Wawatay Online, January 24, 2008, Volume 35, No. 2

Feature stories
Marten Falls school closed
It could be early spring before Marten Falls’ elementary school is reopened to students following a long list of scheduled repairs and upgrades.
ᐊᑯᑭᐠ ᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᐧᐊᑲᓇᐠ ᑭᑭᐸᐦᐃᑲᑌᓂ ᐅᑭᑭᓄᐦᐊᒪᑎᐧᐃᑲᒥᑯᐧᐊ
ᐅᑎᐸᒋᒧ ᒉᒥᐢ ᐧᑕᑦᑲᑭᐊᓂᔑᓇᐯᐧᐃᐱᐦᐃᑫᐨ ᐱᑐᓂᔭ ᐊᐣᒋᐢ
Film shows NAPS working conditions
It was a year in the making.January 24, 2008: Volume 35 #02
Rabbit and Bear Paws
When Chad Solomon was a kid, his mom showed him how to draw a little caricature that involved a figure eight and “a little happy face, two little arms and two little legs.”
Sports
Aboriginal Team Ontario is in:
A last-second funding commitment from the province has ensured Ontario’s participation at this summer’s North American Indigenous Games (NAIG).
Community
Reconstructing history
When the Town of Sioux Lookout and Friends of Cedar Bay were looking to renovate the main cabin at Cedar Bay camp last fall, they hired a crew from Summer Beaver (Nibinamik) to get the job done.
300 discuss environment
Mushkegowuk Council is set to host the fifth annual Chiefs of Ontario (COO) Youth Symposium on the Environment.January 24, 2008: Volume 35 #02 
miscellaneous
Martin Falls School Closure
Students, staff, supporters and parents banded together to protest the learning conditions in the Henry Coaster Memorial School Jan. 11.
When words on paper used to matter
January 24, 2008: Volume 35 #02
Aboriginal population increases by 45%
Statistics Canada’s 2006 census data pertaining to Aboriginal people was released last week and offers a glimpse at the growth, diversity and housing conditions of the First Nations, Métis and I
Outdoor lessons from dad and Sesame Street
After surviving the Christmas holidays and New Year’s, I had a irresistible urge to eat some wild game: wabbit stew.
Residential school survivor donates to breakfast program
When residential school survivor Diana Blackman received her settlement money from the government, she decided to give some of it to others.
Sioux Lookout hockey tournament seeks teams
It’s hockey tournament season in Sioux Lookout and a local committee is inviting all hockey players to take part in a pond hockey tournament the weekend of Feb. 23-24.
Mushkegowuk hosting tourney in Timmins
A tribal council based on the James Bay coast will host its first minor hockey tournament in the city this March.January 24, 2008: Volume 35 #02 
Northerners need more ‘sunshine vitamin’
The Canadian Cancer Society is recommending northerners, especially First Nations people, increase their vitamin D intake due to recent studies linking certain cancers to a deficiency of the vitami
Apology for ‘appalling’ message
After one of its store managers left a racially laced message for a Grassy Narrows customer, Easy Home Ltd. described the incident as “embarrassing.”
Grandfather helps inspire comics
“We were not perfect but we had no jails, we had no taxes … no wine and no beer, no old peoples’ homes, no children’s aid society, we had no crisis centres.
Preparing for climate change
On a recent tour of Canada, Shaunna Morgan, a program manager for the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER), played a child’s game with deep meaning.
Metatawabin elected APTN chairman
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) announced a new chairman of its board of directors earlier this month.January 24, 2008: Volume 35 #02