Six Nations Police badge ceremony recognizes new constables
DONNA DURIC donna@tworowtimes.com TWO ROW TIMES
This year’s Six Nations Police Badge ceremony was a little different than previous years - police dogs Jasper and Flint became the first furry members of the force to receive official badges.
They were joined by new constables and promoted officers during last Thursday’s ceremony at the Gathering Place by the Grand.
Longtime officer Derek Anderson - who insisted on making a dad joke about the dogs having a “ruff time” during their training - was recognized as a new staff sergeant, alongside some of the force’s newest members.
The four new constables include Ryan Sault, Lucas Smith, Howard Anderson and Samuel Gowland.
All new members had to pass training at the Ontario Police College.
But they still don’t have enough officers, said Six Nations Police Commissioner Steve Williams.
There’s currently only one person training at the OPC for the Six Nations Police force, he said.
They have 43 police officers but they need more, said Williams.
Many of the applicants couldn’t pass the physical tests required of new officers, he said, including some lacrosse players.
Officers do on-the-job training with the Ontario Provincial Police before joining the force, too.
“I think it’s great that these young guys are going forward doing this,” said Williams.
Six Nations of the Grand River would like to inform community members that Bridge Rehabilitation work is is taking place on Darnley Bridge (Old Greenfield Road).
As a result, Third Line will be closed just past the western boundary of the Six Nations Territory from Monday, September 16th until Friday, December 6th.
An alternate route is available on Sour Springs Road for all incoming and outgoing tra c.
For more information, contact Lancoa Contracting inc. at: (905) 488-3331.
The four new constables include Ryan Sault, Lucas Smith, Howard Anderson and Samuel Gowland. DURIC
Almost half of Six Nations people were infected with Covid, study finds
either visit, using a finger prick blood test.
Four years after the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, wreaking havoc worldwide, a landmark Six Nations study is shedding light on the statistics, attitudes and emotional toll the pandemic took on the community.
There were 746 participants in the study prepared and conducted by Six Nations’ epidemiology team along with researchers from McMaster University.
The study found 45 percent of those who responded reported having had a positive Covid test.
573 participants lived on the reserve and 70 percent of them were women.
Study leads tested participants for Covid antibodies during two visits and found the majority did not have antibodies present at
The antibodies, the study noted, indicated whether or not the participant had been exposed to Covid-19.
During the first visit, roughly 30 percent had Covid antibodies and by the second visit, 40 percent showed Covid antibodies.
437 participants said they never had Covid but tests showed 23 percent of those 437 people had antibodies, indicating an asymptomatic infection.
Of the 155 participants who reported having a confirmed Covid test, nine of them needed hospital care.
About 14 percent of participants noted having symptoms lasting longer than four weeks.
During qualitative interviews, participants said they noticed milder symptoms after having had a Covid vaccine.
89 percent of the study participants received at
least one dose of the Covid vaccine. Eight of the participants reported having an adverse reaction to the vaccine requiring hospitalization.
Study authors said 100 percent of those who received three doses of the vaccine had antibodies to the virus.
53 percent of participants cited their belief in the science behind the vaccine as the reason they got it, with 30 percent getting the vaccine due to mandates. 17 percent got it due to influence form family and friends.
The people who chose not to get vaccinated cited fear of side effects - 38 percent - as the reason they didn’t get it. An equal 38 percent cited the belief the vaccine was rushed as their reason not to get it. 24 percent said they didn’t feel it was necessary to get the vaccine to protect them from Covid.
Applications for a contract position for Constable with the Six Nations Police are now being called for.
All applicants must fill out a standard application form available at the Six Nations Police Station.
CRITERIA for applicants are as follows:
Minimum Requirements to be considered for a career in First Nations Policing with the Six Nations Police Service, you must:
- Be 19 years of age or over and able to provide an official birth certificate or proof of age;
- Be physically and mentally able to perform the duties of the position having regard to your own safety and the safety of members of the public
- Have successfully completed at least 4 years of Secondary School education or its equivalent (official transcripts and diplomas will be required)
- Be of good moral character and habits, meaning that you are an individual other people would consider being trustworthy and having integrity, with no criminal record;
- certified by a physician to be fit for duty as a front line Six Nations Police Constable and able to pass physical tests which are required in the recruiting process
- Possess a valid driver’s license with no more than 6 accumulated demerit points, permitting you to drive an automobile in Ontario with full driving privileges
- Be able to pass a security clearance as well as background investigation, credit card and reference checks
If you have any criminal convictions under a Federal Statute you must obtain a pardon.
