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The new Peigan Health Centre at Brocket is the culmination of several years of government lobbying, community planning and hard work.

Finishing touches are all that remain to be done on the new facility that replaces several separate buildings used by Peigan Health Services, says Joe Yellowhorn, project coordinator for the new building. Once they're completed, staff will start moving into the new 870 sq. m facility.

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In their first year of competition in the Foothills High School Basketball League, the Siksika Nation High School captured top honors with a 70-67 win in a hard fought race to the finish on March 8.

Their win over the Foothills High School at the Highwood High School in High River was a see-saw affair with Siksika ahead by 10 in the first half with Foothills coming back in the second half to move ahead by 10.

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Mackinaw comes up with the big save. The rebound goes to Mackinaw who skates up to centre ice and dishes the puck off to Mackinaw. Mackinaw fakes a pass to Mackinaw on left wing, instead passing to Mackinaw on the right wing. Mackinaw shoots! He scores!

How can a player be in five places at the same time? Well, how about if it's five players, all on the same team, all in different positions and all from the same family?

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Television that matters. That's what it's all about for writer/producer/director Ron Scott who owns Prairie Dog Productions.

"I am so thankful to get a chance to do something that affects people's lives," explains 32-year -old Scott, a Metis born and raised in Edmonton.

"It's very rewarding to create TV that matters, to create interesting,engaging stories about people, whether they are Aboriginal or not," says Scott.

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It was a plan that worked, perhaps even better than expected.

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A conference organized by Bent Arrow Healing Society, entitled "Lift us up Where we Belong," focused on a variety of Aboriginal youth issues, offering presentations on health matters, healing programs, culture, education, sports, drama, employment, parenting,and networking.

The youth-oriented event occurred March 19 to 20 at Edmonton's Ramada Inn. More than 125 youth delegates, adults and Elders attended the conference.

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Students and staff watched with wide eyed interest as motivational speaker Norbert Georget lifted up a body bag. Some of the students gasped as Georget described the mangled bodies that he had to put into bags such as the one he displayed.

According to Georget teenage drunk or drugged driving is the number one killer in North America today. Many young people die each year as drivers, passengers, or innocent people who happen to be on the same road as an impaired driver.

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David Gabriel Tuccaro is up to his elbows in business ventures, enjoying prosperity and success. Planning, staying committed through the difficulties, reading, taking courses to keep current, and hiring "the right people" are the reasons his dreams come true, he says.

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Terrying About

Tansi.

So, how many readers of the March issue of Sweetgrass believed the rumor that there are 16 candidates for the president's position of the Metis Nation of Alberta? Actually, if the truth be known, unofficially of course, there are about six or seven. Let's see, for possibles, there are the current president, Audrey Poitras, as well as Gary Gairdner, Leonard Gauthier, Joe Blyan, Muriel Stanley-Venne, Lyle Donald and ???

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Talk to the Feather

The power people have when they decide to change a no longer acceptable situation is extraordinary and the way change is brought about by people is also unique since we are all individuals.

When people in First Nation communities decide to change a sad and tragic situation, like suicides, it can bring them together to work towards harmony.

It brings the situation out into the light of day where it can be unraveled and put back together in a positive way.