Lambton College Expansion Taking Shape.

From Melanie Irwin, Blackburn News.

If you’ve driven by Lambton College lately, you’ve likely noticed the significant transformation on the property.

Local media were invited on a VIP tour Friday, to see firsthand the $50-million construction of two new world-class facilities on campus and a major renovation to the existing facilities.

Newly constructed areas are mostly enclosed by windows, which President Judith Morris says invites students to learn.

“We use to have education enclosed in a classroom, it was just the teacher and the students and nobody really knew what was going on in there, I’m sure it was all really great, but in this instance it really allows everybody to participate in that learning experience — and that is what it’s all about,” Morris said.

But, some of the glass is going to take longer than expected, according to Director of Facilities Management Brent Thomas.

“A lot of the glass that was on order was shipped to areas [recently] devastated by hurricanes as a priority,” he said.

Crews had hoped to have the new buildings enclosed by the end of this month, but Thomas says it won’t happen.

He was excited to show off an area where the new 5,000 sq ft double gymnasium is being built inside the 40,000 sq ft. Athletic & Fitness Complex — set to open in September 2018.

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Lambton College's Legacy Project Day Gives Back to Sarnia-Lambton.

Zach Neal photo.

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The school is shut down for the day but the staff and students are busy and happy enough that the rain held off.

In the photos, dozens of students swarm over the point lands in Sarnia’s Centennial Park where they are planting fifty birch trees, which will make a pretty addition to the landscape in a few short years.

Smaller tree-plantings were undertaken in other municipalities all over Lambton. Lambton College’s Legacy Project volunteers, 2,300 student from the college were out in the community April 5, planting trees and maintenance in community parks. They were an oddly impressive sight in the matching blue shirts.

There were people at the LaSalle Road fire school, building picnic tables for community partners. There were students cleaning up at the Animal Shelter on Exmouth St. and any number of other community projects, projects designed to thank the people of Sarnia-Lambton for their continuing support of the college over the last fifty years. In the process they seemed to be having a good time.

 Students from the digital photography course were there to document the event and put their own skills to work.

The project was conceived as part of the college’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations.

The whole thing wound up with lunch for the volunteers back at the school.

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