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Bad weather, slippery highways and even a chemical spill could not stop the First Nations SchoolNet Web Construction Workshop at the Northwest Angle #37... For regular updates, see the First Nations SchoolNet web portal!

PIKANGIKUM YOUTH CHALLENGE 2004

$10,000.00 CONFIRMED

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TOMORROW

24 YEARS AND UNDER

ENTRY FEE $1200.00

MORE INFO

EMAIL SAMSON KEEPER 

OR PHONE ME AT WORK 773 5561

HOME 773 5013

Fort Hope will be hosting a Youth Hockey Invitational Tournament on March 4 to 7th, 2004.

The divisions are from tykes to Midgets...

For more information contact:

• Sharon Roe at (h)242-1366 / (w)242-7221

• Tracy Bois at (h)242-1325 / (w)242-8421 or tracybois@knet.ca

• Mathew Shawinimash at (h)242-7424 / (w)242-7429 or

• Brent Harrald at (h)242-1122 or Brentharrald@hotmail.com

Deadline to enter your team is February 27, 2004

Keewaytinook Okimakanak is the Ontario Regional Management Organization (RMO) for Industry Canada's First Nation SchoolNet program. One of the many deliverables being made available to First Nation schools across Ontario is a series of travelling web site development workshops using Post Nuke. This week, members of the RMO team traveled to Moose Factory and Ginoogaming First Nations to work with representatives from different First Nation schools in the region to produce new web sites that will then be used by the staff and students at their school to share their information with others on-line. Click here to view the pictures from these workshops.

As the RMO for Ontario, the KO team and our partner organizations, a wide menu of support services are being provided for the First Nations schools across the province. Web site development workshops, web site and e-mail hosting services are just a couple of these services. Be sure to visit the Ontario First Nations RMO web site to learn about all the exciting opportunities be made available supporting First Nation schools in getting on-line and accessing broadband connectivity solutions.

Industry Canada's Saskatchewan Smart Communities Demonstration project, the Headwaters Project, invited an interested group of people to meet via video and telephone on Feb 18 to discuss research opportunities and partnerships. Representatives from groups from coast to coast joined the meeting to share their thoughts and developments.

Video conferencing sites included FNESC (Vancouver), Headwaters Project (La Ronge), Industry Canada (Saskatchewan office), K-Net (Sioux Lookout) and Smart Labrador (Forteau). Industry Canada SchoolNet (Ottawa) and Michael Gurstein (New Jersey) joined the meeting by telephone.

Discussions began with the host site (Saskatchewan) presenting information about the Mid Canada Research Institute (MCRI) and Dr. David Malcolm reviewing their business case to develop an institute serving the communities and regions in the Boreal Forest region from coast to coast. Each of the other meeting participants shared their own work in research and upcoming opportunities for collaboration. Michael Gurstein spoke about the CRACIN initiative that his team is leading to examine community networking initiatives across Canada (including a case study about K-Net).

The meeting ended with an agreement to continue sharing information on-line within a list serve being hosted by MCRI. Everyone is welcomed to join this list serve by sending an e-mail to discussion-subscribe@mcri.ca. For more information about this mailing list, please visit the MCRI website at www.mcri.ca. Information about this mailing list can be found in the Communications section. A streaming media file with the recording of today's videoconference will be posted shortly in the History section.

An early morning fire on Monday, Feb 16, quickly engulfed the entire school in Deer Lake. The school building accommodated K-8 classes along with the Wahsa and KiHS programs and the education administration. Very little could be saved as the fire raced throughout the entire building. Click here to see the pictures of the fire.

Sandy Lake Recreational 35 years and over Old-Timers Hockey Tourmament, orginally scheduled for February 19 to 21/04, has been moved to March 25, 26, & 28/04...

So you still have time to register your team in...Please phone Ringo Fiddler @ 807-774-5531 or Kennedy Fiddler -  807-774-5121...

Entry Fee-$600.00                                     Prizes: 1st: $3000.00.....

                                                           2nd: $1,500.00.....3rd: $600.00

No checking allowed,

Accommodations provided....Please try to bring your own sleeping  gears...

The Keewaytinook Okimakanak SMART team is working together to plan and host the upcoming Indigenous SMART International Virtual Conference that will be happening on March 17 and 18, 2004. Conference information, updates and  activities are being posted at http://smart.knet.ca/international

Everyone is invited to register on-line for this event. Click here for the on-line registration form.

We look forward to learning about different innovative ICT efforts being made by other Indigenous groups from around the world as well as showcasing the work accomplished over the past three years of the Kuhkenah Network of Smart First Nations demonstration project.

Please mark these dates on your calendar and plan to join us for this international event where everyone will have a chance to showcase their work and efforts in using ICTs in their homes, work and communities.

Pelican Falls First Nations High School Travel Club

is hosting a

R A D I O T H O N

Please support our fund raising efforts so we can visit New York City this spring!

To make YOUR pledge, call:

-Local-

807-737-1488

807-737-4017

807-737-2971

-Toll-Free-

1-800-465-7144

1-800-667-3708

1-877-636-0667

--Special Guests Include--

Don Burnstick

Tina Keeper

Phil Fontaine

Barry McLoughlin

Matthew Angees

Paul Beardy

Freddie Kakegamic

Darren Lentz

... and others...

Please tune in and make a pledge!

Radiothon starts February 13 at 6:00 p.m. sharp and airs until 12 midnight. Tune into 91.9 FM on your local radio channel or Wahsa on Bell ExpressVu channel 972.

The Ontario government created an on-line "Budget Town Hall" to support "an unprecedented dialogue with Ontarians" as they prepare their budget. Check it out and contribute some thoughts about what the government's priorities should include.

There are several ways to ensure your thoughts and advice on the budget are conveyed to the government:

• At http://townhallontario.gov.on.ca you will be able to fill out an online survey. You can also send in your own ideas and advice electronically at this site.
• You can read and fill out the Budget Town Hall 2004 Discussion Guide (PDF - 442kb), available at your local Government Information Centre or by calling the toll-free hotline at 1-866-608-4824 (TTY Line 1-800-268-7095).
• You can fax in your advice to 416-326-5348.
• You can mail in your advice to:
  Delivering Change - Budget Town Hall 2004
  PO Box #40
  77 Wellesley Street West
  Toronto, ON M7A 1N3