Special Requirements – for the Six Nations Police Service, in order to address the unique and at times urgent needs of the Six Nations of the Grand River Community and Haudenosaunee culture, additional requirements include:
- Extensive knowledge of the unique social dynamics of the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
- A sound understanding of Haudenosaunee culture, customs, traditions and social political issues of the Six Nations of the Grand River
- Six Nations of the Grand River Band Membership/Citizenship and residency is considered a preferred asset and
- Membership or extensive working experience with any Indigenous Nation will also be considered an asset
Desirable Qualifications:
• Six Nations Band member preferred
Assets:
• Previous policing related experience
• Law and security courses, etc.
Closing Date: Applications must be received by 3:00 p.m October 10, 2024
Applications in complete form are to be mailed or hand delivered to:
Six Nations Police P.O. Box 758 2112 4th Line Road
Ohsweken, Ontario N0A 1M0
Attention: Policing Administrator
For further information, please contact the Policing Administrator at 519-445-4191.
COVID-19 Restrictions will be exercised.
OPINION
‘We want the mill to shut down,’ Grassy Narrows First Nation to Ontario
By Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ricochet
After nearly 60 years of industrial poisoning, the northwest Indigenous community continues to demand justice.
When members of Asubpeeschoseewagong
Anishinabek (Grassy Narrows First Nation) and their supporters arrive at Queen’s Park this week, they’ll be calling for the Dryden pulp and paper mill that’s been poisoning their water with neurotoxins for nearly 60 years to permanently close.
“We want everybody to be compensated, we want the mill to shut down, and we don’t want no mining or logging in our territory. We just want it all to stop,” says Chrissy Isaacs, lead organizer of the caravan. Isaacs has been a staple of the annual River Run demonstrations since they began in 2010. She was a leader among Grassy Narrows youths who blockaded logging trucks from entering the nearby Whiskey Jack Forest in 2002 and is currently travelling 1,900 kilometres to Toronto from her community near
Ontario’s western border to protest the downriver effects of methylmercury poisoning.
Staff at the upstream Reed paper mill in Dryden, Ontario, about 150 kilometres east of Grassy Narrows, dumped nearly 10 metric tonnes of mercury into the English-Wabigoon River system in the 1960s and early 1970s. Mercury poisoned the plants and fish that the people of Grassy Narrows, and neighbouring Wabaseemoong Independent Nation, were consuming.
A half-century later, medical experts are finding that varying nervous and neurological health effects affect up to 90 per cent of Grassy Narrows residents.
Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation stopped to demonstrate outside of the Dryden mill before heading to Toronto for the annual River Run demonstration at Queen’s Park. There, they will call on the Ontario government to compensate the community for generations of industrial poisoning and call for the mill, now owned by First Quality Enterprises, to be shut down.
The Grassy Narrows road
blockade to prevent clearcut logging and mining from happening in their traditional territories has stood for 22 years, and in that time Isaacs’s children have had children of their own. She says the conversation has never been transformed as much as it has this year.
In May, scientific researchers released the revelation that sulphate and organic matter in the effluent that the mill is still releasing into the river is making methylmercury in the river system even worse, as opposed to diminishing over time as they were told.
“Back then, I made that commitment that I wasn't going to stop until there's justice for my community, until there's justice for my children. And, and even back then, I was already thinking about my grandchildren, you know? And then to hear this spring that they're putting another poison in our river, and that's poisoning my grandchildren, that was like a slap in my face. And it, it made me angry and it made me hurt for them.
And it just like stoked that fire again,” Isaacs said.
Still only in her 40s, Isaacs is beginning to struggle to open jars and she even sometimes finds walking to be a challenge. She points out the health effects of consuming mercury are intergenerational and cumulative, including neuromuscular effects and memory loss. All reasons it’s more pressing, she says, to respond to this environmental, health, constitutional, and human rights issue within a single generation.
“I pray – I pray – that their grandchildren don’t have to be doing this work. It’s already sad that my grandchildren are standing up too when it shouldn’t even be that way. It should have stopped,” she says. “If you think about towns or cities, if something goes wrong with their water, they get it cleaned right away, they get compensated. They get taken care of, you know? And for us, it’s over 50 years now.”
Grassy Narrows Chief Rudy Turtle was 11 years old in 1976 when scientists pulled him out of class to have his hair tested for mercury poisoning and asked him how often he ate fish. Turtle ate fish often, as
his parents were commercial fishers, working for decades in the community’s largest economic industry before mercury dumping wiped it out. It wasn’t until 2019 when Turtle and other surviving community members finally saw how high their own childhood test results were.
“It made me wonder why people weren’t alarmed,” he said. “It’s almost like it was no big deal. I’m talking about the government of Ontario or Canada. Even medical professionals to sound the alarm and say, ‘these young people – these kids – their mercury levels are just way too high.’”
Grassy Narrows Chief Rudy Turtle says governments have been lying to the community for years, saying that the mercury pollution would diminish over time. Instead the opposite has happened. When Turtle first became Chief in 2018, he declared Grassy Narrows’ 2,850-square-kilometre territory off-limits to resource development and struck a Land Protection Team to monitor the land. The Chief and his council filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in July, alleging On-
tario’s free-entry system to register mining claims fails to uphold its constitutional responsibilities to consultation and accommodation.
