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Come and join us for RED RIVERDANCE!

Date: Every Wednesday afternoon beginning January 25th
Time: 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: Maffeo Community Center auditorium, 285 Prideaux St.
Cost: $10.00 for eight classes / $2.00 drop-in / Family rates available

Contact: Mid Island Metis Nation at 740 0223 or Lynne at 716-9309

Date: January 21st 2006.
Time: 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: The North Island Metis Association Office, 1661 B 16th Ave. Campbell River, BC V9W 6R9

Traditional Food will be provided.
Work Shop is FREE, and open to everyone!!!!

Contact: (250) 287-7417
nimetis@telus.net

Non-profit promotion of Aboriginal Health, Literacy & Wellness
The Network has just received funding to create a comic book on Aboriginal youth learning. This is in addition to the comics we've got coming out in February and March on Aboriginal youth health issues and suicide prevention.
We would love to hear your suggestions on possible storylines and themes for the comic. If appropriate, we would especially like to hear your class's opinion on what the major challenges are to learning / staying in school and how they would resolve the issues if they had the chance.
One idea we're batting around is to portray an Aboriginal child in the 8 * 14 year age range (it could be a boy or a girl but it would be interesting to hear which you thought experiences more challenges). The child has a learning disability and is teased by their classmates. Through sheer determination the child passes every year. There is peer pressure to drop out and not every teacher is positive about the character's desire to attend university. But they persevere. Maybe they grow up to be a teacher.
The comic will be debuted at the Aboriginal Policy Research Conference in Ottawa this coming March. The evaluation is scheduled to begin this spring and will be directed by the National Association of Friendship Centres. The comic is budgeted to be distributed nationally.
If you think this is a good opportunity to get your classes thinking about their future, or simply to volunteer a heartfelt story, we'd love to hear from you as soon as possible. And please feel free to forward on to your network of associates if you think they could help.
We appreciate your continued support.
Sean Muir (Director)

Contact: 328 East Thirty Second Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5V 2Y4
Ph: 604-876-0243 Fax: 604-876-0248
sean@thehealthyaboriginal.net
BC incorporated non-profit Society No. S-48530

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285 Prideaux Street, Nanaimo British Columbia, V9R 2N2, Canada / Maffeo Community Center