This year again, NOVA participated in the Annual HSB/NOVA Community Barbecue.  Ray Ledoux (School Board Commissioner) and his team managed once again to make the event memorable. The weather was fantastic and this year the BBQ was held in conjunction with the “Festival des Arts de la Rue” (multiple partners, which included our Chateauguay CLC)...Read More

Huntingdon Adult Education and Community Centre (HAECC) is up and running with more action than ever before! With numbers up in academics, SVIS and SFIS there are new faces being welcomed every day.  The Horticulture program has also started for another year with nine new keen students looking to spruce up their skills in gardening. ...Read More

During this steamy summer the Interior Decorating and Visual Display Department’s senior students have been hard at work in our huge display window! As part of our Promotional Space Competency the students and I decided to hold the 1st “Nova Design Contest”. The students gained the experience of researching the finer details of holding a...Read More

This July, 25 students from the Residential and Commercial Drafting program took an enlightening educational outing to the Canadian Centre of Architecture (CCA) as it relates to their Reinforced Concrete module of the program. The visit began in the garden where pieces of art made of steel and concrete offer a new interpretation of the architectural history of the...Read More

As a part of the students training to better understand the use of furniture, time and effort are spent in developing an awareness of how to space-plan a room. In this exercise the students in the Interior Decorating and Visual Display program were provided with a CAD file of a Living Room – a very...Read More

Once again the Hairdressing Department had their ” Up Style” contest! Our very creative students have done a fantastic job in creating original pieces of cheveu-art ! Students use all their savoir-faire and techniques learned during the Hairdressing program to create these works of art.  Congrats to Kimberly Hart, our winner for this year!Read More

This year again, our graduation ceremony was held in June.  We had a very-well attended ceremony, as the number of students registered in our programs increased dramatically during the last few years.  Our first graduates from our international cohorts were also present, something we are very proud of!  The organizing committee did a wonderful job,...Read More

On Tuesday June 2nd, a group of girls eagerly joined in on a morning of pampering. They arrived at HAECC early to share in a brunch of muffins and cakes, coffee and juice all prepared for them by our SFIS class and some of our PASS students. They went on to have their hair washed,...Read More

Everyone is familiar with Montreal, Quebec, right? Well, not everyone. For some HAECC students, Montreal was a new place to explore, even as young adults. Thirty-five Formation Générale (Adult General Education) and Socio-Vocational Integration Services (SVIS) students, along with several staff members, teachers and later, HAECC Centre Director Daryl Ness, descended on Montreal on April...Read More

A few Horticulture students from HAECC recently did their stages at Coop les Jardins de la Resistance in Ormstown. Coop les Jardins de la Resistance Subscriptions for the summer Organic Vegetable CSA are open! From mid June until November, the coop will be dropping off organic vegetables for our members every week at Marché Sarah...Read More