The First Nation also filed a lawsuit against Canada and Ontario this summer, alleging governments allowing the Dryden mill owners to pollute the river system and failing to remediate it constitute a violation of Grassy Narrows members’ treaty right to fish. That lawsuit includes the provision that the Crown cease allowing the Dryden mill to contaminate the water.
“The government has been lying to us, and even the paper mill, they keep ensuring us that whatever’s being poured into the water no longer has an impact,” Turtle says. “They were saying they monitor the plant, that safety measures are being followed and what’s going into the river is good and ‘you don’t have to worry about it’ when in fact, that wasn’t true. They were still pouring stuff that’s making the mercury worse.”
Turtle says his community wasn’t surprised to discov-
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SENIORS DAY
Community members (55+) are invited to join us for FREE lunch and entertainment!
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Six Nations Community Hall (1738 Fourth Line) 11am-2pm
Mohawk Village Memorial Park run raises
$7,000
Walpole Island Harvest Moon Pow Wow NATIONAL
For more information, please contact Leigh Thompson: sncec@sixnations.ca
Determined walkers, bikers and runners completed 43 laps around the blue track in Ohsweken Saturday to symbolize the 17 km distance it would be to run from Brantford to Six Nations for Mohawk Institute escapees.
The Run, Walk and Ride for the Park raised more than $7,000 for the construction of the Mohawk Village Memorial Park, a commemorative space in progress beside the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford.
Survivors Jon Elliott (the "chief runaway"); Sherlene Bomberry, Roberta Hill and Dawn Hill were among the Mohawk Institute attendees who organized the event, which was in honour of all who attended the institute.
Research to date shows about 100 kids died while
attending the school, which was a government-sponsored and church-run school aimed at assimilating Indigenous children into Canadian culture.
Elliott is 87 years old. He was forced to attend the Mush Hole in Brantford from age 10 to 15. He
ran away from the Mush Hole so many times, he lost count.
It's nicknamed The Mush Hole in reference to the endless bowls of bland, sticky porridge the kids were forced to eat, while the teachers and staff enjoyed the fresh
Survivors Jon Elliott (the "chief runaway"); Sherlene Bomberry, Roberta Hill and Dawn Hill were among the Mohawk Institute attendees who organized the event, which was in honour of all who attended the institute. DURIC
Park run continued
eggs and fruit from the school's farm. And sometimes even bacon. The kids didn't get that.
They got Mush. Always and forever, they got Mush.
Jon paid for it every time he tried to run away to freedom, he said, as walkers and runners recovered under tents on Saturday, enjoying the sun-drenched and positive energy that hung in the air as they reminisced about their time at the Mush Hole.
Elliott said whenever he was inevitably caught and returned to the Mush Hole, he was beaten severely by the notorious headmaster, Mr. Zimmerman, a strict disciplinarian who instilled fear in every child who attended that school, a place that should more accurately be described as a child labour camp.
Elliott said no matter how many times he ran away, he was never sent to reform school.
The authorities at the Mohawk Institute wanted
to keep him at the school.
They saw him as valuable because of the bond he had with the horse he used to plow the school's farm fields with.
The horse only understood Mohawk, the language Jon used when speaking with the workhorse during those long hours in the fields, performing what would today
equate to child labour.
The Mohawk Village Memorial Park aims to be a space where the dignity of survivors and all those who attended the Mohawk Institute will be recognized.
It will include a pavilion, fire pit, stage area, children’s play area, memorial circle, orchard and water feature/pond.
MarketFest: In Peace and Friendship
A two-day celebration of contemporary Indigenous makers and thinkers, featuring:
• An Indigenous vendor marketplace
• Public lectures
• Live music by contemporary and traditional Indigenous performers
Admission is free and all are welcome!
wlu.ca/marketfest Sept. 27 – 3 pm to 7:30 pm Sept. 28 – 10 am to 3 pm 1 Market St., Brantford, ON
Walpole Island Harvest Moon Pow Wow
The Run, Walk and Ride for the Park raised more than $7,000 for the construction of the Mohawk Village Memorial Park. DURIC
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er the mercury effects are worsening but members expressed “disappointment and anger” to hear those fears confirmed. On top of studies going back to 2015 that found mercury levels continue to rise in some lakes, he said people have been noticing water discoloration and unusual sediment along the banks. Ontario has made ‘very little progress’ cleaning up the mercury Turtle says half of the $85-million fund that Ontario allocated in 2018 to fund mercury cleanup and remediation efforts in the English-Wabigoon River system has already been spent. He says “very little progress” has been made as the panel of advisors, lawyers, and scientists are “digging in the same pot.” Similarly, progress has been slow on the 22-bed long-term care home specializing in Minamata disease and other mercury ailments that the federal government committed to build in 2017. Canada has committed $90 million to construction and ongoing operations, but Turtle says construction has stalled.
