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Pollen study confirms legend

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A scientist at Simon Fraser University is searching through buried plant remains for signs of earthquakes and other catastrophic events from the distant past.

Rolf Mathewes uses analysis of fossil pollens to determine the frequency of seismic activity during the last few thousand years. But uncovering evidence of past earthquakes, scientists should be able to determine more accurately the likelihood of future ones, he says.

Young Enoch hockey players join city association

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Enoch youth are being admitted this year into the Edmonton Minor League Hockey Association as part of a plan to give all children a fair chance at playing the game.

Enoch recreation co-ordinator Neil Morin says that reserve's minor hockey program has been dismantled while most of the players join Edmonton-based teams. Children will no longer have to "go through the back door" just to get a shot at playing hockey in the city.

"It's really for the betterment of the children. If they want to improve their game by joining in Edmonton, all the better," he says.

Young Enoch hockey players join city association

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Enoch youth are being admitted this year into the Edmonton Minor League Hockey Association as part of a plan to give all children a fair chance at playing the game.

Enoch recreation co-ordinator Neil Morin says that reserve's minor hockey program has been dismantled while most of the players join Edmonton-based teams. Children will no longer have to "go through the back door" just to get a shot at playing hockey in the city.

"It's really for the betterment of the children. If they want to improve their game by joining in Edmonton, all the better," he says.

Young Enoch hockey players join city association

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Enoch youth are being admitted this year into the Edmonton Minor League Hockey Association as part of a plan to give all children a fair chance at playing the game.

Enoch recreation co-ordinator Neil Morin says that reserve's minor hockey program has been dismantled while most of the players join Edmonton-based teams. Children will no longer have to "go through the back door" just to get a shot at playing hockey in the city.

"It's really for the betterment of the children. If they want to improve their game by joining in Edmonton, all the better," he says.

Young Enoch hockey players join city association

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Enoch youth are being admitted this year into the Edmonton Minor League Hockey Association as part of a plan to give all children a fair chance at playing the game.

Enoch recreation co-ordinator Neil Morin says that reserve's minor hockey program has been dismantled while most of the players join Edmonton-based teams. Children will no longer have to "go through the back door" just to get a shot at playing hockey in the city.

"It's really for the betterment of the children. If they want to improve their game by joining in Edmonton, all the better," he says.

Culture, tradition help fight abuse

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Helping Native adult offenders beat alcohol and drug addictions means getting to the root of the problem, say counsellors at Edmonton's Grierson Centre.

The minimum security facility's seven-week-long Family Life Improvement Program is designed to help drug and alcohol abusers understand the mental and psychological causes of their addictions and replace those behaviors with better life skills, said program trainer Vicky Whelan.

Culture, tradition help fight abuse

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Helping Native adult offenders beat alcohol and drug addictions means getting to the root of the problem, say counsellors at Edmonton's Grierson Centre.

The minimum security facility's seven-week-long Family Life Improvement Program is designed to help drug and alcohol abusers understand the mental and psychological causes of their addictions and replace those behaviors with better life skills, said program trainer Vicky Whelan.

Culture, tradition help fight abuse

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Helping Native adult offenders beat alcohol and drug addictions means getting to the root of the problem, say counsellors at Edmonton's Grierson Centre.

The minimum security facility's seven-week-long Family Life Improvement Program is designed to help drug and alcohol abusers understand the mental and psychological causes of their addictions and replace those behaviors with better life skills, said program trainer Vicky Whelan.

Culture, tradition help fight abuse

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Helping Native adult offenders beat alcohol and drug addictions means getting to the root of the problem, say counsellors at Edmonton's Grierson Centre.

The minimum security facility's seven-week-long Family Life Improvement Program is designed to help drug and alcohol abusers understand the mental and psychological causes of their addictions and replace those behaviors with better life skills, said program trainer Vicky Whelan.

AIDS education is a slow process

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Education can stop the spread of AIDS but teaching people to protect themselves is a slow process, an American health educator told an Edmonton conference recently.

Joan Lewis works with the American Indian Health Care Association in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been involved in AIDS education since 1988. AIDS can be stopped

if people change the way they act, she said at the recent Healing Our Spirit Worldwide conference.