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Covid cases up Lamont County moved to “enhanced” as status upgrades, until new restrictions

BY JANA SEMENIUK COVID restrictions for Lamont County had been upgraded from an open status on the Alberta.ca website on Nov. 30 to enhanced measures as of Dec. 7 as case numbers jumped from seven last week to 17 this week.

While mandatory masks for indoor workplaces were still not required in Lamont County until Dec. 8, changes indicate that places of worship must now adhere to an occupancy rate of only 15 percent that of the fire code with mandatory masking. In addition, there will now be restricted access to some businesses.

Old Country Sausage in Bruderheim, for example, was already requesting customers to wear a mask and sanitize their hands upon entering their store with a maximum of two people inside.

“We added that we wanted to make sure people are sanitizing their hands and properly using their masks. We try to follow the guidelines to the best of our abilities,” said owner Andrea Hinken. “We are constantly checking the Alberta Health services website to make sure we are doing the right thing.” Codes changed drastically Dec. 8 and 13th however.

Although some municipalities did not have mandatory masking, Chief Administrative Officer Patty Podoborozny indicated residents were taking it upon themselves.

“We do require masks to be worn in town facilities, but we currently do not have a town mask bylaw,” she said last week. That of course changed Dec. 8.

Restaurants and bars can remain open if they follow public health guidelines with take-out, delivery and drive-thru only - ordered by the province immediately.

Enforcement measures for violating a public health order include fines of $1,000, in addition to the risk of being prosecuted for up to $100,000 for a first offence. The province has also listed guidelines on their website for submitting a complaint to an Alberta Health Services public health inspector.

Lamont County’s numbers are still reasonably low. By comparison, Lamont County with a population of 7,881, has 17 confirmed cases of COVID as of Dec. 7. while neighbouring Smoky Lake County, with a population of 8,421, has 92 cases of COVID as of Dec. 7.

New Province-wide Covid restrictions Announced Dec. 8, Premier Kenney placed new bans including all outdoor social gatherings, with masks manditory in all public spaces.

Also capacity in businesses and churches were lowered to 15% of fire code restrictions.

Multiple businesses are to be closed including; bingos, casinos, libraries,

museums, skating rinks, fitness, hair stylists and more. Restaurants are now limited to take-out.

Business workers are to work from home unless they have to be present at the office with masks.

Christmas is to be gatherings of households only. People who live alone may have two contacts.

Also there is new financial aid.

Hospitalizations in AB are up 471% since Nov. 1, and ICU up 400%.

1 dead after vehicle found in ditch near Chipman

BY JOHN MATHER A suspicious vehicle complaint called in to Fort Saskatchewan RCMP early Dec. 5 led to the discovery of a vehicle in a ditch near Chipman.

When police arrived at the scene on Range Road 182 they found a 33-yearold male dead at the scene.

A 29-year-old female was taken by ambulance to hospital in critical condition.

Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances regarding this incident and the cause of death.

No further information was available at press time.

PETS GET INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRT TOO Andrew resident 11-year old Alyssa Calfat found a perfect backdrop at the Andrew Arena for a Christmas picture showcasing her seven-year-old mixed breed dog Bella. Her parents operate a raw dog food business out of the Andrew area. Story on Page 2. Photo: Alyssa Calfat

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Andrew operator thrives selling raw dog food during pandemic

BY JANA SEMENIUK While some small businesses have experienced downsizing as a result of COVID restrictions, others are flourishing.

Jodie Calfat, who owns and operates Courtlyn Custom Dog Food near Andrew with her husband Matthew, said that although some things are different, she has noticed an overall increase in demand for raw dog food during COVID. “We haven’t taken on new individual customers for two and a half years. But we did take on two more distributors during the lockdowns because of the increase in demand,” she said. “We have 13 total distributors across Alberta, BC and Saskatchewan. We just can’t take on any more.”

Calfat explained that not all of her distributors made it through the lockdowns.

“We lost one distribu-

tor who shut down her business because of COVID, but all others are going strong. We noticed a definite uptick in demand of the dog food,” she said.

Calfat and her husband began their home business after moving to an acreage near Andrew in 2007. There, they acquired two Boxers who weighed 60 and 110 lbs and were accustomed to eating raw food.