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A separate health clinic is currently being built. And while Turtle values those investments, he sees them as commitments to manage the poor health of Grassy Narrows members, rather than ensure the long-term health of the land and people. The priority, he says, needs to be on cleaning the mercury out of the river bed.
Saturday, October 5, from 10:00am - 12:00pm & Thursday, October 10, from 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Six Nations of the Grand River Development Corporation Boardroom: 2498 CHIEFSWOOD RD, OHSWEKEN
Investment Review will be recorded and available for viewing online. Visit www.snfuture.com for more information or to submit questions.
SNGRDC and Boralex Inc. invite the Six Nations Community to participate in an Investment Review of the Oxford Battery Energy Storage Project (Oxford Project), a 125 MW facility designed to efficiently store and inject energy into the grid. The project will enhance power capacity by storing energy from the grid during off-peak times and supplying it back during peak demand
Chiefs Council of 1890’s report concerns
By Jim Windle
Reading through the minutes of past Six Nations Chiefs Council meetings from before 1924, one can more clearly see the world as it was in those transitional years. One thing that today’s research brought to light was seeing how the Confederacy recognized and dealt with its own problem and those of the community.
An official letter sent to Indian Affairs in the name of the Confederacy, signed by Chief Isaac Hill advises, among other things, that any interest payments for the community not be done so at certain locations.
Although this report is from many years and generations ago, some may still feel sensitive about some of this information, so in this report we will use fictitious names.
The letter is dated Aug.
12th, 1891 and is post marked, Willow Grove.
Following the usual formalities, Chief Hill “… would like to make known to your Excellency and to consider that … when a Chief soon as he begins to look old, then he says he is too old for Council, so the Chiefs let him stop and give so much money a year for pension and put another man in his place without going through the performances or ways, in which they get their new Chief up.
And another thing the Six Nations are getting up chiefs not following after tribe and in many cases are like manner such as Chief W. W. He has the title of Cayuga Head Chief and he is not of the Cayuga tribe, but of the Onodaga and he drinks great deal of fire-water, he can not do any honest work when he has such character so the Cayuga Nation disap-
proves (him) to be as their head man or Chief.
Also, Chief M. is also wanted to be reasserted back to the real Indian Chief.”
The letter goes on to name two more Chiefs that were not worth their wage and suggested their pay be cut. These Chiefs wages were generally disbursed at the Post Office at Six Nations located at a private residence.
This too was recommended to be changed right away.
“In his (resident) charge, we tell you is not fit to have it there for there is so many intoxicated men are there always, and he don’t deliver the letters right.”
It ends with a direct request.
“Don’t have the interest money distributed at (his) residence but at the Long House.”
September 29, 2024, 2 PM.
There will be a celebratory event at H.M. Chapel Royal of the Mohawks to Commemorate the granting of a Royal Arms Shield and Badge to the Chapel by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of the 400 year ally relationship between the Crown and the Haudenosaunee. You are welcome to attend. Please call 519-445-2953 if you plan to come so we can make plans for seating.
Notice of Public Information Centre
Wayne Gretzky Parkway North Extension Environmental Assessment
The Study
The City of Brantford has initiated a Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (MCEA) study for the Wayne Gretzky Parkway North Extension. A northern extension of the Wayne Gretzky Parkway was identified in the 2020 Transportation Master Plan (TMP) to provide optimization of the transportation network as an interregional travel route accessing the provincial highways to and from the north part of the City.
The Class EA is being undertaken in accordance with the planning and design process for a Schedule “C” project as outlined in the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment document, which is approved under the Ontario Environmental Assessment Act.
Public Involvement
A Public Information Centre (PIC) is scheduled to take place on: October 2, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Walter Gretzky Municipal Golf Course and Learning Centre 320 Balmoral Drive, Brantford, ON
Presentation at 5:15 p.m. with open question-and-answer period to follow.
We want to hear from you!
The City invites First Nations, public, businesses, agencies and interested stakeholders to participate in this planning process and learn more about this study by attending this PIC. This will be the second and final PIC for this study, to provide an opportunity for attendees to share comments and concerns.
Members of the project team will be available at the PIC to present the planning process, provide an update on the technical studies, identify the technically preferred alternative in Phase 3, and discuss the proposed design concepts. For more information, please visit the Project Website at Brantford.ca/WGPExtension, or reach out to a member of the project team:
Lisa Marshall, P. Eng. Consultant Project Manager Egis
6240 Highway 7, Suite 200, Woodbridge, ON L4H 4G3 613-714-0815
Lisa.Marshall@egis-group.com
Guangli Zhang, P.Eng. City Project Manager City of Brantford 519-759 4150 Ext. 5705 WGPExtension@brantford.ca
Information collected will be used in accordance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Except for personal information, including your name, address and property location, all comments received throughout the study will become part of the public record and included in project documentation. If you have accessibility requirements in order to participate in this project, please contact one of the project team members listed above.
