2025 News
A message from Lakeland College's president (Covid Update)
I am reaching out to our community to share an update on the COVID-19 outbreak that is affecting our Vermilion campus. On April 5, Alberta Health Services (AHS) declared an outbreak at the Vermilion campus and we are working with them as they investigate it as per their usual process. The investigation...
MNP donates $90,000 to grow ag tech programming & research
MNP has donated $90,000 to Lakeland College's Leading. Learning. The Lakeland Campaign in support of programming and research initiatives focused on agriculture technology. A portion of MNP's gift will help fund equipment for the Agriculture Technology Centre at the Vermilion campus. This facility...
Bringing Band in the Sand home
Student organizers are turning Lakeland College's annual Band in the Sand into a streamed concert series everyone can enjoy throughout the month of March. COVID-19 made the traditional Band in the Sand experience - 2,000 people attending a live concert at Lakeland's Equine Centre - impossible...
Passion drives alumnus to open mechanic shop
Ryan Baker was four years into a job when he realized he wanted to make a change. Through hard work, dedication and a little bit of luck, he made his dreams come true in 2020, opening Studebaker Industries Ltd., a repair shop in Mannville, Alta. “I was working up by Smokey Lake. It was very cold,...
All business roads lead to home
By the age of 10, Colton Johannesen had learned the value of a dollar and has been passionate about realizing a business career ever since. The first-year business student currently supports his parents in operating five McDonald's locations, three in Lloydminster and two in Cold Lake. However,...