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Articles written by Danielle Oakes


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  • Learning basic babysitting safety

    Danielle Oakes|Mar 22, 2012

    On March 3rd 2012, Akwesasne Child and Family Services/ Community Support Unit held a St. Johns Babysitting Certification course at the St. Regis Recreation Center. The children learned safety awareness when caring for young children, basic CPR for infants, how to properly bathe an infant and how to create a personal babysitting kit of their own, and more. The children in attendance were very respectful to the presenters and were engaged in learning throughout the entire presentation. We are...

  • Lacrosse & Ball Hockey Tourney a success

    Danielle Oakes|Mar 22, 2012

    Akwesasne Child and Family Services/ Community Support Unit held a Free Lacrosse and Ball Hockey Tournament, on March 15 and 16, 2012 at Tsi Snaihne Recreation Center. We had a nice response to this free event and hope to see all the kids return for our upcoming events. We would like to send a huge Niawen:kowa out to a local teen who came out and shared his talents with the youth, Mr. Dalston Day. Dalston was on site to hand-out Participation Medals to each youth and encouraged a positive...

  • 2012 Akwesasne Winter Carnival Photo winners

    Danielle Oakes|Mar 1, 2012

    Niawen:kowa to all participants in this year’s 2012 Akwesasne Winter Carnival Photo Contest. We had a wonderful response to this year’s event, and we appreciate all the entries. The photos were all precious and it’s always hard to narrow them down to the top six but after all votes were in and counted the winners were determined. I would like to thank the staff of Akwesasne Child and Family Services and the staff at Kanonhkwatsheri:io that were able to come out and vote for the contest, it wa...