This notice was first issued on September 12, 2024
TV networks to host National Day for Truth and Reconciliation production
JACE KOBLUN jace@tworowtimes.com
TWO ROW TIMES
APTN, CBC/Radio-Canada, and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) are working together on this year’s production of Remembering the Children: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
The production on Sept. 30 is supported by Canadian Heritage and takes place on Parliament Hill. It will honour residential school survivors, pay tribute to the children who never made it home and deliver a safe and nurturing environment for reconciliation and healing.
“The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation serves as a reminder of the painful legacy of residential schools and calls on all Canadians to renew their commitment to understanding history and empathetic healing. This year’s broadcast and gathering on Parliament
Hill will offer us a chance to come together and listen to Survivors and Indigenous communities whose stories will lead us on the path to reconciliation,” said Minister of Canadian Heritage Honourable Pascale St-Onge.
The event will be hosted by Earl Wood and Danielle Rochette and according to an APTN release will encompass powerful reflections from survivors Jacquie Cote, Madeleine Basile, Keith Cheifmoon, Joan Dicker and Charlotte Nolin. There will be performances by First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists including Tom Jackson, Diyet & The Love Soldiers, Andrina Turenne and Jessica McMann.
“Remembering the Children is a significant commemoration that honours residential school survivors, their families and pays tribute to the children who never made it home from those institutions. This is an opportunity for all Canadians to take active part in recon-
ciliation by listening to the voices of survivors and amplifying their truths. We are forever grateful to the survivors who continue to bravely share their oral histories with us so we never forget,” said NCTR Executive Director Stephanie Scott. The 90-minute live event will be presented in English, French, and Plains Cree and will take place on Parliament Hill. It will be available live on APTN, APTN Languages, aptnnews.ca, CBC TV, CBC News Network, CBC Gem, CBC News Explore, cbcnews.ca, the CBC News app, the CBC NewsYouTube channel, ICI TÉLÉ, ICI TOU.TV, Radio-Canada. ca, and Espaces autochtones, and made available to Canadian broadcasters. APTN News will present a 30-minute pre-show live from Ottawa at 2:30 p.m. ET hosted by Dennis Ward. Ward will provide live updates from Parliament Hill, covering the event’s happenings on location. In Winnipeg,
know the score.
Six Nations Chiefs 2024 Mann Cup Champs
JIM WINDLE
jim@tworowtimes.com
TWO ROW TIMES
It was a pattern throughout the 2024 Mann Cup final series between the Victoria Shamrocks and the defending Mann Cup Champion
Six Nations Chiefs. The Shamrocks would take it to the Chiefs early building up the score and the confidence of the visitors, but then came the heartbreak of facing the real power of the Chiefs in the third period.
The Chiefs did it again
Wednesday night at the ILA finally defeating the Shamrocks 13-9 to hoist the Mann Cup on Six Nations Territory. Last years win was in the West. This year, the community of Six Nations on the Grand River Territory got to host the premier annual event matching the very best of the western lacrosse league against the best of the Eastern OLA and got to cheer on their heroes at home.
Doug Jamieson drew the assignment for the Chiefs and did what Dougie does. After a rather slow start, after Jamieson got comfortable in the Chiefs cage, he was nearly unbeatable in the third.
It was 3-2 for the Shamrocks after 20 minutes.
Patrick Dodds, Clarke Petterson and Mathieu Gautier got to Jamieson early in the opening period.
Lyle Thompson and Randy Staats brought the Chiefs into the game before the end of the frame.
The second period was a wide open, end to end affair yielding a total of 10 goals, five each way.
Mike Messenger stung the Chiefs right from the opening faceoff, unassisted, to give the Shamrocks a 4-2
lead and took the wind out of the Chiefs faithful, but only for nineteen-seconds.
Eli McLaughlin answered quickly from Dhane Smith and Lyle Thompson to revive the Chiefs fans and to fire them up again. That started a flurry of Six Nations goals including gaols by Lyle Thompson, Shane Jackson and McLaughlin’s second of the period.
Victoria stopped the bleeding with the next three markers from Jesse King, Petterson and Casey Wilson. Two late period
goals by McLaughlin, his third, and Shamrocks Chris Wardle closed the second with the Shamrocks still leading, 8-7.
Victoria’s hopes for a Game #6 faded in the third period when Jamieson and the Chiefs defence said “no” to all but one Victoria shooter, that, a meaningless late game marker by Will Malcom.
