And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:23:06 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Trillium Award, family healing, Ohsweken Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" TRILLIUM AWARD FOR SIX NATIONS Brantford Expositor 9/09/99 OHSWEKEN -- An innovative program that helps families heal together has earned the Six Nations a Ontario Trillium Foundation Caring Community Award. The Six Nations is one of five communities to receive the prestigious award. ``The Six Nations is an exceptional community for many reasons,'' said Betty Lou Souter, chair of the foundation's caring communities award advisory board. ``But the real jewel in this community is the women's shelter. Its shelter brings women, men and their families together so that they can heal together.'' The shelter, known as Ganohkwa Sra Family Assault Support Services, works so well that it should serve as a model for other communities, Souter said. One goal of the Caring Communities Awards program is to take the ``best of the best'' programs from individual communities and share them with other communities throughout the province. Six Nations has done a good job of integrating its social services to help both reserve and non-reserve native people, Souter said. She added the community lives together in harmony despite many differences. Wellington Staats, chief of the elected band council at Six Nations, was pleased and surprised by the honour. ``We were competing with a lot of other communities and for us to even make it to the finals is really something,'' Staats said. ``We're really quite pleased with this honour.'' A number of factors likely helped the Six Nations stand out, he said, including the number of volunteers, the community's ability to get along with its neighbours and its social services network. ``I think it has been a whole community effort,'' Staats said. ``We have a lot of volunteers and we have good health facilities, a nursing home and good recreation programs.'' Representatives of Six Nations have been invited to a ceremony honouring the Caring Communities Award winners at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto on Oct. 21. Winning communities receive $20,000 to invest in their community. ``We haven't had a chance to decide what we'll do with it but I think council will likely want to do something that will benefit the whole community,'' Staats said. The other four winners are: La communaute theatrale franco-Ontarienne; Rayside -Balfour near Sudbury; Rainy River First Nation in north-western Ontario and Roebuck near Ottawa. The Trillium foundation is an agency of the Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation. The caring communities award program recognizes communities as a whole, not just individuals and organizations, for their efforts in making their communities better places to live, grow, work and play. "Let Us Consider The Human Brain As A Very Complex Photographic Plate" 1957 G.H. Estabrooks www.angelfire.com/mn/mcap/bc.html FOR K A R E N #01182 who died fighting 4/23/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aches-mc.org 807-622-5407 Reprinted under the Fair Use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ UPDATES: CAMP JUSTICE http://shell.webbernet.net/~ishgooda/oglala/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&