Boo Maga October 2021
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Health for WL First Nation in <strong>2021</strong> –<br />
2022.<br />
Another area that I had identified<br />
as an area of improvement was our<br />
Social Development. This is after<br />
hearing Chief Clarence Louie speak<br />
over the years. We need to focus on<br />
all parts of our community. We may<br />
be strong financially and have great<br />
staff/leadership. However, we need to<br />
also make sure that we are providing<br />
wellness and supports for our<br />
membership. Chief Clarence Louie<br />
once said that he has his staff end any<br />
session with a client by having that<br />
individual have a back to work, school<br />
or training plan. As a council we<br />
talked about how we could improve<br />
our Social Services. From those<br />
discussions, a request was made to<br />
Knucwentecw for funding. Kukstemc<br />
to that society, as they provided<br />
funding for us to have a Community<br />
Social Worker position!<br />
As a council member, I have been<br />
blessed to serve these last 3 years.<br />
It does get difficult now to juggle<br />
my full-time job as Lead Teacher at<br />
Little Chiefs Primary School and my<br />
council duties. However, that will get<br />
easier as we move forward. We are<br />
building capacity at Little Chiefs and<br />
with continuity it is easier to be away<br />
for council meetings. I would like to<br />
mention that when we as council<br />
members are working for the band<br />
and on council, that we do not get<br />
paid on the days of council meetings.<br />
I do believe that there may have<br />
been the odd meeting that I may<br />
have had to miss due to work<br />
duties. However, that is no more<br />
than 5 in the last three years.<br />
I hope that our community<br />
continues to prosper. I am so<br />
proud of the new housing. This<br />
is the first time in 20 years that<br />
considerable housing units have<br />
been built. A huge welcome to<br />
Samantha Dick as our Housing<br />
Coordinator. It is fantastic to see<br />
the amount of work that she is<br />
doing. I can not wait to see our<br />
members moving into the new<br />
units that have been built by<br />
our own community! Way to be<br />
self sufficient Williams Lake First<br />
Nation.<br />
In closing, I wish to say a big thank<br />
you to our community members<br />
and staff who continue to work<br />
hard in providing traditional<br />
foods to our membership. It was<br />
a highlight for me, to be able to<br />
cut salmon this summer. It has<br />
been at least 4 years since I have<br />
been able to cut any number of<br />
fish. I thoroughly enjoyed doing<br />
that and wish to thank my son<br />
Anthony Sellars, Dustin Duncan,<br />
Barb Duncan and Dave Archie<br />
for catching those salmon. The<br />
elders received some in August.<br />
Then the first week of September<br />
I had the good fortune to be able<br />
to cut some salmon to smoke.<br />
My heart is glad. I cried that day,<br />
I talked to the fish I was working<br />
on and said a huge thank you for<br />
them returning.<br />
I hope that this report finds you in<br />
good health. Stay strong and we<br />
will get through anything that is<br />
set in front of us.<br />
All my relations,<br />
JoAnne Moiese<br />
Councillor JoAnne Moiese<br />
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