A Voice from the Eastern Door
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Learn how to produce your own fruit trees inexpensively, or preserve the lineage of an old apple tree growing on your property. Join Cornell Master Gardener Volunteer Don O’Shea, a long-time tree grafter with over 25 years of experience, for a half-day workshop on Saturday, April 9 from 9AM-noon at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Learning Farm, 2043 Route 68, Canton. Participants will learn about tree biology as well as the tools, techniques and materials needed to successfully graft trees. The class includes bench grafting demonstrations i...
Dr. Forson will be away from the Akwesasne Medical Clinic from Friday, March 11, 2016 to Friday, March 18, 2016. Please make sure you have sufficient medication(s) while he is away. Sorry for any inconvenience with this matter. Dr. Horn will have her regular schedule walk-in clinic the week Dr. Forson is away. Niawen...
Babysitting can be fun but it’s also a major responsibility. Would you know what to do if there was an emergency? Learn more on March 12, 2016 Where: Anowarakowa Arena Turtle Room When: 9am-4pm Ages 11-18 18 seats available! Breakfast and lunch provided Please register with Jhazmayn Jacobs at 613-575-2341 ext. 3169 Proudly sponsored by Akwesasne Child & Family Services. Certification provided by St. John’s Ambulance. This course is FREE!...
The Food Handler Certification program is an excellent opportunity to learn the safe way to prepare food. Whether you operate or work in a restaurant, take-out, catering, or just cook for your family and friends, this one-day course is designed to meet the food safety needs of all. The training covers safe food handling, foodborne illnesses, bacteria, cleaning and sanitizing methods, and food allergies. This is a 6 hour workshop with a written Exam at the end. Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Time: 8:30 am – 4:00 pm (lunch break on your own) L...
GRANT WRITING SERVICES PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED BY SAINT REGIS MOHAWK TRIBE (SRMT), 412 STATE ROUTE 37, AKWESASNE, NEW YORK, DUE MARCH 24, 2016, 3:30 P.M. (LOCAL TIME). SRMT is seeking qualified individuals and/or firms to assist the SRMT’s divisions/programs in researching, identifying potential grants and providing grant writing associated with the completion and providing to Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s Grants Development Specialist for submission to federal, state, local and private foundations. All proposal documents are obtained by con...
The PICKUP date for: Kana:takon @ the Recreation is Tuesday, MARCH 15, 2016 from 11am-4pm. Tsi Snaihne @ the Recreation is Tuesday, MARCH 15, 2016 from 1:00-5:00pm. Kawehno:ke @ the A’nowarakowa Arena is Wednesday, MARCH 16, 2016 from 11am-4pm. If you have any questions please call CARLEE OAKES in Community Health at 613-575-2341 ext. 3220....
Date: March 26 & 27, 2016 Location: Mohawk Territory of Kahnawake The 15th Annual National Aboriginal Hockey Championships will be taking place on May 1-7, 2016 in Mississauga, Ontario hosted by the First Nation. We are officially inviting all interested male and female hockey players at the double letter level and coaches to make application to Team Eastern Door and The North. For more information call Kenny Kane at the Kahnawake Sports Complex at 450-638-3311....
SATURDAY, MARCH 19TH Pie Bingo starts at 2:00p.m. (Doors open at 1:00) Cost: $5.00 single packages $8.00 for double Adult 18+ Bonnet/Cap Contest during intermission Family Trivia starts at 6:00p.m. (Doors open at 5:00) Cost is $20.00 per team-4 players per team Refreshments will be served! We will have 50/50 and a Mohawk Auction for the day Raffles will take place during trivia. SUNDAY, MARCH 20TH Easter Hunt at 2:00p.m. Registration begins & doors open at 1:00 Bonnet/Cap contest will be at 1:30 Prizes for all ages! Come and find one of four...
Photos by Rachelle Garrow Hayes...
North Franklin Shamrock BANTAM BOY’S HOCKEY will be heading to Buffalo for the STATES on March 17, 18, 19 and 20!!! A FUNDRAISER will be held @ HEART TO HEART FACILITY DATE: 3/13/2016 - SUNDAY TIME: 1 PM - 3PM 16 Players will participate in a 2 hour CROSSFIT TRAINING CLASS with INSTRUCTOR KEVIN CASTOR!! Each player will have a Pledge sheet going house to house, friends, family & businesses. PLEASE PLEDGE/DONATE! The team will also be collecting bottles the same day. Anyone wishing to donate or have your bottles picked up please call: Peggy 3...
The old saying "it's not over until it's over" rang true on February 29, at the Section 10 Division II Sectional game at Cheel Arena between St. Lawrence and Salmon River High Schools. It looked like the Shamrocks were heading to State playoffs after scoring early in the third period to go ahead 3-0. The Larries stunned by going on to score four unanswered goals to win 4-3. The Shamrocks took an early 1-0 lead just 28 seconds after the opening face-off when Tanner Tarbell won the face-off and pa...
