Lenny Carpenter — Wawatay News

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.

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.

Poplar Hill First Nation does not have its own high school.
Instead, students can enroll in the Keewaytinook Internet High School, which Chief Dennis King said gives youth the opportunity to complete their high school education online.
“There’s usually a large turn-out when it opens in September,” King said. “But gradually it declines in the middle of the school year.”
King, who used to be the community’s education director, said that most youth prefer to go to the city to attend high school.

Mushkegowuk Grand Chief Stan Louttit was recently the recipient of an honourary degree from Nipissing University.
On June 14, Louttit received an honorary doctorate in education from the university in North Bay. In a press release, Nipissing University said Loutit was considered due to his 25-plus years of devotion in the field of politics to improve the lives of the people in his region.

More than 110 golfers teed off at the 2nd annual Raising Awareness Golf Tournament at the Fort William Country Club in Thunder Bay on June 22.
Twenty-eight teams squared off in the tournament that was aimed at raising awareness of the prescription drug abuse plaguing First Nations communities in northern Ontario.
Tournament co-organizer Travis Boissoneau said the turnout exceeded their expectations, as last year they had 90 participants and raised $5,000.
“Overall, I think we exceeded last year, which was the main goal: to bigger and bigger each year,” he said.