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On July 29, representatives from SLAAMB, Confederation College and NNEC met with KO community members and KO staff to present information concerning General Educational Development(GED) and the Canadian Adult Achievement Test (CAAT). During the CAAT / GED Information Video-conference Wayne Zimmer and Gayle Murdock from Confederation College, Bob Bruyere from SLAAMB and John Dudley from NNEC talked about the GED test, their organizations involvement in setting up these initiatives in the First Nations. Discussions took place about the 12 weeks of community-based training that is being considered for KO First Nations with sufficient enrollment.

Information from the poster circulated before the meeting described the GED Test as a "measurement of the level of your Educational Maturity". The GED is a set of 5 Tests on the Key High School Subjects of:

• Language Arts: Writing
• Language Arts: Reading
• Mathematics
• Social Studies
• Science

If you score 450 or more on all 5 tests, you will get your Ontario High School Equivalency Certificate from Confederation College. Score less than 450 on any tests and you can re-write them. You don’t have to re-write tests if you scored over 450 on them.

To take the 12 week GED Preparation Training Program and be eligible to write the GED test you must :

1. Be seriously committed to a very intensive 12 week GED training program (night school) in your community;
2. Complete the Canadian Adult Achievement Test and score between Levels 9 and 10 or better;
3. Be at Least 19 or older (some 18 year olds may be eligible);
4. Not be a high school graduate;
5. Have been out of school for at least one full year;
6. Be a resident of Ontario.

If you’re on welfare or E.I. you can take training without penalty.

The Chiefs of Nishnawbe Aski Nation elected Stan Beardy to be their Grand Chief for a second consecutive term today at this year's Keewaywin Conference being held in Ginoogaming First Nation. Stan secured the required 23 votes on the first round ballot to win the vote over the other contenders.

After the election of the Grand Chief, the chiefs then heard the speeches from each of the eleven deputy grand chief candidates. The chiefs then cast their ballots for three Deputy Grand Chief positions. Successful candidates for these positions are Alvin Fiddler, Goyce Kakegamic and Dan Kooses. Both Goyce and Dan will be serving their second consecutive three year terms along with Stan.

Congratulations to Stan, Alvin, Goyce and Dan and all the other people who put their names forth as candidates.

August 7-9, 2003

Championship $5,000

Finalists $2,500

Consolation $2,000

Runner's up $1,000

Entry Fee $800

For more information, please contact,

Sachigo Lake Band Office  595-2577/2527

Constance Lake First Nation is mobilizing to begin constructing our new school.  The holistic education centre, which consists of a daycare centre, elementary, secondary and technical components has begun construction!  

Our new education centre will take twelve (12) months to construct.  The occupation date for the school is scheduled for September 2004.  

For more information regarding the new holistic education centre, check out the Constance Lake Education authority website or contact the Constance Lake Education Authority office.  

The July 24 issue of Wawatay News contains two more news stories about the work being completed within the Kuh-ke-nah Network of Smart First Nations demonstration project.

This week's issue of the Kuh-ke-nah page in Wawatay News include the following articles:

• KO Communities Planning On-line Maps and Data - Robert Hunter, KO's GIS/Architectural Technologist talks shares his story about working with other members of the KO Smart Team to take existing databases and digital maps (canoe routes, community infrastructure, etc) and make this information available on-line.
• Live web casts streaming from First Nations via Internet - Different live events are now being shared and archived on-line with others using the K-Net streaming server and the video conferencing equipment in each of the communities. Examples talked about in this article include the Wasaya - Bearskin signing ceremony from Bearskin FN, the Grade 8 Graduation Ceremonies from Kingfisher Lake FN and the Sandy Lake FN award.
• K-Net Showcase - contains photos from the Fort Severn First Nation portal (http://fortsevern.firstnation.ca)

Rick Garrick is researching additional stories for future articles. If you have a story that you want to share about this project and the work that is happening in your community to get connected, please send us an e-mail.

Various newspaper articles are being scanned and stored for reference purposes in this photo gallery.

On Wednesday, July 23 to Friday, July 25, several guests made the journey from their homes to travel to Sioux Lookout, Slate Falls First Nation and Keewaywin First Nation. Luis Barnola, who works with IRDC (International Development Research Centre, Head Office
Institute for Connectivity in the Americas) arranged to bring a film producer from Columbia (Mauricio Beltran) to visit K-Net and some of our partner First Nations. They flew from Ottawa to Thunder Bay and then Carl Seibel from FedNor drove them to Sioux Lookout and then we flew into Slate Falls First Nation and then over to Keewaywin First Nation.

Click here to check out the story and the pictures posted on the Keewaywin community portal about their visit to their community.

Invitational Baseball Tournament
July 30, 2003 - August 3, 2003
Travel Day July 30, 2003.
Starts July 31, 2003.

