CHIEFS ATTEND WITH MAC BUILDING COMMITTEE AT EAGLE BUILDER MEETINGS

November 1, 2022 meeting of Eagle Builders, Chiefs, MAC Building Committee and Officers (L to R) Eagle Builders project manager Werner Brouwer; Samson Cree Nation Chief Vernon Saddleback; Campaign Manager Lynn McDowell; Conference Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer Keith Richter; Building Committee Chair Ken Wiebe; Conference Executive Secretary/VP for Administration Wayne Williams; MANS Principal Michael Willing; Project Manager Llew Werner; MANS Counselor Kelly Stickle. Not pictured: Pastor Tsholo Sebetlela and Chief Randy Ermineskin.

MAC/COMMUNITY BRIDGE CAMPAIGN NEWS

With $511,000 raised during the Community Bridge Campaign launch and matching challenge, plans for the new Mamawi Atosketan Centre are moving ahead. On November 1, Chief Vernon Saddleback (Samson Cree Nation), whose office overlooks the land on which MAC will be constructed, and Chief Randy Ermineskin (Ermineskin Cree Nation), who spoke at the camp meeting launch in July 2022, joined the MAC Building Committee in a discussion of next steps with Eagle Builders.

Eagle Builders is a precast concrete builder based in Blackfalds, Alberta. Eagle is the contractor responsible for Burman University’s new library and the construction of Parkview Adventist Academy in Lacombe.

Top Brass Tour: (L to R) Samson Cree Nation Chief Vernon Saddleback; Ermineskin Cree Nation Chief Randy Ermineskin; Conference ExecutiveSecretary/VP for Administration Wayne Williams; Maskwacis Pastor TsholoSebetlela and Eagle Builders project manager Werner Brouwer gear up totour Eagle’s Blackfalds precast concrete production plant.

BY LYNN McDOWELL