with a 12-hour radiothon to help children living in the city’s West Broadway neighbourhood.
“To West Broadway and Beyond” runs from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on radio.rrc.ca.
A former Winnipeg broadcaster and journalism instructor at Red River College has been arrested on bank robbery charges in Alberta.
Police in Medicine Hat say Steve Vogelsang robbed a Royal Bank and Bank of Montreal in the city on October 19 and 20.
WINNIPEG — Nineteen newcomer refugee students from Red River College picked up tools on Wednesday to help Habitat for Humanity put the finishing touches on a new home for a Winnipeg family.
The students are part of RRC’s Language Training Centre’s Pathway Program to Construction Skills. The students come from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Sudan.
Mechanical engineering students at Red River College are off to the races in a battery-electric vehicle they designed and constructed.
The students are revving up for the 2018 Shell Eco-Marathon Challenge Americas in Sonoma, California this April, where they will race “SpaRRCky” against more than 1,000 student-made cars from other high schools, colleges, and universities.
Local businesses have harvested a garden at Winnipeg’s airport to ensure clients of Winnipeg Harvest don’t go hungry.
The annual Grow-A-Row program at James Richardson International Airport grew fresh veggies on behalf of the food bank with the support of the Winnipeg Airports Authority, Red River College and Pegasus Publishing.
WINNIPEG — A downtown skyscraper, known for housing some of the province’s most talented culinary students, marked its five-year anniversary on Friday.
Red River College’s Paterson GlobalFoods Institute in the Exchange District celebrated the occasion with a pretzel bake-off featuring Mayor Brian Bowman and the college’s president and CEO, Paul Vogt. Under the watchful eye of Suzanne Gessler, owner of The Pennyloaf Bakery and an alumnus of the program, the two traded their suits for aprons and baker’s hats.
As August draws to a close, Red River College (RRC) students are among the first heading back to school in Manitoba.
Thousands of students returned to RRC campuses across the province Monday. The college couldn’t confirm enrolment numbers before its first day. Last year, it welcomed more than 22,000 students.
WINNIPEG — Honey from three new beehives on the rooftop of Red River College‘s Notre Dame campus is providing sweet and sticky goodness.
The college has been working with Beeproject Apiaries to produce honey on the fourth floor of the college’s Paterson GlobalFoods Institute, and new this year, on Building A at the Notre Dame Campus.
