Recognizing Aboriginal History Week in Burns Lake

Elders at the kick of Aboriginal History Week at CNC. (Laura Blackwell photos/Lakes District News)
CNC in Burns Lake is celebrating Aboriginal History and Sharing Week in…
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    A phone sits on a paper sheet reading: “I believe in the human beings, today people judges you for the image that you have, they see only masks they don’t know even who you are” inside the Chicco community of L’Arche, an International charity that helps people with intellectual disabilities, in Ciampino, near Rome, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. The findings of expert reports commissioned by L’Arche itself reveal that their founder, Jean Vanier, perverted Catholic doctrine to justify his own sexual compulsions and abuse women and that the movement he created had at its core a secret, a mystical-sexual “sect” founded for the precise purpose of hiding the sect’s deviant activities from church authorities. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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    FILE - Dolly Parton, left, and Miley Cyrus perform “Jolene” at the 61st annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 10, 2019. Administrators at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha, Wis., aren’t letting a first-grade class perform “Rainbowland,” a Cyrus and Parton duet from Cyrus’ 2017 album “Younger Now,” promoting LGBTQ acceptance, because they say the song could be seen as controversial. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File)

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    Obituaries

    Reginald G. Worthing

    Mar 2nd, 2023

    Randolph Matthew ‘Randy’ Sterzer

    Feb 28th, 2023

    Henry Jack

    Jan 1st, 2023

    Jean Alberta (Goodwin) Holmes

    Dec 17th, 2022

    Fluella “Flo” Gilgan (nee Brandt)

    Dec 10th, 2022

    Barbara Anne Pederson (Laird)

    Dec 1st, 2022

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    Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)

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      Walmart Canada CEO Gonzalo Gebara spoke before the parliamentary committee on food inflation on March 27, 2023. Customers shop for food at Walmart in Salem, N.H., Monday, June 5, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Elise Amendola

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        The Four Rivers Co-operative has grown to include another commercial location, re-branding the former Husky gas bar and convenience store in Burns Lake under the Co-op banner.

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