Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Door Decorating Contest

By Angela Hopf, Student Council Co-Chair

For at least 10 years, PELC has been hosting a Door Decorating Contest for the Lower Level of The Armoury. This year, the Student Council organized it.

There were three doors that were decorated, beautiful and colourful.

The judges were people from the different offices on the Upper Level of The Armoury.

There was a tie between the PELC Classroom and the PELC Main Office. The prize was a gift basket containing hot chocolate, marshmallows, coffee, and tea. Everyone shared the prize.


(Loyola School of Adult and Continuing Education)




(PELC Classroom)





(PELC Main Office)

Merry Christmas!

The PELC Student Council wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you in 2012!

By Angela Hopf, Student Council Co-Chair

Christmas Lunch

On Thursday, December 15th, over 40 people attended the Prince Edward Learning Centre Christmas Lunch. PELC, along with Loyola Learning Centre, invited all of our students and staff. There was a lot of delicious food - a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings! Door prizes were donated by a student. Ten lucky winners went home with something special. Everyone pitched in to cook, serve, and do the clean-up.

We all had a great day!

Reported by: Angela Hopf, Student Council Co-Chair

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Emergency Preparedness

Two staff members attended an Emergency Evacuation Exercise for Prince Edward County. They came home with some very useful information, including these two links. I thought I'd pass them along...couldn't hurt to take a read...maybe even put together a little kit?


Your Emergency Preparedness Guide
(Public Safety Canada)

http://www.getprepared.gc.ca/_fl/pub/ep-gd-prprtn-eng.pdf


Emergency Management Ontario Website
(Government of Ontario)
http://www.emergencymanagementontario.ca/english/prepare/emergency.html

Monday, December 5, 2011

Internet Course


The second Internet course is almost over...3 more days!

We will be offering this course again in 2012!

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Now booking computer classes for 2012!



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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

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