but please also take time to be charitable to others!

Mistassiniy School has been a beehive of Christmas ac-tivities during which Blair Stad and Serenity Cardinal tooktime to create a gingerbread house that even included aigloo doghouse in front.More photos and articleabout Mistassiniy activities

inside this issue.

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Bigtone Fire Departmentpartnered with WabascaHome Hardware on De-cember 11 to host Santaand community membersfor a toy drive which alsofeatured a hot dog roastand hot chocolate. Manyresidents dropped by,bringing donations of giftswhich will find their way toplaces under the Christ-mas trees of many localchildren.

All Front PageChristmas Photostaken by Santa’sLittlest Elf

Denis Carnochan

Johnny Houle is ready for the Wabasca Lighting Contestwith many decorations at his residence, including thismulti-lighted gingerbread cabin. Contest details on Page4 and other photos in this issue.

Rush is on to preparefor the holidays,

but please also take timeto be charitable to others!

Mystery continues ...What has happenedto Gloria Gladue?

RCMP investigate every lead offeredDetails inside this issue

Two WabascaBantams pickedfor Arctic Games

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Two Wabasca players on Winter Games hockey squad Mathew Rathbone andColton Shaw will be goingto the Arctic Winter Gamesas forwards on the Team Al-berta North bantam hockeysquad. Hockey Alberta andTeam Alberta North an-nounced the squad’s rosterTuesday morning, also list-ing three Slave Lake play-ers. The selection camps forthe hockey team were heldDecember 11 to 13 in HighPrairie and had attracted 71forwards, 30 defencemen

and 19 goalies. "We saw some very tal-ented individuals at thisyear's selection camp," saidBlake Cosgrove, RegionalCentre Northwest Consult-ant for Hockey Alberta. "Se-lecting just 17 athletes wasquite difficult, but we're ex-cited with the group thatwe'll be sending to the Arc-tic Winter Games inMarch." The selection camp forthe girls’ squad will be heldJanuary 8 to 10 in SlaveLake.

According to Team Al-berta North, “Teams partic-ipate in a round-robintournament to determineseeding for medal-roundpairings. One gold ulu isawarded in each age/sexclass. Teams that regularlyparticipate in ice hockey in-clude Alaska, Yukon, Al-berta North, NorthwestTerritories and Nunavut.” The Games are said tobe the world’s largest multi-sport and cultural event forcommunities located northof the 55th Parallel.

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Amendments to the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act will assure farming families of their ability to pass on traditions to their kids: the next generation of producers. That’s how this province was built.

The new legislation will not affect:

• purely family-owned and operated farm and ranch operations, even if family members are paid,

• families’ ability to teach their children about farming and farming traditions,

• kids’ participation in 4-H programs, or

• neighbours who volunteer to help each other out.

The new Act will reflect legislation in other provinces that:

• protects the safety of waged workers and helps prevent workplace accidents, and

• compensates waged workers, or those workers’ families, in case of disabling injury or death on the job.

Family farms continue to flourish in all other provinces with similar legislation. Ours will too.

Learn more at work.alberta.ca

The Government of Alberta has amended Bill 6 to respond to farm families’ concerns.

Farm and ranch families spoke.

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Northland School Division has announced the appoint-ment of Darrell Anderson as Community Education Coor-dinator for Wabasca-Desmarais. Anderson, born and raised in Wabasca-Desmarais anda former Mistassiniy School student, is the president/CEOof Osaw Maskwa Consulting, a company that assists inbridging the gap between First Nations and industry rela-tions. He is also involved in aboriginal educational aware-ness, writing social studies textbooks with more aboriginalinfusion and indigenous perspective. The new coordinator has been a Cree instructor at OskiPasikoniwew Kamik – Bigstone Community School, and

involved in managingcurriculum resources forBigstone Cree Nation.

Anderson has alsoserved as Education Di-rector for Treaty FirstNations of Alberta andalso is a former bandcouncillor for BigstoneCree Nation.

“I will be workingclosely with administrators, the school staff, the parents,community members and most importantly the students,”said Anderson. “We want to create a positive school environment sostudents have something to look forward to each and everyday. I want to assist in creating an education experience thatwill be second to none.”

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Gladue was last seen inDesmarais October 9 andhad indicated she would behitchhiking to Edmonton.

Last week, RCMP re-ported they had received re-ports that Gladue may haveattended a wedding dance atWabasca Community HallSaturday, October 10.The police are appealing

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plex roles of water andwastewater treatment plantoperators, water distributionsystem operators and waste-water collection system op-erators,” states a releasefrom the college. “In partnership withATAP Infrastructure Man-agement Ltd. we are devel-oping the water wastewatertraining program to addresscritical demand for trainingin Alberta,” said Ann Ever-att, CEO and President ofNorthern Lakes College,adding that the program willbe “providing practical jobreadiness training.” The program will be de-livered LIVE Online whichwill allow students to accessthe program from their

home community and stillcontinue working. Studentswill also have an opportu-nity to tour a treatmentplant, conduct water testsand assist with day to dayactivities, putting into actiontheir in-class learning.Completion of the programwill provide students withthe necessary knowledge towrite the province’s certifi-cation exam. ATAP (Advanced Tech-nology Applications) Infra-structure Management Ltd.is an affiliate of AssociatedEngineering Group of Com-panies. ATAP’s Grant Dixon,Operations and Manage-ment Specialist said at theannouncement of the pro-gram, “Working in this in-dustry can provide a veryrewarding career for bothmen and women startingtheir careers, re-entering theworkforce or considering achange in careers.”Industry demand highfor skilled workers According to the Gov-ernment of Alberta, there isexpectation for a high num-ber of positions comingavailable, in an industrywhere demand is alreadyhigh as members of thebaby boom generation retireover the next few years. Inthe past two years, over40% of employers have re-cruited to this position, withalmost 30% indicating diffi-culties in hiring. A govern-ment website reports thatthe average wage for thoseemployed in water andwastewater is $29.11 anhour. The College will be of-fering the program nextSeptember, with registrationopening August, 2016.


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age higher daily attendance. Principal Debra Empsonhas noted that retention inthe school has been steadilyimproving, meaning fewerstudents are dropping outduring the academic year.New teacher The school also has hadone new teacher join itsstaff, bringing a welcomedreduction in the size of someclasses.


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