Wainwright Adult Learning

Join us tonight at the Wainwright Public Library

Please note that the Money Smart session for tonight is cancelled. It will resume next Tuesday. Sorry for any inconvenience.

This full-time, blended-learning program will be offered evenings and weekends in Wainwright. It'll provide students with a foundation in business basics such as:
• Bookkeeping • Computer applications • Office procedures... • Workplace writing, and more
The minimum number of students needed for this program to run is 18 with a maximum of 24.
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We are excited to announce that Lakeland College is partnering with Wainwright Economic Development and Wainwright Adult Learning to bring their Administration Professional program to Wainwright in September 2019 through April 2020.

Seniors Information Session - presented by Alberta Seniors and Housing/Government of Alberta.

Join us tomorrow at the Wainwright Public Library.

Family Literacy Day Community Celebration!

We are hiring.

Merriam Webster Word of the Day: ZIBLINE (ZIB-uh-leen) -Though zibline is woven from the hair of alpacas, camels or Angora goats, its name actually traces back to a Slavic word for the sable, a small mammal related to the weasel. The Slavic term was adopted into Old Italian, and from there it passed to Middle French, then on to English in the late 1500s. English zibline originally referred to the sable or its fur, but in the late 19th century it developed a second sense, appl...ying to a soft, smooth, slightly furry material woven from a mixture of animal hairs. It's especially suited to women's suits and coats.
Example: The second gown is a more structured design of either silk zibeline or silk taffeta, with hand embroidered silk threads and swarovski crystals in three different sizes. ---Joyce Chen, The Knot, 7 May 2018
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Gain confidence in your finances by learning about budgeting, banking, credit, assets and consumerism during these workshops.

Merriam Webster Word of the Day: IMMURE (ih-MYOOR) 1a) to enclose within or as if within walls. b) imprison 2. To build into a wall; especially: to entomb in a wall
... Like mural, immure comes from murus, a Latin noun that means "wall". Immurare, a Medieval Latin verb, was formed from murus and the prefix in (meaning "in" or "within"). Immure, which first appeared in English in the late 16th century, literally means "to wall in" or "to enclose with a wall," but it has extended meanings as well. In addition to senses meaning "to imprison"" and "to entomb", the word sometimes has broader applications, essentially meaning "to shut in" or "to confine". One might remark, for example, that a very studious acquaintance spends most of her time "immured in the library" or that a withdrawn teenager "immures himself in his bedroom every night."
Example: "Agnes...is a suburban lifer, a mousy, resigned little woman whose life is immured by her home, her family and her church". --Jonathan Richards, The Santa Fe, New Mexican, 7 September 2018
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Merriam Webster Word of the Day: DOSSIER (DOSS-yay) -a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject.
Gather together various documents relating to the affairs of a certain individual, sort them into separate folders, label the spine of each folder, and arrange the folders in a box. Dossier, the French word for such a compendium of spine-labeled folders, was picked up by English speakers in the 19th century. It comes from do's, the French word for "back".... The verb endorse (which originally meant "to write on the back of") and the rare adjective addorsed ("set or turned back" a term primarily used in heraldry) are also derived, via the Anglo French endosser and French adosser respectively, from dos. The French dos has its origins in the Latin dorsum, a word which also gave English the adjective dorsal ("situated on the back"), as in "the dorsal fin of a whale."
Example: The agency maintains extensive dossiers on all of its employees and contractors.
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Merriam Webster Word of the Day: RITZY (RIT-see) -being characteristic of, or befitting a snob:snobbish -impressively or ostentatiously fancy or stylish:fashionable, posh
César Ritz ( 1850-1918) earned worldwide renown for the luxurious hotels bearing his name in London and Paris. (The Ritz Carleton hotel company is a contemporary descendant of these enterprises). Although they were by no means the first to cater to high-end clients, Ritz's hotels quickly earned reputations ...as symbols of opulence. F.Scott Fitzgerald, a writer who often focused on the fashionably wealthy, titled one of this short stories "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" and the phrase "to put on the Ritz" means "to indulge in ostentatious display." The adjective ritzy, describing either something fancy or stylish, or the haughty attitudes of the wealthy elite, first checked into the English language in 1920.
Example: "Allen owned one of the most desirable properties in California, a 120-acre parcel on a hilltop in ritzy Beverly Crest that is on the market for $150 million -Scott Kraft LA Times
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