“These dogs would eat seven pounds of food a day in total,” she said. “It was what the breeder was feeding them and I didn’t want to change. I was buying the commercially made food but we also had farmers nearby that would always offer up their scraps from butchering their cows and would ask if we wanted them for our dogs” Calfat and her husband learned all they could about the raw food.

“I learned online and through our breeder. My husband loves to research so he learned a lot too,” she said.

Then one of Calfat’s neighbours offered up a gift she couldn’t refuse; a whole cow.

“One of my neighbours had a cow that broke her leg and had to be slaughtered,” she said. “He asked if we wanted it and we said definitely!”

Once Calfat saw the cow dumped on her driveway, she immediately contacted her breeder.

“The breeder was a farm girl and knew how to butcher a cow,” she said. “It wasn’t going to be pretty, but at least we would have a ton of food for the dogs.”

Once the cow was butchered, Calfat’s mind was made up.

“That was the day Courtlyn Custom Dog Food was born,” she said.

Today, Calfat’s business employs five full time staff members and offers up 14 different kinds of raw dog food from beef and bison to kangaroo.

“We pride ourselves on being Canadian, but the kangaroo is the only thing that isn’t,” she said. “We have it shipped from Australia.”

Calfat’s husband Matthew also quit his job to work full time with his wife at their home custom dog food manufacturing plant.

“I feel lucky and blessed,” she said.

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Opinion What are the side effects of the Covid vaccine?

BY JOHN MATHER With all the excitement raging about being first to get the new Covid-19 vaccine when it is brought online, I’ll be content to wait at the end of the line for a while.

According to a paper produced by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia entitled the History of Vaccines, its opening statement should get your attention.

“Vaccine development is a long, complex process, often lasting 10-15 years and involving a combination of public and private involvement.”

So suddenly we have several working variations of a vaccine to combat Covid developed in less than a year? I know people want to risk all, to be safe and by ensuring their own safety they hope to ensure the safety of others they may be around by preventing the spread of the virus.

I get all that. But for many, many years the world was content to use asbestos until suddenly its harmful effects were discovered.

Cigarette smoking was deemed as fashionable until people started getting cancer. And who can forget the miracle drug Thalidomide.

When a new car comes out it has to be rigorously tested before it goes on the market, the same with safety equipment… and the same with life saving vaccines.

Where is the testing for this little bottle of safety juice from Pfizer or the other manufacturers?

With the short term turnaround to its development, how can we possibly know about any long term side effects?

Now I understand this is not your regular vaccine, but rather an mRNA (messenger RNA) vaccine, a new type of vaccine that transfers molecules of synthetic RNA into human cells. Once inside the cells, the RNA functions as mRNA, reprogramming the cells to make the foreign protein that would normally be produced by the pathogen (e.g. a virus), or by cancer cells.

The advantages of the RNA vaccines over traditional vaccines are design, production speed, and low cost of production.

But… up until December 2020 no RNA vaccine, drug, or technology platform had ever been approved for use in humans and before 2020 the mRNA was only considered to be a theoretical or experimental candidate for use in humans.

(Wikipedia) By using this inoculation to prevent Covid are we opening up our bodies to other infections or making it immune to other viruses waiting to attack?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US offers up the following information on their website about ensuring the safety of vaccines in the United States.

Vaccine development begins in the laboratory before any tests in animals or humans are done. If laboratory tests show that a vaccine has potential, it is usually tested in animals. If a vaccine is safe in animals, and studies suggest that it will be safe in people, clinical trials with volunteers are next.

Continued

Continued Typically, there are three phases of clinical trials. Vaccines that are being developed for children are first tested in adults. FDA sets guidelines for the three phases of clinical trials to ensure the safety of the volunteers.

Phase 1 clinical trials focus on safety and include 20–100 healthy volunteers. In Phase 1, scientists begin to learn how the size of the dose may be related to side effects.

If possible at this early stage, scientists also try to learn how effective the vaccine may be.

If no serious side effects are found in Phase 1, next is Phase 2, which involves several hundred volunteers. This phase includes studies that may provide additional information on common short-term side effects and how the size of the dose relates to immune response.

In Phase 3 studies, hundreds or thousands of volunteers participate. Vaccinated people are compared with people who have received a placebo or another vaccine so researchers can learn more about the test vaccine’s safety and effectiveness and identify common side effects.

