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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

Beach Volleyball Tournament has been moved to August 13 - 16, 2003

Date:  August 13 - 16, 2003

Registration Deadline:  August 8, 2003

2 on 2 Men's

3 on 3 Ladies

Two Divisions

Prizes:  

• Championship     $2000.00 or more + Trophy
• Runners-up        $1500.00 or more
• Consolation       $1000.00 or more + Trophy

Entry Fee:  

• $200.00 outside teams
• $250.00 local teams

16 Teams or more

Individual Awards will be given out also

For more information please contact:

Daniel Winter 537-2650
Leland Fiddler 537-9960(w)/537- 2655 (h)
Myrna Winter 537-1164(w)/537-1159 (h)
Clara Winnepetonga 537-2315 (w)
Annie Anderson 537-2315 (w)

Wapekeka First Nation SOS Conference

August 25 - September 1, 2003

The Wapekeka First Nation SOS Conference will take place once again in the communioty of Wapekeka during the week of August 25th, 2003. SOS stands for Survivors of Suicide. The theme of the conference is Healing Our Spirit wich is a wholistic approach to dealing with personal issues such as; sexual abuse, family violence, grief and loss, suicidal ideations, spiritual growth, etc. During the week, mental health professionals will be available and a team from the community to provide security and other services. Healing and sharing circles will be held each day plus nightly jamboress.

Other activities will be held such as recreation and sports. The community has a Roller Rink and particpants are encouraged to bring their equipment if they so wish. Registration forms will be available to be downloaded from our website (http://wapekeka.firstnation.ca) as soon as we firm up the agenda. Ten (10) communities have been invited but it is not exclusive to those communities. Individuals can register to attend on their own or be sposored by their First Nations or organizations.

We will provide meals and accommodations plus in-community transportation. In some cases, we will provided travel costs depending on the nature of the need. Ask your Chief and Counil if your community was invited to come to this conference or inquire how your community can be invited.

Past repsonse has been favourable and young people enjoy the conference as they interact with other from the community and other communities.

This will the the 10th Annual Conference which will be marked with dignitaries being in attendance. During the opening ceremonies on August 26th, the National Chief Phil Fontaine, Regional Chief Charles Fox and NAN Grand Chief will be in attendance. This will be broadcast live on Wawatay and video streamed on the internet. The community will be broadcasting nightly jamborees on Wawatay.

Also, in attendance for 26th to 18th will be Dakota House form North of 60 TV Series. Dakota (TEEVEE) is well known as Native actor, story teller, youth activist, children's book author, and lecturer. Moccasin Joe will also be here to entertain the conference.

For more information, you can call me at (807) 537-2315 or check for updates on our website at http://wapekeka.firstnation.ca and check who is confirmed to come from other communities and special guests. We will post up our agenda and the meal menu has alrady been posted.

2ND ANNUAL NISH WOMANS BROOMBALL CLASSIC

Thanksgiving Weekend 2003 - October 10-13

Team Entry:  $15,000.00 (Includes Player Passes)

DEADLINE:  August 29, 2003 (1st 20 Teams ONLY!!!)

Thunder Bay, Ontario / Fort William First Nation Arena

Four (4) Games Guaranteed / Open pick up / Status or Metis Card

$23, 500.00 in total cash and prizes!!!

A Side:  $10,000.00   B Side:  $4,000.00  C Side: $1,000.00

Teams confirmed (9 spots remaining):  Fort William First Nation (2), Michikan Lake, Neskantaga First Nation, Nibinamik First Nation, Eabametoong First Nation (2), Waskaganish Cree Nation, Webequie First Nation, Cat Lake First Nation, Chisasibi Cree Nation

Tournament Dance to be announced!!