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Nomination for Chief vacancy will take place at the T.V. Station in Deer Lake, o­ntario from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm, with counting of ballots to follow.  For full results, check out http://www.deerlake.firstnation.ca  site after the last ballot has been recorded.

Summer Beaver is hosting its second year of youth hockey tournament on February 6  to 9, 2003.

Entry Fee: for Bantam is $400.00,  Peewee for $300.00 and Atom Division $100.00  

Trophies, Medallions, Indiviual Trophies, Gifts and Cash Prizes!

For more info, please call

Norman @ the Band Office (807) 593-2131

or Philip @ the School (807) 593-2195

Miigwetch!!!!!

Deer Lake elder, Janet Crowe, passed away in the early morning hours of Saturday, January 4, 2003.  Friends and family gathered at Mickie Meekis' to pay their respects, offer support and comfort throughout the weekend.

Funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at the United Church down by Treaty Point.

You might be interested to note that the Keewaytinook Okimakanak Telehealth project is highlighted as a success story o­n pages 7 -9 of the document Canadian Rural Partnership - Annual Report to Parliament 2001-2002.

Maybe this will help to inspire the powers to be to find the funding to continue this worthwhile initiative!!

Editor's Note:
The featured "SUCCESS STORY - NORTHERN AND REMOTE" is entitled Telehealth - A Cure For Isolated First Nations in Northern o­ntario. It contains many references to our excellent partnership with FedNor and other groups who have made these developments possible. Thanks to Lyn for sharing this good news story with us.

Listening to CBC radio's World Report this morning, I picked up a story about how doctors across the country are now getting together to discuss patients and share their thoughts concerning treatments.

"Hospital rounds are going hi-tech. For the first time, doctors in different parts of Canada are using conference calls and the internet to treat patients through "virtual rounds". Brooks DeCillia reports." (From the last story o­n their summary sheet)

You can listen to the entire short story that includes some actual taped discussions between doctors in RealOne Audio by clicking here and scrolling to the last story (at 10:25 of the 12:30 report).

Once again, the New Years Feast was held at Deer Lake United Church, everyone was invited to attend the yearly gathering.

Also the Family Feasts were held o­n the same day, pictures were taken, for more information go to www.deerlake.firstnation.ca

K-Net staff want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and thank you for making K-Net your o­n-line communication resource.

K-Net servers have received 6.8 million hits in December for the second month in a row! Check out the stats for each of the present seven o­n-line services at http://tech.knet.ca/~tech/monitoring/webalizer

It was a busy month for individual K-Net users who are developing their own individual web sites using http://myknet.org - MyKnet.org actually overtook the main K-Net web server for the first time as the busiest o­n-line service for this past month.

Each myknet.org user is given a maximum of 5M of space to post pictures and share their thoughts. Everyone is developing new o­n-line skills with many sites demonstrating some advanced features. Peer-to-peer sharing of scripts and presentations seems to be the best method for developing these skills.

All myknet.org users are asked to respect the variety of ages who use this service by avoiding inappropriate content and language. There are times when individual sites are temporarily taken down until they are changed by the user. All the users are asked to help us identify any inappropriate web sites and content.

We look forward to serving everyone in 2003 who is helping make these o­n-line services a valuable communication resource for the First Nations across the region. Please share your ideas and suggestions with any K-Net staff member or by sending an e-mail to suggestions@knet.ca

Family feasts were held in Deer Lake with a total of nine families holding the feasts and everyone was invited to partake in these special events.  

The feasts began at 9:00 pm and everyone began at their respective families before going out to the other feasts to celebrate and share in the holiday spirit.

There was plenty of food and happiness to share and everyone had a great time in this holiday tradition.

On December 23rd to the early morning hours of December 24th, Deer Lake Chief and Council sponsored a televised Christmas bingo with many prizes to be won.  This has become an annual event and overall community participation has been great.  For more information o­n the bingo results go to the Deer Lake web site @ http://www.deerlake.firstnation.ca and click o­n "Local News".

Yesterday, during the Chiefs of Keewaytinook Okimakanak meeting in Winnipeg, the Honourable Robert Nault, Minister of INAC, made a five year commitment to support the o­ngoing operation of KiHS based o­n its present operational level of thirteen First Nation classrooms delivering grade 9 and 10 courses.

Minister Nault recognized the importance of making "a long term commitment to developing quality and successful community based educational programs and support services in First Nations." As part of this announcement, Minister Nault also wants to see the development a five-year workplan that will include improvements to attendance, successful course completion and outcomes, program evaluation, student support systems among other areas.

Keewaytinook Okimakanak established the Keewaytinook Internet High School (KiHS) in 1999 to begin addressing many of the educational gaps and challenges facing First Nation students who use to have to leave their homes and communities to attend high school. Today, KiHS has now obtained the support it requires to provide students, parents, teachers, staff and partner First Nations with the assurances they require to feel secure in making long term plans for developing this resource for the young people in their communities.

As o­ne of the deliverables under the Kuh-ke-nah Network of Smart First Nations Demonstration project, KiHS is supporting the o­n-going development and operation of community broadband networks in each of the participating First Nations. This five year commitment will ensure that the proper support systems are established to ensure students, parents, teachers and communities are able to receive a quality and successful high school education program.

Check out the pictures of this meeting and some of the o­n-line discussions about this event.