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Metis singer gains long due Acclaim

Page 13

The petite, bespectacled woman sitting behind a cluttered desk at Ben Calf Robe

School looks more like a teacher than an award-winning singer/song writer.

Laura Vinson doesn't look like a glamorous musician at all. In fact, she looks like the sort of teacher students dream of - approachable, energetic, warm and humorous.

Vinson is all that plus the glamour, but the polished performer who swept this year's Alberta Recording Industry Awards only comes out after school now.

And when she does, watch out.

Metis singer gains long due Acclaim

Page 13

The petite, bespectacled woman sitting behind a cluttered desk at Ben Calf Robe

School looks more like a teacher than an award-winning singer/song writer.

Laura Vinson doesn't look like a glamorous musician at all. In fact, she looks like the sort of teacher students dream of - approachable, energetic, warm and humorous.

Vinson is all that plus the glamour, but the polished performer who swept this year's Alberta Recording Industry Awards only comes out after school now.

And when she does, watch out.

Metis singer gains long due Acclaim

Page 13

The petite, bespectacled woman sitting behind a cluttered desk at Ben Calf Robe

School looks more like a teacher than an award-winning singer/song writer.

Laura Vinson doesn't look like a glamorous musician at all. In fact, she looks like the sort of teacher students dream of - approachable, energetic, warm and humorous.

Vinson is all that plus the glamour, but the polished performer who swept this year's Alberta Recording Industry Awards only comes out after school now.

And when she does, watch out.

Sakaw unique and entertaining theatre event

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"Tonight we have come together. Where else can you get this? Sit beside someone you've never seen before and laugh together. We're here together, to feel, to listen and to dance. It is the way of our people...We have braided ourselves together."

And performance artist Dale Auger is a master weaver, uniting audience and performers in a unique event - Sakaw, the People called Cree, an evening of theatre and monologue with Woodland Cree from northern Alberta.

Sakaw unique and entertaining theatre event

Page 12

"Tonight we have come together. Where else can you get this? Sit beside someone you've never seen before and laugh together. We're here together, to feel, to listen and to dance. It is the way of our people...We have braided ourselves together."

And performance artist Dale Auger is a master weaver, uniting audience and performers in a unique event - Sakaw, the People called Cree, an evening of theatre and monologue with Woodland Cree from northern Alberta.

Sakaw unique and entertaining theatre event

Page 12

"Tonight we have come together. Where else can you get this? Sit beside someone you've never seen before and laugh together. We're here together, to feel, to listen and to dance. It is the way of our people...We have braided ourselves together."

And performance artist Dale Auger is a master weaver, uniting audience and performers in a unique event - Sakaw, the People called Cree, an evening of theatre and monologue with Woodland Cree from northern Alberta.

Sakaw unique and entertaining theatre event

Page 12

"Tonight we have come together. Where else can you get this? Sit beside someone you've never seen before and laugh together. We're here together, to feel, to listen and to dance. It is the way of our people...We have braided ourselves together."

And performance artist Dale Auger is a master weaver, uniting audience and performers in a unique event - Sakaw, the People called Cree, an evening of theatre and monologue with Woodland Cree from northern Alberta.

September trial date set for Challenge to Bill C-31

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A trial date for Senator Walter Twinn's constitutional challenge to Bill C-31, the law that returned lost status to Native women and their children, has finally been set for Sept. 24.

The 11-week trial will open in Edmonton and run for an estimated five weeks. Following a three-week recess, the trial will reconvene in Ottawa.

Twinn, a member of the Sawridge band, filed suit against the government in 1986 along with Wayne Roan of Ermineskin and Bruce Starlight of the Sarcee bands. Two other Natives also filed papers in the suit but have since dropped out.

September trial date set for Challenge to Bill C-31

Page 11

A trial date for Senator Walter Twinn's constitutional challenge to Bill C-31, the law that returned lost status to Native women and their children, has finally been set for Sept. 24.

The 11-week trial will open in Edmonton and run for an estimated five weeks. Following a three-week recess, the trial will reconvene in Ottawa.

Twinn, a member of the Sawridge band, filed suit against the government in 1986 along with Wayne Roan of Ermineskin and Bruce Starlight of the Sarcee bands. Two other Natives also filed papers in the suit but have since dropped out.

September trial date set for Challenge to Bill C-31

Page 11

A trial date for Senator Walter Twinn's constitutional challenge to Bill C-31, the law that returned lost status to Native women and their children, has finally been set for Sept. 24.

The 11-week trial will open in Edmonton and run for an estimated five weeks. Following a three-week recess, the trial will reconvene in Ottawa.

Twinn, a member of the Sawridge band, filed suit against the government in 1986 along with Wayne Roan of Ermineskin and Bruce Starlight of the Sarcee bands. Two other Natives also filed papers in the suit but have since dropped out.