Phase 3 trials of Pfizer’s Covid

19 vaccine conclude in 2023. (wikipedia) Clinical trials are conducted according to plans that FDA reviews to ensure the highest scientific and ethical standards. The results of the clinical trials are a part of FDA’s evaluation to assess the safety and effectiveness of each vaccine. In addition to evaluating the results of the clinical trials, FDA scientists and medical professionals carefully evaluate a wide range of information including results of studies on the vaccine’s physical, chemical, and biological properties, as well as how it is manufactured, to ensure that it can be made consistently safe, pure, and potent.

The trials and all other data must show that the vaccine’s benefits outweigh the potential risks (side effects) for people who will be recommended to receive the vaccine. Only if a vaccine’s benefits are found to outweigh its potential risks does the FDA grant a license for the vaccine, allowing it to be used by the public.

So from this should we ask if the roll out of the vaccine set to begin in Britain right away is a phase of clinical testing?

Are the governments now using their ill, senior population as human test subjects.

Maybe we should, as a population, sit back and watch as all our elected officials and medical experts step up, roll up their sleeves and take one for the team, before they inflict an unproven vaccine on the general population.

In a new vehicle the manufacturers issue recalls to fix the problem after it was discovered to be common in a large number of vehicles. With a vaccine it's hard to issue a recall after you’re dead.

I’m not an expert and can only go by what I undertake to read. I’d love to see this vaccine work brilliantly and let the world get back to its regular ways. It would be one heck of a Christmas present for mankind.

But, no, I’ll wait for a while before I get this hastily developed vaccine. In the meantime, since I’m in one of the high risk groups, I’ll continue to wear a mask, wash my hands, keep to myself or within my cohort and practice common sense to remain safe.

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FROM WHERE I SIT: Not Happening

BY HAZEL ANAKA Which camp do you fall into this Christmas?

In one camp there are the eager beavers who bought a live tree extra early because of a national shortage. The fiends who are literally attempting to replicate the outside decorations from the 1989 National Lampoon’s Christmas movie complete with RV and loser relative in the front yard. The families who, on a normal year, love Christmas beyond measure but this year are over-achieving because of the pandemic’s effect on life and mental states.

The families with means who will spend more than ever on gifts this year because they saved on gas, vacations,

wardrobes, entertainment, restaurant meals thanks to lockdowns and restrictions.

In the other camp are those, like me, who can’t get into the mood at all.

There are several reasons. For the past couple of years, we’ve travelled to Colorado to see our son and his family. Part of the fun of that was not having to do “anything Christmas” at home. No tree, no decorating, no cooking. That trip is not an option this year. We are saddened but resigned to the idea that following the rules and staying safe trump a few days of normalcy.

Hitting the stores to shop for gifts was always a treat though it’s become harder each year to find the unique, the desired, the perfect thing.

I haven’t embraced the online shopping craze so shopping at all has become damn near impossible. I am repulsed by the greed of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.

For a guy who’s added billions to his pocket because of the pandemic, I see little evidence of a

good corporate citizen or philanthropic causes. In the early days of the pandemic, he was criticized heavily for his treatment of the very workers who are making him richer by the hour. When is enough enough?

I’ve also had to admit to myself that I’ve tried hardest during those years when we were hosting a family Christmas or a party for friends. I paid attention to decorating the whole house, a beautiful tree, a special menu. Was it all for show or was it being a good hostess? Without any social or family gatherings, why bother? Yet, I feel conflicted about becoming one of those people who sees every holiday as just another day.

As a single person, Hilary can name two people to her bubble. So far, I think Roy and I are slight favourites over her best friends Danny and Rob. Assuming she picks us, she and her Frenchie puppy Gertie will no doubt come out here for Christmas. Puppy-proofing a house is no small

Webbs Movember team exceeds expectations For an initial event, a friendly competition between co-workers at Webbs Machinery to see who could grow the furriest face turned out to be a good fundraiser for the Movember movement.

“What started as a friendly between myself and David Fluker as to who could grow the bigger and better moustache for the month of November, we decided to do it properly and extend the bet to who could raise the most money for Movember Canada,” said Dave Wilchak.

