A Voice from the Eastern Door
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It's that time of the season – Back to School!!! With the smiles on these student's face – they look as excited as their parents! All local schools are back in session – the Akwesasne Freedom School, the Saint Regis Mohawk School, Salmon River Central, Massena Central, and all Ahkwesahsne Mohawk Board of Education; Tsi Snaihne, Akwesasne Mohawk School and Kana:takon. We 'schooled' sixty-one photos of Akwesasne's bright and promising youth. If you can't find your child in this story, just send...
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DRUMS Consolation 599 pts Eagle Flight Consolation 621 pts Old Style 4 624 pts Moose Town 3 632 pts Young Tribe 2 648 pts Snake Island 1 661 pts Under the Pines GOLDEN AGE 60+ WOMENS COMBINED 4 Oneida London, ON Donna Phillips 3 Ojibwe Wikwemikong, ON Viola Recollet 2 Onondaga Ohsweken Charlene Bomberry 1 Dakota Alderville First Nation Pat Smoke GOLDEN AGE 60+ MENS COMBINED 4 Mohawk Akwesasne Darrell Thompson 3 Mohawk Tecumseh Robert Isaacs 2 Ojibwe Walpole Island Mike Dashner 1 Ojibwe Alderville First Nation Bruce Smoke SENIOR MENS 40+ SMOKE...
By NCPR News The Adirondack Regional Blood Center and Stewart’s Shops are teaming up this month for “Give a Pint, Get a Pint.” Donors who give blood at participating locations in Clinton, Essex, Franklin and St. Lawrence counties will receive a certificate for a free pint of Stewart’s pre-packaged ice cream or gelato. Demand for blood donations is accelerating here in the North Country and across the U.S. One donated pint can save up to three lives. The Blood Center is sponsoring multiple drives throughout the region: - 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. We...
MASSENA – Air Products is proud to announce the first recipients of the inaugural Air Products Greater Massena Scholarship. Six students from St. Lawrence and Franklin counties were recognized for their academic achievements and future aspirations at a celebratory dinner in Massena, hosted by Air Products and the Northern New York Community Foundation. The scholarship fund, established through a $25,000 grant from the Air Products Foundation and administered by the Northern New York Community Fo...
The first ever Akwesasne Powwow that was held in Cornwall is considered a success by all accounts. And that's saying a lot – between Saturday's steady rain and Sunday's blustery winds, organizers moved the drummers and dancers inside the Ed Lumley Arena. Food vendors, craft and art vendors stayed outside and in front of Lamoureux Park's Lions Bandshell. Despite the not so accommodating weather – vendors greeted friends, relatives and visitors who poured in steadily despite the weather. Ins...
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On Sept. 18, 2024, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) will apologize for its role and the role of the medical profession in the harms caused to Indigenous Peoples in the health system, both through action and inaction. According to CMA, “By offering this apology, we hope to build trust with and support Indigenous Peoples, communities and organizations and inspire medical learners, physicians and medical organizations to undertake their own reconciliation journey, professionally, and personally as Canadians.” Their apology will be del...
By Zahra Ahmad. Earthjustice. Washington, D.C. — Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took steps to limit the damage from a Trump-era Clean Air Act giveaway, which had allowed nearly half the nation’s hazardous air pollution sources, some 4,000 individual polluters, to shut down their pollution control systems, stop reporting their toxic emissions, and escape critical permitting requirements. In today’s final rule, EPA says that chemical plants, refineries, and other mega-polluters that account for significant portions of the most...
THUNDER BAY – Mass forgeries of Indigenous artist Norval Morrisseau's paintings have caused irreparable harm to the trailblazer's legacy and to 'First Nations art writ large,' an Ontario judge acknowledged in sentencing one of the ringleaders of a sprawling fraud scheme. David Voss was handed a five-year prison sentence in a Thunder Bay, Ont., court for his role in producing and distributing thousands of Morrisseau fakes from 1996 to the mid-2010s. He had pleaded guilty in June to one count o...
An individual in Ontario is currently hospitalized after contracting rabies from a bat in the province. Public health officials are urgently advising the public to be aware of the risk of rabies. If left untreated, rabies in humans is almost always fatal. If you’re exposed to rabies, you must seek treatment immediately. What is rabies? Rabies is caused by a virus found in the saliva of infected mammals. Rabies can infect any mammal, including humans, pets, wildlife and livestock. Birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish do not get rabies. Rabies i...
Les Amis de la réserve nationale de faune du Lac-Saint-François launched their brand new website this week: amisrnflacstfrancois.com/en. This redesigned, more dynamic and intuitive platform includes all the information in one place. Packed with practical information on the Lac-Saint-François National Wildlife Area, this platform allows you to: Book your excursions online; Check our activity calendar; Plan your visit (important info and FAQs); Shop in our online store; And much more The website is available in French and English, as well as in...
The Program Committee of the Ogdensburg Public Library is pleased to announce a presentation featuring Eileen Visser to be held on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at 6 pm in the library’s auditorium. Eileen Vissor will share her Northwest Passage adventure; an expedition she completed in the summer of 2023, as part of a team of canoeists. She will talk about the preparations, adventures, discoveries, and beauty of the Northwest Passage. She will share the science of melting ice and its effect on the environment. Eileen is a Biology professor at S...
As of September 5, convenience stores across Ontario will be allowed to sell beer, cider, wine and premixed alcoholic drinks from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week. More than 4,000 convenience stores in Ontario have been granted a license to sell booze. There has been plenty of handwringing about making alcohol more available than it already is in the province. But alcohol is already widely available in much of the country. Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador allow convenience stores to sell alcoholic beverages. In New Brunswick you can g...
EU’s Climate Change Monitor says according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the summer of 2024 was the planet’s warmest on record for the Northern Hemisphere. The extreme heat of this year’s boreal summer – June to August – means it is more likely that the average global temperature for the entire year will be hotter than that of 2023. “During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record. This string o...
She:kon Akwesasne, Cornwall and surrounding areas, The Akwesasne Powwow Committee is humbled by the number of spectators who joined us this past weekend. Lamoureux Park, in the City of Cornwall, brought together powwow family and our family is now bigger with new friendships that were made. We were graced with 322 adult dancers, 45 Tiny Tots, 6 competing drums plus our host drum, Charging Horse. Mother Nature threw us a variety of weather, but people still came and supported our event....
By Miles Morrisseau. ICT. The Toronto International Film Festival 2024 opened with an unprecedented 15 Indigenous films in the line-up, including the eagerly anticipated "Rez Ball" based on the true story of a Navajo boys basketball team and the thrillers "Seeds" and "The Beguiling." The festival, celebrating its 49th year, has become one of the top film festivals in the world and a launching pad for big studio projects, Oscar contenders, independent darlings and everything in-between. The 11-da...
The Upper Canada District School Board is excited to share that for a third consecutive year, students are graduating from UCDSB schools at a higher rate than ever before. The Ministry of Education recently released the 2023-24 graduation rates, with the UCDSB seeing 86.1 per cent for the four-year rate and 89.2 per cent for the five-year rate. These numbers are calculated based on the number of students who began Grade 9 in the 2019-2020 academic year and graduated within four years, and the cohort that started Grade 9 in the 2018-2019...
ALEXANDRIA, VA – After your lawn gets its last cut before winter, it will be time to put away spring and summer outdoor power equipment, like lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and trimmers. It’s also important to ready snow throwers, generators and other small engine equipment for winter use. How and when you prepare your equipment for seasonal changes can save you time and money later, says the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI). “Readying your equipment for winter needs is important as the weather changes,” says Kris Kiser, President and CEO...
