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Trudie-Ann Plamondon loves sports.

"Growing up in Fort Chipewyan I played all of the sports," recalls the affable 35-year-old Metis. "Basketball, soccer, volleyball and any other sport in intramural. Sports was the cat's meow."

Born in Fort McMurray and raised in Fort Chipewyan, Plamondon returned to her Fort McMurray roots when she was 13 years of age. It was indeed a "new life."

"It was my grandmother (Jenny Flett) who raised me," said Plamondon. "My parents divorced when I was only a few months old.

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Trudie-Ann Plamondon loves sports.

"Growing up in Fort Chipewyan I played all of the sports," recalls the affable 35-year-old Metis. "Basketball, soccer, volleyball and any other sport in intramural. Sports was the cat's meow."

Born in Fort McMurray and raised in Fort Chipewyan, Plamondon returned to her Fort McMurray roots when she was 13 years of age. It was indeed a "new life."

"It was my grandmother (Jenny Flett) who raised me," said Plamondon. "My parents divorced when I was only a few months old.

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Bernadine Grant of Edmonton learned Sept. 20 that she had won a $3,000 scholarship from Xerox Canada Ltd.

The money is enabling her to pursue an advanced education in the field of information technology.

Grant, a Metis who already holds a psychology degree, is one of eight students receiving support from Xerox Canada's annual Aboriginal scholarship program. She is in her first year at the University of Alberta where she is pursuing studies in management information systems.

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The director of the Edmonton District Foster Family and Adoptive Parent Recruitment program, which looks for foster and adoption homes in the Ma'mowe Capital Region, describes herself as "something of a marketing specialist with a passion for kids."

But Miri Jeanette Fawcett-Weir stresses she is not a social worker.

"My job is to find homes; that's my mandate. Appropriate, good-matching homes."

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The director of the Edmonton District Foster Family and Adoptive Parent Recruitment program, which looks for foster and adoption homes in the Ma'mowe Capital Region, describes herself as "something of a marketing specialist with a passion for kids."

But Miri Jeanette Fawcett-Weir stresses she is not a social worker.

"My job is to find homes; that's my mandate. Appropriate, good-matching homes."

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The Adoption Search and Reunion program was instituted by the Metis Child and Family Services Society in Edmonton on Oct. 1 to help reunite adopted children and their birth families.

The 16-year-old society is now a licensed adoption search agency, approved by Alberta Children's Services.

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The Adoption Search and Reunion program was instituted by the Metis Child and Family Services Society in Edmonton on Oct. 1 to help reunite adopted children and their birth families.

The 16-year-old society is now a licensed adoption search agency, approved by Alberta Children's Services.

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Fort Whoop-Up, in this southern Alberta city, is a fitting place to commemorate the signing of Treaty 7. The trading post was a vital link between the First Nations people of the Blackfoot Confederacy and the European settlers. Indeed, the fort symbolizes the changes in Native ways and one of the reasons the treaty was signed.

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Fort Whoop-Up, in this southern Alberta city, is a fitting place to commemorate the signing of Treaty 7. The trading post was a vital link between the First Nations people of the Blackfoot Confederacy and the European settlers. Indeed, the fort symbolizes the changes in Native ways and one of the reasons the treaty was signed.

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The crew of 48 Media was in Hobbema Sept. 28 to begin shooting a video on the Louis Bull reserve for the Hip Hop group, WarParty.

WarParty's song "Feelin' Reserved" is the subject of the video, their first, which is being sponsored by the Much Music Video Fact grant program. It is also the first time Much Music has paired up with First Nations Hip Hop. The shooting, under the auspices of director Jim Morrison of Halifax, was planned to take four days.