Lenny Carpenter — Wawatay News

Barbara Nolan of Garden River First Nation said the community’s experiencing ‘LA fever’ these days.
“Everybody’s got ‘LA, LA’ on their Facebook,” Nolan said. “It’s just the big fever in Garden River.”
With the Los Angeles Kings leading 3-0 against the New Jersey Devils in the NHL Stanley Cup Final, there are a lot of reasons for the community to be experiencing LA fever. Garden River’s Jordan Nolan is part of the Kings team that has dominated these playoffs, utilizing his speed, size and physical play on the team’s fourth line.

Nadya Kwandibens of Northwest Angle #37 First Nation has been on the road since January.
“Whenever I think about my apartment, I think about my bed,” she said on May 31 during her weeklong stay in Thunder Bay. “I just can’t wait to relax.”
The 34-year-old was in the midst of a cross-country tour where she stopped in eight cities beginning in Vancouver and ending in Montreal to do photo shoots.
The sole owner and operator of Red Works Studio, Kwandibens goes on a photography tour twice a year: across Canada in the spring and in various U.S. cities in the fall.

The Town of Moosonee has received funding to install the public docks on the Moose River front, weeks after residents have raised health and safety concerns.
Wakenagun Community Futures Development Corporation said it will provide $5,000 to install and maintain the docks for the summer of 2012.
Prior to the announcement, Moosonee mayor Victor Mitchell remained adamant that more boat taxi drivers on the Moose River front needed to pay a $400 docking fee in order for the town to install public docks.

Matthew Poulin of Bearskin Lake First Nation was in disbelief when an Aboriginal organization told him he had an opportunity to meet royalty.
Poulin, who grew up in Sioux Lookout, was looking for volunteer opportunities from Miziwe Biik, a Toronto-based organization that provides training and employment opportunities for Native people, after completing his first year of a computer studies program at George Brown College. Weeks later, they called him back.

Aboriginal filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin believes there is one basic rule for all works of art.
“For me, the rule is called love,” the 79-year-old told a group of artists of various disciplines on May 9. “I think what drives us is the love we have, of the land, of the people, of the traditions, the way people speak. It brings people home.”
The Abenaki documentary filmmaker believes that artists are the voice of the country.