Rick Garrick — Wawatay News

Murray Waboose and Team Matawa took home first place honours with a 56 at the 2013 Nishnawbe Aski Nation Embrace Life Golf Tournament.
“We had a string of birdies, two eagles and we didn’t have any bogeys,” Waboose said, noting his team included golfers from Ginoogaming and Lac La Croix First Nations.
Waboose said the conditions were difficult due to fast greens during the Aug. 20 tournament at the Clearwater Golf Club near Thunder Bay.

Radio, health, curling and film production are some of the service and business ideas developed by a group of young Aboriginal entrepreneurs during this summer’s SAYbiz program.
“I’m starting a radio station on my reserve,” said Biinjitiwaabik Zaaging Anishinaabek’s Justin Hardy. “Right now I’m just waiting for the funding to be approved and then I’ll be able to start building.”
Hardy is looking to get the radio station on the air by the end of 2014, so he can provide information about community events as well as outside news to community members.

An Aug. 22 a blockade to protect sacred areas at Keys Lake, south of Grassy Narrows, was one of the highlights of the Grassy Narrows Youth Gathering.
Three days later hundreds of Grassy Narrows supporters marched on the home of Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne to draw attention to the community’s issues, in particular the contamination of its water.

Wasaya Airways’ Tom Morris has been assigned acting president and CEO duties at Wasaya Group in addition to his ongoing leadership role at Wasaya Airways.
“My role is to get the transition ready for whoever is going to be the president/CEO of WGI in the future,” said Morris, president and CEO of Wasaya Airways for the past 12 years.
“I’m only there for the interim basis... we’re looking at about six months.”

Wunnumin’s Lazarus Angees and Evelyn Gliddy completed their first full marathons on Sept. 22 at the Thunder Bay Marathon with times of 3:50:38 and 4:23:42.
“It was great — it was challenging for the first time,” said Gliddy, who had previously run two Thunder Bay half marathons. “It was smooth. The problem was my feet; I got new shoes.”
Although Gliddy’s new shoes bothered her toenails as she was running the 42.195 kilometre (26.2 mile) distance, she wants to bring more runners from Wunnumin for next year’s Thunder Bay Marathon.