The Salmon River Athletic Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the Athletes of the Month for the 2015 Fall Season. Each month, a coach from each varsity team selects a student athlete for his/her athletic accomplishments, attitude, leadership, sportsmanship, and team spirit to receive the award. Each winner receives a $25.00 gift certificate donated by Twin Leaf of Akwesasne and Ft. Covington, which can be used at either establishment and at Jreck's Subs. Each student also receives a Certificate...
Friday, March 11 3-5 Sticks and Pucks 5-8 Gibbs Hockey Skills 8-9 Atom Wild/Game 9-11 Coed Broomball Saturday, March 12 8 Peewee Hurricanes 9 Novice Wolves 10 Atom Wolves 11 Peewee 12:30 Atom Wild/Game 2 Novice Wild 4 Glen Walter 6 Atom Wild 7 Novice Wild Sunday, March 13 10 Atom Wild 11 12 1:30-3 R. White Party with Turtle Room 1-4 4:30-6 S. Austin 7 8-9:30 J. Ritchie Monday, March 14 8-10am Hockey Clinic 10-11 Atom/T. Ducolon 1-3 FREE Public Skating sponsored by MCA Community Health Program 3-5 Sticks and Pucks FREE sponsored by MCA...
Submitted by Tom Smart This past weekend the North Franklin Shamrocks Squirt/Atom AA '05 team completed a very successful 2015-2016 season by competing and winning the Can/Am Peewee AA division in Lake Placid. They started off the weekend by defeating Bridgewater Peewee out of Boston area 10-1. Game two the Shamrocks defeated Clifton Park Dynamo Peewee 7-2. In game 3 the Shamrocks defeated the Syracuse Blazers 5-2. In the semi final the Shamrocks played the Bridgewater Bandits again and...
After narrowly taking the Section 10 Division I championship, the Massena boys varsity hockey team’s season came to an end against Section 1 champs Mamaroneck. In the Division I title matchup, Massena bested Canton 3-2 in overtime on Feb. 29. Canton scored the opening goal just over a minute into the contest, assisted by Garrett Glasgow and Cole Moore. In the second period, Eric Miller scored 1:58 in after rebounding a shot by Zach Ward that had been blocked. Canton’s Glasgow came through with his team’s second goal 8:36 into the middle frame...
Last weekend the two Akwesasne-based teams kept up their winning ways with the Chiefs defeating Bowlmor and the Ice Pigs winning over Nez Construction. The Massena Broomball Men's league concludes this weekend and fittingly the final night of the regular season puts the Chiefs and Ice Pigs against each other. This is the third meeting of the year with the season series split 1-1 and game time is 7:00 at the Massena Arena....
Last weekend at Cornwall's Benson Center the Wolves team won the House League championship with a big win 7-1 win over Cornwall. Emma Ransom scored four in the win and added an assist. Emily Eldridge, Emily Betournay-Kuhn and Akenhiio Lazore scored one each. Miranda Richer and Riana White added assists....
Winning streaks have to end sometime. Unfortunately this one ended at the wrong time. The Stars Indoor soccer club with a core of Akwesasne players went undefeated during the 2015-16 Cornwall Indoor Soccer season going 9-0-1 with that tie being a scoreless game. Last Sunday they were in the championship game against Stradwicks Flooring and came up short 2-1 in the final. Earlier that morning they came close to forfeiting their final game because of a lack of players but thanks to some last...
As of March 7, “Clouds of Autumn,” winner of Best Canadian Short Drama at the 2015 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, can be seen on YouTube. The story, set on the Tsilhqot’in plateau in the 1970s, tell the story of a young indigenous boy named William and his older sister Shayl. Their childhoods are forever changed when Shayl is forced to attend a residential school. The film, written and directed by Trevor Mack and Matthew Taylor Blais, stars Elias Louie as William and Trinity Stump at Shayl....
The 2015-16 Minor Hockey season came to an end this week for the Akwesasne Wolves Novice and Peewee teams. The Novice were playing in a round robin format and the Peewees met Cornwall in a playoff series....
Submitted by Ben Kelly Former Salmon River Girls Basketball standout Abby Kelly and the Bowdoin College Women's Basketball team were selected for the NCAA Division III women's national basketball tournament. The tournament includes the best 64 teams in the country. In the opening round on Friday, March 4th, Bowdoin defeated a very offensive minded Westfield State University team 75 – 49. Westfield State had averaged 89 points per game during the regular season. Bowdoin held Westfield State to a...
Submitted by Cheyenne Lewis...
The Casselman Vikings completed a four game sweep on Tuesday night against the Alexandria Glens in the Central Canada Hockey League Tier 2 playoffs....
