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Two Central Lakes College instructors are nominated for Outstanding Educator awards bestowed each year by the Board of Trustees of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. Julie Morgan, Dental Assisting, and Nathan Peterson, Robotics/Automated Systems, are now eligible for the Educator the Year award.  The award is an honor bestowed …

Introduction to Finding Funders  The Hassler Library at Central Lakes College will host a free workshop on grant seeking for nonprofit organizations on Wednesday, April 2nd from 9:30am to 11:00am in room E203. The session will be led by Kief Schladweiler, Coordinator of the Funding Information Network with the Foundation …

The island nation of Grenada may refer to itself as the “Spice Island” for its amazing culinary diversity but older citizens of the USA will recall the 1984 U.S. military invasion of tiny Grenada ordered by President Ronald Reagan.  When it was over, socialist leader Maurice Bishop and his entire …

Hannah Janzen (Palisade, MN), a student at Central Lakes College, has been named a 2014 Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team Silver Scholar. The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation sponsors the Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team program by recognizing 50 Gold, 50 Silver and 50 Bronze Scholars, and providing nearly $200,000 in scholarships …

CLC Viticulture Enology Science and Technology Alliance (VESTA) students Christy Paulson and Luke Sombke were awarded the Elmer Swenson Scholarship at the Cold Climate Conference at the Grand Awards Banquet in St. Paul. This is the second year Christy received the award. Minnesota Grape Growers Association award of $1,000 is …

Brainerd • March 7, 2014 Verndale High School juniors Kylee Wright and Barbora Novotna are pretty sure about the job fields they want to join. But on Friday, they got their first real feel for the health science field. The Bridges Career Exploration Day was held at Central Lakes College. …

Winners Announced in the 29th Annual Educational Advertising Awards – CLC Wins Gold for Newspaper Advertising Winners were announced in the Twenty-Ninth Annual Educational Advertising Awards, sponsored by Higher Education Marketing Report. The Educational Advertising Awards is the largest educational advertising awards competition in the country. This year, nearly 2,000 …

The Raiders enter the post season as the #2 seed in the Northern division and will face MnWest the #3 seed of the Southern division. The teams play on Friday, February 28 at 3 pm at Anoka Ramsey Community College. The Raiders finished the season with an overall record of …

Student Conservationist of the Year  CLC student Tom Strack (Randall) won the 2013 Student Conservationist of the Year award from the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society. The award was presented at the Wildlife Society’s annual conference held in mid February in Bemidji, MN. There were over 200 wildlife professionals …

The March 6th Cultural Thursday presented at Central Lakes College will take us on a journey through an eclectic mix of Arabic, Turkish, Egyptian, Rajasthan and Spanish flamenco dance to present day ATS, American Tribal Style®. From the Elemental Studio, located in the Crossing Arts Center, four women from the …