Movember Canada is the leading charity focusing on men’s mental health, suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

Wilchak said the bet quickly swept through the office in late October and others decided to join in the fun and Team Webbs was created.

“There were a lot of laughs spread throughout the office, mainly at our expense, with some of the nicknames that

our ’staches were assigned including Higgins, Cheech and Chong, and Tom Selleck,” he said.

By November 30, Team Webbs collected a total of $3,330.

Individual totals were: Dave Wilchak, $1,150; DaveFluker, $1,000; Peter Polischuk, $350; Quinton Wilchak, $390; and Miles Mackow, $290.

“We could not have done it without donations from our local community and outlying areas including Athabasca, Dewberry, Strathmore, Lethbridge,” Wilchak explained.

“We look forward to doing this again next year, and of course, side bets are always welcome!”

task so setting up a tree seems especially foolhardy this year. No doubt, we’ll decide on a simple menu of favourites. Playing board games seems unlikely because Roy is a partypooper and Hilary is on constant high alert with Gertie.

Watching a Christmas movie is a possibility, I guess. So far this year I haven’t been able to stomach the saccharine sweetness of the predictable Christmas movie themes of newfound love, redemption, families reunited.

Apparently, others are binge-watching any and every Christmas movie

out there remembering or hoping for something magical.

If Christmas gatherings are allowed and that seems highly unlikely, there will be people missing. Many families, including ours have suffered the death of a loved one this year. This Covid aberration will make the first Christmas both harder and easier in the grief process.

Staying apart means young couples will have the chance, perhaps for the first time ever, to create their own family traditions. The usual pull to be in two or more places at the same time to keep

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both sides of the family happy is gone. The need to travel in sometimes dangerous conditions is gone. Young brides get to roast their first turkey all by themselves. Or order Chinese takeout if that turns their crank because finally now they can set the rules and the traditions. Families get to stay in pyjamas for three or four straight days if they wish.

I don’t know if or when my Christmas spirit will kick in this year. I do know beating myself up about it is not happening, from where I sit.

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Second holiday season for Kowal using Limo to help Food Bank

BY JOHN MATHER Mundare councillor and businessman Jason Kowal is using his limousine to help gather food for needy families this holiday season.

“We just kicked it off a few days ago,” said Kowal. “It’s been a weird year and a lot of regular events have been cancelled.

“We’re just hoping through the use of the paper and social media we can get the word out and hopefully people are able to spare some food for those less fortunate.”

This marks the second year Kowal has held his ‘Stuff a Limo for the Food Bank” event, which benefits both the Lamont Food Bank and the Vegreville Food Bank.

“In Mundare we’re sort of right in the middle between Lamont and Vegreville, so that’s why I try to get support for both of the food banks.

Every little bit helps.”

Last year Kowal had

lots of support in filling the limo but this year, because of the pandemic and the various rules surrounding social gatherings, it is much harder to seek out donations.

“The schools can’t have their foodbank drives because of the restrictions and many people will just put food out by their front doors for me to pick up like curbside service,” he said. “There is very limited personal contact this year.”

“I’ve done a mail out through our post office and we had a daycare drop some food off at our Mundare office to put in the limo,” he added. “Just the other day, some neighbours of mine came by with a shopping cart and we put their donations in.”

“I’ll do the pick ups like last year if people have a remote location where several people have been dropping off food,” he stated. “But if

they want to bring donations to the office and leave them outside we’ll pick them up.”

Last year he offered rides in the limo while seeking donations and also travelled to parades and on carolling expeditions, “but those aren’t happening this year” so he hopes they may get some other forms of exposure.

“We know some businesses and people are doing better than others, but we hope those that can donate will, even if it’s just a couple of cans of soup, and maybe we can raise more this year through smaller donations from more people than we did last year.”

Kowal will be keeping the limo doors open for donations until the end of December. If anyone wants to donate they can contact Kowal at 780818-6010 or email him at jjkowal@telus.net

Man charged with break-ins including Andrew Hotel

BY JOHN MATHER A 12-month investigation into nine different robberies and break and enters throughout northeastern Alberta, including one at the Andrew Hotel, have resulted in additional charges against a man already in custody at the Fort Saskatchewan Correctional Facility.

