Campus News

Occupational Skills Program students and instructors joined Central Lakes College President Larry Lundblad at the Minnesota State Capitol recently. President Lundblad was in St. Paul for administrative meetings and arranegd to meet the CLC entourage. The 23 OSP students and instructors John Wallin, Itty Newgord, and Patty Sloan toured facilities …

AUSTIN – A late rally in the bottom of the seventh kept the Central Lakes College Raiders winless over the weekend. Stuck in a 6-6 tie with Riverland, the Raiders saw their hopes of winning one of four games fade when a fly ball found its way to the field …

Several international students at Central Lakes College worked at the International and Multi-cultural Clubs’ car wash fund-raiser March 31 on the Brainerd campus. The club members provided car washes by hand, served hot dogs and root beer floats during a four-hour period, raising several hundred dollars. Proceeds will help defray …

A Central Lakes College student has won an expense-paid, three-day trip to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, in a national aerospace design competition. James Oman of Brainerd next month will participate in an astronaut briefing and shadow NASA engineers working with the International Space Station as a result …

Auditions are scheduled for CLC Summer Theatre productions on Monday and Tuesday, April 12 and 13, in the Chalberg and Dryden theaters on the Brainerd campus starting at 6 p.m. The shows are “The Producers” June 15-27 that needs a cast of 12 men and 12 women ages 16-80; Noises …

Ashly Erickson of Little Falls pitched back-to-back shutouts and Tika Nichols pitched a five-inning victory to help the Central Lakes College Raiders to three victories at the Itasca preseason tournament Saturday. Ashly pitched complete games in a 5-0 win over Hibbing and an 8-0 five-inning win over Riverland. She also …

Gary Carson, a Natural Resources instructor, and Janet Bedard, an English instructor at Central Lakes College, are among 26 Outstanding Educators to be recognized by the Board of Trustees of Minnesota State College and Universities. Gary started as a student at Brainerd Technical College under Dr. Doug Keran, and his …

Crow Wing Power, Consolidated Telephone Co., and Brainerd Public Utilities are partners with Central Lakes College’s Natural Resources Program in a Web Cam project that hopes to provide streaming video of a Brainerd campus osprey nest. Crow Wing Power donated electrical equipment, including a camera valued at $1,000 and two …

The Central Lakes College Community Band plans to tour part of Europe during the summer of 2011. A minimum of 60 travelers is required to ensure that the concert tour happens, according to Steve Anderson, band director. “We are over halfway there,” he said. “Once all participating travelers are signed …

“The Moon” is the theme for the 43rd annual photo contest at Central Lakes College on the Brainerd campus beginning April 19, according to coordinator Larry Kellerman. The contest, open to the public, has traditional photo entry categories of “landscape,” “portrait,” “action,” “creative,” “birds,” “animals,” “flowers,” and “children.” Entries much …