A crowd of nearly 80 attendees, including local service providers, Fanshawe students, and agency staff gathered on February 22nd at the St. Thomas Seniors’ Recreation Centre to participate in an Intercultural Competency training session hosted by the St. Thomas-Elgin Local Immigration Partnership. Facilitated by Michele Manocchi from the Cross Cultural Learner Centre in London, the morning’s event […]

The first week of the STELIP recreation program had the program participants traveling to Boler Mountain for a very enjoyable, but ultimately passive afternoon of snow tubing; gravity does do most of the work, after all. However their second trip to Boler Mountain this past Saturday, February 3rd demanded far more engagement and commitment from the youth […]

Following on the heels of Boler Mountain winter tubing and ice skating in Aylmer, week three of the STELIP Newcomer Youth Recreation Program found the participants enjoying a hike around the Dalewood Reservoir. The hike was lead by members of the Elgin Hiking Trail Club, who set a quick pace for the 6km hike while […]