High Prairie students celebrate graduation

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More than 300 students representing 23 programs graduated from Alberta Vocational College in High Prairie June 11.

The students represented 23 different courses held at Grouard, plus six satellite campuses located in the Metis Settlements of East Prairie, Gift Lake and Peavine, and the communities of Atikameg, Valleyview and Smokey River.

Conservative MLA for Lesser Slave Lake, Pearl Calahasen, a Metis, and only one of three Native Alberta politicians, is a former AVC student and instructor at the Grouard campus.

"You are to be commended for choosing life-long learning," she told the graduates. "You are a living example to your children of the importance of making choices...you are our role models."