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.

The joint inquest into the seven Nishnawbe Aski Nation youth who died while attending school in Thunder Bay is an “atypical” case because of the number of deceased, said a representative in the Office of the Chief Coroner.
Cheryl Mahyr, an issues manager in the Office of the Chief Coroner and Ontario Forensic Pathology Unit, said most inquests involve one death though it is not unusual to involve more than one.
“We haven’t had an inquest with seven deceased for quite, quite some time,” she said.

Louise Thomas remembers seeing her husband painting in his studio, music playing softly in the background while he worked on multiple projects that contained strong vibrant colours.
“I would ask, ‘How do you know where to put that colour?’” Louise recalled, smiling at the memory. “And he would say, ‘Lovely, I just know.’”
The use of colour was a key feature in the works of Roy Thomas, an Anishabe artist from Long Lac. Vision Circle: The Art of Roy Thomas A Retrospective, is an exhibit that opened on June 7 at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery.

Norm Hardisty Jr. has been reelected as the chief of Moose Cree First Nation.
Hardisty barely won the election against seven other candidates, eking out a victory by four votes. Hardisty received 159 votes while the next candidate Patricia Faries received 155 votes. Harry Rickard had 131 votes while David Fletcher had 111 votes.
Earl Cheechoo was elected as the deputy chief with 249 votes, beating out incumbent Charlie Cheechoo who had 191 votes and Vern Cheechoo and George Lazarus.

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.