Mitchell Curtis Bitzer, 35, from Athabasca County, is charged with 56 counts including one robbery with a firearm, three assaults with a weapon, four robberies with a weapon, multiple counts of possession of firearms and other weapons as well as several break and enters,

theft and breach charges.

The felonies occurred between December 30, 2019 and Jan. 30, 2020.

These charges stem from a spree of robberies and break and enters committed in the towns of Devon, Ashmont, Alberta Beach, Andrew, Thorhild, Blue Ridge and Fort Assiniboine. In Andrew it was a break in at the Andrew Hotel that occurred Jan. 14, 2020.

In several of these robberies the victims were working alone at rural stores or hotels and were bear sprayed by the suspect during the robberies.

The local RCMP detachments utilized the RCMP General Invest-

igation Section (GIS) to coordinate the complex investigation into all the occurrences, and as a result linked the suspect responsible. The investigation entailed search warrants, production orders, forensics and statements from over a dozen victims and witnesses.

Bitzer was already in custody on other matters when he was charged.

He remains in custody and this matter has been set over to Dec. 17, 2020 in Fort Saskatchewan Provincial Court to speak to bail. No other suspects are being sought in relation to the above incidents.

Santa Claus gives a thumbs up after seeing the bags and boxes of food items donated to Jason Kowal’s Stuff a Limo for the Food Bank project. The Mundare businessman is asking people to help out the Lamont and Vegreville Food Banks throughout the month of December.

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Bruderheim changes how water is billed to homeowners

BY JANA SEMENIUK Bruderheim residents may soon see some changes to their water bills in January.

Part of the 2021 Fees and Charges Bylaw, brought forward during the Dec. 2 council meeting, stipulated that residents pay for actual usage of water versus a flat rate. The bylaw passed its first reading and must endure a second and third reading during the next council meeting Dec. 16.

“We’ve changed our utility fees and charges to reflect actual usage to make it fair. Currently the people who use a lot of water are being subsidized by the people who don’t,” explained Chief Administrative Officer Patty Podoborozny. “We have a flat rate right now that covers our cost as a community. So now, people who use less will pay less.”

Podoborozny went on to explain that currently residents are paying at least a flat rate for 14 cubes (cubic metres) of water each month even if they use less than that amount.

“The flat rate was established years ago,” said Podoborozny.

During the council meeting, she added what changes may look like to resident’s water bills.

“The average single home owner uses about five to seven cubes a month and will save

about $25 and a user of about 10 cubes will stay about the same,” she said. “We have some residents who are using 41 cubes a month. Those bills will go up by about $150 per month.”

Councillor Len Falardeau expressed concern that some residents will be blindsided by an unexpected large water bill.

“I think we need to find out why some residents are having such large water bills,” he said. “What if there is an issue they are not aware of and they don’t understand the ramifications?

What if there is an uproar in our community?”

P o d o b o r o z n y explained that a communication plan is in the works.

“I can assure you we have a full communication plan that includes reaching out to those high users,” said Podoborozny.

Meanwhile, during an interview on Dec. 7, Podoborozny added why the issue was being included now.

“It’s been on my radar for the past few years,” she said. “We had a lot of complaints from people who read their bills and see they are paying for 14 cubes but only use six cubes.”

Podoborozny also explained that part of the change will include meter readings which

will take place every month instead of every second month.

She hopes this will allow them to not only provide a more accurate method of charging, but also allow them to spot problems faster.

“We are in the middle of installing new meters on all of our residents’ homes,” she said. “It will enable us to take readings by computer which will also allow us to immediately see if there is a problem.”

Podoborozny said that previously, long running toilets and water line damages would hike up a residents’ water bill unbeknownst to anyone.

“Sometimes a person would have a huge water bill from being on vacation and not realizing they had a running toilet,” she said. “In the past we might only

notice a problem if a resident would notice water pooling on the road and let us know. The results for the homeowner would be devastating.”

Now, explained Podoborozny, if there is a problem it can be spotted immediately with the computer system.

“Now if high water usage is happening, we will get notified by the system and we can then contact the homeowner,” she said. “We have been switching out these meters for the past five years and have about 170 left to do from 500 homes.”

If the 2021 Fees and Charges Bylaw passes its additional second and third readings, water usage readings will be taken monthly beginning in January for all homeowners.

