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Student-designed home at Lethbridge College wins provincial award

A home designed by students at Lethbridge College has won a provincial award.

The Emberly, designed by Interior Design Technology student Lina Wiebe for Ashcroft Master Builder, earned an Alberta BILD award for top single-family home under $300,000.

The home was created as part of first-ever Ashcroft Design Challenge.

Wiebe designed the floor plan, while Jada Kot brought it to life through 3D animation. She says it was an incredible honour to have my design be nominated for the BILD awards. “The Emberly is the first home I have ever designed and having it come so far is a testament to the wonderful support Lethbridge College gives its students.”

The home design was then built by the company in Garry Station on the west side, with Wiebe working for Ashcroft as a paid intern.

Interior Design Technology instructor, Cherie Reitzel says this BILD award not only affects Wiebe’s life, “but has an affect on the life of every Interior Design Technology student today and in the future.”

Ashcroft, meanwhile is already preparing to build a second Emberly home, based off the success of the initial design.

The second year of the Ashcroft Design Challenge is now underway. Students will pitch their designs to Ashcroft in April 2020.

(With files from Lethbridge College)

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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