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FINALIST COMMUNITY
“I said I was not proud of what I had done because we still had members that were unemployed and we still had some members that were homeless,” Anderson said.
Norway House Cree Nation has about 8,700 members in total with about 6,500 of them living on reserve.
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The First Nation is also getting some recognition nationally this year. That is because Norway House Cree Nation is one of two finalists for the Cando Community of the Year Award.
The other finalist is Red Rock Indian Band, located in northwestern Ontario, about 120 kilometres east of Thunder Bay.
The winner of the top community award will be announced at the Cando Conference, scheduled for June 26-29. That event will be held in Membertou, N.S.
Two other national award recipients will also be honoured at the conference.
Norway House Cree Nation had hired one of its own members, Rob Campbell, to spearhead the development of an economic development plan.
Campbell is also the national director as well as a provincial director for Indigenous services for MNP, one of Canada’s largest full-service chartered professional accountancy and business advisory companies.
Campbell worked with Norway House Cree Nation representatives to finalize an economic development plan.
Even though the economic developed strategy is now complete, Anderson said Campbell will remain an advisor for the First Nation as it moves forward.
One project Anderson is rather pumped up about is a high-speed fibre optic infrastructure project that the First Nation has undertaken.
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