Archive - Feb 4, 2003
DFC mourns for the death of respected elder
February 4, 2003 - 6:05pm | by AnonymousThunder Bay- Students and Staff at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School in Thunder Bay are mourning after a death of elder Johnny Tait of Sachigo Lake First Nation.
Tait, who has been working at DFCHS since its opening in 2000 was a leader, teacher and a guide throughout the hardships that the students had to take. He was one of the must respective people we've known. His love, devotion and courage helped all those around him to have a great success.
Despite his illness, he managed to hold on and tell everyone about God and what he can do. He accomplished his father's will on February 3 at around 1:30 am EST.
The following night, NAN hosted a memorial singing night at the DFCHS gymnasium where about half of the students showed up to encourage and support the family.
The next morning, all students were taken to the Jenkens Funeral home to attend a viewing of the body, which was followed by a service. Everyone that knew Tait, came out to show their last respect to their friend and brother in Christ.
Tait's body has been taken to Sachigo Lake where they'll have a service there on Thursday.
Tait, will be sadly missed by his fellow workers and most importantly, the students he worked with at DFCHS.
Gone, but not forgotten....
Weagamow's Broomball Tournament Report
February 4, 2003 - 6:01pm | by AnonymousAn anonymous fan submitted the following report ...
Over the weekend three teams from two different communities came to Weagamow Lake to play in our broomball tournament. There were three local teams participating in this event.
The teams from Weagamow were called the Renegades, the Raiders along with one other. The two Muskrat Dam teams were named the Wings and Muskrat Dogs. The one team from Mishkeegogamang called themselves the Falcons.
The Falcons were awesome, they won every one of their games. The Falcons took all the money home.
Good job Falcons ... come back to Weagamow soon.
PS:
J.M and I.M from Oz, come back soon. Good going Falcons !!!!!! Your team is good and you know it.......KO Telehealth Project presentation at NAHO in Ottawa in January
February 4, 2003 - 9:22am | by Anonymous
The conference was an incredible experience. There were hundreds of people involved in Aboriginal health from all over Canada. Between 30 and 50 attended my presentation.
I heard may good things about NAHO, that they were accomplishing a lot in a short time, and that it was seen as a dynamic, highly functional organization. Valerie Gideon, who was working as a Health Information Policy Analyst in the Policy & Research Unit within the organization (informatics, telehealth, FNHIS, etc) has been recently promoted to Director of the Aboriginal stream within the organization. She is very excited about our project and is promoting it as a "success" story.
We also had some adventures connecting to North Spirit Lake for the demonstration portion of my presentation. The technicians there did not have a 3 port NT1 device to be able to use the 3 ISDN lines. So we were only able to connect at 128kbps. The image was okay for the presentation as long as there was little movement (tough with the young person). The sound transmission was good.
Julie and her grandson in North Spirit Lake did a great job of showing how telehealth was benefiting her community. Audience participants came to me and told me that it was very grounding to see what accessing services can be like at a community level.
Webequie Election results for Chief and Council
February 4, 2003 - 7:20am | by AnonymousWebequie First Nation had its General Band Election in January 2003.
The elected Chief and Councillors are as follows:
Chief Gordon Wabasse
Councillor Elsie MacDonald
Councillor Roy Spence
Councillor Harry Wabasse
Councillor Mike Mekanak
Councillor Alec Suganaqueb
Councillor Cameron Shewaybick
Effective as of February 02, 2003.