Meanwhile, the powerful Chiefs found a gear not many teams possess and left the Shamrocks in the dust with a six-goal string
to open the final period. McLaughlin scored twice more for a five-goal game, Travis Longboat (1G,2A), Cody Jamieson, (1G,3A), Nonkon Thompson, and Steve Priolo burned twine to successfully explode all Shamrocks hopes for a 2024 cup victory. Congratulations also to the Chiefs bench staff of head coach John Tavares, Bryan Miller, Rich Kilgour, Duane Jacobs, Zach Godwin, and managers Nic Davis and Kim Smith.
he Chiefs did it again Wednesday night at the ILA finally defeating the Shamrocks 13-9 to hoist the Mann Cup on Six Nations Territory.
LAFORCE
In the third, McLaughlin scored twice more for a five-goal game, Travis Longboat (1G,2A), Cody Jamieson, (1G,3A), Nonkon Thompson, and Steve Priolo burned twine to successfully explode all Shamrocks hopes for a 2024 cup victory. LAFORCE
World Junior Girls Golf Championship coming to Toronto golf course
By John Chidley-Hill
Golf Canada has set an impressive stretch goal of having 30 professional golfers at the highest levels of the sport by 2032. The World Junior Girls Golf Championship is a huge part of that target.
Credit Valley Golf and Country Club will host the international tournament from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5, with 24 teams representing 23 nations — Canada gets two squads — competing. Lindsay McGrath, a 17-year-old golfer from Oakville, Ont., said she's excited to be representing Canada and continue to develop her game.
"I'm really grateful to be here," said McGrath on Monday after a news conference in Credit Valley's clubhouse in Mississauga, Ont. "It's just such an awesome feeling being here and representing our country, wearing all the logos and being on Team Canada.
"I've always wanted to play in this tournament, so it's really special to me."
McGrath will be joined by Nobelle Park of Oakville, Ont., and Eileen Park of Red Deer, Alta., on Team Canada 2. All three earned their places through a qualifying tournament last month.
"I love my teammates so much," said McGrath. "I know Nobelle and Eileen
very well. I'm just so excited to be with them. We have such a great relationship."
Shauna Liu of Maple, Ont., Calgary's Aphrodite Deng and Clairey Lin make up Team Canada 2. Liu earned her exemption following her win at the 2024 Canadian Junior Girls Championship while Deng earned her exemption as being the low eligible Canadian on the world amateur golf ranking as of Aug. 7.
Deng was No. 175 at the time, she has since improved to No. 171 and is Canada’s lowest-ranked player.
GRAND RIVER POST SECONDARY EDUCATION OFFICE
2024 DEADLINE CALENDAR for / gweh?: weh n=:` Ohsweg,h]:n/h Onkwehón:we ne: Ohswekenhro:non
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Aug 1st Official transcripts are due from students funded for any of the three previous application periods (Summer/Fall/Winter).
For all APPROVED FALL applications - Any documentation that was requested by the Funding Advisor to be submitted to GRPSEO by August 1, (as outlined in the “Check List of Required Documentation” form provided to the applicant), and not received by this deadline date will result in CANCELLATION of the approved application and loss of funding.
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Jan. 2 Office Reopens 2024
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May 1 Accepting Graduate Promotion Items
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OPP investigating fatal collision
attended to assist.
The investigation determined that two passenger vehicles collided at that intersection.
HALDIMAND COUN-
TY - On September 13, 2024, at approximately 12:45 p.m., the Haldimand detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of McKenzie Road and 3rd Line, Hagersville.
Members of OPP, Haldimand County Fire and Paramedic Services
The driver and the passenger of one vehicle were transported to a trauma hospital with serious injuries.
The passenger, a 22-year-old from Hamilton was later pronounced deceased.
The driver of the second vehicle was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
Members of the West Region OPP Traffic Incident Management Enforcement (TIME) team attended to assist with the investigation.
3rd Line was closed at Highway 6 and Haldimand Road 9, and McKenzie Road was closed at 2nd Line and 4th Line but have since re-opened.
Anyone with information regarding this ongoing investigation is asked to contact Haldimand OPP at 1-888-310-1122.
$65,000 lost to scam
STAFF REPORT editor@tworowtimes.com
HALDIMAND COUNTY - A Haldimand County resident lost $65,000 after being deceived by an online trading investment scam.
On September 13, 2024, the Haldimand detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) initiated an investigation after receiving a fraud complaint.
It was determined that the victim registered for
what appeared to be a legitimate online trading website in July 2024.
Soon after creating the online account, the victim was contacted by someone claiming to be a financial advisor who convinced them to increase their investments.
Over time, further recommended investments were made and to withdraw funds, a brokerage fee was demanded.
