The Huntingdon Adult Education & Community Centre (HAECC) is proud to announce a new partnership with Cardio Actifs from the Haut-Saint-Laurent. Cardio Actifs is a local organization which helps promote physical activity for people with heart disease and those at risk as well as the general population. The organization has been running for over 10 years. The...Read More

Well another semester is underway at the bustling Huntingdon Adult Education and Community Centre (HAECC). Students started their winter semester on Monday January 12 and they all seem to be rearing to get to work.  Some of our students are getting ready to apply to CEGEP before the March 1st deadline and others are finishing their requirements to...Read More

There is a great little cafe in Huntingdon called “Racines” (Roots in French). It is run by a co-op and serves great meals made with local ingredients. The staff is part of a “reinsertion social” program and in the Horticulture program we thought we would lend them a hand…plus their espresso coffee is out of this...Read More

The Horticulture class visited the Little Green Library in Huntingdon last week. For some of our students it was the first time they visited a library in their lives. This visit was within the course “Information Search” and shows we can get information from more than just the internet. The students searched various topics like edible wildlife...Read More

Have you walked in the hallways of NOVA, HAECC or CVCEC recently? If you have, then you’ve likely seen our ‘I Choose Me’ posters everywhere. If you haven’t been to our centres in awhile then you’re missing some honest insights and comments from our students about their own future. The students have graciously shared their...Read More

In early 2015 we are hoping to begin a breakfast program and our student advisory committee will be active in promoting further activities within the center.  Our Christmas dinner on December 10th was a huge success with over 85 people served!  Thanks to our students for spreading the word and making posters. The meal brought everyone...Read More

At HAECC a solid community is exactly what we have, where everyone pitches in. On December 8th while Santa visited by video-conference; staff and students whom we will refer to as Elves (because only Santa’s Elves could create such magic) began working in our newly renovated kitchen. The smell of a turkey dinner and desserts flowed...Read More

Our teacher, Johanna, decided that we should do a Trade-it-Forward activity. We all voted and agreed on it… cleaning up the equipment room to make it look cleaner and neat, more enjoyable, and having it back to normal because everybody just put all the equipment in odd places. People just threw things anywhere they wanted;...Read More

Amber Simpson and Tom Pitcairn are just two examples of students who continued with their education at the Huntingdon Adult Education Community Centre (HAECC) to either do some course upgrades or complete courses they needed for their DES (diplôme d’études secondaires) or entry into CEGEP. The philosophy behind Adult Ed for academics is just that… it is...Read More

We have organized a Student Advisory Committee at HAECC.  Our goal is to teach our students how a meeting is run and how to take responsibility for their centre.  One of our first activities was to organize something for Halloween and we had students do the advertising by word of mouth as well as by posters.   This included a...Read More