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Our culinary and baking students feature Ontario farm fresh eggs in many of their recipes

Did you know that eggs are one of the most nutritious foods available to us?

You might be surprised to learn about the wide range of nutrients, minerals, good fats and protein that is packed into one egg.

In fact, one large egg contains small amounts of almost every vitamin and mineral the human body requires, including vitamin B, E, calcium, iron, potassium, zinc, manganese, folate and more. All of these nutrients are found mostly in the egg yolk, while the egg whites contain only protein. An egg provides 6 to 8 grams of quality protein and is only 70 calories.

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Dear Colleagues and Learners,

Due to the ongoing Rogers Internet service disruption, all classes and services at Algonquin College’s Ottawa , Pembroke, Perth and AC Online campuses are being cancelled for the remainder of the day (July 8). All learners and employees, who are not essential to helping to re-establish College internet connectivity – or deemed essential by their manager – should please end their day early. Updates will be provided as soon as they are available.

Thank you,

Claude Brulé

President and CEO

The cover of Ollie’s Telescope which showcases Blanchard’s beautiful illustrations.

Writing and illustrating a children’s book was never a fated endeavor for Samantha Smadella and Kaitlyn Blanchard but when they stumbled upon a story that needed to be told, the pair immediately put pen to paper to take on the challenge.

Smadella and Blanchard are both students of the Therapeutic Recreation program, a healthcare profession that deals with five domains of recreation and leisure: physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual. Smadella explains that recreation therapy takes shape in a variety of ways in different spaces — from children’s palliative care to long-term care for the elderly.

“Therapeutic recreation helps provide meaning to peoples’ lives,” says Smadella. “It touches on all the things that make us human outside of the menial day to day tasks.”

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