Katrina Rozal
HP Editor
HP students who get their shot each flu season will have to wait longer for the free vaccine.
Last year’s immunizations were held at the campus on Oct. 30. This year the free flu shots at HP will be held Thursday, Nov. 5 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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Katrina Rozal
HP Editor
HP has 1,357 lockers. The second and third floors contain the full-size lockers, while the half-size ones are on the first and fourth. But it doesn’t really matter what size locker you buy because they both cost $24. This pricing is one of the locker issues students complain about each year.
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Mathieu Yuill
Courier Staff
Canada’s most inexpensive car is the Hyundai Accent with a base price of $13,595. For those dollars you get power nothing, no air conditioning and steel wheels.
But if you’re looking for a value option to put yourself in then it would be a much better option to spend a bit more cash and move up into the GL four door model that comes with an automatic transmission, power windows and locks, keyless entry, tinted glass and the all important air conditioning.
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Katrina Rozal
HP Editor
You don’t have to pay anyone for extra help if you find yourself drowning in a sea of new concepts after returning from an exhilarating summer. Tutoring service is available at HP’s library.
Katrina Rozal
HP Editor
The massage therapy clinic now shares a revamped reception space with a new esthetic clinic.
The business of saving the earth continues to grow at HP campus. While events such as Earth Hour and Earth Day mark many calendars worldwide, many of HP’s community-oriented events give the campus an edge on the green-scene. (More …)
There will be a new student branch of the Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) within a few weeks. (More …)
When the subway train you’re on explodes into flames and you reach out into the darkness of the tunnel beyond, it will be Centennial students who pull you to safety. (More …)
Jana K. was sitting on her mom’s lap. She was on a truck with the rest of her family that was moving them to live in a different village in Sri Lanka.
The truck exploded. The force flung her 4-year-old body into a tree. She was in one piece, unlike the other dismembered children who were caught on the branches and twigs. When she got down from the tree, she helped nearby villagers give water to survivors of the blast. The carnage was caused by a bomb planted under the truck. (More …)
When Allan Richardson’s brother turned 50 years old, he was stumped for gift ideas. He didn’t want to get him something conventional, like a book. So he did something unusual; he made him a battle-axe.
“No one else got him that,” he said, sitting in his office on the fourth floor of Centennial College’s HP campus. Richardson is the biotechnology co-ordinator for the applied biological and environmental science department at Centennial College. He studied microbiology at the University of Western Ontario and he is also a blacksmith. He makes decorative knives out of railway spikes, as well as elaborate art pieces and innovative candle holders made out of scrap metal.
“I like to recycle,” he confessed, adding that he rarely buys new steel to work with.
The leap from biology to blacksmithing may not be as far-fetched as it sounds. Richardson first got interested in his metal-moulding hobby in university, where he worked one summer at a blacksmith’s shop along the Rideau Canal in Jones Falls, Ont. The experience affected him so much that he ultimately built his own forge, which is attached to the back of his home.
“It’s more of an arts thing,” he said. “There is some work in doing the big hinges of church doors, maybe, or railings and stuff, but (the profession) is kind of industrialized.”
His hobby is reflected in his office. Three pieces of metal are framed on a wall that show the evolution of a railway spike. It originates as a giant, rusty-looking nail, but evolves into a polished, decorative knife with a wide, flat blade and a twisted hilt. When the metal is heated up enough, Richardson hammers it out and then decides what he wants to create.