Entry Fee
$500.00 Outside teams
$700.00 Local teams

Prizes to be determined by number of team entries
Accomodations will be provided
Band by-law must be respected
Meals will be provided for outside teams only

Contact people
Lakers
Mona Meekis - 775-2346
Rose Meekis - 775-9554
Tracy Meekis - 775-9169

Recreation Committee
Brad Meekis - 775-9520
Andy Meekis - 775-9453
Zack Meekis - 775-9259

It was a big success ... from July 13th to the 19th in Constance Lake.

Constance Lake 60th anniversary celebration had many people from many communities such as Mobert and Aroland coming to this special event to check out our Pow Wow and drum and dance for us.

After the Pow Wow on July 15th, there was a square dance and teen dance mixed whick took place from eight till one in the morinng. Throughout the whole week other activities were happening such as a 3 on 3 basket ball tournament and  three legged races for the youth.

This whole thing was planned out and organized by Jonathan Neegan who made this whole anniversary event work great!

K-Net staff are doing an on-line presentation this evening for the PTC Monthly Virtual Conference Webinar scheduled for July 22nd at 10 pm CST. Tonight's session is entitled: "Telecentres - Their role in social and economic development". Click here to see the K-Net presentation for this event entitled "Telecentres and Community Development in the First Nations K-Net Project"

It is an open event for everyone to join. K-Net participated another one of these sessions last year and did one of these last year and it was an interesting experience (click here to check out last September’s event).

The conference Coordinator (David Wortley) reported ... "The PTC virtual conference webinar on Telecentres attracted over 20 participants from all across the globe, but for those who were unable to attend the live event, I have now posted the archived presentations in the virtual classroom. To view these archives, please logon at http://www.hcln.net/PTC2003/PTC_logon.htm  and click on the "Review" button on the top menu bar in the virtual classroom. This will also enable you to print out the 4 presentations."

Everyone is invited to check out the event by logging onto http://www.hcln.net/PTC2003/PTC_logon.htm to see more details and to set up your system for the event. Click here to see the PDF file of instructions for this on-line event.

Here is the text of the invitation sent around by the host of tonight’s show, David Wortley.

----- Original Message -----

From: "David Wortley" dwortley@massmitec.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:35 AM
Subject: Telecentres - Their role in social and economic development - PTC Monthly Virtual Conference Webinar - July 23rd (except USA when it will be July 22nd)

I hope you will be able to join me in a few hours time as we visit Japan, Jakarta, Geneva, Rio de Janeiro, Lubenham, San Francisco, Ontario, Australia, New Zealand, India and Germany in the Pacific Telecomms Council SIG's first monthly virtual conference webinar on the subject of Telecentres.

The program and logistics for this event are shown below. Anyone with access to the internet via a Windows PC with recent browser should be able to log on and share ideas and knowledge on this important topic. If you access the group chat facility within the virtual classroom you will see we have already had visitors from across the globe.

We are encouraging ideas for future topics for these events and have already had suggestions for sessions on ICT and gender, youth, and disability as ideas for forthcoming webinars. Please let us know if you wish to make a presentation on a specific topic in the future by replying to me at dwortley@massmitec.co.uk

AGENDA

The topic of this one hour session will be "Telecentres and their role in social and economic development". The presenters for the webinar will cover a diversity of Telecentre situations and applications with a provisional agenda as follows :-

• David Wortley (UK): Telecentres and the UK Community Access to Lifelong Learning Strategy
• Kenji Saga (Japan): Key Issues for the Successful Implementation of Rural Telecenters
• Naswil Idris (Indonesia): Community Telecentres in Indonesia
• Brian Beaton (Canada): Telecentres and Community Development in the First Nations K-Net Project

GLOBAL TIMING

The timing of the webinar has been organised to favour the Asia/Pacific region covered by the PTC with the relevant times across the globe shown below :-

USA West Coast (Vancouver/Seattle) - July 22nd - 20:00 - 21:00
USA East Coast (New York,/Montreal) - July 22nd - 23:00 - 24:00
United Kingdom - July 23rd - 04:00 - 05:00
Central Europe -July 23rd - 05:00 - 06:00
Moscow - July 23rd - 07:00 - 08:00
Mumbai - July 23rd - 08:30 - 09:30
Jakarta - July 23rd - 10:00 - 11:00
Tokyo - July 23rd - 12:00 - 13:00
Auckland - July 23rd - 15:00 - 16:00
Honolulu - July 22nd - 17:00 - 18:00

Anyone with an IBM PC compatible and access to the internet is welcome to participate in this free event and contribute to the discussions.

Please logon to http://www.hcln.net/PTC2003/PTC_logon.htm  to see more details and set up your system ready for the event.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me and please feel free to pass on this invitation to others you think might be interested.

Regards

David Wortley
Mass Mitec Creative Collaborative Communications
Office Tel: +44(0)1858 410366
Mobile Tel: +44(0)7831 118943
EMail: dwortley@massmitec.co.uk