Realizing they had been scammed, with an approximate dollar value
of $65,000 lost, the victim contacted police. Frauds and scams are attempted daily through online platforms, phone calls, letters, or faxes. Fraud is a multi-million-dollar enterprise that will only cease when the perpetrators stop profiting.
To learn more about fraud and cybercrime prevention and how to safeguard yourself, contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888-495-8501 or visit www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca.
THISISCOMMUNITY:ACOLLEGE WHEREWEBELONG
BelongingisatthecoreofFanshawe College’smissiontounlock potential.Fanshaweisarich communityofdiversestudents, employeesandfaculty,andweare betterbecauseofourdiverse identities.
Indigenousyoutharethefastest growingsegmentofCanada’s populationundertheageof30,and thenumberofIndigenousstudents pursuingpost-secondaryeducation inOntarioatacollegelevelhas doubledinthepastfiveyears.
StudentsfromIndigenous communitiesfacesignificantand uniquebarrierstoeducation.To ensuresuccessincollege,support forIndigenousstudentsmustbein placetocoverthebroadrangeof specializedchallengesthey encounter.Anenvironmentthat includesIndigenouswaysof knowingandbeingcandirectly benefitanIndigenousstudent’s wellbeingandsuccess.
THEINSTITUTEOFINDIGENOUS LEARNING
AtFanshawe,nearlyfourpercentof theCollege’sstudentpopulation identifyasIndigenous.Whethera studentis StatusorNon-StatusFirst Nations,MétisorInuit, Fanshawe’s InstituteofIndigenousLearning providesacomfortableatmosphere foracademicservices,social, cultural,andrecreationalactivities forourIndigenousstudents.
FormerlyknownastheFirstNations Centre,theInstitutefirstopenedits doorsin1996andhascontinuously
expandeditssupportasthenumber ofIndigenousstudentsattending Fanshawegrows.Initsfirstyear,the Centresupported72registeredFirst Nationsstudents,andin2023,that numberhasgrowntoincludeover 700Indigenousstudents.
Interestedinlearningaboutwhat Fanshawehastooffer?Visit fanshawec.ca/FNMI
APLACEINOURLEARNING JOURNEY
NatalieFletcheristheassistant manageroftheInstituteof IndigenousLearningandhailsfrom CaldwellFirstNation.Shebelievesit isimportanttocreatespacesboth insideandoutsideoftheclassroom forstudentstothrive.
“It’simportanttocreatethese spacessothatstudentscanbe authenticallythemselves,sothey knowtheyhaveaplacewherethey belong,wherethey’reaccepted, wheretheyfeelsafe,wheretheir experiencescanhelpmoldlearning fortherestoftheCollege,”Natalie says.
“Aspacewheretheycanbe vulnerable—Ithinkthat’sreally importantthatweareabletobe vulnerableinaspace,sharethose emotionsandencouragelearningof everyoneintheroom.Ithinkit’salso goodtohavebravespaceswhere wecanchallengeourownbiases, wherewecanlearnthateveryone’s experiencehasaplaceinour learningjourneyandthatthistrulyis aplacewhereyoubelong.”
BUILDINGACOMMUNITY FEELING
RochelleSmithistheInstituteof
IndigenousLearning’srecruitment andcommunityrelationsadvisorand isfromChippewasoftheThames FirstNation.“Myjobentailsgoing outtothecommunitiesandbuilding relationshipswiththem,”Rochelle says.“Buildingrelationshipsis100 percentoneofthemaingoalsofour recruitment.Andwhenwegoout, wewantstudentstofeelatease whentheytalktous,becausewhen theycometoseeusatFanshawe, wewantthatcommunityfeelingto alwaysbethere.”
SUPPORTSOFFERED:WE’RE ALWAYSHEREFORYOU
TheInstituteofIndigenousLearning offersavarietyofservicestohelp studentssucceed.Supportsinclude: •Studentsuccessservices(such astransitionlearningadvisors, wellnesscounselor,career planningandsearching)
•Awards,scholarshipand bursaryreferrals
•VisitingElders
•Peersupport
•FirstNationsStudentCouncil providesstudent-to-student supportaswellasassists studentsincollaborative leadershipbuilding
ThrivingatCollege Witheffective andtailoredsupportsystemsin place,Indigenousstudentsthrivein theirpostsecondarystudies.By providingthetoolsthatstudents needtosucceedintheirstudies, theirfuturesbecomebrightandfull ofpossibilities.
ExploretheFanshaweexperience atfanshawec.ca/FNMI
SIX NATIONS COUNCIL
SIX NATIONS AND NEW CREDIT
Porter- In loving memory of Wayne Arnold who passed away September 16th, 1979
Silent tears and memories, fill each day and night. A dear son and brother passed away,
To enter a world of light. We hear his spirit in the wind, Feel his love in the warmth of the sun, See his youth in the gentle green, Of new things for everyone. We cherish his memory, so very dear, It helps to keep him close and near.
