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College in the Community: Ralph Saint-Dic of Creative Culinary Delights

Three images side by side: a charcuterie box, Chef Ralph of Creative Culinary Delightsstanding in a kitchen, a hand holding a box of macarons.

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COLLEGE IN THE COMMUNITY Creative Culinary Delights An artist comes in various forms. Some artists can impress with colourful visual depictions, while some find their forte in turning an empty dinner table into a work of art with skillfully crafted delicacies. Ralph G. Saint-Dic, a chef in the Bay of Quinte known for his culinary expertise, creates art on every plate. Chef Ralph’s Creative Culinary Delights provides catering and event planning services across the Quinte region. It is his ...

College in the Community: Victor Cooper of Eighty Twenty Studio

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COLLEGE IN THE COMMUNITY Eighty Twenty Studio A storyteller with a deft hand with cameras and an eye for visual poetry is a force to be reckoned with. Victor Cooper, Founder and Director of local company Eighty Twenty Studio, is one such storyteller who has scripted a tale of entrepreneurship and success with his genius behind the cameras. He is a Loyalist College alumnus, having graduated from the Belleville campus’s Television and New Media Production program in 2009. After ...

Footsteps in the Snow: From Pune, India to Belleville, Ontario

A person standing in front of a turquoise wall with wings painted on the mural.

Tanusri Pardeshi, originally from Pune, India, shares why she’s chosen to call Belleville home.

On a warm evening in late August of 2018, I had my first tryst with the Quinte region of southern Ontario. After having settled into my residence building on the Loyalist College campus in Belleville, I treated myself to a picturesque view of the sunset over my customary evening cup of tea. I had never seen maple trees before. The pale sunshine flooded through the abundant greenery, and I stood in awe of the natural beauty that welcomed me. ...

Lights, Camera, Local! Part One

Victor Cooper Filmmaker Belleville

As a kid I always enjoyed bossing, er… directing my siblings around in our backyard productions. I grew up in a family that loved performing, be it a church play or a music event. Fast forward nearly thirty years and not much has changed. I live about twenty-five minutes from where I grew up, I married my high school sweetheart, I still play guitar and sing at some of my favourite places around the Bay of Quinte area, and I ...

Bay of Quinte Regional Marketing Board: Courtney Klumper

Bay of Quinte Regional Marketing Board Courtney Klumper

We turned the page in the Discovery Guide once again and landed upon the Bay of Quinte team! We market tourism and resident attraction for the region and are thrilled to share our passion for the BoQ with others—but how did we all come to be working for the Regional Marketing Board in the first place? Read below for a background on Bay of Quinte’s Marketing Coordinator, Courtney Klumper (and connect with her here). Bay of Quinte Regional Marketing Board: ...

Loyalist College Fall Open House

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Loyalist College is looking forward to welcoming guests to the Fall Open House on Wednesday, October 7 from 9 am to 12 Noon. The Fall Open House is an opportunity to meet Loyalist faculty, staff and students to get the information needed to make a decision about post-secondary education. Learn about careers that lead from Loyalist’s more than 60 full-time diplomas, advanced diplomas and certificates. The College also offers hundreds of online and correspondence courses through loyalistfocus.com. Chart pathways between college and ...

Loyalist College and Green Terra Homes (GTH) are pleased to announce a facility-use agreement for the delivery of GTH’s do-it-yourself workshops, seminars and non-credit training courses on Loyalist campus for individuals wishing to construct their own home, cottage or garage. GTH is a Quinte West-based company that builds steel-framed and energy-efficient modular prefab homes, bunkies, sheds, barns, stables, garages and cabin kits. GTH’s goal is to help Ontario families to build their dream home by making the home building ...

Loyalist Photojournalism Is A Stepping Stone

Loyalist College Photojournalism (photo via Loyalist College)

(image via Loyalist College) Photographers use their cameras as tools of exploration, documentation and ultimately, as instruments of change. In the National Pictures Of the Year competition, photojournalism students are recognized for their contributions to the medium of photography. The only multi-year photojournalism program in Canada, Loyalist College consistently sees its students and graduates honoured in this competition, which accepts over 1,880 images for consideration for the awards.  Loyalist College second-year Photojournalism student Annie Sakkab is the recipient of the Student ...

New Loyalist Program Creates Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs Today

New Loyalist program to help create tomorrow’s entrepreneurs today By Jim Barber It’s no secret that small and medium-sized businesses – the ones starting out as ideas in the fertile minds of hard-working, creative entrepreneurs, are the backbone of the Canadian economy and the primary source of job growth and economic resilience in the 21st century. With that in mind, and understand that the waters of entrepreneurship can be choppy at the best of times, Loyalist College recently announced ...

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Bay of Quinte Region is an alliance of interdependent communities, bound together by a common history, shared economy, and the water that surrounds and defines us. We hope to welcome you soon.