CFWE Radio News - July 14-2015

Northland School Division website wins award

Northland School Division's new website has won an award. The website design has been awarded the Interactive Media Awards Best in Class Award for the school website category. The award was received by the design company Box Clever, an Edmonton based website design and media agency.

Considering ninety-five percent of the student population of the Northland School Division is Aboriginal. The Box Clever team developed an in-depth understanding of the culture and values that define the Aboriginal population in Alberta. In order to do so Box Clever participated in multiple planning sessions that included the school division’s First Nation, Metis and Inuit Coordinator, the division’s Advisory Committee, and an external Aboriginal Consultant out of Vancouver, to ensure that the historical and cultural roots of the community were properly represented in the design of the school division site. The final website design is one that all involved parties were confident highlighted the Aboriginal culture and history that is so important to the members of the school community.

The Native Women’s Association of Canada met in Montreal on July eleventh and twelfth to elect their new president. Dr. Dawn Lavell Harvard of the Ontario Native Women’s Association was elected and begins her three year term as president.

Dawn Lavell-Harvard (Ph.D) is a proud member of the Wikwemikong First Nations, the first Aboriginal Trudeau Scholar, and has worked to advance the rights of Aboriginal women as the President of the Ontario Native Women’s Association for eleven years. She was also the Vice-President of the Native Women’s Association of Canada for almost three years.

Also, Ms. Lavell-Harvard is a full-time mother of three girls. She was co-editor of the original volume on Indigenous Mothering entitled “Until Our Hearts Are on the Ground: Aboriginal Mothering, Oppression, Resistance and Rebirth.”

Edmonton Police invesitigate homicide

The Edmonton Police Service’s homicide section is investigating a suspicious death they believe was targeted and linked to drugs.
Gunshots were reported to police at about 5:30 a.m. Sunday in the area of 49 Avenue and 111A Street. When officers arrived they found a 27-year-old woman with gunshot wounds. She was treated by paramedics at the scene and taken to hospital where she later died.

Police are looking for two suspects who left the home in a small, two-door black vehicle.

The first suspect is described as a 6’2″ olive-skinned man in his mid-to-late 20s, approximately 250 lbs, husky build, with long black hair. He was last seen wearing a white and blue T-shirt.
The second suspect is described as a 6’0″ olive-skinned man in his mid-to-late 20s, slim build with black hair and was last seen wearing a black shirt and blue jeans.
 
 

Woman dies in mountain lake near Canmore

A young woman pulled from a mountain lake by emergency crews on Sunday afternoon has died from her injuries in a Calgary hospital.

EMS crews from Canmore were called to the Quarry Lake Day Use area in Canmore at about 12:00 p.m. and were met by bystanders who told them that a woman from their party had gone missing.

The young woman was at the lake with about 20 others who were part of an informal church group.

Police say the young woman was not wearing a life jacket and
believe she was not an experienced swimmer.

Police say her injuries were consistent with drowning and that there was no indication of foul play.