Always remembered by Kathy and Rod Hill and the Porter family.
Formerly Wolves Den Classes Now Forming for Boxing/Kick Boxing/Grappling Starting tentatively in October
Contact Daryl Squire by Call or Text and Leave Message/State what class or classes of interest/Age/ Gender and will get back to you. 226-387-4592
430 First Line. Niawen. Will reply in the evenings.
3 Family Yard Sale
91 New Credit Road, Hagersville, Ontario Saturday September 21st & 28th, 2024
Weather permitting 10 - 5pm good used clothes ladies size 12, 14, 16 ladies shoes & boots 7, 8, 9 ladies purses movies for mixed ages
Open Jam at Chiefswood Fellowship 506 4th Line - 5KM west of Ohsweken, Six Nations
Sat. Sept. 28th - 1PM
Bring a friend and your instrument and enjoy the best in local talent -- Potluck Lunch Info...Phil...905 768 5442
CLUES ACROSS
1. Wrest
5. Russian river
10. Grupo Montparnasse founder
12. One who quits prematurely
14. Related to the nature of being
16. Early multimedia
18. Indigenous Tibetan religion
19. Tease
20. J.M. __, Irish dramatist
22. Pounds per square inch
23. Surrendered
25. Notable Dallas Cowboy Leon
26. Dash
27. Man who behaves dishonorably
28. British Air Aces
30. Data executive
31. Spiritual leader
33. Flower cluster
35. Of the cheek
37. Tears down
38. Uncoordinated
40. Touches lightly
41. Soak
42. Founder of Babism
44. Not good
45. Inches per minute (abbr.)
48. Type of casino game
50. Skills assessments for adults
52. Check
53. Gives a job
55. Fifth note of a major scale
56. Small, faint constellation
57. Thou
58. Reduce
63. Another recording
65. Removes for good
66. Jill and Catherine are two
67. Cruise
CLUES DOWN
1. Greenwich Time
2. Metropolis
3. Complete
4. Scheduled
5. One who obeys
6. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects
7. Days (Spanish)
8. Unsaturated hydrocarbon radical
9. Region of the U.S. (abbr.)
10. Tributary of the Alabama River
11. One who eliminates
13. Ballroom music
15. Officer in the Book of Mormon
17. Denies
18. Barrels per day (abbr.)
21. Make vital
23. Former NFLer Newton
24. Kashmiri tribe
27. Indigenous S. American person
29. Capacitance unit
32. MLB great Scherzer
34. Taxi
35. Boggy
36. Artist’s workroom
39. Feline
40. Prosecutors
43. Freshwater perches
44. Young ladies
46. Whittles
47. Licensed for Wall Street
49. Type of gene
51. Express displeasure
54. Fly high
59. Norwegian krone
60. Investment account
61. Chinese surname
62. Language
64. By the way (abbr.)
SUDOKU
ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20
A disagreement may have you questioning a relationship this week, Aries. Do not get ahead of yourself, as you’ll figure out that the turmoil will subside soon enough.
TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21
Group activities or time spent with a significant other may not go as well as usual this week, Taurus. With your mind elsewhere, it’s hard to focus on having fun and others will catch on.
GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21
Do not believe everything you hear this week, Gemini. There are a lot of rumors floating around, and only a portion of what is being said is accurate. Get the facts first.
CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22
Cancer, you are usually outgoing and easygoing, but this week you may be feeling more reserved and shy. Are you missing someone? If so, get in touch and you’ll feel more like yourself.
LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23
Friends or family members may be making more demands on your time, Leo. You want to go along with it, but be careful not to stretch yourself too thin.
VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22
Virgo, someone close to you might be feeling under the weather and could use a little extra support right now. Perhaps you can make soup or drop in for a visit to cheer this person up?
LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23
Seek out quiet spots right now, Libra, as lately your life has been a bit of a whirlwind. Change is good, but so much change at one time can be exhausting.
SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22
Scorpio, take a step back from all of your responsibilities. Things will not go haywire if you take a break for a few days or even a week. You can commit fully again after some rest .
SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21
There’s no point getting into an argument over a situation beyond your control, Sagittarius. Instead, wait until the time is right to express your thoughts and work out a solution.
CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20
Capricorn, even though you may want to expand your friend network right now, you aren’t sure how to begin. Social media can connect you with those nearby.
AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18
It is a good idea for you to have set deadlines for your goals, Aquarius; otherwise, you may keep putting things off. With dates on paper, you can check things as they get done.
PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20
Pisces, you want to return to a relationship right where you left off, but the other person may not be on the same page right now. Give it a little more time.
Willow River Park, Kitchener - September 21st, 2pm - 8pm
Hosted by Lust & Michelle Rehel
Mattmac – Thee Growlits – Classic Roots
Sean Morisseau – DJ PØPTRT
