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Chicken fingers and fries: ‘It has always been a popular meal’
It doesn’t make sense.
People today usually say they want healthy, locally sourced food. While the kitchen staff at Canadian Mennonite University does its best to provide that, the most popular meal in the six-week meal plan is, hands down, chicken fingers and fries.
Outtatown alumna wins $10,000 art prize
Erika Dueck fondly recalls her first week in South Africa with Canadian Mennonite University’s (CMU) Outtatown program in 2003. It included visiting a school in a Johannesburg township called Alexandra.
“That was maybe the best way to start off our experience there, because working with kids, they have so much excitement and so much joy. I remember them screaming because they were so excited ... and we got to go in and play with them and teach them songs. It was really, really great.”
Bridge-builder profile: Steve & Stephanie Penner
Although Canadian Mennonite University’s plans to build a bridge spanning Grant Avenue go back to the early 2000s when Steve and Stephanie Penner were students, they remember the proposed bridge being little more than a laughing matter.
CMU prepares newcomer for career as social worker
Odette Mukole’s great-grandfather was a Mennonite. When she arrived in Canada in 2000 after leaving the Congo with her three daughters, she remembered something her father told her: “Wherever you go in the world, you should look for the Mennonites. They will help you.”
Bridge-builder profile: Julian & Lynnette Regehr
Starting medical school is challenging enough when you’re in your early 20s – never mind starting when you’re 33 with a wife and children.
But that’s what Julian Regehr did. After working as a paramedic for 10 years, he quit his job in the summer of 2005 and started med school that September.
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