Are you a working family that would love to own your own home? That reality is closer then you think. The Carpentry Program (teachers and students) from CVCEC along with its partners will be building a semi-detached Habitat For Humanity Home for two families (0% interest mortgage with monthly payments set at 30% of your...Read More
For the first time ever “Community Wednesdays” will be hosted by Centennial Park School, this coming Wednesday (November 6th / 4:00-7:00 PM). The $2 spaghetti dinner will be available, along with babysitting service for children under 7 (this allows the parents a chance to visit the info booths). There will be activities for the entire...Read More
The Community Jamboree fundraiser for the Habitat for Humanity (“Our House Project”) has come and gone but the positive fallout from this collaborative project continues to resonate in our community. One such example is the story of Grade 5 and 6 students from Ormstown Elementary (O.E.S.).During the week of the Jamboree students from O.E.S. volunteered...Read More
The Value of Continuing to Learn Vocational teachers in all areas continue to learn, while they teach. We often learn informally from our students, as we teach them new subjects and concepts. We also learn in more formal settings too. Three health care teachers recently attended the World Parkinson’s Congress, to learn about a disease...Read More
The successful partnership between the CECN (Chateauguay English Community Network) and the New Frontiers School Board continues to grow and help our community as a new service aimed at improving English language skills for city of Chateauguay municipal workers is now in place. The CECN was contacted by the municipality of Chateauguay and asked if...Read More
Heading out on stage for the first time can be both nerve wracking and exciting for our students. The students are always a bit anxious, but really look forward to working in the hospital and institution settings. Our Health Care students in Ormstown are privileged to have the opportunity to practice their skills on stage...Read More
Check out the first episode of “Our House” the series. The carpentry program at CVCEC, along with its partners, will be building a Habitat for Humanity Home in the beautiful municipality of Ormstown for two families. You can watch all year long, in order to find out the latest updates and see how this amazing...Read More
You may have heard that NOVA has a drafting program… Drafting? Conscription? Tour de France technique used by cyclists? In fact, we use the drafting moniker for our Residential and Commercial Drafting program. Wikipedia says it is “the act and discipline of composing plans that visually communicate how something functions or has to be constructed. Drafting is the visual language of industry and engineering....Read More
NOVA’s Administrative Assistant program celebrated a long-standing tradition this past Friday: the departmental Graduation Celebration. This is an unique opportunity for the teachers to have a last activity with the finishing groups. As always, graduates came accompanied, and wore their best attire for the event. Program teachers Erma Robidoux, Wilene Cullen, Judy Murphy and Sue...Read More
What’s the Buzz? Things are really buzzing in Carpentry at CVCEC these days. We just started the fourth group of 2013 and are anticipating the start of another evening group in November. This will be the first time we run a fifth group but this year has been full of firsts; the place is abuzz...Read More
