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Everyday new community announcements are created and posted on the local community television station for everyone to see. The background music comes from the community radio station that plays Wawatay Radio whenever there are no local programs. Everyone in Fort Severn has this television turned on to listen to the radio and watch for new community announcements about someone's birthday, an upcoming meeting or workshop, job postings and everything else.

Now the Multi-Media Producer, Barney Turtle, is saving all these posters on-line in a photo album so other people from outside the community can also see what is happening in Fort Severn. Be sure to check out the Fort Severn Community Announcements photo album (go to the last poster in the album for the lastest announcement). A link to this album is also available directly from the Fort Severn First Nation web portal.

Deer Lake First Nation

Ladies First Invitational Baseball Tournament

July 30 - August 3, 2003

Travel Day July 30, 2003

Starts July 31, 2003

$500 Entry Fee outside teams

$700 Entry Fee Local teams

Prizes To Be Determined by # of Entries

Contact People :

Lakers

Mona Meekis-----------------------775-2346

Rose Meekis------------------------775-9554

Stacey Quill-------------------------775-9312

Recreation

Brad Meekis-----------------------775-9520

Andy Meekis-----------------------775-9453

Zack Meekis-----------------------775-9259

Kenny Meekis---------------------775-0008

Band Office Ph----------------775-2141

Band Office Fax----------------807-775-2220

Hydro Fax (Zack)-------------775-2272

Accomodations will be provided

Band By-Law Must be respected

Wasaya Group Inc. and Bearskin Airlines Ltd are pleased to announce the completion of a transaction under which Wasaya Airways Leasing Ltd has purchased Bearskin Airline's northern assets.

Under the agreement, Wasaya Airways will take over the provision of scheduled passenger services to 21 First Nation Communities located north of Sioux Lookout and Red Lake, Ontario.  These new services to be phased in starting July 2, 2003 with expected completion by July 31, 2003.

Wasaya proposes to use Beech 1900D and PC12 aircraft to service the routes, providing enhanced passenger comfort.  The services will be operated from Bearskin's former hangar and office facilities at the Sioux Lookout airport.

Wasaya Airways is 100% owned by eight First Nation Communities in Northwestern Ontario.  Wasaya Airways is ranked among the largest airlines in Canada and one of the larger Aboriginal owned airlines.

A traditional signing ceremony is taking place on July 9, 2003 at Bearskin Lake First Nation.  In attendance will be many dignitaries, including The Honourable Robert Nault, Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs (Canada).  Bearskin Lake, one of the Wasaya Airways ownership communities, was the birthplace of the original Bearskin Lake Air Service in the late 1950's.

For further information, contact either :

Tom Morris, President and CEO
Wasaya Airways LP
Thunder Bay, ON
Tel 807.473.1200

or

Harvey Friesen, President and CEO
Bearskin Airlines
Sioux Lookout, ON
Tel 807.737.3474

Another house and the wawatay radio tower burns to the ground in Fort Severn.

I'm going to miss my Booshoo corner says, John Chapman.

For more details and photos go www.fortsevernfirstnation.com

PIKANGIKUM FIRST NATION 1st ANNUAL MEN'S INVITATIONAL VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT 2003

JULY 31-AUGUST 2, 2003

FIRST 4 TEAMS TO CONFIRM AND SUBMIT $500.00 ENTRY FEE

A SIDE CHAMPIONS  $1500.00 RUNNERS UP $500.00B SIDE CHAMPIONS $600.00 RUNNERS UP $400.00(PRIZES MAY INCREASE AFTER FUNDRAISING)

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS / TEAM STAR AWARDS / TROPHIES

VOLLEYBALL RULES WILL APPLY

CONTACT COMMITTEE GARY QUILL (WORK 773-9948 OR 773-9947)RANDY HILL (WORK 773-5098 HOME 773-1143)ROSS KEEPER (HOME 773-1182)

NAN TECH 2003, held on June 18 to 20 in Thunder Bay, proved to be a great success. Thanks to the Nishnawbe Aski Nation IT Department team (especially Gordon Kakegamic) and the Ad/venture Group for hosting such a successful event. It was a lot a work for everyone involved!

The KO Smart Team were able to participate throughout the event with presentations, display booth, demonstrations, networking and learning from all the other participants. GREAT JOB everyone!!

On June 16, Stephane Giguere and Mike Collins from Telesat Canada in Ottawa travelled to Thunder Bay for meetings with Carl Seibel from FedNor along with K-Net staff (Brian and Dan). Discussions around K-Net's plans for supporting community networks and the future satellite bandwidth requirements highlighted the meeting. Strategies to ensure there is sufficient public benefit transponder space available to meet the immediate and long term needs for broadband applications were shared with the partners.

Sol Mamakwa and Sonny Mamakwa are hosting an internet webcast for this year's graduation ceremonies being held at Mary Anne Aganash Memorial School in Kingfisher Lake.

The ceremony features the Grade 8 and Senior Kindergarten Classes. Everyone is invited to join the students, parents and staff at this event by visiting the Mary Ann Aganash Memorial School web portal and clicking on the streaming webcast link in the news item.

Sol and Sonny learned about the webcast capabilities during the NAN TECH 2003 conference and worked with K-Net staff to make this live on-line event possible.

Meegwetch to Cal, Brian and Cal @ knet for your help.

Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net Services) has been invited to partner with CRACIN as a case study in their application to the Initiative on the New Economy (INE) Research Alliances program of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

CRACIN, Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking, is proposing to "bring together leading Community Informatics researchers from across Canada, as well as internationally, to investigate the main Canadian government programs promoting the development and public accessibility of internet services." For more information visit the CRACIN web site.

K-Net staff participated in the initial meeting of this group on June 20 and 21 via video conference.

See pictures below from outside Keewaytinook Okimakanak office.

From the June 23 issue of the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal newspaper:

"Meanwhile, MNR firefighters were battling a “stubborn” fire about 10 kilometres north of the Sioux Lookout airport yesterday. The blaze was about 22,000 hectares in size yesterday evening, but was burning away from Sioux Lookout itself, McLean said.

The entire area is under an Emergency Area Order, she said, and people were being evacuated from cottages and tourist establishments. Some roads were also being closed.

Waterbombers couldn’t attack the fire directly because of intense flames. The waterbombers were forced to work on the flanks, McLean said.

The MNR was looking at back-burning strategies yesterday, she said. That involves burning an area before the fire gets to it so there’s no fuel when the fire gets there, thereby slowing the blaze down.

Another concern is a number of vehicles in the Deception Bay area. They’ve been parked there by tourists visiting the area for a few days, who are camping or fishing far away from the blaze itself.

Yesterday, the MNR was working on a strategy to defend that area, McLean said.

No official cause for the fires has been identified, but it is thought that lightning could be responsible."