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April 23 to May 4, 2012
Page 1 –akis“nuk First Nation Community News
–akis“nuk First Nation events of interest Tuesday April 24:
A.M. Foot Clinic and the Health Centre
Wednesday, April 25:
P.M. Foot Clinic at the Health Centre
Wednesday April 25:
Band meeting, 6 p.m.
Monday, April 30:
Qat'muk meeting open session 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Dinner served at 5:30 p.m.
Friday, May 4:
Dietitian at the Health Centre
Saturday May 5:
Spring Celebration May 5, 3 p.m. at the Band Hall. Activities,
prizes, dinner. Call Dolores, 342-6301, for info
Akisqnuk AGM:
An Akisqnuk-specific AGM is tentatively scheduled for this summer at Akisqnuk. If you have an idea for the theme, contact Chief Lorne Shovar
Relay for Life:
Councillor Marguerite Cooper is planning to enter a team in this popular cancer fundraiser. Contact Marguerite if you’d like to take part
Drumming:
Learn how with Nelson Philip, each Tuesday and Thursday evening, 6 p.m. To 8 p.m. At the
Happy birthdays to the following Akisqnukniks: April 1, Cecilia Teneese; 2, Mya Sam; 3, Pete Sanchez; 9, Elaine Nicholas; 11, Beatrice Stevens and Melanie Phillip; 14,
Keith Nicholas; 19, Candace Stevens and Marlene Stevens; 24, Lance Nicholas. If you know someone not on the list that should be contact Adrian (250) 342-6301.
April Akisqnuknik birthdays
Contender! This photo of Akisqnuknik Faro Burgoyne was taken at the Canada Snowboard Na-tionals in Nakiska, Alberta held ear-lier this month.
Faro finished 10th in Canada in the junior men’s Parallel Giant Slalom and 14th in the junior men’s snow-board cross. Faro even stepped up and raced against the men and fin-ished 23rd in the senior men’s paral-lel giant slalom. Congrats Faro on a great season.
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Lorne Shovar is acting band administrator while the search is on for a new administrator.
Thank you Charles for your year of service.
Akisqnuk administrator leaves
Chief and Council: Please note that the start times of Chief and Council meetings has changed. Council meetings will now begin at 3 p.m.
Band office hours: Business hours at the Akisqnuk First Na-tion are now 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Closed from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. The changes affect the Band office and Akisqnuk staff at the Health Centre. Please get any business you need done at either of these offices done during these hours
Learn powwow dancing: With Leon Cranebear. Every Thursday until July, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Chief Joseph Centre, 1007 Baker St., Cranbrook. For info contact Harry, 250-489-4563
Friday April 20 was the last day for band admin-istrator Charles Des-vents. Charles has re-signed and his position is now vacant.
In his absence Chief
Health Centre. Call Nelson for more info, (250) 270-1500
So long:
To Oscar Mejia, social worker with Ktunaxa Kinbasket Child and Family Services Akisqnuk Office. Oscar’s last day was April 10. Good luck Oscar
Women’s Health Day:
Congrats to door prize winners Shauna Kains, Brett Capilo, Tabi Capilo, Attila Stanley, Danny Burgoyne, Lucille Shovar, Vicki Joseph. Thanks for participating in the women’s health day.
Homework sessions: Thurs-days 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the band hall
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oped and delivered as a result of these IMBA dol-lars. Your input is valued and the more input, the better served the band membership will be.
To complete the survey online go to www.surveymonkey.com/Akisqimba If you don’t have access to a computer or would rather not do an online survey, please contact Adrian Bergles at the
Akisqnuk First Nation Administration Office (342-6301) and a paper version will be mailed to you.
If you would more infor-mation or would like as-sistance in completing the survey, please feel free to contact Rosemary Phillips at (250) 489-2464 or toll free at 1-888-480-2464.
- Information courtesy Rosemary Phillips
If you are a member of the Akisqnuk First Nation residing on or off reserve, you are encouraged to complete the online Akisqnuk impacts man-agement benefits agree-ment (IMBA) Dollar Sur-vey.
What is an IMBA? IMBA stands for impact man-agement benefits agree-ment and normally occur as a result of a negotia-tion with a company doing
major development within Ktunaxa Territory such as BC Hydro or Teck Coal. There is sometimes a cash com-ponent that is negotiated as part of these agree-ments.
The results from this survey will help the Akisqnuk Council deter-mine which programs and services band mem-bers on and off reserve would like to see devel-
Ktunaxa natural resource money survey
Akisqnuk First Nation. Please forward any housing concerns to chief and council.
As of April 1, 2012 Dolores Varga is no longer working as the housing officer for the
Dolores V. no longer housing officer
Vaccine options for aboriginal youth
–Akisqnuknik Mission Statement:
Through sound, responsible, leadership we will promote the well-being and economic self-reliance of our people by encouraging and fostering education and sustainable employment.
VICTORIA – Immuniza-tion is one of the most effective ways to prevent serious disease.
The province has ex-panded its current child-hood immunization pro-gram to include hepatitis A vaccine for aboriginal children, both on- and off-reserve.
