Pam Chookomoolin

Peawanuck support worker trainees fundraise for Syrian Refugees

Create: 01/16/2016 - 05:22
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(from left to right) Sophia Edwards, Mary Cecile Patrick, Catherine Sutherland, Mary Ann Gull, Joanne Hunter, Felicia Danesi. Missing in the group picture is student Denise Patrick. By Pam Chookomoolin

How does a fly-in, isolated Northern Ontario community help Syrian refugees? In Peawanuck, community members decided to host a penny and bake sale.

In early December a group of students enrolled in the Canadian Red Cross Personal Support Worker (PSW) course hosted a fundraiser at the Peawanuck community hall. Each of the six students contributed to the fundraiser by donating an item for the penny sale and bringing in baked goods and selling plates of turkey.

Hunting in Peawanuck

Create: 12/25/2015 - 00:31
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Jean Hunter harvests a bull caribou that was shot during her camping trip.
Annie Wabano cutting up fish during a youth camping trip back in August.

Three sisters, Annie Wabano, Jean Hunter and Theresa Kakekaspan, loaded their boat and set off from Peawanuck, ON, along the Winisk River for a weekend of camping, fishing, and hunting at Shamattawa Lake, located roughly 100 kilometres south of Peawanuck. All three were raised in the Shamattawa Lake area and Theresa Kakekaspan and Annie Wabano were both born there. Theresa Kakekaspan now lives in Matheson, ON and came to Peawanuck for a visit before heading out on the Labour Day weekend to see the place she was born and raised. It has been years since she’s seen the place of her birth.

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