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Hello ... it's Rizzo again.

My new band Downlaw is going to turn out great. I'm the singer for Downlaw. The members are Les Coretez (ex-guitarist/outsiderz) to fill on the guitars and Connery Marek (ex- bassist/Closure) will take on the bass tracks.

The Outsiderz's CD is near completion. If you are intrested in buying our Outsiderz's self-released CD just email us at outsidersband@knet.ca or sign our guestbook leaving us your email address at http://outsidersband.myknet.org

Well Peace out - Rizzo

Raising The Children - A Training Program for Aboriginal Parents is now on-line at http://raisingthechildren.knet.ca

The development of this web site was made possible through a partnership between the Sunset Women's Aboriginal Circle (SWAC), K-Net and Lorraine Kenny. Funding support for this project came from the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor) project that is supporting K-Net to create a variety of on-line training resources for First Nations.

All the material included on this web site comes directly from the Raising The Children Parenting Manual for Aboriginal parents. The entire first topics from each of the training sessions in now available on-line for parents to review.

An on-line Aboriginal Parenting support group is being facilitated utilizing Keewaytinook Okimakanak's On-line Training Centre located at http://training.knet.ca. All interested parents wishing to join this on-line support group are invited to send Lorraine Kenny an e-mail requesting to become a member of the group.

Pikangikum's 3rd Annual Memorial Hockey Tournament
will be held December 11-14 / 2003.

OPEN ICE BODY CONTACT.

Entry fee will be $900 plus daily pass fee of $2.00 for all players
(to help cover ice time)

Five local teams.

Open to five outside teams.

Accommodations will be provided.

Individual awards and championship trophy will be awarded.

Sandy Lake Skyhawks defending champions

Contacts:

• Van Keeper 773 5363 H  773 1039
• WLyle Keeper 773 5277 H  773 5550 W
• Kenneth Strang  773 5987
• James D. Strang  773 5070
• Andrew Keeper  773 5537

Keewaytinook Okimakanak recently received this thank you message from one of our partners (Ricardo Ramírez) working with us in the development and evaluation of K-Net.

Dear ISG members:

Thanks to the generosity of our friends at KNet in northern Ontario, Canada (www.knet.ca) the ISG website is now hosted at the Knet server. I would like to make sure that the savings we are incurring become an investment for KNet. How this happens is something that I have no doubt will emerge. Just think:

• ISG is a decentralized organization with members in Peru (Maria and Edith), Hawaii (Hal), the Netherlands (Carine and Annemarie), France (Clive), Kenya (Isaac), Canada (Reg and Ricardo) and the Philippines (Annie and Caloy).
• What brings us together is innovation and learning to work with local communities and multiple partners. Much of what we have done has shaped the work that Don Richardson and I did with the KNet workshops in Red Lake and Fort Severn back in 1998.
• We reported on this in the Tune meetings in Denmark and we wrote about it in the Linked Local Learning book (I will send a copy of the book to KNet right away).

Our new website host is Keewaytinook Okimakanak's K-Net Services (www.knet.ca) who are working in partnership with First Nations, the public and the private sectors to develop and sustain a Wide Area Broadband Network. The Kuh-ke-nah Broadband Network in Northern Ontario provides support for band office programs, health and education services in each participating First Nation. The network supports the development of broadband applications that combine video, voice and data services requiring high speed connectivity solutions. The long term objective is to establish local community networks linked across the country to other networks that share and distribute broadband services and programs that benefit the local community. 

One day Maria and Edith in Peru, and Caloy and Annie in the Philippines may find local groups that will want to learn from KNet, and KNet from them. I invite you all to have a look at the KNet website; and KNet to peek at ours.

Thank-you KNet!

Ricardo Ramírez Phd
Chair of ISG
The International Support Group
44 Caledonia St.
Guelph, Ontario N1G 2C9 Canada
tel/fax +1 (519) 824-5519
email: rramirez@uoguelph.ca
www.isglink.org

On Tuesday November 4, Dryden High School came down to Sioux Lookout and took on Pelican Falls. It was a really disapointing game. Pelican Falls lost to Dryden by a score of 17-0. Rodney Kejick made a lot of key saves in the game. Dryden recored 78 shots on net. Rodney made 61 saves out of the 78 shots.

Six members of the NORTH Network team traveled to Balmertown on Tuesday, November 4 for two days of meetings with Keewaytinook Okimakanak staff members. Discussions addressed the issues around the partnership and work that has taken place over the past three years in the development of telehealth and related services. As well, time was spent examining how the new regional telehealth development project that will include all the First Nations in the Sioux Lookout Health Zone can best be supported by our partnership.

Click here to view the pictures.

On November 5, representatives from across the country met to discuss current issues involving the First Nations SchoolNet program. The monthly meeting is facilitated by the Ottawa office and uses the bridging resources available at K-Net. We reached the maximum capacity of the bridge with the number of video conferencing and audio sites involved in this meeting.

The October 30 issue of Wawatay News contains three 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:

• Fort Severn knowledge videotaped and mapped
: Keewaytinook Okimakanak staff (Robert Hunter and Cal Kenny) traveled with Fort Severn elders and community members to collect video and other digital material that can be used to create and post archive data about their traditional territories and history.
• First Nations SchoolNet conference nets new RMO ideas
: Darlene Rae, Jesse Fiddler and Dan Pellerin traveled to the SchoolNet meeting in Cape Breton while the rest of the team participated in this national Industry Canada program meeting via video conference.
• K-Net Showcase
- contains photos from the K-Net photo gallery at

http://photos.knet.ca with images of the some of the partners involved in working with K-Net to make the network Industry Canada’s Aboriginal Smart Communities Demonstration project.

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.

AFTER A TWO YEAR HIATUS, THE COMMUNITY OF PIKANGIKUM IS PLEASED TO BRING BACK THE PIKANGIKUM YOUTH CHALLENGE. IT WILL BE HELD DURING THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.

THIS YEAR'S TOURNAMENT WILL CONSIST OF TWO EVENTS: HOCKEY AND BROOMBALL

THE PARTICIPATING AGES FOR THIS TOURNAMENT ARE AS FOLLOWS:

HOCKEY (MALE YOUTH BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 AND 25)

BROOMBALL (FEMALE YOUTH BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 AND 25)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION YOU CAN CONTACT SAMSON KEEPER OR ENOS KING

(807) 773 5561
(807)773 5241
(807) 773 1138

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION WILL BE DECEMBER 6TH AT 4:00 PM

ALL MEALS AND ACCOMODATIONS WILL BE PROVIDED