B.C. will now be offering hepatitis A vaccine to all aboriginal infants and children. Although B.C.'s overall hepatitis A rates have declined over the past 15 years, outbreaks have continued to occur
in aboriginal communi-ties. A targeted vaccina-tion program for aborigi-nal children will help prevent illness in this group. Hepatitis A affects the liver and can cause fever, fatigue, loss of ap-petite, nausea, vomiting and yellow skin and eyes. It is easily spread through activities such as sharing of food and changing of diapers.
The new additions to B.C.’s immunization schedule have been re-viewed and recom-mended by the BC Com-municable Disease Pol-
icy Advisory Committee and the BC Immunization Committee. With these additions, B.C. will con-tinue to have one of the most comprehensive im-munization programs in Canada.
To find out more about childhood immuniza-tions, contact HealthLink BC at 8-1-1, or visit: www.ImmunizeBC.ca
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As well, young women born in 1991, 1992 and 1993 are eligible for Hu-man Papillomavirus Vac-cine (Cervarix). There is
a limited quantity of pub-licly-funded vaccine available for young women in this age group. This program is in addi-tion to the Grade 6 pro-gram currently in place.
HPV vaccine is recom-mended to help prevent most cervical cancers.
Please contact Kathy Clark (after May 7 as she will be on vacation) to arrange an appointment regarding all these vac-cines.
- Information courtesy Kathy Clark and the B.C. Ministry of Health
Band Member email list
Communications Coordi-nator Adrian Bergles is trying to get an email list together of Band mem-
bers. This is to enable better communication from the office. Email [email protected]
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Images from the Rick Hansen Relay at Akisqnuk. A great time was had with the visit of the Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Relay on Saturday morning, April 14. A pancake and sausage breakfast was provided, followed by a welcome from band councilor Samantha Sam. Youth Faro Burgoyne and elder Frank Sam were the honourary medal bearers that day. The relay retraces Rick Hansen’s original journey 25 years ago and serves to remind us that anything is possible.
Rick Hansen 25th Anniversary Relay visits Akisqnuk
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–akis“nuk First Nation 3050 Highway 93/95,
Windermere, B.C. V0B 2L2
(250) 342-6301
This newsletter is pub-lished by Adrian Bergles,
Communications Coordinator,
–akis“nuk First Nation
Your thoughts are wel-come. If you have a story you’d like to put in the newsletter or anything
for Adrian to add, email [email protected]
Get your newsletter
online at: www.akisqnuk.org
Support the Ktunaxa Economy!
Most Ktunaxa citizens make all their purchases outside their own com-munities because there aren’t Ktunaxa-owned businesses on their re-serve.
Money spent outside Ktunaxa communities contributes to the well-being of others and not to the Ktunaxa.
This feeds the cycle of dependency on other communities and other levels of government.
In order to build a Ktu-naxa economy it is vital to support community-based entrepreneurs and businesses.
To keep money in the community use Ktunaxa goods and services whenever you can!
guage Sector will con-duct an audit on all Ktu-naxa language resources made in the communi-ties.
We ask for a copy of any-thing that is, or has been, used to teach the Ktu-naxa Language.
We will then take all resources and have them documented and, if nec-essary, edited to ensure the information created is fact correct according to our Ktunaxa Language Team and the Elders Committee. The work will then be archived and reprinted.
The goal is protection
of our language.
Once the work has gone through proper protocol we can redistribute it to each community as a sec-ond edition print.
Then your work can be used as a resource at the Ktunaxa Nation Interpre-tive Centre and online at www.ktunaxa.org
I look forward to working with you all and reviewing some awesome hard work Ktunaxa speakers have worked so hard at creat-ing.
For more info contact Amanda Roan, (250) 417-4001 or [email protected]
Ktunaxa artwork and language resources sought The Ktunaxa Nation Interpretive center is now accepting consignment of all beadwork, quill work, carvings, birch baskets or any other tra-ditional Ktunaxa artwork.
We will either put the art on display in the cen-tre, or if artists send a photo album of your lar-ger items we will display that with your contact info here. For more info contact Amanda Roan, (250) 417-4001 or [email protected]
Language Resources sought
The KNC Traditional Knowledge and Lan-
You are asked to contrib-ute to the –akis“nuk Community Newsletter.
The newsletter is a re-flection of the happen-ings and of lives of mem-bers of the –akis“nuk First Nation -- both on reserve and off.
Any and all Band mem-bers, or even those who aren’t band members but
Please contribute to the newsletter who have news that is of interest to the community are asked to please share it.
Of course the guide-lines of good taste apply and no personal attacks will be printed.
Submissions can come in the form of an email, a fax, or even a telephone call.
Emails can be sent to [email protected], faxes sent to Adrian @ (250) 342-9693, or calls made to Adrian at (250) 342-6301, ext. 231.
Some Band members have used these pages to share their own stories and artwork. All Band members are welcome to do the same.
Mining for opportunities with Teck Coal The Ktunaxa Nation Council and Teck Coal Limited will host a re-verse trade show de-signed to introduce those doing business with Teck Coal to their procure-ment personnel and in-troduce some of Teck’s
contracting and purchas-ing processes and share information on the types of available work.
This meeting will be held in Sparwood on Wednesday, May 16 from 12 noon to 3 p.m.
For more information contact Rosemary Phil-lips, Education and Work-force Strategic Initiatives Coordinator. Phone (250) 489-2462. Email: rphillips@ktunaxa,org
