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Western’s downtown site to bolster community connections

Western’s downtown site to bolster community connections

Western’s new downtown space at 450 Talbot St. in London, Ont. will soon become a hub of activity, with community-focused programs and events ranging from Indigenous art exhibits to free legal aid to medical outreach and mental health counselling for chi …

Bee program earns international competition gold

Bee program earns international competition gold

Hospitality Services received a Gold Award in the Procurement Practices category for its on-campus honeybee program, the National Association of College & University Food Services announced recently during its annual Sustainability Awards.

DaVinci’s to bring flare to Engineering food

DaVinci’s to bring flare to Engineering food

At one time, Tim Hortons might have been enough to serve the students in the Spencer Engineering Building. But three buildings – and hundreds more students later – change is coming with the introduction of DaVinci Café

The FIXX is in

The FIXX is in

Need your burger FIXX? Western’s Hospitality Services is hosting ‘FIXXation Week’ with the launch of a new burger offering at Centre Spot in the University Community Centre. A concept developed in-house, The FIXX prepares burgers made from 100-per-cent Canadian...

Somerville House makes coffee shift

Somerville House makes coffee shift

If something looks different in Somerville House, you’re not imagining things. With the Tim Horton’s kiosk contract expiring, Hospitality Services opted to steer the space near Lucy’s in a different direction.

Straw poll: Western chooses paper over plastic

Straw poll: Western chooses paper over plastic

Western is taking steps in September towards becoming a campus free of plastic straws, even as Starbucks works to eliminate single-use plastic straws from all its locations by 2020.

Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence

Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence

Demonstrating dedication from dining halls to administrative offices, here are the winners of the 2017 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.

New business fits Western to a ‘tea’

New business fits Western to a ‘tea’

Andrea Gittens knows everything there is to know about tea. After all, the supervisor of Western’s latest café, Argo Tea, did go to Argo UniversiTea to learn the ins and outs of the tea business. Located in the D. B. Weldon Library (in the former home of Quotes Café),...

Bee program earns international competition gold

Bee program earns international competition gold

Hospitality Services received a Gold Award in the Procurement Practices category for its on-campus honeybee program, the National Association of College & University Food Services announced recently during its annual Sustainability Awards.

DaVinci’s to bring flare to Engineering food

DaVinci’s to bring flare to Engineering food

At one time, Tim Hortons might have been enough to serve the students in the Spencer Engineering Building. But three buildings – and hundreds more students later – change is coming with the introduction of DaVinci Café

The FIXX is in

The FIXX is in

Need your burger FIXX? Western’s Hospitality Services is hosting ‘FIXXation Week’ with the launch of a new burger offering at Centre Spot in the University Community Centre. A concept developed in-house, The FIXX prepares burgers made from 100-per-cent Canadian...

Somerville House makes coffee shift

Somerville House makes coffee shift

If something looks different in Somerville House, you’re not imagining things. With the Tim Horton’s kiosk contract expiring, Hospitality Services opted to steer the space near Lucy’s in a different direction.

Straw poll: Western chooses paper over plastic

Straw poll: Western chooses paper over plastic

Western is taking steps in September towards becoming a campus free of plastic straws, even as Starbucks works to eliminate single-use plastic straws from all its locations by 2020.

Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence

Honouring our own with Awards of Excellence

Demonstrating dedication from dining halls to administrative offices, here are the winners of the 2017 Western Awards of Excellence, the highest honour for staff member achievement.

New business fits Western to a ‘tea’

New business fits Western to a ‘tea’

Andrea Gittens knows everything there is to know about tea. After all, the supervisor of Western’s latest café, Argo Tea, did go to Argo UniversiTea to learn the ins and outs of the tea business. Located in the D. B. Weldon Library (in the former home of Quotes Café),...