Linda Pritchard smells the scent of a Christmas candle while her husband Mark watches at the Andrew Christmas market, Nov. 22. The candle passed the smell test for the Vegreville residents, and was purchased. Organizers said despite Santa Claus not being there due to pandemic precautions a good crowd had come out to support the vendors.

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Elk Island Child and Youth Ranch educator contributes to National Award MOUSH JOHN Staff Reporter Michel Blades of Elk Island Child and Youth Ranch in Lamont County played her part in Kristian Basaraba’s 2020 Governor General’s History Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Basaraba of Salisbury Composite High School out of Sherwood Park brought together his love for skateboard art and combined it with a history lesson on Indigenous culture and colonialism in an effort to raise awareness about reconciliation.

Students worked with Blades and community leader and professional skateboarder Joe Buffalo to explore Indigenous history and their understanding of the effects of government policies, legislation, and practices on Indigenous cultures and peoples.

Blades, who has been a teacher the past 21 years has focused much of her career on working with vulnerable youth, Indigenous communities, and how best to bring Indigenous ways of knowing and doing into the classroom.

“I recently completed my Masters of Education and specialized in both Indigenous Education and Advancing Healthy and Socially Just Schools and Communities,” she explained. “At the Ranch all of my students are living within government care. It is Indigenous teachings, ways of knowing, doing and intergenerational pedagogy that help vulnerable youth find their identity and place within a system that often leaves them feeling lost and disconnected.”

Blades worked with Basaraba not only as a colleague within Elk Island Public Schools, but on a community project organized through his positive parenting networking group, Rad Dads.

“We brought Indigenous community, teachings, and history together within an urban social group setting to help continue the valuable conversation and awareness of society’s connection to colonialism, the land that we live on and how Treaty, the

Indian Act, and Residential Schools have forever affected the lives of Indigenous people,” Blades said.

“He approached me to consult on his application and education components for his 'Exploring Colonialism, Creativity and Reconciliation with Skateboards' project with his class at Salisbury Composite High.

“The project incorporated foundational knowledge on Treaty, Indian Act, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights for Indigenous People with relationship building and inter-generational learning with Residential School survivor, Joe Buffalo and local artist, Jonathon Cardinal, J-Cat. I gave the students the opportunity to share their existing knowledge, while exploring the above historical and active documents to increase awareness and connection to this land and its history.”

Blades, who graduated from Tofield School in 1991, said that her roots in Tofield has given her a stable and sturdy connection to where she is from and what is the history of the land.

“I spent my summers working for the Beaverhill Lake Nature Centre, and this too gave me the opportunity to learn from and share with others the lessons that the migratory and habitual birds and animals have established within this area,” Blades added. “We need to keep this understanding to allow species and people to flourish, just as we need to learn and understand from the Cree, Stoney Nakoda, Saulteaux, Metis, Dene, and Blackfoot teachings that are foundational to the very land we all live on.”

According to Blades, teaching now needs to be a lot more open to other ways of doing things.

“We teach within a colonial, institutionbased system that if you go back historically, was not designed to be inclusive nor mindful of Indigenous culture and language,” she noted.

“We are all colonized and had no choice about it, some students thrive within this way of learning and others do not. To help better the connections we can make with our parents and students and communities, we need to know and understand the harsh effects of Residential Schools that have lasted generations!”

Blades’ father, John Blades who is a Tofield resident echoed her sentiments, “Michel has been quite involved with the education about and of First Nations people and their plight in Canada. I might add that we, her parents, have learned much over this period of her involvement. I often say that I wish I could wave a magic wand and solve

the problems, but I have no idea what the solution is. It’s really a steep learning curve. Each little step, such as the project with the skateboards helps, but there is a really long way to go.”

Blades further added that she teaches her students the importance of knowing the land that they are on, no matter if it is their home or not.

“We look to the changes in the seasons, what is going on outside around us, land-base learning, Natural Law, and we are learning to grow our own food and plants,” Blades explained. “Our classroom is equipped with Tower Gardens and we are using an aquaponics system to learn about growing, patience, and

caring for the life of another, whether its a human or a plant.

“We will be submitting our own project for the History Award this year, ‘Keeping Tobacco Sacred’, a learning initia-

tive that allows our students to grow ceremonial tobacco from seed to plant and eventually dried to use for an offering to an Elder for prayers and guidance.”

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